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New paper out in @plosone.org! 💤 We examined how concordance btwn self-reported & actigraphy-assessed sleep may change across the perinatal period using @lisamchristian.bsky.social's data across 5 visits from late pregnancy to 12 months postpartum. #perinatalhealth #sleepmeasurement #healthpsych

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The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district. scienceimpacts.org/fy26 @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social

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Apparently being extra careful to be accurate/clear re findings w/ high potential to be weaponized, is now itself getting weaponized by the NYT and SCOTUS. When people like these transphobes go through these ridiculous contortions to “prove” their point, it’s a pretty good sign their point is wrong.

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SCOTUS just gave states permission to ban gender-affirming medical care for adolescent gender dysphoria (against the advice of all major medical orgs) At least twenty studies have examined the mental health benefits of this care. You can evaluate them for yourself: open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

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📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Felt really good, in the grander context of everything feeling so terrible, to be part of the energized crowd marching around the statehouse in Providence. Feels even better seeing millions of people showing up across the county in spite of right-wing and state sanctioned violence. #nokings

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Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

What a legacy and what a tragedy 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

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This is bad. Republicans have fixed the contempt provision in the billionaire bailout bill so bond has to cover the costs. It can’t be $1 anymore. This will neutralize the court’s ability to hold Trump in contempt, and only rich people will be able to file injunctions against the government.

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At the @brownowims.bsky.social annual conference, led by the fabulous @drkatiesharkey.bsky.social. Given tight $, this year is virtual, but so great to be in a room w a bunch of badass women from across Brown Biomed who wanted to be in person together anyway for a big watch party! 1/x

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The only period when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments

I am hiring a clinical research assistant for a project on adolescent cannabis use that will use MRI 🧠 and behavioral tasks 🎮 More information is available in the link below, and applicants can send a CV and cover letter to me. Please share—thank you! tinyurl.com/msn8h2ce

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"Punishing campuses by cutting health research funding would destroy the equivalent of one-quarter of annual gross domestic product in the US." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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#academicsky #psychscisky Add your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s latest Executive Order that appoints politicians — not scientists — to evaluate research. Take action now! actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Cycle science representing at #ABCT2025!! 🩸🔥🩸 On the research side, also presenting new methods for quantifying cycle effects on sx in both adults and adolescents. Talks by @clearlab.bsky.social, Ally Stumper, Peyton Miyares/Lizzie Wilson, and me, with @sheilacrowell.bsky.social as discussant!

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Utterly devastating. So many people, in addition to the hate-riddled person who pulled the trigger, have this blood on their hands. May Jonathan Joss’s memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight that much harder against the tides of hate inundating our country.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

June is #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈💙 At AFSP, we're dedicated to promoting the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Together, we have the power to help fight suicide in the LGBTQ+ community. Learn more at afsp.org/lgbtq Artwork by Wednesday Holmes

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More conference happenings to look forward to—I’ll be presenting data from our ongoing study on menstrually-related exacerbation #PME of borderline personality disorder #BPD at the Int Soc for Study of Personality Disorders #ISSPD2025 in Boston! Between this and ABCT, November will be a busy month!

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Destroyed by lies and DOGE…

submitted 31 days ago • 47 comments

The 5th International Single Session Therapies Symposium is in ONE MONTH! Our lab is excited to host ~200 attendees from 17 countries. Register here! sites.northwestern.edu/sst5/register/ Bonus: I'll be 9 months pregnant during SST5. Will there be 201 attendees by the end?? Register to find out 😅

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It's also a misunderstanding of what the grants are for. It's not a billion dollar donation, Harvard won the grants to do specific research that it is in a relatively unique position to do. Trade schools aren't going to be able to take over, eg, Harvard's cancer immunotherapy research.

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

submitted 38 days ago • 20 comments

When something threatens the auto or coal industries, mass hysteria about lost jobs ensues. Where's the collective flip-out about threats to higher-ed? 4.7 million Americans work for higher ed institutions. Even more rely on contract work with them. It is one of the biggest sectors in the US.(1/2)

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

As I said, just yesterday, the nationwide ban on HRT for all trans people is under way right now in Congress. They've amended the must-pass bill to ban HRT for all ages under Medicaid coverage. The anti-trans pogrom continues to accelerate.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Amidst all the badness, still super excited to present a ticketed workshop with @clearlab.bsky.social and Jackie Ross on the menstrual cycle at #ABCT2025 @abctnow.bsky.social this fall in New Orleans! (Decisions on talks/posters still to come.)

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments

Trump administration cancels PhD student’s funding who was studying the harms of the US opioid crisis because it fell under “diversity.”

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

We put up coral honeysuckle last year to attract the hummingbirds and it worked! This year we're delighted to discover a cardinal family has built a nest in its gorgeous blooms. It's truly wonderful the fauna that now lives in our suburban native habitat #nativeplants @jrpeters.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Another q for the stats people! People worry about collinearity (cf blog post below). Consider a scenario in which the collinear predictors are just controls to account for confounding. Including both of them doesn't impair the precision with which the effect of interest is estimated, does it?

submitted 60 days ago • 14 comments

Medicaid cuts in the new budget bill would threaten access to prenatal and postpartum care and could roll back decades of progress in access to ob-gyn care. Congress must not jeopardize patients’ health for budget savings. Learn more: bit.ly/4jVRBdM

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About half of all births are covered by Medicaid. Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid. More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid. So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.

submitted 46 days ago • 83 comments

Haven’t posted about this much here, but I’m an avid native plant gardener. This American Painted Lady butterfly who visited yesterday right next to a patch of pussytoes, one of the few plants their caterpillars can eat, is why. Having nature right outside my door is incredible.

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