I hope some of you #NIA researchers present and attend. @bryandjames.bsky.social , @sdukehan.bsky.social , @leadcoalition.bsky.social , @mariaglymour.bsky.social , @cgster.bsky.social , and anyone else interested? #geronsky

A lot of NOFOs at #NIH have expired. If you wish to submit an unsolicited application, do so to the parent #NOFO. Furthermore, unsolicited applications no longer require prior approval for exceeding $500K. Please inform your networks. #geronsky #hspr #hpss #statssky

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

As we come to @geronsociety.bsky.social 's #GSA2025, please follow us en masse. If you are an aging health researcher and want to be added to the starter pack, comment below. #geronsky #ADRD

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

@savehealthresearch.bsky.social writes, "99% of recent treatments are #NIH supported. Erica wants everyone to have the same opportunity she had to benefit from this new medicine. What treatments are we about to discover that could be lost, and who may have been given years more of life?"

Worthwhile read on the name changes scientists have made to get NIH grants funded in recent months. www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

Story in Being Patient about Alzheimer's disease funding noting the decrease in the funding of number of new projects due, in part, to the number of multiyear funded grants from the National Institute on Aging. beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r...

@bradytwest.bsky.social @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @aapor.bsky.social @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @csmarcum.bsky.social @nickhartphd.bsky.social Lots of our #srms colleagues got RIFd last week. I wrote to get them reinstated. #statssky #CDC #defenddata

[Tenured!] I am beyond grateful to share that Emory Board of Trustees has approved my Tenure in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University! Now, let me continue my dedication to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Cheers! 🍾

@catgyoung.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #SciComm #Inequality 🧪

Here is NIA. NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24. 7/n

Empathy + Action = A Better World Thank you, Jane Goodall

Please read. #NIH #shutdown

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"the benefits of NIH research in general are wide and diffuse. A very large number of advances—roughly one in two during the 21st century—are linked to NIH grants that are cut in our counterfactual scenario."

A new report shows the ‘astounding’ impact of immigration on the Philadelphia region. The Welcoming Center nonprofit commissioned the report in partnership with WHYY using U.S. Census data. 🔗 inquirer.com/news/philade...

Curse of private equity. After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals. PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits. People killed for profit. Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Reducing access to abortions ... - increases families' economic hardship, - increases families' debt, - increases income inequality, - increases housing insecurity, and - increases financially motivated crime rates.

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret on Sunday over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia and said those who returned home will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US

Foreign firms weighing U.S., Georgia projects chilled by Hyundai ICE raid

“The survey shows what Texas lawmakers and Texas officials are doing to higher education in Texas is really pushing a lot of people lo leave or consider leaving." – @matthewboedy.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

NEW: Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to offer no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. This is projected to amount to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child. Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.

This is one article from Special Collection on the NIA-funded National Dementia Workforce Study (@ndws.bsky.social) just published (open access!) in @agsjournal.bsky.social agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... cc @joannespetz.bsky.social @um-ihpi.bsky.social @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social

Take a look at these cumulative distributions of our Notices of Award that @jeremymberg.bsky.social modeled. I assumed Dr. Bhattacharya would care given his economic and statistical knowledge. We're working our asses off to get them to you. Please be patient with us. #NIH #FY2025

How hospice falls short Families often most in need help of hand on help with caregiving. Yet hospice provides remarkably little help with caregiving. Great viewpoint Caregiving Under the Medicare Hospice Benefit jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This was unbelievable. I drove by that Hyundai factory, a massive plant in rural Georgia. The factory brings thousands of jobs to GA and boots local economy...

Justice Sotomayor: The administration+Kavanaugh “all but declared that all Latinos, US citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work + held till providing proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

NO county can lead on scientific abd technology without properly funding the research and training of graduate students and research that fuels our innovation economy and healthcare system. Everyone’s life is improving by sustaining funding. More on this story www.science.org/content/arti...

Acetaminophen/Tylenol use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests associations observed in other, less rigorous analyses may have been attributable to familial confounding (aka erroneous finding):

State Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin) will enter the race for the Senate. #txlege www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

abcnews.go.com/US/450-peopl... 450 people were abducted #Hyundai-LG battery plant #ICE-raid #Ellabell,GA is just south of Savannah.

Thank you, @academyhealth.bsky.social , @aaronecarroll.bsky.social , @josh-caplan.bsky.social, @asa-scipol.bsky.social , and @cossa.bsky.social for all of your Herculean efforts to save federal data. #fedstats and #hhsstats matter. #defenddata #defendresearch

The TARGET 2025 guideline provides recommendations for transparent reporting of observational studies emulating a target trial to estimate causal effects, enhancing clarity and interpretation. #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social ja.ma/41w9rwW

Like a Senate panel in July, a U.S. House of Representatives spending committee has rejected President Donald Trump’s request to gut the budget of the National Institutes of Health. https://scim.ag/4m180xV

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

House appropriators will mark up legislation on Tuesday that is a mixed bag for researchers: The bill rejects a proposal to slash the NIH budget, but it proposes deep cuts to CDC and other agencies. www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

Thank you on this labor day!!