Brain's protective barrier stays leaky for years after playing contact sports www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More concussions equal worse brain health 5 years after college sports news.umich.edu/more-concuss...

New Harvard-led study links earlier tackle football start to worse brain health 50 years later. Tackling can wait! concussionandcte.org/news/harvard...

"Not all former football players experience problems later in life. For those who do, chronic inflammation may be a critical step in between sustaining repetitive head impacts and developing cognitive decline several years later" ufhealth.org/news/2026/in...

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

Oh man, the amount of buzzwords in this… It is hilarious to see this introduced as a “data-driven quest” before the actual text of the article acknowledges: “The safety gains are difficult to quantify.” (Are there even any safety gains at all? It’s not clear to me.) @profgoldberg.bsky.social

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen, traveled with his Madison-area soccer team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament. He saved up money so his mom could take time off work to go with him. But while they were there, ICE took his mom, who has been detained ever since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

ICE is kidnapping soccer moms.

"The guidelines from the PFA... recommend no more than 10 headers per week - including practice - for pros. Children under 12 shouldn't head the ball at all, the PFA said, part of a CTE prevention protocol designed to reduce head impacts across a player's lifetime." www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

Most people don't know that even if you win your asylum case, ICE can still keep you in detention. For example, a Madison couple that fled Venezuela recently won asylum, but the husband is still detained while ICE appeals. isthmus.com/news/news/ma...

I can’t fully articulate the way my stomach dropped when I saw this headline. Please know the evidence has not changed. The people in charge have changed, and they did not consult any relevant experts or the public. “This new policy has not been vetted with pediatricians, the public, or the ACIP”

NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...

"At a high school game, you are likely to see paramedics within eyesight of the players... There are no medical providers who stand outside the home of domestic violence survivors waiting for an injury to occur. There is no concussion protocol for those who are abused." fortune.com/2025/12/12/n...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Head Start closures will have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. Because the million kids who rely on the program don't have other options. And so, we're likely to see: ⬇️maternal employment ⬆️child poverty, hunger, and homelessness ⬇️school readiness and achievement long-term

“Our study underscores that CTE is rare among individuals with lower amounts of repetitive head impact and in those with isolated traumatic brain injuries" www.newswise.com/articles/mou...

📣 New Podcast! "#89 Concussion Care: Data-Driven Insights from Dr. Steven Broglio PhD" on @Spreaker#89#athletictraining #brainhealth #braininjury #careconsortium #cisg #concussion #concussioncare #concussioninsportgroup #concussionprotocol #concussionrecovery #concussionrehab #neurology #tbi

Gutting read—just because the American public has made peace with the mostly externalized costs of football-induced brain damage doesn’t mean those costs are any less steep

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Asked if Ringrose’s admission was “an unbelievably selfless act”, Farrell replied: “It is actually... it’s tough to do. It’s very easy to keep it to yourself & lie... It was very big of him & the right thing to do, 100%. For the team as well, not just for Garry.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

🤝Let’s talk about meeting expectations when having conversations w/ persistent post concussion symptom patients with Dr. Posas, MD, FAAN at the Concussion Corner Academy® in our 🆕 🎙️Concussion Corner Short. 🔗

This is a great resource from the Virginia Concussion Initiative for evaluating and managing concussions in neurodiverse individuals. vci.gmu.edu/neurodiversi...

This is from last week, but it is important to continue to talk about it. These programs are critical for monitoring and prevention. Many state laws require coaches to undergo the CDC training. White House seeks to cut funding for brain injury research www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

We are excited to launch the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project-II, a multi-site research project aimed at advancing CTE research and getting closer to our goal of diagnosing CTE during life. You can visit diagnosecte.org to learn more about DxCTE-II. (1/2)

#BigNews: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $15M to the @bu-cte.bsky.social-led DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project-II. The study aims to identify biomarkers through blood & brain imaging to improve CTE diagnosis in living patients & distinguish it from similar diseases like Alzheimer’s.

NEW RESEARCH (open access) "The contribution of social determinants of health to long-term outcomes following TBI" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @johncorriganosu.bsky.social @clbeaulieu.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest research: 1️⃣ Longitudinal study on collegiate football careers and brain health
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 2️⃣ Review on collision sports and the need to consider modifiable risk factors to improve long-term outcomes
🔗 journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/ab...

Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

What an inspirational woman. If you have a few minutes, read about Dr. Roberts' story uwalumni.com/news/always-...

Former NHLer Chris Simon had ‘severe’ CTE when he died www.nytimes.com/athletic/627...

This is terrible. So much progress made, all lost. My heart goes out to the great scientists and researchers who did this TBI work (and the many others feeling the same way in other fields) www.science.org/content/arti...

The #TraumaticBrainInjury unit at the Centers for Disease Control was wiped out in last week's firings. @science.org looks at what was lost. www.science.org/content/arti...

Interesting paper demonstrating persistent postconcussion changes in cerebral blood flow and white matter at up to 1 year after concussion and support incomplete recovery of brain physiology at medical clearance. www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m shutting down my Twitter account (to me, it will always be Twitter — sniff). My pinned post there was when my book was featured in the Sunday New York Times Book Review 🎉, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to share it here!

Congrats to Madi Renner for being selected for a Capstone Teaching Award! Madi has been a fantastic TA and lecturer for our anatomy lab and lecture courses. grad.wisc.edu/2025/03/03/a...

Please take two minutes to watch this excellent video that explains WHY SEX DIFFERENCES are critical to study. youtu.be/iyMmkoKEoLI?...

Please take two minutes to watch this excellent video that explains WHY SEX DIFFERENCES are critical to study... This is why PINK Concussions has spent the last 12 years advocating for women to be included in Brain Injury research and why we will not give up advocating! youtu.be/iyMmkoKEoLI?...

Critical research is not being funded. Even a short term delay will have permanent consequences, with some labs forced to shut down, scientists and support staff losing their job, and trainees - the future leaders of medical research - losing their lab & funding www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH’s proposed cuts to indirect cost rates threaten lives, innovation & economic growth. Every $1 from NIH generates $2.5 in economic impact. Cutting indirects cripples labs, raises healthcare costs & slows medical breakthroughs. We must protect research funding! #FundScience #ResearchMatters

New study from UW-Madison found guardian cap use in HS FB practices was NOT associated w/ ⬇️ risk of concussion in practice or games. Consistent w/ other research showing guardian caps do not ⬇️ concussion risk or significantly decrease forces w/ repetitive head impacts. bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

"However, review of the scientific literature revealed no peer-reviewed research that would support their use." Do padded helmet covers protect football players? www.oklahoman.com/story/lifest...

Concussions 'reactivate dormant virus in brain' Interesting new study finding that repeated brain injury can "reawaken" the dormant herpes simplex virus-1, triggering neurodegenerative changes seen in Alzheimer's disease. www.bbc.com/news/article...