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Atlanta friends—please show up to hear Brian Goldstone discuss his remarkable book “There is No Place for Us.” And others—order the book! Details below!

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Does your child want to go to college, want to go to med or grad school? The new cures for diseases, new technologies that we depend on come out of universities. #Trump, #Musk, #Vought are now killing higher education. If you haven't been paying attention, this would be a good time to wake up.

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📣New paper alert 🧵Our paper on substance use in homeless populations @jama.com : 🗝️points: 1) >1/3 ppl use drugs regularly--meth is most common 2) ~1/4 of all ppl experiencing homeless (PEH) started using regularly AFTER becoming homeless (42% before) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/x

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

At a packed Mrs Dalloway’s bookstore to hear @kevinfagan.bsky.social discussing his new book “The Lost and the Found”

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Another way the new administration seems to be blocking NIH funding: If study sections can’t meet, they can’t review new grants. No review = no funding = stalled research. #PublicHealth #EpiSky

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

#JobAlert: The California Policy Lab's UCLA team is hiring a Data Analyst focused on homelessness. Please share with your networks: capolicylab.org/careers/data...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 #publichealth Newly funded NIH grants = new job offers. Renewed grants = jobs retained. Musk has paralyzed NIH funding. NIA council recommends funding for grants, meets 3x/year. The January meeting was cancelled and has not been rescheduled. Red state people please call, email your reps/senators.

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Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 4 days ago • 179 comments

Universities that receive federal funding are now required to rid themselves of any programs or trainings related to diversifying the workforce and educating about systemic racism and bias. I am disheartened.

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📣New paper alert 🧵Our paper on substance use in homeless populations @jama.com : 🗝️points: 1) >1/3 ppl use drugs regularly--meth is most common 2) ~1/4 of all ppl experiencing homeless (PEH) started using regularly AFTER becoming homeless (42% before) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/x

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Clear explainer of the potential of buprenorphine to save countless lives among ppl w opioid use disorder & the way stigma plays into the many current barriers to its use. (Reading the comments makes those barriers even clearer) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Clear explainer of the potential of buprenorphine to save countless lives among ppl w opioid use disorder & the way stigma plays into the many current barriers to its use. (Reading the comments makes those barriers even clearer) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.

submitted 8 days ago • 154 comments

🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in 🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over 🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s 🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day

submitted 9 days ago • 50 comments

Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America. Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

“Americans who value the spirit of discovery…need to issue a strong outcry. And legislators must exercise their constitutional responsibilities…This is not a fight that our country can afford to lose.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The US federal government is—today—firing thousands of scientists. The short-term impact will be terrible; the long-term impact will be devastating.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

CDC cutting legendary epi training program and firing "disease detectives" by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This makes us all less safe. And will echo through generations. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

We are hearing that there is a meeting of all NIH IC directors happening now. We are also hearing, from several sources, rumors about director and assistant director level removals coming soon. The impact of this wld be enormous. IC directors have all grantmaking authority for each institute. 🧪

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

"Sometimes you persist and you fight “the long defeat.” Because... you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose. And sometimes, just sometimes, you win." 🙏 @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for showing us a path forward in these dangerous times www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Sometimes you persist and you fight “the long defeat.” Because... you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose. And sometimes, just sometimes, you win." 🙏 @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for showing us a path forward in these dangerous times www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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It is very cold & rainy in SF. Nearby, Fremont has criminalized homelessness & "aiding & abetting" those who are. Being impoverished in a high cost housing market w/o shelter is now a crime. Being a neighbor who offers a warm drink or blanket is one too. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It is very cold & rainy in SF. Nearby, Fremont has criminalized homelessness & "aiding & abetting" those who are. Being impoverished in a high cost housing market w/o shelter is now a crime. Being a neighbor who offers a warm drink or blanket is one too. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Just got off a webinar with a prominent national law firm on rules change on indirect rate. AAMC and other orgs on panel too. First, need to be convey that the rates are actual costs, not just overhead to pad the university coffers. Example- Institutional Review Board, space/utilities 1/4

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

NIH Office of Research On Women's Health. At top: Putting science to work for the health of women. Just below that: Page not found. The link: dead. I guess....improving the health of women is...no longer a priority. Or, even allowed?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is part of an ominous trend. Studies like the YRBS help us understand health issues, guide our ability to respond to them—& are essential to our nation’s health & safety. Ignorance is not bliss, but dangerous. Government censorship of the truth is…well, you know.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Infectious diseases physician here: Expect increases in HIV in your community. Hepatitis C. Sepsis. Bloodstream infections. Influenza, covid, and other respiratory viruses. Expect loss of productivity due to communicable disease. Expect increased mortality. Expect healthcare system overload. (1/3)

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

This memo from @academyhealth.bsky.social is the most useful #NIH shutdown guidance I’ve seen so far. Highlights mine.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

submitted 27 days ago • 179 comments

Chilling. NSF not only halting review meetings (to review new studies) but also stopping work on funded proposals. Scientific advances in the US (funded by NIH or NSF) have not only made enormous contributions to the health and advancement of society, but are economic drivers.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

While the drop in overdose is promising, not all populations benefited. In @statnews.com Dr. Trina Johnson (now a @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social postdoc) & Dr. Miriam Komaromy lay out tangible evidence-based steps to ⬇️ ODs in Black communities, who haven't seen the same ⬇️ as other communities.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 28 days ago • 105 comments

Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

submitted 28 days ago • 20 comments

There is a direct connection between ⬆️ rents & ⬆️ homelessness. (And btw housing shortages & ⬆️ rents). And yet, many people will blame the homeless system if homelessness ⬆️ in LA next year…

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

True story from scientist I know at NIH. Yesterday, she was told to “not use as many gloves” because they can’t order replacements. Go Fund Me for gloves for NIH scientists? Dystopian doesn’t begin to explain it.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Health Disparities are real & lethal. Research on ⬇️ health disparities & improving health among impacted pops is critical. The NIMHD (NIH Institute that focuses on ⬇️ disparities) website remains. But if you search NIH Health Disparities, the page is gone. Chilling.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Advice on impact of recent EOs on homelessness from Ann Oliva CEO of NAEH #homelessness endhomelessness.org/blog/a-lette...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

NIH Diversity Supplements provide (d) small $ for additions to projects for scientists who faced barriers (from rural areas, grew up in poverty, have disabilities, & from ethnic/racial groups historically excluded) to gain exp and prelim data. Now gone. (Screenshot new exp date. Other pages gone)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

NIH Diversity Supplements provide (d) small $ for additions to projects for scientists who faced barriers (from rural areas, grew up in poverty, have disabilities, & from ethnic/racial groups historically excluded) to gain exp and prelim data. Now gone. (Screenshot new exp date. Other pages gone)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

NIH study sections & council meetings cancelled. NIH employees told to not purchase supplies. Does the public understand what the NIH does or what this means?This article ⬇️ points out but doesn’t name some of the wonders of science & quiet heroism of scientists whose work leads to these “miracles”

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments