Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr...

I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)

🚨 Important new op-ed in @thehill.com by @jjjordynjensen.bsky.social & @viscidula.bsky.social As political leaders push forced psychiatric confinement, the federal government moves to dismantle PAIMI—one of the only safeguards against abuse in psych settings. Read at thehill.com/opinion/heal...

Allegheny County officials faced sharp questions from mental health advisory board members for considering "one of the most controversial practices in public mental health in the United States and internationally.” buff.ly/xavf4ei

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

9/9 How should we fund this better approach? "Slow the cash flow to law enforcement, reject wasteful and ineffective involuntary care, and reclaim simply caring, as we do in Canada, for each other." Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

8/9 Prevention is possible—through investment in supportive housing and accessible healthcare with on-demand access to voluntary mental health supports, not through expanded policing powers and involuntary detention. #Prevention #SocialSupports

6/9 They recently observed this system in action—a disoriented man outside the hospital, likely experiencing psychosis, immediately surrounded by six officers in cruisers rather than receiving healthcare, despite being steps from a hospital entrance. #Crisis #Response

1/9 ⚠️ FORCED CARE IS COMPASSIONATE CARE? ⚠️ Alberta's new Compassionate Intervention Act allows police to force people into treatment. A doctor serving unhoused populations witnessed a troubling reality with expanding involuntary treatment while the system remains broken. #MentalHealth

The White House is trying to destroy the NSF and public scientific research in the US. Fight back. Here is the link to the media tool kit: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Here is a key paragraph: The proposal would reduce the more than $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40 percent cut. It would consolidate NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into just eight. 2/n

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Wow. Pittsburgh.

Rahna Epting: They want us to be hopeless. They want us to feel alone in our concern. Are we alone? Crowd: No! Are we helpless? Crowd: No!! Hell no! #HandsOff @rahnamepting.bsky.social

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Hands Off Pittsburgh!!

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

New NBC story up about LGBTQ funding... www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process 1/n

The incoming NIH Director has repeatedly stressed the importance of open science and open data. Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch. www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

If you are an MAA member and your NEH or IMLS funding is at risk or has already been revoked, please email me. I don't know what, if anything, MAA can do to help you, but we will absolutely try. #MedievalSky

Along with the firings of up to 1300 co-workers this week and the removals of several institute leaders, NIH employees are dealing with another blow from the administration of President Donald Trump: a mandate to eliminate $2.6 billion in contracts. scim.ag/43XU1nd

Goodbye CDC, NIH, FDC 😢

A helpful read on some of the legal avenues for appeal. What the new administration is doing to #NIH (& other HHS orgs like #CDC, #FDA) is not only economically wasteful but blatantly, morally bankrupt. People will be more sick and die needlessly as a result of these actions, now and in the future.

NIH staff are instructed to hold all awards located in South Africa, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea but also other countries I hadn't seen reported, including Nicaragua, Pakistan, Eritrea, Cuba, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Yemen, Venezuela, per source familiar w guidance.

Researchers did not mince words about this purge of senior NIH leadership: “This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says @mtosterholm.bsky.social. These cuts come on Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director.

What happened within the NIH this morning is disgusting. We will not be able to continue to function. We lost entire offices critical to managing ONGOING CLINICAL TRIALS. Fuck everyone who allowed this to happen.

Mass layoffs at HHS: Latest news on the moves at CDC, NIH and FDA; live updates www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com

NIH Institute Directors being ousted: Per Jeremy, also NIA, NHGRI, more.

The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US. We really are flying blind now.

@propublica.org wants to hear about terminated NIH grants. Please help spread the word. Independent journalism is needed now more than ever.

New newsletter post on the HHS "reorganization" -- really, gutting -- that RFK announced last week. ' Of Politics and Expertise -- Thoughts on the RFK "Reorganization" of HHS'. buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

The NIH terminated 145 grants related to research in HIV care. “These drastic cuts are rapidly destroying the infrastructure of scientific research in this country and we are going to lose a generation of scientists,” said Julia Marcus, of Harvard Medical School. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!

Whenever people challenge privileged elites and make them explain themselves, that is a Great Horror That Signals The End Times. But, those so-called protectors of free speech will say nothing when it comes to actual censorship based on fear of government retaliation. Because it was always a lie.

“At this crucial moment, clients need to find their courage, too. And partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession and the rule of law itself is at stake.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

"So if the aloof trustees of #Harvard, #Princeton, #Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jay Bhattacharya said in his confirmation hearing that he plans to restore NIH to its former glory & repair public distrust of science. Would love to hear how rescinding the NIH policy on scientific integrity accomplishes that goal. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This letter submitted to Congress by the @aapd-disability.bsky.social and 450+ organizations: www.aapd.com/hhs-restruct...

On addiction medicine consult service this week- patient arrested for missing court day last month (non-violent, low level crime) because was hospitalized for cardiac issues- now readmitted with a chest tube draining >1 liter of fluid- and CHAINED TO HER BED; wearing SHACKLES to work with PT. 1/2

Powerful new Washington Post story up... wapo.st/426d9fT (Gift link) 1/n

“We would do well to take such signals both literally and seriously, if we are to preserve what history teaches is a bulwark against authoritarianism — a vibrant, robust, and independent university system.”

For those of you in Philadelphia/Pennsylvania… was made aware that senator dave McCormick was not aware any nih grants had been canceled. New calling campaign is to call him every time I become aware of canceled grant… please join me. Dc office mailbox is full but philly office is not! #IDSky

I will be reading through this and attending the aaas workshop tomorrow

Just before bedtime last night I got a message from inside NIH which read: “It’s so, so bad and no one cares (who has any influence)” I asked “What, in particular?” My friend responded “Everything”

NEW: During these mass interruptions in NIH funding, scientists have been screaming for help from their institutions. I wrote about the handful of universities that are trying to keep researchers afloat by offering bridge funding — will there be enough to go around? www.chronicle.com/article/face...

Today, RFK Jr. announced that the Department of Human and Health Services would cut 10,000 employees. If you have been impacted by the layoffs, our reporters want to hear from you. You can reach out to us on Signal at 917-512-0201 or by going to propublica.org/tips.

Today some dozen immigrant children, housed in Pittsburgh, are set for "rocket docket" hearings on their statuses, a week after the Trump administration cancelled the contract that paid their lawyers, @chwolfson.bsky.social reports www.publicsource.org/immigrant-re...