🚨Attention! AshEcon call for papers! 🚨 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap... Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025 I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular Some tips for prospective authors in thread below

Interested in being a social media editor for Health Services Research? Details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/hsr-jo...

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

Judge Mulls Stepping In as Detainees Detail ‘A Lot of Blood’ and ‘Terrible Smells’ Inside 26 Federal Plaza

[noise from pocket]: "I have more of a comment than a question"

The order strips the basic rights of people who are homeless, people with mental health disabilities, and people who have substance use disorders & further stigmatizes mental health disabilities and homelessness. In essence, [it] makes communities less safe. www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

Just used @statacorp.bsky.social 's -reshape- function without receiving an error message... I'll take the win, as small as it may be

Going to Nashville for #ASHEcon2025 ? Come see my colleagues present work on capacity, productivity, and access in the VA health care system

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Going to Nashville for #ASHEcon2025 ? Come see my colleagues present work on capacity, productivity, and access in the VA health care system

see also: the widely accepted "gravity theory" of things falling down

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

More PEPReC #arm25 presentations today!

do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

If you’re in Minneapolis for @academyhealth.bsky.social ‘s #arm25, come see PEPReC presentations on methods, the health care workforce, and more

If you’re in Minneapolis for @academyhealth.bsky.social ‘s #arm25, come see PEPReC presentations on methods, the health care workforce, and more

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration? Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project? RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️ More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

I was denied permission to host a roundtable at the Puget Sound VA to hear from women veterans about their health care. I have NEVER been outright denied from having open & honest conversations with VA—until this administration. I'm demanding an answer from VA Secretary, Doug Collins.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Great to see this

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

An idea I’ll float here while I figure out how to operationalize:

All of the Administration for Community Living's Center for Policy and Evaluation staff were laid off. For @motherjones.com, I talked to its former heard and an employee terminated today on the irony of getting rid of a department that focuses on efficiency.... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How are MA plans recruiting a veterans that get most of their care paid by VA and not by MA? 1. Make it cheap to enroll (offer $0 premiums & cash backs) 2. Offer no Part D drug coverage (rare for MA) Our new #JAMAHealthForum study led by PhD student Allie Dorneo jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The Administration for Community Living, housed in HHS, is shutting down. I spoke to disability experts for @motherjones.com about questions they have for what’s next, the services ACL provides, and how this move may lead to more folks being institutionalized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Viewpoint from former VA employees, including former Veterans Health Administration Undersecretary for Health and former director of the Health Services Research program jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

For a @motherjones.com story, I am looking to speak to a veteran whose healthcare was interrupted as a result of VA firings/people being put on administrative leave. My email is [email protected] and my signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.

This is the message federal employees receive after trying to send in their mandatory “5 bullets” email about what they did this week:

Avoidable mortality has worsened for all US states while other high-income countries show improvement. And while other countries seem to gain health with more spending, no such relationship exists across US states. Our new @JAMA_IM study led by @IPapanicolas jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u... Having virtual mental health care providers in a shared office space will lower quality of care and reduce availability of care

Interested in what NIH grants have been cancelled to date? You can see award numbers, institutions and titles here. Not sure how often this list is being updated but seems to reflect only those that have received "official" notices from NIH (some of us haven't yet) taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

Call for econometrics papers! AHEW in Michigan this year, local chair @edwardnorton.bsky.social

Timeline cleanser: first signs of spring

“Discussion of federal policies”

Cutting VA staff and services has consequences for everyone

Getting rid of the American workers who take care of American veterans is wrong. Veterans will not take this sitting down - we can make this the newest example of Trump being forced to back down from a bad move.

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

"VA researchers whose contracts are about to expire . . . will not be renewed, even when funding [through extramural grants is] in place to pay them. Should the VA continue this policy . . . over the months to come, the entire VA research workforce could be decimated."

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Reporters take note: The press release stipulates that "Navigators only enrolled 92,000 consumers," but completely omits any reference to the 292,000 people Navigators enrolled into Medicaid and the 112,000 people referred to other insurance providers. Their math doesn't math.

New from me: The deferred resignation offer expires on Monday. An open letter from a federal employee as they decide their future, plus thoughts and insights about the damage being done from other public servants. Please read, and share. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-forced...

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...