🗣️ Language access isn’t guaranteed. Only 54% of U.S. primary care practices always offer services for patients with limited English proficiency—despite legal mandates. @stacy0chen rdcu.be/eTbj8 #JGIM

Still digging through this thorough report from @sanders.senate.gov. I want to flag this screenshot of what program staff receive when studies include "terms potentially associated with misalignment with agency priorities" (Newspeak for 'banned words')

In case it helps, you can use HTML code (e.g., <p> <b> <i> <u>) to format the text blocks on your biosketches in SciENcv

My weekly update (Grants with Notice of Award dates up to 1/23/26) All projects 1/3

Symbolic victories do not revive the slain or reunite families that have been torn apart by means of state violence.

Authors Katherine Majzoub Morgan, MD, MPP, and Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, discuss how evolving care models, payment structures, and workforce trends shape access to primary care with Eve Rittenberg, MD. 🎧 Listen now: ja.ma/4bIzGpt

New dates available for CAUSALab Clinics! Free #causalinference consulting open to Boston-based, junior clinical investigators. Postdoc fellows provide guidance pertaining to #studydesign, data analysis and results for works in progress. Learn more & apply: hsph.harvard.edu/research/cau...

A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...

Jenna has been an inspiring colleague I’ve been honored to work alongside this year. It needs to be known after putting us through the longest shutdown (they say in official emails, “democrat-led” like how desperate), on Day 1 back to work they are putting people on admin leave again.

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...

New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis) www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n... 1/3

Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The fiscal year is over. So how was the NIH appropriation committed? A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

Several scientists have received letters from the NIH director disinviting them from their positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding, I'm told. In July, I reported that NIH staff were told to select members aligned with Trump administration priorities.

Looking for the latest happenings relevant to NIH science? This is a great group to follow: go.bsky.app/LQZYUdE

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package. The blog post will tell you more #rstats

Spondyloarthritis can be challenging to diagnose and manage. I’m glad to see @curearthritis.bsky.social hosting a webinar to raise awareness + share knowledge on Sept 24 (12 PT / 3 ET). Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

It’s nearly that time of year again 🎃 👻 🦇 please give me your best scary book recommendations blueskyers 📕

The fastest way to start using & exploring the new 2024 1-year ACS data? R with tidycensus + mapgl. With just a few lines of code, you can pull down any of the thousands of variables available in the new data and explore on an interactive MapLibre map.

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

A colleague just heard that two NIH grant proposals -- totally aligned with addressing chronic disease -- one with a 4th percentile and one with a 1st percentile score, will likely not be funded. See rationale in the image. This does not seem like "radical transparency." #NIH #HHS

Inside the NIH: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

No amount of AI can overcome bad health policy.

GPT-5 benchmarks seem a bit like VW’s dieselgate scandal - performs great when knowingly being benchmarked but doesn’t quite live up in real-world use.

The data from these forms are critical to kidney research. The removal of race/ethnicity from this form will make it harder to track racial and ethnic disparities in #kidneydisease — which are substantial.

Back in March, CMS removed the question on race/ethnicity from the form that collects data on #kidneyfailure patients. New form: www.cms.gov/medicare/cms... Old form: web.archive.org/web/20250201...

Lack of knowledge of interpreter rights among non-English language preference individuals was associated with increased delays in accessing medications and medical care and lower odds of seeing a physician. https://ja.ma/3Ih8KR9

Can’t wait to see so many critical research projects pick back up! I’m looking forward to working again with many talented grantees who science and lives and labs were put on hold.

Among US adults with type 2 diabetes, those with non-English language preference were less likely to receive continuous glucose monitor prescriptions compared to English-preferred patients. https://ja.ma/4kQML1Y

Among US adults with type 2 diabetes, those with non-English language preference were less likely to receive continuous glucose monitor prescriptions compared to English-preferred patients. ja.ma/3TxD2RS

The FCC has delayed implementing its multilingual emergency alerts system — making non-English speakers vulnerable during climate disasters. https://n.pr/4jS6e0S

Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.

Some reasons I signed the #BethesdaDeclaration: 1️⃣ I couldn’t be complicit in harming people anymore 2️⃣ I want my kids to see how to stand up to bullies 3️⃣ They are coming for us anyway - keeping our heads down won’t save us. Why did you sign? actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

Our new @JAMAHealthForum study adds more evidence on how Medicare Advantage plans enrolling veterans are maximizing profits by not paying for care. Veterans in high-veteran MA plans are much more likely to have surgical care paid by VA than plan itself—even when surgery occurs in non-VA hospitals…

I listen to @npr.org almost every day on my (now daily) commute to work. I never expected to be on it! Thanks for letting us voice our concerns about the harms we are seeing #NIH inflict under Jay Bhattacharya and RFK, jr.

If you missed the brave and articulate Jenna Norton - one of the hero researchers at #NIH who signed the Bethesda Declaration - on #NPR yesterday, check her extraordinary interview here. one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #SaveNIH #StopTrump #KillTheBill

Sharing my 6-year old daughter’s reflections on the #BethesdaDeclaration: “You can save science with your friends and family and also have fun. The thing is, it’s hard work, a lot of hard work. But you also are saving your family and friends...” 🧵1/2

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

Brave NIH dissenters including Jenna Norton, an NIDDK program director. 🙏 #nephsky

Every tech company had the same idea in June. They are also hiring "AI fluency" strategists:

A continuous glucose monitor is a small device that sticks to your arm. Every few minutes it sends a signal to your phone estimating your blood sugar levels. But can it improve your health? https://n.pr/4kytQZG

#rstats Stoked to say that a new release of {tinyplot} is available on CRAN and R-universe. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/ Grab it with: ```{r} install.packages("tinyplot") ``` A quick 🧵 showcasing some new features...

Tired: "BS" Wired: "Vibe citing" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Not the most important thing going on, but an update from our little corner of impoundment and abandonment of due process: @maxkozlov.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social • Northwestern University has not received any funds from NIH since March 26, 2025.

for example, like a lot of people, I am immunocompromised but MrsAware and LilAware are not and sometimes I might be exposed to their germs and sometimes they might even interact with other members of society