"Given just how little experience we have with this virus, any certainty is hubris. Thankfully, despite the flawed messaging, the system is broadly working...But what happens next depends on how well we communicate what precautions people should be taking." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

📰 The UK's largest ever real-world study into RSV vaccination has confirmed that babies born to vaccinated mothers are up to 85% less likely to end up in hospital with an RSV chest infection. Thanks to all the NHS health professionals who deliver this vital programme 👏

@marghmalanchini.bsky.social from QMUL discusses the stability and malleability of cognitive test scores in childhood and reviews to what extent scientific evidence supports using a single test taken in primary school to inform fundamental educational decisions. theconversation.com/the-truth-ab...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

I have become mightily interested in the causal effect of “forever chemicals” and plastics on gynecological health. I want to make sure our new menstruation data in ALSPAC and Born in Bradford can be used to research this. Anyone know who’s big in (causal) epidemiology of this sort of exposure?

📢 Post-doctoral opportunity! 📢 Join me and the fantastic #BridgingDivides team to do research on the causes of the #gender gap in #YouthMentalHealth using existing data from longitudinal population studies! More info and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Closes on 1 December! 📅

I'm hiring! ✨ Looking for a Research Fellow to study environmental factors that mitigate intergenerational transmission of mental health. 3-year post at UCL @uclbrainscience.bsky.social with great opportunities for training, collaboration & exciting science! 🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ633/r...

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

I'm angry all the time these days, but it's actually unfathomable to me that one person has the power to halt scientific progress, doing *generational* damage. For literally all of our sakes, someone needs to do something. Get this man out of the government.

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026! #EpiSky #EuroEpi2026

Thank you @drjengunter.bsky.social for highlighting this important topic on your always interesting and very informative Substack!

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place! See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!

I am happy to share a 3-year postdoc opening. My fantastic colleagues @kailirimfeld.bsky.social and Dan Anderberg recently won a grant to work on youth mental health at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and education. It is open to economics PhDs, among other fields. #EconSky #econ_ra

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Since the 1940s, the engine driving U.S. economic and military competitiveness has been federal support of research universities. Now Trump is sabotaging a research and development pipeline that is the envy of the world.

Absolutely no one should die from measles. Not one single solitary person. Why is this even a debate

Interested in a #postdoc in London investigating hormones and women w/ ADHD? @adhdlifecourselab.bsky.social Happy to supervise Marie Curie postdocs ✅ eligibility marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... Open to any nationality (📢 to fellow 🇺🇸 looking abroad but open to all!)

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

I'll be guest editor on a special issue in the journal Women's Health on "Understanding reproductive health experiences and transitions for neurodivergent people" Please consider submitting papers about #autism #ADHD other #neurodivergent conditions and #menstruation #menopause etc

It’s a real shame that folks with mental illness have to fight not only their symptoms but also concerted efforts to undermine their treatment. 😢 The @nytimes.com mag published a long piece entitled “rethinking adhd”. Here is a 🧵 highlighting its factual & logical errors 1/n

Want to work with us on our cutting edge longitudinal neuroimaging study of adolescent development? Cardiff & the team are a fantastic place to be bsky.app/profile/deek...

Attending #INSAR this year? Interested in #AutRes, ageing, midlife and older age? Me and @claireklein.bsky.social are hosting a special interest group on Wednesday 30th April, 2:30-4pm Seattle local time. Do join us! Do email if you can’t attend and want to be included in post-INSAR activities.

If you'd like to help us decide priorities for #menopause research then please get in touch. We're interested in hearing from people from lots of different backgrounds including #neurodivergent people

Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

The benefits of higher education don’t redound just to students; they also buoy local economies across America --> The University of Iowa is the number-two employer in Iowa --> In Kentucky, Nebraska, and other states, university health systems are the top employer newrepublic.com/article/1932...

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab this autumn, to study how vulnerable young people navigate the transition to adulthood: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... Jointly supervised with Skills Development Scotland, so lots of scope to translate findings into impact and policy!

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

You know why we see measles "hitting very young kids these days"? Because people like rfk jr have made people think they don't need to vaccinate their children. And now these children are dying from completely preventable causes. Absolutely enraging.

Holy cow. This is VERY well done. This is what Team Fight looks like.

"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before," writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg.

August 4, 2024

Love the sign, hate the reality. Thank you, @mostlymammoths.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @jpflores.bsky.social @samschuelstein.bsky.social sky.social @leslie-bern.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social

I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!

Proud of my home state

Diane Simeone, who directs UC San Diego’s cancer center, should the pause continue for just a few more weeks, dozens of clinical trials for cancer patients—sometimes “a patient’s best chance for cure, and long-term survival,” she told me—could be at risk of shutting down. This is about ALL OF US

For any women out there who experienced/are experiencing (sending 💜) severe nausea/vomiting in pregnancy pls consider filling in this anonymised survey for a research project led by Dr Melanie Nana. She is the clinical academic making real change re. HG here in the uk forms.gle/u6GNNAhX5WqS...

This is what NIH-funded research leads to. Cures for disease.

If you are interested in helping us decide next steps for our menopause research, then please complete the form here lnkd.in/e8Eg58PU or DM me. QR link also below.

The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

NIH cuts indirect rates on grants to 15%. This will be the end of American excellence in science. Universities will struggle and many (likely most) will terminate their research programs. Independent research institutions will not be able to survive this. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This thread is devastating yet helpful in understanding the reasons for which institutions are wildly unlikely to step up against the assault on science thats currently underway 🧪#AcademicSky