Academic Halloween jumpscare 🫠🫣

More work with @pallipsych.bsky.social is out today! We asked nursing home staff about their perceptions of palliative care, their engagement with advance cafe planning and which components of pall care are most valuable to them. doi.org/10.1111/jgs....

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

This #NIH Notice that came out yesterday virtually makes every major university INELIGBIBLE for NIH funding (recipients can't operate any program that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion). This is asinine, but why haven't I heard academic fighting back? #medsky grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening. PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere

This damage will be irreparable. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/prop...

Waiting to wake up from this surreal nightmare 😩

These weekly emails about #NIH funding opportunities are now downright depressing.

"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.

NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

"Pausing" scientific research is like "pausing" a car in the middle of the highway—it's liable to have catastrophic, long-term effects that restarting it won't fix.

It is *so* hard to get NIH funding. I can’t imagine how awful it must feel to have finally gotten the grant that lets you do the meaningful research you want to do and then have it ripped away.

Me: ooof this task I need to do is difficult. Let me check out what’s happening in the world. …opens social media app. Reads 2-3 posts… Me: everything is awful, I am so angry and upset. …closes social media app… Me: ooof this task I need to do is terrible. Let me… Ad infinitum 🫠

Feeling my hope meter slightly refilled by #standupforscience NYC.

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

#America rushing to see how we can go from the smartest to the dumbest the fastest. What is the point of court orders if these agencies can just defy them?

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

This morning, the National Science Foundation fired 168 probationary employees, effective immediately. The number represents roughly 10% of its workforce. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

Musk and his network of neo-fascists are highly organized and pose a real, not theoretical, existential threat to democracy, civil rights, and the rule of law. This isn’t just an attack on DEI; it’s the calculated dismantling of protections that stand in the way of authoritarian control.

This…should not be high on the agenda of investigating life expectancy declines in the U.S. What about declining childhood vaccination…that must be in here somewhere, right?

Thank you, Simone, for pointing out that our academic institutions should support, provide, and encourage Advance Practice Providers (APP) opportunities for scholarship. Many hands not only make like work but better work #hapc25

Hello #hapc25 👋 If you are new to Bluesky, I made a tip sheet to get familiar with this new platform. There is actually a growing #hospice and #PalliativeCare group of people here.

Senator Bill Cassidy is a physician w/ an active license in Louisiana. In 30 yrs in public hospitals, he says his greatest accomplishment was a program to provide no -cost HepB vaccines to kids after he saw the harm of vaccine-preventable disease (liver failure) He voted to advance RFK’s nomination

Okay but Lucky Starzzz clearly should have stayed, right?? #rpdr sad times

Children receive so many more vaccines these days. Is this ok? Short answer: This is ok. Today’s vaccines target more diseases and do so more efficiently than older vaccines. Longer answer: ⬇️ 1/7 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social

Thanks @apapsychiatric.bsky.social for highlighting our work on #SMI and #palliative care / #hapc !! Hoping there's more interest in this topic in the coming years. Everyone with a serious illness deserves accessible and appropriate palliative care. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

@j-palliativemed.bsky.social Special Report from Susan Block: Our Unrealized Imperative: Integrating Mental Health Care into Hospice and #PalliativeCare www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

@j-palliativemed.bsky.social Daniel Shalev et al respond to Susan Block's Special Report: Realizing the Imperative: The Future of Mental Health and Palliative Care Integration www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Got to collaborate with friends and colleagues in the #hapc #psychiatry #psychology #socialwork #pallipsych space to respond to Susan Block's inspiring call to improve mental health components of #hapc 1/? www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Hi #medsky #hapc folks (and anyone else!): Is there an easier way to add folks to starter packs then going to your own profile and finding the pack and then editing it? I know how to add folks to lists from their profile, but not packs.

And we keep growing - on the 3rd Starter Pack! #PsychSky. Welcome to all interested.

There is a ton of good stuff in this thread (as I read through a stack of grant applications)...

Hey friends! Made a growing #BeesonScholar starter pack! Message me and I can add you to the list! Help me grow the community here on @bsky.app go.bsky.app/QvWS6XT

So excited to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones at the #beeson2024 meeting! First few hours have already been a blast: Hoping we can migrate some of the action over from our prior online home to here!! #hapc #beesonscholar #aging

If we want to improve the outcomes of our patients with cirrhosis, we have to improve the mental health and psychological well-being of cirrhosis caregivers. I'm inspired by the #pallipsych movement and the beautiful work and leadership of @pallipsych.bsky.social. Time for interventions.

Using Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling, we found that ⬆️caregiver anxiety was significantly associated with⬆️patient depression. This finding of interdependent psychological distress highlights the need to better support BOTH patients and caregivers in cirrhosis care

Among 127 patients with decompensated cirrhosis and their caregivers, over 1 in 4 dyads reported clinically significant depression symptoms and over 1 in 6 reported clinically significant anxiety symptoms. Over 50% of cirrhosis caregivers reported clinically significant anxiety.

Amazing, formative work by my friend, collaborator, research role model @nnekauferemd.bsky.social Beyond the impact she is having on the care of people living with cirrhosis, she inspires me to think more expansively about what serious illness and #hspc palliative care are—and can be—as we grow…🧵

#Medsky folks, if you are looking for a hospice and/or palliative care feed here’s one. Welcome to all the new people who recently joined Bluesky!

Hi #medsky #psychsky #clp -- let me know if you work in CL psychiatry, health psychology, geriatric psychiatry/psychology, psychooncology, or any other field at the interface of mental and physical healthcare and want to join this starter pack! go.bsky.app/TrFrPgL

This beloved fur gremlin has been in hospital with severe pancreatitis and just came home to us but is so sick and won’t eat 😭 I am so much more comfortable with sick people than a sick and suffering pup. Between that and the election, the world is feeling dark right now. Send Frasier good vibes ❤️

FYI for my geripal research buddies! #hapc #geripal #geriatrics #medsky

Is there any way to save or bookmark posts on here? @ctsinclair.bsky.social — figured you might know?

I have some refs below that I use as a reviewer, responding to reviewers, and as a stat methods collaborator. This information is not unique, many statisticians have posted similar lists (such as Andrew Althouse discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...) but hopefully can still be helpful. 1/n