Carolyn Fredericks
@carolynfredericks.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Neurology at Yale. Our lab studies vulnerability & heterogeneity in neurodegeneration (esp AD & asyn) with an emphasis on multimodal neuroimaging. Mom to two little boys and one big dog. Baker, backpacker, devourer of books.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“The Senate Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to release its proposal for NIH’s 2026 budget later this week…The committee could include language that would prohibit the multiyear funding plan or extend the timeline for the transition.”🧪
New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
www.science.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“The Senate Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to release its proposal for NIH’s 2026 budget later this week…The committee could include language that would prohibit the multiyear funding plan or extend the timeline for the transition.”🧪
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What a damn shame. And let's be clear: this rescissions package was merely a test. A start.
🧪 Science folks: Expect a similar bill coming soon for codifying cuts to this year's budget for NSF, NIH, etc.
🧵 Brief thread 1/3
🧪 Science folks: Expect a similar bill coming soon for codifying cuts to this year's budget for NSF, NIH, etc.
🧵 Brief thread 1/3
Breaking News: The Senate approved a White House request to cancel $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The House is expected to pass the bill.
Senate Approves Trump’s Bid to Cancel Foreign Aid and Funds for NPR and PBS Stations
The bill to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed over the objections of Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch’s power of the purse.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What a damn shame. And let's be clear: this rescissions package was merely a test. A start.
🧪 Science folks: Expect a similar bill coming soon for codifying cuts to this year's budget for NSF, NIH, etc.
🧵 Brief thread 1/3
🧪 Science folks: Expect a similar bill coming soon for codifying cuts to this year's budget for NSF, NIH, etc.
🧵 Brief thread 1/3
Hamid Abuwarda's paper showing that we can use the functional connectome to predict focal tau binding in preclinical Alzheimer's disease is out today!
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Whole-brain functional connectivity predicts regional tau PET in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
Abuwarda et al. demonstrate that whole brain functional connectivity predicts regional tau tracer binding in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Their models
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July 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hamid Abuwarda's paper showing that we can use the functional connectome to predict focal tau binding in preclinical Alzheimer's disease is out today!
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Great interview with Jenna Norton, one of the authors of the #BethesdaDeclaration about its origins and future
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While you are here, sign the support letter (if you haven't already) and share this link.
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While you are here, sign the support letter (if you haven't already) and share this link.
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
act.standupforscience.net
June 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Great interview with Jenna Norton, one of the authors of the #BethesdaDeclaration about its origins and future
art19.com/shows/federa...
While you are here, sign the support letter (if you haven't already) and share this link.
act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
art19.com/shows/federa...
While you are here, sign the support letter (if you haven't already) and share this link.
act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
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We miss you, Ben
#AltPride #AltGov
To close out Pride Month, we are recognizing neuroscientist Ben Barres. Beyond making seminal discoveries related to glial cell function, he was also a staunch advocate for equality in science for both women and the LGBTQIA+ community. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To close out Pride Month, we are recognizing neuroscientist Ben Barres. Beyond making seminal discoveries related to glial cell function, he was also a staunch advocate for equality in science for both women and the LGBTQIA+ community. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ben Barres (1954–2017)
Neurobiologist who advocated for gender equality in science.
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
We miss you, Ben
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Now is a good time to sign on in support of the courageous folks at EPA who stood up for all of us.
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
Support EPA Staff Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Your solidarity with the EPA heroes increases the pressure on their Administrator Lee Zeldin.
www.standupforscience.net
July 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Now is a good time to sign on in support of the courageous folks at EPA who stood up for all of us.
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
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@repbarragan.bsky.social
Thank you so much for your forceful questioning (www.themirror.com/news/us-news... ) of RFK, Jr. It appears that many Alzheimer's Disease Research Center grants are now funded about months of delay.
#CallingThemOutMatters
Thank you so much for your forceful questioning (www.themirror.com/news/us-news... ) of RFK, Jr. It appears that many Alzheimer's Disease Research Center grants are now funded about months of delay.
