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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 3 days ago • 687 comments

The cuts hurting our next generation of science talent just keep coming, hoping we can find alternative ways to provide research opportunities

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Further proof that Kennedy at HHS is endangering lives. The Mayo Clinic says, for the US in 2019-2020: "Flu vaccines prevent about 7 million illnesses, 3 million doctor visits, 100,000 hospital stays, and 7,000 deaths."

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

Raphael is a disabled Army veteran who worked at the VA in Seattle and played a critical role in processing servicemembers' disability benefits. He's received nothing but stellar performance reviews. Elon Musk fired him with ZERO justification. Help share his story.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 8 days ago • 607 comments

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

More #evidence on how #Poverty destroys people's #health and #lives... We could make the world a better place for everyone, if we wanted... #MedSky 🧪 #PoliSky #EconSky #sociology

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You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

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Top schools can increase their graduates' overall #research impact simply by admitting more students. At the school level, Josh Angrist @mitofficial.bsky.social & Marc Diederichs find that graduate student research output grows linearly with cohort size. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

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Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.

submitted 17 days ago • 154 comments

Figured out this week’s topic. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Roses are red VIolets are blue If we don't engage the public better Our scientific enterprise is screw(ed) #healthpolicyvalentines

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ICYMI. The Trump administration began to fire employees at the FDA on Saturday, according to an email notice targeting workers under a probationary period. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

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New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

submitted 17 days ago • 94 comments

This is one more example where people will suffer and die because of the decisions made by this administration, HHS, RFKJr.

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@bencasselman highligjts how uncertainty delays big investment decisions, with insights from Nick Bloom, who helped develop the economic policy uncertainty measures and research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

First colleague & friend notified their contract would not be extended at VA. Terminated. Not provisional, 5 yrs. Was managing a study to learn how to improve home care for Veterans, caregivers. Managers helpless to remedy now but will keep trying. Harms to them & x1000 will hurt quality of care!

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where everyone cared about their job and serving others.

submitted 19 days ago • 360 comments

Michael Lauer, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s extramural research, will leave the agency at the end of the week.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

This seems like a positive development, but given the track record here, I think it's worth waiting and watching cautiously to see if the money actually comes through.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 days ago • 1570 comments

Now would be a good time to read @trevondlogan.bsky.social's excellent article on the relationship btwn white supremacy—esp anti-Black political violence—& progressive tax policy. The DOGE coup builds on the historical lies that 1) taxes only help Black folks & 2) that helping Black folks is wrong.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The coalition promising to put Schedule F into effect on Day 1 will be in power soon.

submitted 113 days ago • 6 comments

This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

submitted 25 days ago • 24 comments

“A sane government would never do this.” — the former dean of Harvard Medical School Universities are reeling. Elon Musk’s allies are celebrating. Looking at the major cut to federal research funding — which many scientists predict will be devastating With @lenasun.bsky.social and Carolyn Johnson

submitted 25 days ago • 61 comments

Thoughtful opinion piece in the NY Times by Rachel Werner and Norma Coe at @pennldi.bsky.social on the reason we want the proposed nursing home staffing regulations to be upheld. The industry is fighting to have them rescinded, which is not good for our loved ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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@rachelwerner.bsky.social and Norma Coe laying out the evidence. "...we know how crucial nursing home staff members are—and why efforts to roll back the new minimum staffing rules pose such a threat to the residents and their families who rely on these staffers." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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Last year CMS increased nursing home staffing minimums in nursing homes, a major step toward protecting nursing home residents. Norma Coe and I estimate this will save 13,000 lives every year. This regulation is now under threat of repeal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

How it started: "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any" - POTUS Trump on coronavirus in June 2020 How it's going:

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 27 days ago • 146 comments

Very useful real-time summary of government data availability da-advisors.github.io/gov-multi-mo... built by Chris Dick at Data Advisors and an enormous number of other contributors

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

submitted 32 days ago • 190 comments

Science-based discussion about potential implications of cutting #Medicaid from the @tradeoffs.org team. Evidence suggests physical health may not be impacted but financial and mental health ⬇️. Might reduce overspending ⬇️ #healthcare costs. Excellent reporting. pca.st/episode/3c93... #healthpolicy

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New study in @jama.com @duke-population.bsky.social: We found relative increases in Medicaid personal care services for dual-eligible beneficiaries newly enrolled in D-SNPs vs other MA #econsky #academicsky #VBP @chvanhoutven.bsky.social @valeriesmith.bsky.social @michellescotton.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

So very excited to continue our great work together Kasey!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Happy ERP day! The 2025 Economic Report of the President is out now! Chapters cover a wide range of topics incl. remote work and K-12 ed - be sure to check it out. I'm presenting the health policy chapter at Brookings next Wed, links below #econsky #healthpolicy www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Important finding: more female professors increase the pipeline, improving the chances that female students succeed. One additional female professor in top econ departments would close about 1/3 of the representation of assistant professors.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Happy to have this paper (coauthored with an amazing team: Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, & @camilantmorales.bsky.social!) out on NBER this morning! Take a look 👇

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