Trump issued an executive order to have weed rescheduled, which would lower its criminal status.
This symbolic gesture would do little for those most likely to be arrested for cannabis.
Meanwhile, Trump has done much more to re-criminalize cannabis during this second term.
My latest.
Very happy to share our paper on the "summer slide" in kid's cognitive test scores is out now in @pnas.org!
We find a replicable dip in performance across multiple domains of cognition in >23,000 kids across 4 datasets!
Check out the 🧵 from @ariellekeller.bsky.social below! 👇
89 of my journal articles were used to train Meta’s AI. You can alert the lawyers handling the class action suit if your intellectual works were used as well at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.
Commenting in my code that I plan to upload on OSF/Github: "#i know there are likely more efficient ways to do this, please don't judge me"
Extremely grateful to receive the Clinical Post-doc Enoch Gordis Award at @rsaofficial.bsky.social this year! Presented on utility of virtual reality in alcohol cue-reactivity and associations with measures of heart rate! #RSA_ISBRA2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
Trump's proposed budget would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
This may be old news, but I came across this Atlantic post, which indicates that a few of my manuscripts (and likely yours too) were included in a dataset that Meta supposedly used to train their Llama AI: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
A serious medical scene shows a healthcare worker in surgical scrubs standing in a hospital corridor. Bold white text overlays the image, reading: “Curing cancer. Preventing pandemics. What’s it worth?”
A dark blue graphic with white text centered over a soft-focus medical background. The message reads: “Just $105 per year from the average taxpayer funds the national institute of health. That’s all it takes to help save lives improve care, and fight disease”
A clean, square infographic with a dark blue background and light blue accents. The header reads, “What does that money actually do? Your $105 helps fund:” followed by six icons and descriptions: 1. Mental Health Research – Depression, PTSD, addiction 2. Cancer & Rare Disease Studies – From early detection to lifesaving treatments 3. Pandemic Preparedness – Vaccines, virus tracking, prediction and prevention 4. Children’s Health – Brain development, neonatal and pediatric care 5. Medical Innovation – Imaging, prosthetics, diagnostics 6. Basic Biomedical Science – Foundational research for future cures
Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬
🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund:
• Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs
• Pandemic preparedness
• Children’s health
• Medical tech innovation
• Mental health science & more
NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
Imo, best advice I received was--esp if there are complicated findings--to not segment my presentation like a paper (i.e., intro/methods/results/discussion), but to present a finding, talk about its implications, then go to the next finding, etc. Then, end with a conclusion slide on how it all fits.
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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#standupforscience at UCSD!
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
Our Perspective article on the neuroscience of addiction remission will appear in the February 2025 issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Kudos to first author Michel Engeln who did all the heavy lifting!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
which could work; but instructions may not change on the actual administration (i.e., will still say "press spacebar") cdn.mhs.com/mhsdocs/Mark...
I've used CPT 3 in research/clinical settings; participants press the spacebar, and to my understanding--MHS program does not let you edit the input key (unfortunately). However, a help page I found seems to indicate you can use another wired device (e.g. mouse)--
Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Population Surveys (new online ahead of print in JSAD)
@cassie-boness.bsky.social @kennethsherr.bsky.social
www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.
Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪
www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
