MacKenna Shampine

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors:

You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.

Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.

[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

This is a fantastic resource for students applying to clinical/counseling programs this cycle: A list of PIs, organized by areas of research, accepting students!

Please share widely!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Apply for a Professional Development Award by this Sunday, July 27!

Science is in crisis, and that means our economy and our nation's health is too. Support Wayne State students and faculty headed to DC next week to advocate against budget cuts to NIH and NSF. Donate here: giving.wayne.edu/donate/SciPolDet
@waynestateresearch.bsky.social @waynestateclas.bsky.social

🎉 New paper! Led by @waynestateresearch.bsky.social medical student Sneha Bhargava, we show how puberty & sex impact fear extinction retention—key to understanding anxiety risk in females.

Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

#Neuroscience #AdolescentMentalHealth #Puberty @wsuthinklab.bsky.social

Closing the Care Divide: Policy Recommendations for Advancing Mental Health Treatment Engagement of Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups Read “Closing the Care Divide: Policy Recommendations for Advancing Mental Health Treatment Engagement of Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups” a Policy Brief from Volume 26, Issue 01 of the Journal ...

🚨NEW POLICY BRIEF:
To address mental health treatment disparities, we propose funding research on therapies tailored to individual lived experiences, increasing provider availability and competency, & developing outreach strategies to destigmatize mental health. Read it here: doi.org/10.38126/JSP...

Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@wsuthinklab.bsky.social

Teen Brain Bootcamp | Knowable Magazine A free email course for teachers, counselors, and anyone who works with teenagers

📣 Calling all teachers and parents of teenagers! The Teen Brain Bootcamp from @knowablemag.bsky.social is now enrolling. Understand how teens think, learn, and grow—with insights from leading researchers—in this upcoming, free email course.

#neurosociety #educationalresource #brainscience

A word cloud made from flagged terms in terminated NIH grant proposals. The most prominent words in large font include “trans,” “diverse,” “diversity,” “minority,” “sex,” “expression,” “mental health,” “gender,” and “women.” Other visible terms include “LGBTQ,” “racial,” “underrepresented,” “disability,” “barriers,” “black,” “equity,” “health equity,” “vaccine,” “bias,” and “intersectionality.” The word cloud highlights terms related to identity, inclusion, and marginalized communities.

HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈

Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.

Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to join the Clinical Psychology PhD program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this fall, under the mentorship of Dr. Krista Lisdahl!

So grateful for this opportunity and all who have supported me along the way!

Guess I will never be getting an NIH grant again

The authoritarian regime now mandates that NIH award recipients do not engage in any forms of protest or DEI-related activity during their grant period, even if unrelated to the grant. This is absolute censorship.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Applications Open for 2025–2026 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience The Simons Foundation is accepting applications from undergraduate students for its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience program.

Are you an undergrad looking for in-person #neuroscience research experience? Join our webinar on our 2025–2026 Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program on 4/16 at 1pm ET. Register here: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/27/a... #science

Tabling event with 5 Calls flyers on the table

Tabling event with 5 Calls flyers on the table and a banner than reads "Learn to call your representatives"

5 Calls Flyer "Participate in your democracy!"

5 Calls tear sheet flyer "Looking for lost democracy"

Want to share 5 Calls with friends? Download printable flyers you can use locally to spread the word!

They make for great hand outs at school, rallies, organizing meet ups, or your next 50501 event. 😎🪧

Get them here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Interested in graduate studies in science? Was your admission to a US program just rescinded? Well, Canada is now offering doctoral scholarships to qualified foreign students

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Run for Something Run for Something recruits and supports talented, passionate young leaders to run for state and local office - we’re building long-term power.

If you're as pissed off as every sane American should be, I urge you to donate/volunteer, hell even run for office @runforsomething.net

It is now more prevalent than ever to support and elect young progressives.

Gerontocracy is the failure of all nations.

runforsomething.net

A colorful graphic advertising the Science Advocacy Crash Course taught by Leslie Berntsen, Ph.D., Founder of stemEDify. It features two checkboxes with text that reads "Persuasively speak and write about science + social issues for wide audiences" and "Apply these skills to your classroom teaching. It also includes the logistical details: Multiple one-hour sessions, taking place online, on March 10th and 11th starting at 1:00 PM EDT // 10:00 AM PDT, with registration details available at stemedify.com.

Want to keep your science advocacy going above and beyond the (very cool and very funny) protest signs you've got for tomorrow? Come hang out with me and I'll teach you!

This coming Monday and Tuesday, both starting at 1:00 PM EDT // 10:00 AM PDT

Learn more and register at stemedify.com

This one too:

Large group of people bundled up for winter holding signs that support science, like "Trust Science, Not Politics", "Science Saves Lives", "We Love Experts", etc..

Stand Up For Science event in Lansing, Michigan was well attended.

@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025

I'll add a few more photos in the comments.

You can temporarily view more at the following gallery:
photos.aebogdan.com/index.php?/c...

Congrats to Sam, who is officially a PhD Candidate in the Translational Neuroscience Program at WSU. We are so proud of you!

March for Science @ the Michigan Capitol!
Click for more info: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Communicating About Public Health Common gaps in understanding, research-tested messaging to address them, examples to make it tangible, and practical tips for real-world communication scenarios

Great new resource from @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social on public health comms - with both well-tested language, and actionable tips.

This is FABULOUS.

debeaumont.org/resources/co...

A graphic featuring a photo of high school students wearing yellow shirts and their fists in the air with ACLU rally signs in front of the Capitol building. Overlaid white text reads "Apply for the 2025 National Advocacy Institute"

📢 Calling all high school students 📢

Join us for a week-long learning experience this summer in Washington, DC, where you'll hear from social justice activists and build your advocacy skills. Apply today at aclu.org/institute.

The War on Science (Feb 2025 teach-in draft) The War on Science What’s happening? What can we do about it? An interactive teach-in for biomedical researchers Please share, modify, and repurpose this template presentation (with credit). Good luck...

Made some slides for scientists to talk about what's been happening & what we should do next. There are probably many people better qualified than me to talk about these issues. If that's you, please, please, please consider holding some virtual advocacy training sessions for researchers this week.

Woohoo! And a full completer 🎉

Racially motivated policies shape who thrives and who suffers.

A new study published in Cancer found that young people with cancer who live in historically redlined neighborhoods have a 32% higher risk of dying than those in other areas. This is the long shadow of structural racism at work.

Trans people exist, have always existed, and will loved and valued, no matter what their government tells them.

(Also, I’m a part of the government, and I’m here to tell you I love you + I won’t stop fighting for you no matter what!)

The neurological impact of being Black in the U.S. Racism may lead to faster aging because of victims' constant exposure to chronic stress, a new theory posits.

In this moment of extreme erasure of voices of color, my graduate student Aziz Elbasheir wrote about his experience of being Black in the US, and how his research reflects that experience. Powerful read. harvardpublichealth.org/equity/racis...

New in @naturemedicine.bsky.social This article charting a roadmap for engagement and inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in clinical research

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Medsky 🧪

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.