Janet Lydecker

Democrat-led government shutdown.” She added: “Due to a recent court order, HHS is not currently taking actions to implement or administer the reduction-in-force notices.” According to the document reviewed by POLITICO, the National Institutes of Health was to take the hardest hit among HHS agencies, 4,545 layoffs, or roughly a quarter of its workforce. It ended up firing no one. A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the firing of 362 of the 954 HHS employees who did receive the October layoff

Russ Vought

My reax to the big planned NIH shutdown firing news from @politico.com:

The Project 2025 ppl didn’t do big (illegal) NIH firings because they know there would be public outcry.

Keep speaking up!

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research

go.nature.com/4hriohE

Would ChatGPT hire you? Your age and gender matter Online stereotypes about younger women and older men could be affecting real-world hiring decisions. Researchers have analysed hundreds of thousands of images from places like IMDb and Google Image Search as well as the kinds of online texts used to train large language models. They found a persistent age gap between men and women when it comes to how they are shown and talked about online. This age gap, where women are stereotyped as being generally younger than men, could be impacting both the gender pay gap and the way ChatGPT ranks resumes. Read the paper here: https://go.nature.com/42NOJJA

Would ChatGPT recommend hiring you?

It depends on your age and gender according to new research on stereotypes in online text and images and in LLMs

go.nature.com/4njUvKn

The TrumpRx website won’t slash drug prices — but this will Tighter price regulation would deliver fewer new drugs but improve global health.

Each year, more than nine million people in the United States do not take their medicines as prescribed owing to cost concerns

Tighter price regulation would deliver fewer new drugs but improve global health, says Beth Woods
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Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

Those are the BEST emails to receive.

Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

Obituary: Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists

go.nature.com/48aWjRU

What do you know, when science funding is interrupted, you get less science

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓.

And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!

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We are still recruiting for a postdoc for my lab! This person will play a key role in a new R01 optimizing a self-guided digital intervention for #eatingdisorders. There will be ample opportunities for publishing, contributing to grants, mentoring, etc. Apply by 10/31 for priority consideration.

🦊 REDS lab will be accepting a grad student for Fall 2026. Folks interested in eating disorders and/or suicide are encouraged to apply! See here for more details: www.redslab.org/join-the-lab

Very exciting news! 🎉 If you are looking for a kind, collaborative, and passionate environment to do suicide and eating disorder research, I highly recommend applying! I love that I get to pursue research and clinical work with so many amazing people! 💕

Clinical Research Coordinator The Center for Healthcare Delivery Science (CHDS) at Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware is seeking a full-time Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC). The CHDS is a research center across the Nemours ...

My lab is hiring a research coordinator! Fantastic for a post-bac with interests in just-in-time adaptive interventions and/or eating disorders! epyz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

And more.

"In a response to requests for comment, an NIH press officer wrote, the 'NIH is committed to restoring the agency to its tradition of upholding gold-standard, evidence-based science.'"

"Without that grant [establishing clinical and translational research], 'we would not be able to identify what is still today the largest single way of reducing deaths from lung cancer.'"

"...highly cited studies that might not have existed if their grant had been cancelled include a seminal paper showcasing the results of the Human Microbiome Project2, the result of a $10-million package over five years to increase the understanding of the human microbiome."

"The algorithm found 1,287 grants — worth $1.9 billion — that it considered likely to be cancelled, of a total of around 48,000. Around 53,000 publications are related to those flagged grants."

A creative and insightful thought experiment (run by AI) -- what if similar grant cancellations happened in 2014? What current scientific advances would never have happened?

💡

Come join us in Athens! We are hiring a TT assistant professor in our APA accredited clinical psychology program at Ohio University.

Congratulations! For anyone in AED, the binge eating SIG is doing a journal club on this article in October 🧠

YouTube video by Auburn Alumni Association Transform Lives Through Eating Disorder Treatment and Training

Mark your calendars! Tiger Giving Day is happening on 9/10/25!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PHh...
alumni.auburn.edu/tiger-giving...

Bee taking a nap.. 😅

All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule Here's what to know about the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens. The schedule is approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics and based on ongoing review of the most recent sc...

Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against).

* pin it & share it *

Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

It is only when we give up hope, that we lose.

Or to quote Victor Frankl: “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”

📢 Postdoc Opening!
UIC is seeking applicants for the Cancer Health Equity & Career Development Program (CECDP) fellowship.

✔ NIH-level stipend
✔ Hybrid work option
✔ Mentorship & training in cancer disparities research

Apply now: www.sbm.org/membership/i...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin!

I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026.

Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats!

📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m
🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com

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