Marianna Zhang
developmental cognitive scientist & postdoc @ NYU | social categories, development, language, climbing, caving | 🗽🌬️🌉🗽 | she/她
mariannazhang.github.io
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangThis is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangThe New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangThere’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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- some parents, esp white parents, fail to answer their children's questions about race or provide colorblind messages ("race is not important"). but are these effective? 🗣️ we find they aren't! structural explanations seem to be more constructive (1/5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangAnother ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.
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- Reposted by Marianna ZhangAnnouncing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.
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Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year. dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve... - Reposted by Marianna Zhang[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangApplying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline? We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨ 🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks #NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
- Reposted by Marianna Zhang1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
- 📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵
- Reposted by Marianna Zhang🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3
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- I reference this resource *so* frequently, super readable and helpful! highly recommend to anyone who does experiments!
- Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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- Reposted by Marianna ZhangThe FY26 budget will devastate our innovation driven economy. A summary in 3 parts... Part 1 - The White House vision for dismantling science, as described in one simple plot, means slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF & going back 25 years (or more). joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangSo important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
- As Robert Kuttner writes, the NIH will need support from Republican Senators to avoid draconian cuts to its FY2026 budget. prospect.org/politics/202...
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangNEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangUndergrads interested in philosophy of science? Please share that applications are open for our summer development program! lpssdp.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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- Reposted by Marianna ZhangCOS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order www.cos.io/about/news/c...
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- Reposted by Marianna ZhangAll NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
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- for those with NSF grant terminations: upcoming office hours (today and next week) + info on drawdown costs + appeal letter template, from @fabbs.org
- NSF claiming that research on misinformation infringes on free speech is laughable. if the administration is looking for censorship, maybe they should take a look in the mirror
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- we find that 5-7yo children expect adults to hold gender stereotypes (and approve of that!), in a dream collab led by my grad school friend @mika-asaba.bsky.social (🧵 👇)
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- Reposted by Marianna ZhangWanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Marianna Zhang🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Marianna ZhangI am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
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- it's true, can't say if my research meets NSF "priorites" or not
- One scientist "learned her two-year fellowship was being canceled in an email from NSF that she said misspelled the word "priorities." Her work no longer served those priorities, it said." @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social on the latest at NSF www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
