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agree, I learn so much from paper summary posts!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Visa bans are blocking foreign doctors—just as hospitals face a physician shortage. New doctors from abroad make up 1 in 6 U.S. medical residents — the foot soldiers of hospitals. Now, residency programs risk being gutted… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h... #BlueSky #MedSky #ObSky #NurseSky #NeuroSky

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Here's an easy way to contact your senators if you want to help protect the millions of acres of forest service and BLM land Congress is proposing to sell: www.accessfund.org/action-alert...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to be here representing some of Janet’s influence on the economics of aging. Amazing celebration of important research and training that has happened and the many contributions this lineage will make going forward. #econsky

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

NIH APPLICANTS: Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification. Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE. You have been warned.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

These recommended pediatric and adult vaccine schedules reflect ACIP guidance, and were archived on Feb 18, 2025. 🚨 If you- or your kids are behind for any reason, get caught up now. Parents: cancer-preventing HPV vax is approved for all kids 9 yrs and up. Please don’t miss out on this protection.

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

always thought the bleach crowd just wanted you to drink chloroform but of course someone unironically sells it as “God’s detox”

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

super bad news for research :(

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

scroll all of the way down to see all of the science that we've lost over the last few months... best case scenario it takes a year from idea to grant award, usually it's more like 2, and the work can't continue without support

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration? Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

⚠️Sociologists and economists take note. This survey needs your support. If you use ATUS data, get your comments in TODAY. (And please share widely) #EconSky

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Some seriously bonkers current events

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Yes

submitted 47 days ago • 16 comments

Are women under-represented in publishing in #HealthEconomics? We did an analysis of submissions and acceptances to Value in Health. Results are quite encouraging - but still scope for improvement. open access paper here: tinyurl.com/WomenAuthors...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI: Researchers, now is your chance to tell us what questions you want to see in our surveys of the dementia care workforce. Submit ideas for Wave 3 data collection by June 4. Suggestions can include new questions, revisions, or ideas for a new interview component. www.ndws.org/surveys-and-...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 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...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

👏💯🎯 Save the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)! “investing in scientific research is crucial for the advancement of knowledge and the betterment of society” #SaveNSF #StrongerTogether www.savensf.com

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

We have all been this woman. I have definitely, repeatedly, been this woman. 🫥

submitted 57 days ago • 12 comments

Confused over who's in the running to become the next pope? But you do have some knowledge of financial-crisis era central bankers? This is the thread for you!

submitted 63 days ago • 13 comments

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

submitted 67 days ago • 7 comments

JOE is still open for posting jobs! It's one of the things we, the AEA committee on the job market, would like to officially encourage especially given the current environment @johncawley.bsky.social @aeainformation.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Hopefully any data access will be restricted to the VRDC!

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Quick reminder that there's still time to respond to the CMS request for information about the VRDC: www.cms.gov/data-researc...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

submitted 79 days ago • 326 comments

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

submitted 82 days ago • 71 comments