#CallingThemOutMatters
RFK called out over Alzheimer's move in tense exchange with Congresswoman
Rep. Nanette Barragán called out Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following cuts to Alzheimer's research, but the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services wasn't aware of them
www.themirror.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
@repbarragan.bsky.social
Thank you so much for your forceful questioning (www.themirror.com/news/us-news... ) of RFK, Jr. It appears that many Alzheimer's Disease Research Center grants are now funded about months of delay.
#CallingThemOutMatters
Thank you so much for your forceful questioning (www.themirror.com/news/us-news... ) of RFK, Jr. It appears that many Alzheimer's Disease Research Center grants are now funded about months of delay.
#CallingThemOutMatters
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It’s fine to call Collins or Murkowski.
But it is much much much much much more impactful if you can get on local TV in their states and call them to vote against. And if you can’t do that, make a social media video. Communicating to their constituents he is better than calling them.
But it is much much much much much more impactful if you can get on local TV in their states and call them to vote against. And if you can’t do that, make a social media video. Communicating to their constituents he is better than calling them.
It is certainly worth calling Collins and Murkowski to tell them to vote no now that defunding Planned Parenthood made it in over their objections
Still gotta feed your amoebas, even if they don’t tip the vote i guess — Collins/Murkowski probably deserve a nice call, alas
July 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It’s fine to call Collins or Murkowski.
But it is much much much much much more impactful if you can get on local TV in their states and call them to vote against. And if you can’t do that, make a social media video. Communicating to their constituents he is better than calling them.
But it is much much much much much more impactful if you can get on local TV in their states and call them to vote against. And if you can’t do that, make a social media video. Communicating to their constituents he is better than calling them.
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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!!
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: [email protected]
RTs appreciated 💫
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: [email protected]
RTs appreciated 💫
June 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!!
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: [email protected]
RTs appreciated 💫
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: [email protected]
RTs appreciated 💫
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Earlier today, AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh testified as a bipartisan witness before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, warning that without immediate action, the U.S. runs the risk of losing its position as a global leader in biomedical research and innovation.
April 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Earlier today, AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh testified as a bipartisan witness before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, warning that without immediate action, the U.S. runs the risk of losing its position as a global leader in biomedical research and innovation.
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"President Donald Trump says he wants to reduce our trade deficit. Yet he’s destroying one of our winningest exports: higher education"
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April 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"President Donald Trump says he wants to reduce our trade deficit. Yet he’s destroying one of our winningest exports: higher education"
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🧪Trump wants to cut NIH spending by 40%. If enacted, this will drive a massive, generational brain 🧠 drain of talented scientists and physician-scientists out of the US. Congress still controls the budget (for now). Call your reps and senators: (202) 224-3121
www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/t...
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Trump budget draft proposes NIH consolidation and 40% spending cut
Draft Trump budget proposes a $20 billion NIH budget cut in 2026 and a sweeping consolidation
www.statnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🧪Trump wants to cut NIH spending by 40%. If enacted, this will drive a massive, generational brain 🧠 drain of talented scientists and physician-scientists out of the US. Congress still controls the budget (for now). Call your reps and senators: (202) 224-3121
www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/t...
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An update to show the seismic crash in NIH funding. The left side shows NIH has issued almost no "new" awards since Trump took office. Even renewals (you receive a 5 year award, but each year they renew it), which should be mushed into the lines above it, is shockingly low.
April 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
An update to show the seismic crash in NIH funding. The left side shows NIH has issued almost no "new" awards since Trump took office. Even renewals (you receive a 5 year award, but each year they renew it), which should be mushed into the lines above it, is shockingly low.
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As of this morning, the @aacu.org statement opposing the Trump admin's "unprecedented government overreach" has been signed by more than 400 #HigherEd leaders.
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23.
Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
www.federalregister.gov
April 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23.
Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
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April 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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The beginning, I presume, of the Trump Administration's attempt to force journals to accept some number of alternative-view "research" articles on topics like vaccines causing autism or IV bleach injections to treat Covid (as suggested by our president in 2021).
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The beginning, I presume, of the Trump Administration's attempt to force journals to accept some number of alternative-view "research" articles on topics like vaccines causing autism or IV bleach injections to treat Covid (as suggested by our president in 2021).
New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias
Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias. Now, NEJM has received a similar inquiry as well.
www.statnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...
The beginning, I presume, of the Trump Administration's attempt to force journals to accept some number of alternative-view "research" articles on topics like vaccines causing autism or IV bleach injections to treat Covid (as suggested by our president in 2021).
www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...
The beginning, I presume, of the Trump Administration's attempt to force journals to accept some number of alternative-view "research" articles on topics like vaccines causing autism or IV bleach injections to treat Covid (as suggested by our president in 2021).
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Updating dashboard this morning with new funding curves, the Barron's article (in Miscellaneous), and Excel files with the latest terminated grants (from the HHS TAGGS site).
Looking at the latest terminated grants list was "interesting"...
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Looking at the latest terminated grants list was "interesting"...
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NIH_since_1_20_25
jeremymberg.github.io
April 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Updating dashboard this morning with new funding curves, the Barron's article (in Miscellaneous), and Excel files with the latest terminated grants (from the HHS TAGGS site).
Looking at the latest terminated grants list was "interesting"...
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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Looking at the latest terminated grants list was "interesting"...
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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Really good point. These are cuts to research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s.
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.
April 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Really good point. These are cuts to research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s.
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
And Trump is doing them to corrupt universities and end free speech and free thought. They want to force in conservative ideas that have lost in a free marketplace, and use cancer money to do that
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The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes.
‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’
The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.
bit.ly
April 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes.
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More, or should I say, less pain at NIH...
Dismemberment of the Office of Pain Policy and Planning office
www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/n...
Dismemberment of the Office of Pain Policy and Planning office
www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/n...
Unique pain research office eliminated in HHS purge
Pain is the most costly chronic health problem in the U.S. In latest RIFs at NIH, an entire division devoted to pain research was closed down.
www.statnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
More, or should I say, less pain at NIH...
Dismemberment of the Office of Pain Policy and Planning office
www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/n...
Dismemberment of the Office of Pain Policy and Planning office
www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/n...
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There is a reason that private industry hires communications and government relations professionals. Want to make impactful change? Use every tool at your disposal, or partner with people/orgs who have these skills. I promise you every mid-level trade association is doing the same.
This sucks, but also means if you want coverage, contact your paper in advance of an action. Give them quotes. Send them to folks to interview.
We did this for the NOAA protests and got wall to wall coverage for a week, with frontpages, opeds, and followups.
We did this for the NOAA protests and got wall to wall coverage for a week, with frontpages, opeds, and followups.
1) Ouch. I mean, OUCH.
2) WTF.
2) WTF.
April 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
There is a reason that private industry hires communications and government relations professionals. Want to make impactful change? Use every tool at your disposal, or partner with people/orgs who have these skills. I promise you every mid-level trade association is doing the same.
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Firings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records
“What we need to be doing is the opposite of what’s happening now: hiring more staff.”
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
“What we need to be doing is the opposite of what’s happening now: hiring more staff.”
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Firings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records - KFF Health News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass firings included people who fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Hea...
kffhealthnews.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Firings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records
“What we need to be doing is the opposite of what’s happening now: hiring more staff.”
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
“What we need to be doing is the opposite of what’s happening now: hiring more staff.”
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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We have slots for 2-3 postbacs! Get in touch if you’re interested in joining the Affective Neuroscience and Pain lab & contributing to our studies of pain, emotion, and social processing in the 🧠
Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
April 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We have slots for 2-3 postbacs! Get in touch if you’re interested in joining the Affective Neuroscience and Pain lab & contributing to our studies of pain, emotion, and social processing in the 🧠