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If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. people.com/what-is-proj...
Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...
A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states. here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:
Sad to miss @infantstudies.bsky.social#ICIS2024 this year, where the lab's fantastic Benazir Neree, Kira Ashton, Olivia Lowman will be presenting: Tuesday 7/9, 3:45pm-5pm: P1-G-170 Wednesday 7/10, 5:00pm-6:15pm: P2-F-333 & P2-F-353 Come chat with them about infants' visual representations! 👶🧠👁️
Anybody wanna knock out a state tonight before the end of day 1 👀 $30 to finish Hawaii Maine Delaware $40 for Alaska Utah Rhode Island $60 for New Mexico $70 for Louisiana Many of the bigger states need all the help they can get 😅 givebutter.com/Wj5JGG
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On NIH budget for next year: The House majority this week released their toplines for next year's budget. The Labor-HHS-Education subcommittee rec is $184B. The just-passed budget (FY24) amount was $225B. This is a **$41 BILLION** dollar cut. Or twenty percent.‼️ 🚨🚨 1/
Join us for our next webinar, THIS FRIDAY! Behavioral Coding Software for Developmental Science: An overview of BORIS, Datavyu, and ELAN May 24, 2024 | 14:00-15:30 UTC on Zoom Learn more and register now! manybabies.org/events/#psychsky#devpsych#manybabies#academicsky
>Upcoming Events #### May 24, 2024 - 14:00-15:30 UTC on Zoom ### Behavioral Coding Software for Developmental Science: ### An overview of BORIS, Datavyu, and ELAN Behavioral coding software streamline...
I’m hiring a postdoc to start in Fall 2024 (or later) at UCSB! The ideal candidate should be interested in how babies and children make sense of others’ actions, minds, and/or relationships. Please share! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02765
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
"I just don’t understand how, of all places to cut, you would cut 40 percent from the BRAIN Initiative, which is working to understand how biology achieves intelligence." - Doris Tsao, professor of neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley By @avaskham.bsky.socialbit.ly/3VZn45H
The program is funded at $402 million for the current fiscal year, a 40 percent drop from last year.
do u know of someone who may be interested in starting a lab as a junior PI in Korea, to work on perceptual decision-making in mice? besides postdocs, we would consider someone fresh out of grad school too, or someone who wants to be a staff scientist for the longer term. 1/