Hyesung Grace Hwang
Dev psychologist interested in social bias, marginalization, dev cog neuro | Assistant prof at UCSC | she/her | @H_G_Hwang | hghwang.com
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace Hwang🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangIf you’re one of the thousands who gave this month – THANK YOU! We love reading your comments about the role public media plays in your life, and are proud to be here for you. If you haven’t had a chance to donate, please give what you can now: n.pr/3EYClNR
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangWorthwhile read on the different variants of capitalism, the version taught in (U.S.) business schools, and the consequences of U.S. business pedagogy on students and society. www.fastcompany.com/91328885/bus...
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace Hwang1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangNSF is one of the most efficient parts of our government! Any cutting is obviously designed to dismantle the organization. This is obvious but still bears emphasis that they aren’t doing this to save money but solely to destroy the most effective parts of our federal government.
- NSF officials announced they are essentially abandoning the use of “rotators”— scientists on leave from academic positions who help the agency choose the best research to fund. NSF also plans to reduce the number of administrators classified as senior executive service employees. scim.ag/3EKnxmc
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangShe’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangDespite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace Hwang🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangCome join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangJudge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace Hwang“NSF awards had once been considered prestigious. Now with this post hoc politicization of the merit review process they are merely a stamp indicating that a funded proposal has passed a secretive political test administered by an Administration that is unparalleled in its hostility to U.S. science”
- 🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangThe Association of American Universities and other groups looking to block NSF's 15% indirect cost cap just filed for a preliminary injunction. NSF is the third federal agency to try to cap research overhead payments. DOE and NIH are the other two (those efforts have been tied up in the courts).
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangCongress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangAn example of the disruption to science caused by the NSF’s 15% overhead dictate: At the University of Washington, all newly awarded NSF grants are now on hold indefinitely with no advance spending allowed.
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangA book I will always recommend on this broader topic.
- Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangA lawless government wants us to believe we live in a lawless country. If we buy that lie, we start to think it can do whatever it wants—just because it says so. The rule of law is on life support, but it’s not dead yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...
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- Diversity in Development (DID) lab will be at #SRCD2025! Check out our posters and talks ranging from Latine children's racial understanding, children's political ingroup preferences, and using EEG to study social group understanding in infancy! So proud of my students!
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangMy dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangSo thrilled to announce that we've released another "A conversation with a luminary" episode. In this long episode, we chat with luminary Professor Susan Carey! She talks about her career, the evolution of developmental cognitive science, iconic representations, and more! itsinnate.fireside.fm/26
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace Hwangyesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangExcited to spend today at the Science Communications Conference at St. Olaf College. @brossard.bsky.social starts us off "Communicating science is very important but it's also very hard" When thinking about "trust in science" what do we mean, trust in whom, in what context, to do what? 1/
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangLast year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace Hwang𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲? As argued by John Krakauer et al. most of the time we use "filler" verbs, promissory notes that we hope to "fill with substance" at some later time.
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangIn the past month 4 trainees in my lab lost: NIH diversity supplement, MARC, & STEP-Up funding. NSF SBE meeting (incl. ECRs) indefinitely postponed. Pipeline cuts disproportionately affect underrepresented scholars. Individual lives & our collective future impacted. #ScienceMatters
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- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangOH COME ON. NIH cancels a 34-year-old longitudinal study on women's health that started with 160,000 volunteers and continues to answer urgent questions about aging, heart disease, cancer & more 🧪 in @science.org
- Reposted by Hyesung Grace HwangEver 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
