NZ's govt has announced reforms to science funding

just one line about basic science in there: "Discovery-led science & research will continue to be funded. This will sit outside the pillars & is essential for maintaining vibrant curiosity-driven science system"

yea mate seems like a real priority

Early this morning, daylight saving began in New Zealand for another year. This is, I think, a good opportunity to highlight two Kiwi innovations: it was the first country in the world to establish a national mean time and a New Zealander invented DST. How did that happen? Well, read on... 1/20

We meet again. Friends will know I had a horrific encounter with this ethics committee member last year that delayed a lot of research due to fears about putting my LGBTQIA+ students in front of an ethics committee that condones this conduct. Much appreciation for this new complaint 👏👏👏

1/ @drmonnica.bsky.social and colleagues, Imani Farber, and Sonya Faber respond to a "the Behavior Therapist" piece that absent of any data mischaracterizes social justice at ABCT and pits it against other goals of the organization.

mydigitalpublication.com/article/Corr...

This is a who’s who of amazing scholars in our field. Wtf

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

We synthesized findings from 22 studies (N = 7,314):

Antibisexual discrimination was significantly associated w/ sx of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress, but…

the associations were significantly stronger for discrimination from heterosexual sources compared to lesbian/gay sources

www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/open-le...

🚨New paper out now in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology🚨

Potential Harm in the Psychological Treatment of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

w @cmpinciotti.bsky.social @claireecusack.bsky.social @lluaces.bsky.social @drilanasvd.bsky.social & Paz Galupo

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horrifying news out of NZ - "refocusing" the Marsden Fund to drop social sciences and humanities research and emphasize the trendy business interests of the week. short-sighted, grotesquely anti-scientific, ideologically driven.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is so backward
1. Science is more than just commercialisable widgetry
2. Making progress on our biggest problems (climate change, infectious diseases, misinfo to name a few) will need more collaboration between STEM and hum/social sci not less.

We are hiring tenure track faculty in our new social work program at UD! Please help us get the word out by sharing.

Assistant professor: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

Faculty director: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

This was so much fun!