A new commentary in @natureportfolio.nature.com by @annehstevenson.bsky.social, Karestan Koenen, and co-authors calls on the National Institute of Mental Health to change how people w/ lived experience of mental health (LE) conditions are included in psych gene research. ➡️ Read here: rdcu.be/e4IaT

🚨New paper alert!🚨 👉Check out the paper I am most proud of here: rdcu.be/e4IaT 🤔After 8+of working in 🧬🧠research, I didn't see many people with lived experience of mental health conditions (LE) w/🪑at the table. So, several of us laid out 5 recs to Nat. Inst of Mental Health to change this: 1/4

Ever tried to explain research ethics to your family? This is a great piece of journalism (ie: written for a lay audience) of some of the thorny aspects of ethics in human subjects research - participant remuneration, beneficence. @npr.org

This is fascinating. I get multiple scam/AI emails a day asking me to publish in their journals, but I have never thought about in the context of writing letters to the editor. Another way to scam the system which hurts actual humans writing scientific articles/letters.

Coffee + women’s empowerment + mental health in Uganda. A powerful article about how giving women (even some) control over their finances in the coffee business can allow them to leave situations of domestic violence. 🇺🇬 @npr.org #Uganda #coffee #women

Public health at its best. Excited to watch this documentary about guinea worm eradication.

Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it Why? When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted Public health must communicate our successes We must be visible

#Academicchatter Help! I am getting almost 1 peer review request each day. I try to do 1 every ~3 months. This landslide is overwhelming. How do I get it to stop? (And get it to a more manageable request load?) @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academictwitter

My family doesn’t have any underlying conditions, but I want these vaccines for all of us AND insurance should cover them. With this ruling, I cannot imagine my health insurance being willing to pay for them. 💉❤️‍🩹

Great piece @npr.org. www.npr.org/sections/goa... 🐐🥤#neurosurgery #sierraleone

Resistance www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Calling mental health clinicians, researchers, and funders! Can we stop using the PHQ-9? Or at least change the response options? As someone who has had to fill it out many, many times, the response options make no sense. Quote from a friend: “I just fill out what I think they are trying to get at.”

Excuse the swearing but this is perfect 💯 theonion.com/study-finds-...

#Academicchatter: Was asked by a senior author 2 give critical eye 2 paper. Argument of paper was sound but many errors like X citation does not support Y statement. I spent a lot of time on this. 1st author rejected most comments. Do u: 1️⃣Keep your name on paper? 2️⃣Take your name off paper? 3️⃣Other?

Keep my family and my community safe. Don’t take away the availability of vaccines (and requiring health insurance to cover their cost) @rfk-junior.bsky.social.

When you publish your very last PhD paper.

Husband read in @wsj.com how MAGA says scientific journals are “in bed with their friends and pharma.” His takeaway was that it sounded true. This is someone who lives in a house w a person who has published ~30 articles. I explained that that isn’t how it works. How would a lay person know that?

Feeling these blue skies today after submitting my revise and resubmit from my last PhD paper. Send good energy that it gets accepted 🤞

An important lesson that most faculty could stand to learn - one that I'm constantly reminding myself about - is that "I am supportive of junior colleagues" and "I am supportive of the specific junior colleagues I personally like and want to be around" actually have radically divergent consequences

American taxpayers provide the resources for CDC’s specialists and have the right to hear directly from them without interference by politicians. Eliminating communications staff from CDC means we all have less information on how to protect ourselves from health threats.

This has been on my to do list. Goodbye Twitter and good riddance.

PubMed has gone dark A database I've used for over 30 years I hope and pray it comes back soon!

Federico Agustin Gomez, the world no. 135, opens up about his mental health struggles and having suicidal thoughts. 💔 It takes a brave person to open up about their darkest moments and face them. Hopefully he can come out on the other side of this stronger. (via Federico's IG)

If you want your country to quickly control outbreaks and also prevent them, maybe you don't want to fire your best disease detectives?