www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Yep. See

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

Not a huge deal but definitely a slap in the face.

Remembering Robert Bilder My friend and long-time collaborator Robert (Bob) Bilder died last August of cancer at the age of 69.

I wrote a piece about my late friend and colleague Robert (Bob) Bilder, reflecting on the the impact that he had on my career. russpoldrack.substack.com/p/rememberin...

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

If you can't make the UCLA Brain Health Summit in person, the meeting will be live-streamed on Youtube here: teams.semel.ucla.edu/longevity/ev... (click on the hyperlink in the top right corner of the program).

Illustrative figure

NIH pivots away from agency-directed science US biomedical funding behemoth says the approach will boost innovation, but some researchers worry that understudied areas of science will suffer.

"One NIH"

NIH pivots away from agency-directed science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Story In 3 Acts

NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH.
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals?

Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others.

Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Aging research, no longer a priority I guess!

Good thing our population isn’t getting much older 🙏🙏🙏

Paper title: “Examining the Foundational Assumptions of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology” in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

A new paper from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup (and yours truly) on the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of the framework. Recommended reading for anyone interested in questions of classification and psychopathology!

Here’s the journal article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

“The leftover money from those terminations went to the US Treasury, not back to NIH.”

NIH FY2025 funding data finally emerges on RePORT The FY2025 funding picture was disrupted significantly by the mandate for Multi-Year Funding of about half of the budget for extramural awards. This produced a mid-year declaration by NCI that thei…

NIH FY2025 funding data finally emerges on RePORT drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/n...

Delays in grant awards and funding calls worry NIH researchers Many programs may be pushed into the next fiscal year, and some could face funding gaps

"Since Trump took office 13 months ago, NIH has posted only 84 NOFOs, down from 787 in the previous year. Many more are in limbo. NIH has 323 opportunities listed as 'forecasted.' ... many on the list were announced in 2024 and ’25 and still are not open."

My group is hiring a full time research coordinator to work with our collaborators in Houston on understanding speech and language development in children with epilepsy. Great for folks looking to get direct experience with clinical/translational research. Please repost! jobs.bcm.edu/job/Research...

The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

The Future DSM: Bold Redesign, Lingering Blind Spots | Psychiatric Times The future DSM revamp is coming, weaving social context, biomarkers, functioning and symptom dimensions into faster, evidence-based diagnosis.

In the March cover story for Psychiatric Times, I provide an overview of the proposed changes to the future DSM, accompanied by some personal commentary and suggestions of my own.

www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-fut...

A recent paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com raised concerns about the lesion network mapping method. Our team of 16 coauthors analyzed >1000 lesions and 34 symptoms and found that "The methodological foundations of lesion network mapping remain sound" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

The exodus of next generation scientists is exacerbated by deep cuts to #NIH training programs meant to support early career scientists.

Last year, half of the US Nobel prize winners in science subjects were immigrants.

Who would want to come here?

🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.

Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

A New Concern About Weight Loss Drugs: What if They Work Too Well?

Honored to see our work cited in today’s New York Times in coverage of emerging data on next-generation GLP-1–based therapies. What does it all mean? Some brief thoughts below.. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/w...

We 💗 new NPP articles! Check out our #TWiNPP roundup 👇🏻

Another Perspective from @CFReynolds3MD and @pshrink @pshrink.bsky.social on key themes in current and future research on neuropsychiatric illness in older adults

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

Coding with AI - Better Code, Better Science

My new chapter of Better Code, Better Science on AI-assisted coding is now complete! It's been completely revised in an attempt to futureproof it. Comments welcome. bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/ai-codi...

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters
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