Emilio Valadez

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

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An mRNA Refusal to File

"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends"

Indeed.

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Frontoparietal Hubs Leverage Probabilistic Representations and Integrated Uncertainty to Guide Cognitive Flexibility Adaptive behavior requires integrating information from multiple sources. These sources can originate from distinct channels, such as internally maintained latent cognitive representations or external...

New paper from Steph. Watch out, she has many more coming.
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Combining EEG and fMRI brain scans gives a clearer picture of teens' future anxiety risk.

Glad to see this paper finally out! It builds on awesome EEG source localization work by Dr. Stefania Conte @binghamtonu.bsky.social and uses new, crucial statistical methods developed by @yifeng.bsky.social!

GOOD EVENING, DORKS.

Did you know you can call your senators and house rep and ask for specific grants to be restored? You can ask for specific jobs to be restored. You can ask for data to be restored. You can ask for teams tracking food safety to be restored.

Do what you want with this info!

We can claim to live in the greatest country on earth because we respect freedom of speech & individual liberties, OR we can kidnap people w/out due process because we don't like their tattoos or their op-eds & ship them to mega-prisons in other countries. That's it. We don't get to have both.

Meanwhile, I'm glad to see PCSAS' page on DEIJ remains up. Let's hope they, at least, stand firm. pcsas.org/about-pcsas/...

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Might save a life.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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.

This is a very bad day for science

Hard to believe that *anybody* would see this as a good idea.

📚BANNING BOOK BANS

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed the Freedom to Read Act — a law prohibiting public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law. (Illinois,…

I'd definitely work for stickers. Love this!

Thanks for putting this together, Christos!! Could I be added?

Special Issue at Developmental Psychology!

New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills

Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott
@sabinedoebel.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social

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Thanks for putting this together!! If there's room, could I be added?

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack…Part Two!

go.bsky.app/ERzYGod

Thanks!!

Could I be added too? Thanks, Deon!

Starting a Human Neuroimaging pack, let me know if you’d like to be added! 🧠

go.bsky.app/8xs6oWw

Whoops! Thanks!!

Thanks for creating this, Natalie! Could I be added too (if there's room)

So excited to have this paper out in #Emotion journal! In this multisite study with Dr. Sara Berzenski from CSUN, we explored the effects of masking on emotion recognition in school-aged children, their fathers, & emerging adults. We report on both behavioral & 🧠 data here: bit.ly/48RvXT5

Created this child and adolescent mental health starter pack!! Please let me know who else (yourself or others) should be included🥰 go.bsky.app/mJXZrD

Thank you, Nora!!

I'd love to be added!

By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

I'd love to join too. Thanks!!