The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, experts say. The food aid program helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children.

Are you a scientist, journalist, or civil society researcher studying New York State's distraction-free school policy, the one that bans internet-enabled devices in schools from bell to bell? If so, I want to hear from you, as I refine a project to archive & classify published school policies.

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

We are thrilled to welcome @rogerfigphd.bsky.social of Cornell University to the network! Figueroa’s research examines the role of social services & policies (such as childcare & food assistance), as well as sustainable food systems. Learn more from his member profile: scholars.org/scholar/roge...

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

URGENT! Write your Democratic Senators and Reps with a plea to stand firm in the budget negotiations. If we don’t prevail now, we will end up with huge budget cuts to public health programs and workforce and loss of health care access for millions. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

"When countries spend more on social services like Head Start, everyone’s health outcomes are better." @rogerfigphd.bsky.social (Cornell) writes on the precarious future of Head Start in NY & urges state policymakers to treat it not only as an education program, but also as a public health one. ⤵️

Pleased to share my latest Op-Ed published in @timesunion.com. In this piece, I examine how funding cuts to public assistance programs may impact Head Start and eligible families. Huge S/O to @scholars.org for their guidance editing and pitching the article. www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When the state can bully organizations to cancel television shows and fire people for speech, we don’t live in anything close to a functioning democracy.

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

Happy Mexican Independence Day, Illinois.

Inflation accelerated in August as Americans paid more for gasoline and groceries. Over the last 12 months, consumer prices have risen 2.9%.

One of the country's foremost food policy experts said Tuesday that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again report is "a report about intentions. It's not about actions."

Today in @nytimes.com , @juliabelluz.bsky.social and I share our thoughts on our toxic food environment, what to do about it, & how MAHA leadership is falling short by promoting wellness products & industry cooperation instead of better science, policy & regulation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Public health is under attack. It’s not enough to fight back, we need to make our field better for everyone. Today’s E is for Epi guest post by @jessieish.bsky.social & Nadia Abuelezam asks “what would a solidarity-based epidemiology look like?” Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

At this point, I know of NM & New England states. I'm sure we'll see more... "Health officials from MA, ME, VT, CT, RI, NY, NJ, and PA met this week to consider coordinating their own vaccine recommendations, separate from the federal govt." 🛟😷 Lawsky Medsky health policy

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly #HealthPolicy #AcademicSky uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

#Psychjobs My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can. apply.interfolio.com/172552

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

It's publication day for our first paper out of the www.csinequality.org lab completed entirely at NU. To write it, we asked: what research in the social psychology of inequality do we like and why do we like it? The answer is this paper:

This administration’s treatment of immigrants is cruel and inhumane. May we never forget the callousness of those responsible.

Article in Nature from a former NIH employee and Bethesda Declaration signer... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Universal Basic Income works. It doesn’t have to be like this. Poverty is a policy choice.

The NIH was healthiest when pay lines were in the 20th percentile range. We are headed into an environment where pay lines are in the 5% range. In my entire career, I’ve only had 3 grants that scored better than 5%. And my lab is considered a successful one. This is going to destroy science.

This. Not just the summer, but also the year(s) ahead. I've been having conversations with fellow academics about the push to do the same or more with less (as funding cuts set it). It's not sustainable. At some point we will just have to do less. We need to decide what is essential, and what's not

"To retreat from [diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts] is to close the door to possibilities for better science and a better future. This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward," writes Agustín Fuentes in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. scim.ag/4kS8ZQi

We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

A judge rules that several hundred Trump administration NIH grant cuts were illegal, saying he’s never seen such discrimination in 40 years.

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department.

Bottom line: the proposed NIH & NSF cuts alone would eventually strip at least $10 billion per year from U.S. output. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Good morning. Remember to drink water. Take deep conscious breaths and step into nature whenever possible. #resist

Been thinking about this a lot. Academic public health will need to be reinvented. Ideally more collaborative, action-oriented, unafraid of science-informed advocacy, measured by real-world impact instead of h-index.

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

My biggest writing advice to grad students is: don’t be a perfectionist. I hope you find an advisor who works with you on shitty first drafts. My grad advisor Judy Hall and I would send imperfect drafts back and forth til it’s as good as we can get. Writing fast is prob a big predictor of publishing

Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions reut.rs/42Vhp3x

In more bad funding news, internal NIH emails have directed grant managers to stop payments to Harvard, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, and Weill-Cornell Medical School. www.science.org/content/arti... Worse still, they’re directed not to communicate with those grantees about the freeze?

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

In a new paper out in Health Affairs, my coauthors and I find that the Medicaid unwinding has led to fewer children with Medicaid and CHIP. We found that state 12-month continuous eligibility and Medicaid expansion CHIP structures were protective against some Medicaid loss doi.org/10.1377/hlth...

Listen to every word.

"For much of our...history, the US has been the global leader in research...the new administration seems to be inclined to recklessly consign that to history. We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... The words Black, anti-racism, Hispanic and Diversity are amongst those they hope to disappear. USE THEM. #resist

JAMA: A call for physician-social scientists: Medicine’s future depends on leaders who bridge clinical practice, research and society. Physician-social scientists are equipped to do this, but their potential cannot be realized without investment in their training. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...