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The Affective Science Lab will be well-represented at this years @affectscience.bsky.social conference!
Hey everyone! I’m leading a student mentoring table at SPSP on Family Planning and Pregnancy during graduate school. I'm trying to collect some useful data: If you had kids in academia (any career stage)-- I would be grateful if you filled out this 10-question survey: forms.office.com/r/JeLL5cBk3w
Feldman & Finlay, 2025. Welcome to academic Bluesky Rylan. We only come for the good vibes.
As an aphantasic scientist, been keeping a keen eye on this work :) very excited to see where it goes. I have a bunch of anecdotal hunches obviously haha!
Would love a clear articulation how you see this deviating from Theory of Constructed Emotion. I would also check out @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and Maria Gendron’s history of emotion paper where they bring up several similar points (e.g., about William James)
Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Yay!
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
🙏 We need your help 🙏
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
This is really important. How can we counter this false narrative?
So awesome to see a community-based-participatory approach to interoception research in practice. Major kudos to this team for publishing on patient priorities!
This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.
Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:
If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r... shocked by this! Sam Sommers’ book is what made me interested in psychology, and is what made me choose to go to Tufts. Sending love to his family and colleagues.
"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
CASL is showing up for Society for Affective Science this week!
Curious about this— I would have guessed they’d reduce sensitivity if they are also lowering heart rate. What do you make of these results?
Seconded!
Congrats Chris! Well deserved!
@adriennebonar.bsky.social
Thrilled to see folks working on this! Especially you! Can’t wait to read all that becomes of it. Congrats!
Physio people -- when you have messy data, what's your philosophy on filtering? Under filter and discard a lot of data due to excess noise OR potentially over filter and smooth true signal? In this case i'm working with PPG. #psychophysiology #interoception
Incredible. Thank You!
I’m here for biologists making a big fucking stink but I think psychologists should get in on the action too.
