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If House Republican Medicaid and ACA cuts pass, and enhanced ACA premium tax credits aren't extended, the state with the biggest increase in the number of people uninsured: Florida. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

The consolidation of review at NIH is really driven by the Trump/Republican desire to control NIH grantmaking from the top. Here’s an example of the chaos that’s happening now. It will get worse unless CSR and review are walled off from political interference.

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging local and state laws banning so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ youth. Our new study in @JAMANetworkOpen is first to show these discredited practices increase risk for later heart disease. Free article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

How do you grieve this depth of loss? Read more from Rebecca about her work in #HIVresearch and the impact of life-saving developments born out of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network: bit.ly/RGsubstack #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIV #research #publichealth #HIVprevention #womenshealth

New in the Academic Activist: The determination of health researchers isn’t just scientific—it’s deeply human. It’s about hope, healing, and never settling until we all have a chance at healthier lives. #AcademicActivist #CommunityHealthSciences open.substack.com/pub/carlosrd...

We had the pleasure of having our newest postdoc scholar, Dr. Amy Hall, visit CTBS and attend FSU College of Medicine Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine BSSM Post Doc Research Day. 😊 Thank you Dr. Ennis and Michelle Childs, for organizing a successful program for our Postdocs!! 👏

You can't make America healthy again if you leave youth behind. Share this post - together, we can make sure the ATN’s life-saving work continues. #restoretheATN #NIH #MAHA #makeamericahealthyagain

The ATN was the only national #research network focused exclusively on adolescents & young adults living with or at risk for #HIV in the US, until it was terminated by NIH on 3/21. Hear Dr. Sylvie Naar's crucial insights about the ATN's breakthroughs beyond HIV prevention & care. #terminatedscience

Hands Off at the Florida Capital.

To protect our mental health, we all need a break from doomscrolling, but what should we do instead? In my new Psychology Today piece I share the science behind how creative pursuits quiet the noise of stress and can even help with depression. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shri...

In the past month, the NIH terminated many ISGMH grants focused on HIV prevention, LGBTQ health, and training early career scholars. The effect on our institute has been devastating. Director @mustanski.bsky.social spoke to @nbcnews.com about the impact. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

120 scientist working together to study how to effectively implement programs to end the HIV epidemic! That’s epic!

“We’ve built the ATN over 25 years,” says Lisa Hightow-Weidman at Florida State University’s College of Nursing, one of the network’s main investigators. “And it was destroyed with an e-mail in a day.” www.nature.com/articles/d41... #HIVresearch #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIV

On 3/21, the HAPPY study, along with all other studies in the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions was suddenly and mistakenly terminated by NIH. #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIVresearch #research #HIVprevention #reproductivehealth #pregnancy #womenshealth #NIH

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We are standing for a generation of American youth who deserve care, support, and the promise of a healthier future. While we appeal the termination decision, help us spread the message that ATN #research is vital. #HIV #HIVresearch #HIVprevention #HIVcare #adolescenthealth #NIH #grants

CTBScience at #SBM2025 Society of Behavioral Medicine Exhibit Hall Sessions. Brenda Echeverri and Sara Shaw Green, MSW, are promoting CTBS initiatives, including the ORBIT Institute and the FSU College of Medicine Postdoctoral opportunity. More info: ctbs.fsu.edu

"A study funded by #NIH that would test if an #antibiotic, #DoxyPEP, can prevent sexually transmitted infections in #women was been terminated by the Trump administration as part of its ongoing attempt to halt what it considers 'diversity, equity and inclusion' in scientific #research."

I am horrified though not shocked to say that our NIH r01 grant to improve the HIV testing of young people across florida has been terminated. This further marginalization of stigmatized populations is a human rights violation.

And @mcuban.bsky.social, NIH research has also given us amazing advances in human health: childhood leukemia (survival rates are now >90%); dramatically reduced birth defects and infant mortality; dropped heart attack and stroke rates. Now it's all in danger of collapsing. Please help us.

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you

The Trump administration is planning to completely eliminate the CDC Division of HIV Prevention, cutting $700 million that should be used to prevent HIV infections and control HIV the HIV epidemic. Such cuts would have horrific consequences for the health of Americans. aidsunited.org/action/polic...

If you celebrate our community in your art, you must speak up and defend our community as Lady Gaga always has. Mother Monster is our Perfect Celebrity. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/m...

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

h/t to our friends at @fairnesscampaign.bsky.social!

"Never again for anyone. Never again means now." - Jewish Voices for Peace

The editor of AIDS and Behavior has a message: In a World Gone Mad -- Nothing is Changing at AIDS and Behavior. "We will persist, with elevated scrutiny, filtering, and yes censoring, pseudoscience and denialism." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Maybe this will make a difference

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

This breaks my heart. We fought so hard to get EPA to look at environmental justice issues in an area of Birmingham called Collegeville hit, faced, massive health challenges. I’m sure there are similar areas all across the country. archive.epa.gov/epa/north-bi...

Amplify this.

Strength in numbers for the scientific enterprise! Very happy to have joined the Philadelphia #StandUpForScience rally today, and to have seen so many other people there. These are hard times to be in science and science policy in a lot of ways, but inspiring ones as well!

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

As a professor & a Jew I’m sick to my heart about the attack on Columbia—which is a) escalation of the war on all of higher ed; b) Jew-washing fascism, with the intention of inciting more antisemitism, which in turn will be used as cover for more fascism.