Together with our colleagues at @huntsmancancer.bsky.social, we packed 400+ food boxes at the Utah Food Bank during a time when food security is a huge challenge in our community. 💝 Love that this event brought faculty, staff & students to work & have fun together! @uofuhealth.bsky.social

When people get info re breast cancer screening that conflicts with past messages, they may lose trust in the healthcare system - underscores importance of consistent messages. @tamarparmet.bsky.social @ldscherer.bsky.social @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (ICYMI)

Joint with co-founder, @asinclair.bsky.social, we are grateful for the talents of @malar0ne.bsky.social, @dcosme.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social, @ellenpeters.bsky.social, @angiefagerlin.bsky.social @falklab.bsky.social, Colin Cooke + more contributors working behind the scenes.

Good work Salt Lake City. We showed up. @slindivisible.bsky.social #NoKings

Panelists included Mallory Harris (of #SCIMaP and UMD-College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences), whose work has been essential to assessing the community-level impacts of federal cuts to science. Preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Panel: www.statnews.com/2025/10/16/f...

Wow this panel looks awesome

Journalist here I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04 Reposts are appreciated!

Attending #SNE2025? Come learn about how we applied insights from cognitive psych/neuro to inform policy-relevant decision making to address the current science funding crisis! I’ll be presenting a poster this afternoon from 2:45-4 PM, board #48 in the Skyline Foyer! @socforneuroecon.bsky.social

How to Communicate Medical Numbers-a @jama.com Insight from @angiefagerlin.bsky.social @athorpe8.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social, @bzikmund.bsky.social @umich.edu Read and listen to the podcast for useful tips and tools that could improve patient health+lives. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New Perspective in @mja.com.au by @tammyh.bsky.social @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social @margueritetracy.bsky.social & Australian SDM Research Network members including @dralanafisher.bsky.social @heather-shepherd.bsky.social @carissabonner.bsky.social me & more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...

#SCIMaP represents a collaborative, multidisciplinary project, co-founded with @asinclair.bsky.social and made possible by @falklab.bsky.social, @ellenpeters.bsky.social, @angiefagerlin.bsky.social, @malar0ne.bsky.social, @dcosme.bsky.social, Colin Cooke, Aroon Chande, and @cl10.bsky.social.

“Trump announced that he’ll unilaterally take back money already appropriated for foreign aid. This new so-called pocket rescission totals $4.9 billion.” So. This is the big one. If Vought floats this for foreign aid and it flies, science agencies are next.

VA "leaders will not conduct their annual employee surveys this year, stating that they are confident that the majority of the workforce is happy with the direction of the department." Great but your confidence doesn't satisfy VA's legal obligations. www.federaltimes.com/veterans/202...

The White House FY26 budget proposal slashes NIH funding of medical research and will lead to economic and job losses in community nationwide. Our (updated) #SCIMaP analysis now includes state-level scorecards Go to scienceimpacts.org/fy26 Click on any state (or House District) to learn more.

Longer posts soon on recent exec orders that threaten the vitality of America's research capacity, but wanted to step back and highlight the release of in-depth analyses that directly confront the economic impacts of administration decisions building on viz at scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc. Good luck!

“Pocket rescissions” are really illegal impoundments

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Keep up the effort... via Roll Call "Republicans brush aside Trump plan to slash NIH funding" rollcall.com/2025/07/28/r...

Well that's cool

Sunday reminder from #SCIMaP: The White House FY26 budget includes $18B in cuts to NIH that will lead to >$46B in economic losses in communities nationwide + long-term impacts on our biomedical + health discovery pipeline. It's well past time to rethink & reset. scienceimpacts.org/fy26

@smdm.bsky.social Welcome to the Big House!

Wise words during this time by Tran Doan @smdm.bsky.social

Paper with @ldscherer.bsky.social "Skeptical reactions to breast cancer screening benefits and harms: Antecedents, consequences, and implications for screening communication" in June issue of Health Psychology @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social access.ovid.com/custom/redir...

Proud to play a small role in this work. The map now shows impact of grant cancellations (new) as well as what would be the impact of the IDC reduction to 15%.

Yvette Raphael, Gilead Sciences—with special recognition of Moupali Das—and Wesley Sundquist have been awarded the Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for their work on HIV drug lenacapavir. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...

So grateful to all who contributed!! Thank you!

Seminar Alert! Join us for the May seminar! Don't miss out on this interesting topic! Prof. Jessica Ancker will present on "Making Numbers Meaningful: Lessons from a Systematic Review on Risk and Data Communication." #SharedDecisionMaking May 14th 3:00 PM UTC Register here: tinyurl.com/ydj3xb2k

Please help us support our incredible PHD students during this difficult time!

Really important and thoughtful work. Take a look.

🎉 Match Announcement Alert! 🎉 We are thrilled to share that our department chair, Dr. @angiefagerlin.bsky.social, has generously agreed to match ALL donations up to $1,000! That means your gift will have double the impact in supporting our trainees #GivingDay #UGivingDay #UGD25

✈️Mark Your Calendars: Giving Day is April 8-9!✈️ We are excited to kick off a crowdfunding campaign for the Scholars in Motion Fund & we need your support! Every contribution, big or small, makes a difference. Stay tuned for more details! #UGivingDay #UGD25

"Decisions affecting the health of millions deserve to be based on solid data." Readers' Forum: Protect Utah’s dental health — veto HB81 #StandUpForScience www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

Massive layoffs at VA, including those who support the suicide hotline, places our veterans at risk.

Thank you to everyone who stands with USAID. Share far and wide. Unfortunately we don’t have $40 million to buy up ads during the Super Bowl. Even if we did, we’d use it to support the U.S. economy while feeding kids around the globe. #StandWithUSAID #SaveForeignAid m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

“Every American has benefited from NIH-supported medical research conducted at medical schools, academic health systems, and teaching hospitals nationwide. Every American will be harmed by the undermining (@NIH).” www.aamc.org/news/press-r...

Important note for NIH folks: They want your buildings to suck so you'll hate coming to work. That's Musk and Trump and Republicans. They've tied up Congress for years so that facilities wld not improve. The difference now is they're being open: "make your buildings suck."

On the attempt to slash and burn NIH funding

This is shocking. Hundreds of scientific papers are being removed. @joshtpm.bsky.social

Wanting to understand the EO on transgender rights? This podcast has a ton of good information provided by an ob/gyn. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

For every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.64 of economic activity. For every $100 million of funding, the patents created generate an estimated $598 million in further R&D. NIH-funded patents represent significant advances and produce 20% more economic value than other patents.

Suicide prevention, digital health, and human-centered design!! If these are things you love, we're looking for T32 postdocs to join us at Northwestern's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies! cbits.northwestern.edu/training/pos...

Finally made the move over. Any suggestions for how to best interact with bluesky? I loved the community over at the other place and would love to capture that here. Thanks!