Reflecting the efforts of so many - most importantly our study participants who gave their time to help others - I'm thrilled to share the results of our RCT evaluating the effectiveness of the #SafetyPlanningIntervention for #SuicidePrevention in the year after jail release.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Good news! Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment buff.ly/2PpOPL3 University of Penn follows in the footsteps in MIT & Brown to reject pernicious "compact."

Today, Rep. Krajewski and I made it clear: Pennsylvania’s classrooms are not for sale. Our bill defends academic freedom — because no president, past or future, gets to control what our students learn. Thank you Senator Williams and my other colleagues for your outspoken leadership!

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

⚠️ NIH now limits PIs to 6 applications per year. That includes resubmissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.

Shameful. Here’s a petition shared by the @trevorproject.bsky.social CEO on LinkedIn. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

This is so despicable. Know that you can still provide @trevorproject.bsky.social's direct number (866-488-7386 or text to 678-678) to folks who need it. Given that this also cuts needed funding for this work, it's a good day to donate to The Trevor Project here:

“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.” Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪

If you are wondering why recently departed senior NIH officials are not speaking out more, there is a legal 1-year cooling off period for matters related to NIH. Their silence should not be interpreted as complicity or cowardice, but rather respect for the rule of law.

ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... 1/n

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Because they're using AI to hallucinate evidence for their nonsensical recommendations.

When something threatens the auto or coal industries, mass hysteria about lost jobs ensues. Where's the collective flip-out about threats to higher-ed? 4.7 million Americans work for higher ed institutions. Even more rely on contract work with them. It is one of the biggest sectors in the US.(1/2)

⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇

Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

Leaked emails reveal Donald Trump's sinister plan to destroy the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The effects are already being felt. Commentary from @membrich.bsky.social ⤵️

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

More censorship of science that doesn't confirm the authoritarian regime's version of reality. So chilling and it's sure to get worse if we don't all collectively fight this.

I'd love to see some universities join this effort, but this is a good start!

"We spent all this money on this research and we’re not even going to be able to give taxpayers the outcomes." DOGE's cuts to NIH grants may save money on paper, but terminating studies without notice ultimately wastes money, our analysis shows. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

We better start downloading these datasets en masse before they get disappeared too

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

Grateful to @katherinejwu.com of @theatlantic.com for being responsive, thorough, and reflective when I asked if she'd tackle this story! In the hours since publication, however, our work has entirely changed... 1/🧵

Here's a key datapoint when considering the Trump administration's plan to fire 80,000 workers at the VA. The VA is **already** more administratively lean than the private healthcare sector, with 22.5% of its workforce in administration, vs. 29.3% in private sector.

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

“And the NIH’s acting director, Matthew Memoli, who until January was a relatively low-ranking flu researcher at the agency, has instructed leadership to stick to what HHS says...But if agency personnel responded to this new allowance reasonably, [Memoli] said, they’d be granted more liberty.”

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

I hope you all are still calling your Senators and Reps about this. Losing grant cycles and the delay of funding will literally shutter whole labs and programs of research.

ProPublica found that some of the largest health insurers have created a playbook that prevents people from getting the mental health care they need. Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm

Lots of questions about what to do before March 7th! If you'd like to learn Science Advocacy 101 from one of our lead organizers, @leslie-bern.bsky.social teaches this stuff professionally and has opened up some extra seats in her workshop on Tuesday the 18th Learn more + sign up at stemedify.com!

We are living in the worst timeline. Share your brights spots and pets with me, please. I need the pick-me-up today.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that a lot of additional people will die because of this.

Everything feels extreme these days. You're expected to be on the left or the right. Outraged or devastated. Black or white. This team or that team. Be a champion or be silent. Be perfect or disappear. It's robotic. It's exhausting. I don't want to be part of this perfectionism.

10/ Within a short time, Trump has already shaken up the nation’s role in global and public health. @annamaria.bsky.social has reported extensively on infectious disease outbreaks. If you know of ongoing changes to the USAID, CDC and other agencies, contact her: www.propublica.org/people/anna-...

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Instead of "don't cut our funding," our message should be: hands off higher ed. You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off. You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off. You want to cut our research funding? Hands off. Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.

Amplifying this on the Science feed 🧪 If you care about science, follow below for details about a nationwide protest on March 7th!

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

And when we kill healthcare science, it's not just scientists and those that directly help the work happen that suffer. The long-term impacts of this will stifle discovery and innovation of new diagnostics, preventative interventions, treatments, and service delivery strategies. Everyone suffers.

I logged in just in time for tonight's primal scream.

Unscientific censorship and erasure (which is NOT editorial "revision") has no place in academic journals. There is no excuse for you as the publisher to not unequivocally oppose this happening in your journals. 🧪

I removed the ID of the posters but at what point do we have a moral imperative here? I would not want to participate in a process that explicitly discriminated against minorities. If the applications aren’t reviewed they are basically rejected no? Pull out of the reviews.

New info about Sage journals censoring papers: 🧪 "They asked that the paper be revised...to replace any of "gender" with "sex" and to delete all mentions of words such as nonbinary, inclusivity, etc....the editor of the journal replied reiterating the request." 1/

Hey, suicide prevention folks: I recommend we all download a copy of the National Strategy before it is stripped of all mention of health equity and marginalized populations. www.hhs.gov/programs/pre...