Marlen Z. Gonzalez, PhD

Not ten toes in. Not at all.

My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!

Respectfully, nah. Being unable to take the heat from the consequences of your own actions is not a noble trait, just a good one for self-preservation. He was a polite supremacist and while I agree that all people are complex, this one does not add to the complexity to his poor reputation.

Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.

Look who's NOT ten toes in. APA has been whack from the jump, so I guess it was too much to ask for them to do better. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.

It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

If you are a Black, Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage UK student wanting to pursue a PhD in applied evolutionary anthropology or evolutionary public health with me, drop me an email and see funding opportunity below 👇🏻

www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

I asked yesterday and no one could show me an article indicating that USAID money has actually been distributed as commanded by the court now over a week ago

Has USAID money been distributed?

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a stop to mass firings in federal agencies (except Pentagon, OPM and NARA) saying the so-called “reductions in force (RIFs)” broke the law.

“Employees purportedly terminated … are returned to government employ.”

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you were thinking about making a donation to your local public college/university, NOW is an amazing time to do that. And yes, you can do things like earmark it for the music department. Or the physics department.

John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 Once, before Kennedy was president, I asked him if he remembered the Great Depression. I knew that his father had seen the Crash of 1929 coming and had sold his stocks and had one of the world’s greatest hordes of cash during the 1930s. “I have no memory of the Depression as an event,” he told me. “We had one of the great fortunes. We traveled more, we had bigger homes and more servants. I learned about the Depression by reading at Harvard.”

Was thinking about how people at different ends of the economic spectrum are experiencing these times, then I remembered this--an example of how differently the ruling class experiences economic downturns compared to everyone else:

time.com/archive/6734...

Absolutely. Universities have to be very clear that cuts to research funding do not just affect faculty - they will drive up tuition costs. There will also be direct effects on patient care in universities with hospitals and clinical trials. These two outcomes are important to spell out.

How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid If you’re planning on hitting the streets, this guide may be of some assistance.

Protesting is a right of all Americans under the first amendment. That said, If you're thinking about joining a protest near you, there are some crucial factors to consider in order to stay safe. Our guide from 2022:

Man, when Boston Consulting Group is telling you to take action on climate change …

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Individual Border Patrol agents knew they were doing this, and a supervisor signed off on it.

we tried this before

it ends with bears moving in

"the scientific basis of the [polygraph] was weak, the extant research was of low quality, the polygraph profession’s claims for the high accuracy of the CQT were unfounded, and, although the CQT has greater than chance accuracy, its error rate is unknown."
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Neuroscience helps teachers empower students and themselves | Cornell Chronicle The program from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research provides student teachers an understanding on the neuroscience behind children’s learning and development and encourages them to p...

As the director of the community neuroscience initiative, I have the honor of working with these absolute stars. Read about what we are up to here: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

"The White House can lie all they want about how they're not stopping cancer research," the NIH source said, "but they're stopping cancer research on [NIH's] Bethesda campus."

Can confirm. The many shifting rules and EOs and bans do seem designed to stop cancer research at #NIH.

There are excellent neuro PhD programs in Europe that take international students. Here's one

fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...

How the national conversation shifted from structural racism to DEI How the conversation about DEI has evolved over time.

1/7. Public discourse about racial equity has changed a lot over the years. At @commhsp.bsky.social we’ve been monitoring those changes and their consequences. In a new 538 article, @efranklinfowler.bsky.social and I share what we’ve been seeing and why it matters.
abcnews.go.com/538/national...

The "Datasaurus Dozen" is a standard example of how data can tell lots of different stories depending how you look at them. All of the data sets below have identical summary statistics (ones that are commonly reported) yet are clearly very heterogeneous. (from juliasilge.com/blog/datasau...)

I was one of the REU kids coming from a liberal arts school. everything is making it harder for us to get through, but that’s the point. They don’t like our competition.

Oh look who else is 10 toes in. Society for Psychophysiological Research in the house!

The Society for Neuroscience is ten toes in. So proud. They need to get on bluesky.

Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.

Scientists asking for marches to protect science-- I need you 10 toes in on this. CENTER human rights in the form of diversity, inclusion, justice, and dignity. If science is not for everyone it's not a public good. Don't get caught lying.

nymag.com/intelligence...