For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post

[GIft Link]

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Absolutely historic vote today where 40 US Senators voted to block the sale of Caterpillar D-9 bulldozers to Israel, citing civilian harm Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.

Though the measure was defeated (as expected), the tide is turning. Just last year, this number was 27.

Nutrition Is In and D.E.I. Is Out as Medical Schools Bow to Kennedy

Apparently nutrition is now replacing health in/equity in the curricula for MD & DO students as accrediting bodies are responding to new federal pressure-- www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Glad to be part of @aniloza.bsky.social reporting on why it's a problem to stop teaching future physicians about structural factors in health and health care

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers

NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race The NIH Data Book page reporting Research Project Grants (RPG) and Fellowship awards by race has been updated for FY2025. Completely unsurprisingly, despite the impression that may have been convey…

NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/n...

Judge ends asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, orders family's removal The family’s lawyers plan to appeal the judge’s decision to deport the family to Ecuador.

Outrageous.

Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible.

This decision must be overturned. Shame.

HOME (Honoring Origins of Mindfulness) - YouTube HOME: Honoring Origins of Mindfulness. In this video series, you’ll learn brief, 5–20 minute, culturally rooted mind-body practices from trusted Cantonese La...

Introducing HOME: Honoring Origins of Mindfulness, a video series of culturally rooted mind-body practices from trusted Cantonese and Latine-American voices in San Francisco. All videos have subtitles and audio dubbing in multiple languages so that everyone can enjoy.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Judge temporarily blocks Trump demand for college admissions data after California sues California and a coalition of 16 state Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education campuses to collect data showing they aren'...

“A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Trump administration order demanding colleges nationwide to submit data — including student grade-point averages and test scores — to prove they don’t illegally consider race in admissions”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

UCTV Cantonese 廣東話 (粵語) 加州大學電視台（UCTV）展示健康同科學節目，為全球各地嘅人提供資訊、教育佢哋，令佢哋嘅生活變得更加充實. University of California Television (UCTV) showcases health and science programming that informs, educates, and enriches the lives of people arou...

& in Cantonese www.youtube.com/@UCTVCantonese

HOME: Honrando los Orígenes del Mindfulness - YouTube En esta serie de videos, aprenderás prácticas mente-cuerpo breves, de 5 a 20 minutos y con raíces culturales, guiadas por voces chino-estadounidenses y latin...

Sharing short videos of mind-body practices in Spanish and Cantonese, made by my fantastic colleagues @ucsfoshercenter.bsky.social. Highly recommend for these times we're in. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...

It's Monday morning and Casey Means still doesn't have the votes to become Surgeon General. Let's keep it that way. Send a letter to your Senators now. If you have friends, famiy, colleagues who can do so, urge them on to act now. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Unions in health care & universities have many purposes--some are supporting their immigrant members in getting out of detention. higheredlaborunited.org/2026/02/25/s...

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

So well written. Thank you Elizabeth Ginexi for describing what’s going on inside the NIH. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#sociology

I love this quote.

Healthcare Workers Must Continue Alex Pretti’s Fight Pretti was one of us. We have to carry on his struggle.

Alex Pretti wasn't the first healthcare worker on the front lines against authoritarianism. We have a proud history in public health, from Brazil in the 70s and 80s, to Minneapolis now; we understand how fascists in more ways than one are hazardous to your health. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What is this wild show called?!

I can cover social determinants of health related topics for social science (eg medical sociology), public health, medicine, nursing, other health professions. Also qualitative research methods.

Press Release | January 13, 2026 Today, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Democracy Defenders Fund, and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller filed a motion to intervene in EEOC v. The University of Pennsylvania on behalf of five organ...

BREAKING : DDF & @aclupa.org are intervening to block an EEOC demand that UPenn disclose Jewish students’ and faculty members’ identities, a move that violates the First Amendment.

READ HERE:

Here's what the merchants of hate and fear will never understand Care, unlike terror, is a renewable resource

"Our care will sound like a protest chant, feel like an embrace, and taste like a potluck" ~ @garrettbucks.bsky.social

thewhitepages.net/p/heres-what...

The Cost of Staying Human Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

NIH director says DEI-related grants that were restored under a court order won’t be renewed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a podcaster that DEI-related grants restored under a court order won't be renewed in 2026

Director Bhattacharya spending more time on podcasts, this time taking about not renewing grants NIH was forced to restore.

Good reporting from @aniloza.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...

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@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social @kellyrayknight.bsky.social @socialmission.bsky.social @healthbegins.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @scholars.org

Healthcare Stories - Take Action Medical Education is Changing The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is proposing changes to Standard 7 that would remove structural competency requirements from medical school curricula. W...

Proposed changes to US medical school curricula would remove requirements around structural competency (understanding & addressing social & structural determinants of health). Anyone can comment by Wednesday 1/7 to keep current curriculum standards: details at
www.healthcarestories.org/take-action

Proud to be a very very tiny part of this big effort to keep University of California research funded

N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...