Our latest pub underscores the profound impact of #ReproductiveCoercion and #IPV on a wide range of health outcomes — including a strong association with suicidality, even in the absence of depression. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jhumkag.bsky.social @masonpublichealth.bsky.social
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?
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
New Podcast Alert🎧
In today's episode, we talk about period poverty, menstrual equity and the importance of expansive advocacy efforts that include and uplift Southern, Black, rural communities.
Please be sure to check out Asia's nonprofit, 601 for Period Equity.
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Research Participants Needed! https://hartford.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8IfgRBu2ew228Ie
I know the world is on fire, but can you help a girl graduate? She needs way more people to fill out her dissertation survey. You can fill it out if you're Black/AA and have ever been in grad school! If not, you can help by sharing!
#BlackSky #AcademicSky #PhDLife #Blackademics #MedSky #Academia
A policy change by the Trump administration allows immigration agents to enter and arrest people in health facilities. Some clinics are training health workers to support patients in the event of arrests.
I would like to think this is because of concerns about declining response rates, but i know better. It’s part of an active policy of cultivated ignorance to repress policy change.
Truth is resilient #resist
I was asked for words of encouragement to share our public health students. How do we not lose the next generation of public health leaders who are watching the state of our field?
My response- we tell them the truth. The greatest threat to public health is our federal government. We fight back.
Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.
In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.
Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.
Links below.
Find us at standupforscience2025.org. #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence Stand Up For Science 2025 - March 7, 2025 - Washington, DC and nationwide. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved.
THANK YOU, @standupforscience.bsky.social!
The newly installed gang can change names on our maps, but they can't change scientific fact.
We NEED scientific research, we NEED weather a& space & climate knowledge & education, we NEED funding for all of it.
#standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence
Dear Colleagues, With gratitude for his strong leadership and commitment, I announce National Institutes of Health (NIH) Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., retired from federal service effective Feb. 11, 2025, after 25 years of service. Dr. Tabak has held critical NIH leadership roles since 2000, most notably in his current role as the second in command since August 2010, and two years as the Acting NIH Director from December 2021-November 2023. He has helped shape important policy decisions at NIH over four administrations. He has guided NIH through complex issues and will be sorely missed.
UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring."
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
Not sure how many realize that NIH funding is still frozen. This article details an almost complete dropoff (97%) in NIH funding between Feb3-10 this year and last. Our institution's numbers are consistent with those cited here. If yours are as well, please share!
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The Kennedy Center is too woke… #absurdity
PBS caves to Trump, closes its diversity, equity and inclusion office. Public radio to serve a multiracial public can no longer promote diversity. www.mediaite.com/news/pbs-caves-to-trump-...
image of Harriet Tubman with a quote and a tagline that, at ITI, every month is Black History Month.
#BlackHistoryMonth #AcademicSky #BlackSky #intersectionality
**NEW CALL** Demand your reps work to reverse the Trump admin's decision to cut NIH and NSF funding!
These cuts will cause an immediate and massive funding shortfall at research institutions nationwide, forcing layoffs and jeopardizing critical scientific research.
🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...
Indirects capped at 15% for NIH grants.
This is the most crippling blow in the war against higher ed to date.
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Have some backbone, NCAA #resist
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Worth watching from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "Trump is acting like a king because he's too weak to govern like a president. He's trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...
