Defunding Harvard Hurts America | by Adam Ezra Cohen - Project Syndicate Adam Ezra Cohen explains the real-world consequences of canceling federal research grants in the name of fighting antisemitism.

I wrote about the government's attacks on Harvard. Hope this reaches a few persuadable minds.
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Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Research Funding The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government...

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Proud to attend the Stand Up For Science rally in Boston with these amazing Harvard Graduate Students.

🌵Out now! Using an RL task that manipulates people's beliefs about agency, we show that exposure to & severity of early-life adversity is associated with lower learning rates & agency beliefs. w/ the brillant @thephelpslab.bsky.social, Kate McLaughlin, & Bryan Dong learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/1...

Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH Please click the link to complete this form.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!!
Harvard's graduate student organization, Women in Psychology, is super excited to host the 2025 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) conference in May! Abstract submissions for poster presentations, blitz talks, and sketchpads closes Friday, February 14th at 12:00PM EST.

Additional information cont.: Submissions are open to all and NOT limited to those of Harvard affiliation. If you have any questions, feel free to message wiptips2025@gmail.com.

The Phelps Lab at Harvard is now on BlueSky. Fellow affective neuroscienctists/cognitive neuroscientists/memory and decision researchers please get in touch if you see this so we can follow you.