Shannon E. MacDonald, MA

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Candidate 🎓| Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VAMC Intern | Emotion, Cognition, Psychopathology, EEG and fMRI 🧠 |MA ✈️ TX| TAMU 👍🏻|

[Shannon E. MacDonald, MA @SEMacDonald24]

SCIENCE NOT SILENCE! 🧠

[Lucina Uddin @LucinaUddin]

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help interpret your neuroimaging findings 🧠 https://t.co/LoB4ym9u2A

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

• Women scientists receive THREE TIMES more personal attacks online than men when discussing science.

• Women scientists are twice as likely to be sexually harassed online.

• Women scientists receive 40% fewer invites to be expert sources, even with more qualifications.

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[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

To give an idea of the rate of progress in science, in the last 2 days @Nature (alone) has published pre-clinical discoveries of:

1) New antibiotics
2) A new obesity medication
3) A new pain medication
4) New atherosclerosis medications

[David R. Liu @davidrliu]

Truth and wisdom at Boston #StandUpForScience

[nature @Nature]

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.

https://t.co/Ux1g91McIV

[nature @Nature]

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.

https://t.co/ALQlFtfuVd

[American Psychological Association @APA]

Recent and proposed policy changes and actions across the U.S. have raised concerns within the psychological community.

These changes contradict established psychological science, reinforce exclusionary structures, and risk perpetuating harm.

Read more: https://t.co/6wq00WKZ12

[nature @Nature]

About a month after Donald Trump took office, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health, preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.

https://t.co/DoVvF0MIsK

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

This breaks my heart 💔

Some of my most successful trainees were Pitt PhDs, and I helped run the neuroscience grad program for a few years - one of the best & largest in the country

Scientific progress will halt if we stop training the next generation

https://t.co/hhHMozx4ok

[Robin Aupperle @RobinAupperle]

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[Shannon E. MacDonald, MA @SEMacDonald24]

@RobynDD_ Congratulations! 🎉 Onwards and upwards! ❤️

[Shannon E. MacDonald, MA @SEMacDonald24]

Science is under threat! Cuts like this threaten research and innovation and will have unforeseen impacts for years to come! 🧠

[nature @Nature]

A US judge has blocked a policy that would have, beginning today, slashed billions of dollars of funding annually for US research institutions, including universities and hospitals. The action is in response to a lawsuit filed by 22 US states earlier today contending that the policy was illegal.

https://t.co/fY97bypAs9

[nature @Nature]

A US judge has blocked a policy that would have, beginning today, slashed billions of dollars of funding annually for US research institutions, including universities and hospitals. The action is in response to a lawsuit filed by 22 US states earlier today contending that the policy was illegal.

https://t.co/fY97bypAs9

[ACNP @ACNPorg]

The ACNP has joined forces with other brain and behavior organizations in opposition of the NIH imposed standard indirect cost rate. https://t.co/uTLzcOhTSY

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The NIH helped develop polio vaccines, map the human genome, advanced cancer and therapy and has produced 104 Nobel Prize winners.

This is what's being attacked?

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

"These [NIH indirect cost reimbursement] cuts should be a rallying cry for higher education to come together to make the case for the American system of research and teaching,” writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://t.co/WJ0QtMqQK7

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Thats a great start!!
Let’s make it 50? Because every state has NIH supported research in it. Research is what gives you your medicine and technology and quality of life.

22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments - STAT https://t.co/02JAzzKPs6

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Science is under threat.

[#EEGManyLabs @eegmanylabs]

🚨Exciting news! We now have the first-ever complete #EEGManyLabs replication. This large-scale multi-site study revisits a key debate in EEG & reinforcement learning. A thread! 🧵👇
📄 Full paper: https://t.co/KlhpineNtI