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

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...

ICYMI: Did you know that Long COVID Justice and The Sick Times worked together to create a series of 30+ resource sheets about Long COVID and associated diseases (LCAC)? ‪ @longcovidjustice.org‬ x @thesicktimes.bsky.social Check out our Long COVID Essential series: www.tiny.cc/LCE

This is horrible news. This program is a huge success, identifies brilliant scholars and gives them a transitional landing place that can help them land a tenure track job in the system. It’s a win for students, their programs, and all the schools in the system. Why end it?

From coast to coast, we’re protecting immigrant communities through #SanctuaryHomes trainings and practical resources for domestic employers standing in solidarity with the workers they employ, and in their communities. 🧵 1/4 marvistavoice.org/how-employer...

Our message to Congress: We demand a world where everyone has the care and support they need to thrive and survive— healthcare, home care, reproductive care, childcare. It’s time for the government to invest in the care people need, and stop putting profits over people. #CareNotCuts #EndTheShutdown

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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: A federal judge said today that she’s “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA grants, the bulk of the remaining grant suspensions at the Westwood campus: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

“It is so timely and it answers so many needs” On the good news front: New Mexico is making #UniversalChildcare a reality in November 👏 Let’s not stop there, let’s make that happen EVERYWHERE U.S. 💪 #CareCantWait From @msmagazine.com 👇 msmagazine.com/2025/09/12/n...

Bless the whistleblowers at NIH and everywhere. We have a lot to do www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

Excited to be doing research with midwives who are unionizing with @jessicamharrison.bsky.social and team. keep us informed about midwives doing labor organizing! osher.ucsf.edu/news/new-stu...

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To work as a health care worker and choose to actively enable and cause harm and violence to your patient—to whom you have a duty to care for—is despicable. For health care workers who care about your patients and want to resist criminalization and harm, connect with our Beyond Do No Harm network:

The ACLU is currently looking for terminated grants OR those that were submitted but will not be reviewed. You have to be an APHA or UAW member to be able to share your information, but participating may provide relief as part of ongoing litigation. Pls share! www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

Extermination by starvation is happening in our name. All of us must act right now. 🧵

CA leaders stand up for immigrant communities in many ways, but are also scheduled to Medi-Cal services for immigrants starting in January. This will have big negative effects on community health.

Cutting public health programs isn't “fiscal responsibility.” It's taking from the poor to line the pockets of the rich. 📉 Food aid snatched from the hungry 📉 Tens of millions dropped from Medicaid & the ACA 📉 Cleaner air and energy? Poof! Gone Tell Congress NO on budget cuts! bit.ly/4koZF6d

This is a beautiful talk about midwives, doulas, research and lineage by Melissa Cheyney at @upliftlab.bsky.social. Watch it for some hope media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_n7...

The Trump regime’s Executive Order about “Gold Standard Science” distorts & weaponizes the principles of open science to intimidate scientists and reshape scientific production to support the political goals of Trumpism. Stand Up for Science is asking scientists to sign an open letter pushing back.

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

The amount of money that @who.int is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, @drtedros.who.int says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. #globalhealth #IDsky

*Ring Ring* Hello. This is your constituent. I’m calling you because I HATE cancer but I LOVE innovation.

Alondra Nelson: "This is not to condemn those who remain. There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it."

In much better news: after our fury, HHS says “We are now working to fully restore funding to” the Women's Health Initiative. Sharing the gift article. Reminding us all that we're in 'announcements about announcements' territory, but let's keep close eye on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...

University of California staff, faculty, students, alums--sign to urge our leadership to speak up for immigrants in our UC communities. The silence is striking docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.

This team is doing a thorough job documenting the devastation of NIH funding--you can add your terminated grants if they aren't yet on the list, and see relevant Congress members to contact for each grant

Looking for courage in academia: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We (I) have no idea what the extent of the mass termination of grants for LGBT or DEI reasons is, but I know the impact is immediate and deep. A few examples highlighted here: abcnews.go.com/Health/scien... #academicsky

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

#Foodasmedicine programs are increasingly used to address medical & social needs in #primarycare. But little research has explored the impact these programs may have on #mentalhealth. A recent study led by @ariana-tl.bsky.social et al fills the gap: bit.ly/3QPajGV @ucsfoshercenter.bsky.social

Yes, there is an injunction, but... "In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As part of our research seminar series at @ucsfoshercenter.bsky.social, we recently hosted a talk on Revolutionary Acupuncture in the US. Highly recommend this inspiring history to help us do the work that's needed now www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccH...

Proud to be publishing federally funded health equity research about our last extreme round of national uncertainty journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Rose are red, Violets are blue, 41 states have expanded Medicaid, It’s time Florida did too! #FightLikeHealth #healthpolicyvalentines

Midwives play an important role in providing birth-related care that is centered on parents' needs and wishes. The health care system too often gets in the way of practices that can improve birth outcomes. Learn more in our new Issue Brief! @chcfnews.bsky.social www.chcf.org/wp-content/u...

Wondering what federally funded health equity research can look like? (other than essential cancer clinical trials getting some attention this week): produce prescriptions and group medical visits can reduce short-term depression and anxiety symptoms while improving food security.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

“I am hearing the word crisis, and that’s coming from former NIH directors." Teamed up with several @mmolteni.bsky.social & a number of @statnews.com colleagues for this piece on how a Trump freeze on NIH grant reviews has alarmed scientists. www.statnews.com/2025/01/24/t...

This is the best piece I've read so far explaining the NIH "pauses" and their implications. I think it's written accessibly to those outside the grant-funded world, so could be worth sharing with others. www.science.org/content/arti...

As #wildfires rage in Los Angeles, here are some trusted resources on keeping kids safe. The basics: 🔴 check the air quality index. Young children are considered a "sensitive population." 🔴invest in an air purifier. Make sure it's the right size for your room 🔴support a transition to #cleanenergy 🧵

Glad to see some media spreading the last minute word about this, and quoting @jenjamesphd.bsky.social while they do

Helpful new in-season estimates from CDC confirm what we already know: The burden of c19 dwarfs that of flu and RSV combined, *even in flu and RSV season*. It's even more dramatic when you look year-round. And this is before we even get to post-viral sequelae.

I'm excited to share a new article, "Social Capital and Cultural Health Capital in Primary Care: The Case of Group Medical Visits," about safety-net primary clinics in the US. What happens when multiple patients receive care in the same room, together? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dec 10: Join us next Tuesday at noon for a research seminar with Dr. Jeffery Dusek on the topic, "Acupuncture in the Emergency Department for Pain Management: A BraveNet Multi-Center Feasibility Study (ACUITY)" calendar.ucsf.edu/event/resear...