🧠 TIME-AD is now on Bluesky! #TIME-AD brings together results from different study designs and populations to find what really works to prevent and delay dementia. Follow along as we share what we’re learning and check out our website to learn more: www.time-ad.org #EndALZ #EpiSky #NeuroSky

Thanks to The Oklahoman (www.oklahoman.com) for running my opinions on the new budget and impacts on Alzheimer's research (bit.ly/4mZXrg7) and public health progress for all of us. #PublicHealth #EndAlzheimers #Epidemiology #ScienceHomecoming

@alsobrooks.senate.gov , thanks for standing up for #NIH and #HHS. Make Secretary Kennedy accountable for the US Healthcare System. Will you stand with us and sign the #BethesdaDeclaration?

This is good stuff. Good message, coming out strong. Now we need action. Grind the Senate to a halt, @padilla.senate.gov, drop the bipartisan front and criticize your Republican colleagues who voted for this; hold high-profile voluntary hearings produced for TV and video.

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

We wrote about this ridiculous fraud and abuse nonsense. They’re using fraud as a political tool to dismantle the most popular public program we have—and the most successful program we’ve ever had at protecting peoples’ economic security in late life. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

This is so senseless

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

$1 billion… Just refusing to fund federal health research and pocketing away the designated money for their own slush funds Sucking $1 billion out of the economy, diverting it from health research… For what?

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Practical self-defense tip: when folks say "do your own research" about vaccines (for example), what they often mean is "go google studies, conducted using methods you are not trained to rigorously evaluate, that you can then use to reinforce your existing beliefs via a lot of confirmation bias."

The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny. It is not the constitution that is failing us. It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.

Twitter was a social media website employing 7500 people. The federal government employees ~3 million people and touches every part of your day—roads, planes, schools, healthcare, food safety, Social Security and on and on. We’re going to learn the hard way that we’ve been taking it for granted

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Puzzled by the intrusion of competing events in #dementia research? Star scholar and explainer Dr. @palolili23.bsky.social comes to the rescue on Dec 10.

A reminder that we post videos and slide sets of #MELODEM talks on our always-evolving site. {🔥 MELODEM hosts conversations on #methods for addressing vexing challenges in research on #dementia #cognition 🔥}

Yingyan Wu’s presentation starts in just a few min!

Join us tomorrow morning! Sometimes cognitive testing changes across study waves within a given study, which presents a challenge for longitudinal research — Yingyan will demonstrate an approach to address this issue!

I use Epi By Design in my course! I love the book and Daniel’s materials were super helpful. If you want to teach intro epi methods through a causal inference lens but feel daunted by the task of a course re-design, Westreich’s book and materials make it as painless as possible — highly recommend!

Ultimately the Democratic Party gets to decide who its nominee is, for better or worse. But it certainly seems like parts of the media believe they it is their job to choose the Democratic candidate, rather than covering the strengths and weaknesses of *both* candidates running for President.

Been thinking about the Claudine Gay coverage as a keystone to Biden coverage : it was an editorial campaign driven by story after story. It takes enormous editorial hubris to be certain they are right (they were wrong about Gay). What I wrote then: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campai...

epi folks! it’s on! I’m hosting the 4th annual dance party in austin!dancing, outdoor space, drink specials, staying up past 9:45! the event is free and open to everyone! please help me spread the word. #episky