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Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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A diagram showing that 24 annually funded grants becomes only 15 funded grants if 50% of the funds for competitive grants are used for multi-year funding.
I was preparing for a talk I gave last evening to a lay audience and came up with this graphic to explain multi-year funding and why it leads to fewer competitive awards and funding investigators and projects.
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Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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AI is transforming psychiatry by integrating diverse multimodal data to overcome disorder heterogeneity, enabling more precise characterization, diagnosis, and prediction despite challenges in data integration and model interpretability.
New this year: free trainee pre-conference on July 13 organized by @cehaeffner.bsky.social @adanyajohnson.bsky.social
Pre-conference tickets are free for main conference attendees but space is limited to 75 people so register early!
www.cpconf.org/faq-cpconf20...
Congrats @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social!!! That’s amazing news!
You can safely ignore anyone who insists that you should become not-you to be taken seriously in your professional life.
Getting an NIH grant, when money is released, is getting exponentially harder. You basically will need all three reviewers to score your grant as perfect to have a shot at funding.
NIH watchers, you will be mostly unsurprised to see that the triage line will continue at ~one third past the first two rounds that were promised. I seen credible intel on that recently. In context that suggests this will be permanent. Ie CSR loves the results and the honoraria cost savings.
Check out a summary of this work here:
Here's a big one from NIH. It remains Trump admin policy to
- Cap indirects at 15% (repeatedly rebuffed by courts and Congress)
- Multi-year fund *all* grants. As a reminder, this has the effect of dramatically decreasing the total number of labs and projects supported by the government.
Now digging through the 1000+ page Appendix.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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Wondering what you shouldn't say in a proposal? Call your program officer.
Wondering what happened in panel? Call your program officer.
Wondering how the latest federal stuff may affect your proposal? Call your program officer.
Call your PO. 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/call-your-pr...
This is a totally great editorial that I encourage everybody to read!
Check out @elvisha.bsky.social's editorial "The power of community", out now in Aperture Neuro!
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social
Had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Elvisha Dhamala about her perspective on EDI efforts in brain mapping, check it out!
Our next interview in the OHBM Award Winner Interview Series features Dr. Elvisha Dhamala, winner of the 2025 Diversity and Inclusivity Champion Award 🏆 @elvisha.bsky.social
Watch the interview here 👇
www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Environmental context can shape how our brains function! 🌟New work🌟 led by all-stars @niaberrian.bsky.social and @monicarosenb.bsky.social shows that environmental exposures in youth are reflected in brain networks that keep our attention focused! 🧠🌲
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devpsy #neuroimaging
please share with anyone you know working with the #ABCDstudy!
Now out in Psychological Medicine!
We identified lifetime exposures to humiliation and entrapment, as well as frontoparietal-left cerebellar RSFC, as correlates of adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms across three time points.
Link: doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Wondering what happened to NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) policy?
This article reveals a lot about where NIH is and how it got there, starting from politicization of NIH, through fear leading to staff over compliance, ending in harm to science.
undark.org/2026/03/30/s...
Highlights:
When you want to privatize science, limit its scope to what is profitable, and direct its benefits to the wealthy.
roon @tszzl the private sector has been remaking its own versions of NIH, ARPA etc as these public science institutions have seen structural decline and defunding and it will be supercharged by the funding NPV of machine intelligence and its firepower at allocation decisions
This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics.
The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge.
The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it.
US science is being killed
