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Epidemiologist, @rushalzheimers.bsky.social Host, Epi Counts podcast https://serepidemiologycounts.blubrry.net/ Social media editor, American Journal of Epidemiology @amjepi.bsky.social #EpiSky #Geronsky #ADRD #scicomm Proud papa of three crazy kids
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Just incredible to say that policies like redlining can be studied but simultaneously deny the existence of structural racism. The cognitive dissonance can make your head explode. Kudos to this PO for shining a light on this hypocrisy

Insane

This was wild

Statement from @alzassociation.bsky.social: www.alz.org/news/2025/ke...

Truly sick. Soulless ghouls and grifters running our country

🚨 New @alzdemjournals.bsky.social paper from our @rushalzheimers.bsky.social & GWU R01 team, led by GWU Dept of Epi student, Joya Bhattacharya! #episky doi.org/10.1002/alz....

Was a pleasure to contribute to this impressive work led by @gabriellepfund.bsky.social and @emily-willroth.bsky.social!

Our new paper out on warfarin use and lower Vitamin K in the brain of older adults. A Tufts Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and @rushalzheimers.bsky.social collab www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pope is a Cubs fan! Fly the W—World Series ‘25 is ordained! 🙌

Well, it is legal in Chicago. We should have seen this coming

More shenanigans

Call for papers! We are now accepting submissions for a special collection on Latino Health in our new journal AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology @ajeadvances.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/...

📢📢📢Link here! The #NIH town hall is tomorrow 1-2 PM ET. I hope someone asks, "When will you comply with the name and email signature block mandates?"

The @rushalzheimers.bsky.social REC crew representing at the @naccdata.org Spring ADRC in San Fran! My REC associate director Puja Agarwal and our REC scholars Mayra Estrella and @maudewagner.bsky.social

Having a great time judging REC posters (first virtually then in person) at the @naccdata.org Spring ADRC meeting in San Francisco--and I may just make this background in the Palace Hotel my permanent zoom background. So pretty here!

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Great, Sovereignty trumps Journalism… 🐎 🇺🇸

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon

The 2025 @alzassociation.bsky.social Alzheimer's Disease Facts & Figures report is out today! Once again, I was honored to work on this report with our crack team of researchers and provide the most up to date information on this devastating condition #AlzheimersinAmerica www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Would watch

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Whenever you think it can’t get any more ridiculous, petty, destructive, etc… they always exceed expectations 😑

Please check out this blog post from our collaborative study on addressing barriers to accessing new Alzheimer’s drugs for Black older adults @schaeffer.usc.edu @rushalzheimers.bsky.social @ucimind.bsky.social @zisspolicyusc.bsky.social @cgster.bsky.social schaeffer.usc.edu/research/who...

Why you can't trust ChatGPT: I am looking for age- and sex-specific estimates of Alzheimer's dementia and can't find in literature so for fun asked AI and this is what it gave me. But those numbers for men and women do not appear in the report cited. How do I know? BECAUSE I WRITE THE DAMN THING!

So let me get this straight: RFK Jr claims people with autism can’t function in society yet MAGA also defends the actions of the RICHEST PERSON ON EARTH as a result of his autism?? The cognitive dissonance is too much. (Although maybe it explains why he doesn’t pay taxes 🙄)

The NIH will stop funding research on health effects of climate change, even as the growing severity of climate change stands to make those effects more severe. I talked to researchers — who haven't been told if this policy will cancel their active grants — about what this means for our health. 🧵

If you receive one of these bizarre, unethical, poorly written letters from Ed Martin, please send it to me so that I can write about how bizarre, unethical, and poorly written it is. Signal: annabower.24 Email: [email protected]

They’re targeting medical journals now.

This is truly sick. Once you’ve convinced the populace that DEI is a problem, then you can do blatantly racist and sexist things like this and gaslight people into thinking it’s justified. The backlash will come.

Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is: 1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization 2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy 3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them 4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process 5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time

Are we really #aging in bursts? A study made headlines claiming that rather than aging gradually, humans age in accelerated “bursts”- specifically at age 44 & 60. I know, it *feels* true. But if you are reaching one of these aging milestones, don’t panic. jenndowd.substack.com/p/are-we-rea...

NPR put together a "5 Takeaways" version if you need a more succinct version of this story. This is a huge story and should be shared and talked about everywhere. NPR's journalists need to be on TV talking about this.

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

This man is still bragging about his MoCA score 🤦‍♂️. For the hundredth time: this is a screen for cognitive impairment where you are SUPPOSED TO GET A PERFECT SCORE if you are not impaired! No doctor said that to you, unless they were kissing your--well, in these times, it's possible 🙄