Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

April Fools? 🙏🏼😬😫

Devastating 💔

This 👇🏼

Does anyone have any info on when the SIPP online codebook will be back up? Or happen to have a downloadable version of the codebook? This is for the 2014 and later panels, which only had the online interactive codebook.

Just submitted a grant to AHRQ that I’ve been working on for a year. I sure hope someone reads it…

ICYMI: I joined 90 House Democrats in denouncing Trump’s cuts to NIH and demanding answers on the threats they pose. Trump and Elon are slashing funding for scientists working on cures to Alzheimer’s and cancer. Funding that would save lives. Restore NIH funding NOW.

Gross

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

A must read

This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.” And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.

Reuters is now covering the order for all CDC scientists to withdraw, take their name off of, or edit all existing publications in consideration if it has such evil words as "prenant people" This is research that is done and written. Straightforwardly censorship. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I’ve been using IPUMS since my early grad school days as both a teaching tool (making it super easy for undergrads to do basic analysis without needing external software) and to conduct my own research. I’ve never appreciated them more than I do this week ❤️

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

I've been reading and writing a lot on work requirements recently--They do not improve employment prospects and instead, end up kicking people off programs like SNAP and Medicaid. Shorter post here: www.epi.org/blog/work-re...

Trump keeps normalizing political violence and intimidation — first with his pardons of insurrectionists, and now this. It is a crime to obstruct access to a reproductive health clinic. There must be accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

Trump administration is reportedly stripping appx 300,000 Venezuelans of their legal permission to live & work in the US. They tried something similar in 2017 & were blocked in court. I wrote about that at Immigration Law Unhinged open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/t...

Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny. It is not the constitution that is failing us. It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.

Saying every abortion is tragic is like saying every surgery is tragic. Saying it means the speaker thinks their hatred of surgery is more important than whatever motivated the patient to get the surgery.

The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excited for this super important line of research from the brilliant @arpilarz.bsky.social and Jessica Pac!