The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

Researchers take note: 👇🏼👇🏼 analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions: 49% substantially altered 106 had "gender" switched to "sex" 15 logged/indicated change occurred 🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky

Our own Mitchell Warren shared a sobering picture of the potential of a world without HIV prevention / reduced access to #PrEP at #IAS2025 satellite: Re-imagining Prevention. avac.org/resource/inf...

Reunited with the legends, mentors who saw potential in the chaos. Thanks for a full circle moment @rsaofficial.bsky.social

Scholars in the US and other countries have now a choice imposed on them: Acquiesce or resist? In this handbook, we outline how scholars can respond during democratic backsliding and encourage reflection on personal values and the consequences of different coping strategies.

📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors? Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1! tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

(Somehow) we're now only one month away from the first due date to SUBMIT to our ECP SPECIAL ISSUE on health behavior change. We look forward to highlighting your important and much needed substance use research. See details here: tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...

What a dream, and what a time, to be starting this next epic chapter as Assistant Professor @emoryfammed.bsky.social 🎉

The firing of esteemed IC directors, large numbers of dedicated HHS staffers, and those who run the NSDUH is truly devastating to research, surveillance, and public health capacity.

📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors? Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1! tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

For those of you interested in pulling excellent papers from this journal, I have created a public collection: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi...

the deepest sigh of relief in a long while....

new year, new me...