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Jane Lowers

@agingsolo.bsky.social
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Social scientist focused on adults aging solo with dementia.

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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So you need this. share.google/2x979AeTzxfV...
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Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs - Physical Book (D&D)
The physical book of Dr Dhrolin’s Dictionary of Dinosaurs, for D&D (5th edition, 2014 version) - a whopping 304 pages of stunningly illustrated, scientifically accurate, and dynamically designed c...
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Tfw you find a potentially useful framework but it was published in comic sans.
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 24/07/2026
💙📚 Don't miss the Springer book 'What If Maslow Was Wrong? #Safety vs. #Autonomy in Decision-Making for Older Adults.' This book explores the tension between safety and autonomy when it comes to decision-making for older adults. bit.ly/4bAOx4A #GeronSky 📊🩺
What If Maslow Was Wrong?
Safety vs. Autonomy in Decision-Making for Older Adults
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Stopped by the @asmodee-es.bsky.social booth at Alzheimer’s Disease Intl conf and was thrilled to learn they’re incorporating universal accessibility for folks of all types of cognitive need into their products.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A barn owl stares majestically into the middle distance. It has creamy head and breast feathers and dappled brown wings.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I gave up after 3.5.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Congratulations Dr Ali!!
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Got the pink sheets back on my first R01 submission. After a month of psyching myself up to deal with the worst, the comments were… completely reasonable. Now distracted by wondering why trauma response is baked into the #research industrial complex.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Loot that drops after defeating me: multiple half-used post-it pads, assorted colors; mechanical pencil with no eraser; handful of peanuts; flannel shirt (equip); HRT patch (potion); firewood (crafting)
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Jfc, people, just because a code doesn’t make it into a theme you don’t erase it from your data set in #thematicanalysis Today I am methodological vengeance. Today I am Reviewer 2.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17/01/2026
🚨CDC STAFF PSA🚨 Yesterday during an active shooter scare, our alert system failed. Again. Delayed or non-existent texts/emails, no alarm or intercom in labs. ⚠️Despite CDC warning Emory, Emory alerts went out before CDC. 📲Download the Emory Safe app to get Emory alerts. No Emory account required.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The study section for my first R01 proposal is meeting Tuesday. Time to fire this up.
Cardboard box labeled “ Science prayer candle. 100% as effective as prayer. You’ve tried everything else, what harm could it do?”
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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 17/01/2026
Yeah I slept like a log, my slowly decaying body provided shelter and sustenance to a wide variety of small invertebrates
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/11/2025
I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action. Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways. www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations
The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I’m quoted in this month’s AARP Bulletin, which is for people who miss the Parade magazine insert in the Sunday paper. Like me!
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Don’t forget to get out today and vote for all the little down-ballot races that matter locally. Like, um, this one.
A screenshot of the sample ballot for Pine Lake City Council, featuring three csndidates for three open seats.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I was not prepared for the awkwardness of teaching a grad student how to lick and seal an envelope.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Serious adverse event reported. (I’m a social scientist mostly doing qualitative research so what even the hell…)
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!
A red, plush squid rests on a gray fleece beanbag chair. It has jaunty tentavles snd soulful eyes.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Not religious but would genuinely consider praying to Jane Goodall.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
One of the reasons I love qualitative research is the high of a really good interview.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I’ve settled on “For science!”
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Jen Olsen, DrPH @caradigm-shift.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Sharing in hopes that some #caregiving #aging #epidemiology #publichealth researchers apply. Good luck ☘️ www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... #researchfunding #sciencefunding
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Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland
Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a canva graphic that says "How it works Step 1:  Go to SkypeAScientist.com
Step 2: Click “Sign Up” then “Scientist
              Sign Up Form”
Step 3: Tell us about yourself
Step 4: Get matched with a classroom
Step 5: Connect with the teacher
Step 6: Make a kid’s day 
isn't that great?
@SkypeAScientist"
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
POV: Something must be going right if a mentee sent a thank-you gift with my favorite dinosaur
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Matt Wynia @mattwynia.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“If Kennedy really wants to limit industry influence in health policy and the health care system, the most impactful thing he could do is to roll back the funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health…” www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/r...
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I study conflicts of interest. Here’s why RFK Jr.’s approach to the vaccine advisory committee could backfire
Ridding the government, including CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, of industry interests should not play out this way, writes an expert on conflicts of interest.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Having been disappointed in Nvivo for the last time, I’m ready to move my team to CAQDAS that can handle large, multi platform teams and massive data sets. Qualitative folks, what’s your least bad software?
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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
As the assisted dying debate continues, Prof Nancy Preston of the IOELC and Prof Suzanne Ost of Lancaster Uni Law School explore the 5 questions that need answering before it can work in practice 👇 @nancypreston.bsky.social | @ioelc.bsky.social | @lulawcrim.bsky.social | @uk.theconversation.com
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Assisted dying: five questions that need answering before it can work in practice
Legalising assisted dying is one thing. Funding, staffing, medication, legal oversight - that’s the real test.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Ahem. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Older Adults Without Family Caregivers Need Better Access to Medicaid Support Services
Changes to improve waiver access to adults aging solo.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Had an utterly delightful @skypeascientist.bsky.social with Ms.Davis’s 8th grade class about how you become a scientist and what kinds of questions we ask about aging. Go be curious, kids!
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Scientist life goal unlocked: getting a match from @skypeascientist.bsky.social. What classroom begged their teacher for the aging, dementia and dying expert?
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Dr Emily Harrop @emilyharrop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Tfw your search for data goes so deep the source is HCFA. #healthservices
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
gizmodo.com/we-are-witne...
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'We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain' as Scientists Flee America for France
A French university says it's providing safe harbor to American scientists from Yale, Stanford, NASA, and the NIH.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Your post this morning was my reminder to do the same. Thank you!
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My Endnote library disappeared overnight so I’m waiting for IT to call back so I can figure out if I’m going to still be a scientist or finally take up shepherding.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Trying to write up a study’s inclusion criteria without saying “inclusion,”’which is on the naughty list now. 😡
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Had an investigator call with @selenbw.bsky.social and @tina-ann.bsky.social for a couple of studies that genuinely could not happen without their respective skills and assets. I get teary when science actually works. #collaboration #aging
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STAT @statnews.com · 12/02/2025
NIH freeze on grants, indirect-cost research cuts lead young scientists to look at opportunities abroad. "A fire sale on American academics right now."
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Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine
A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025
a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A research assistant just told me coding transcripts about suicidal ideation was a refreshing break from doomscrolling. Yay?
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Justice in Aging @justiceinaging.org · 29/01/2025
About 30% of long-term care workers are immigrants. Targeting and deporting them is not only cruel; it will also make it harder for families to find care for their aging loved ones.
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California's growing need for caregivers could collide with a crackdown on immigrants
The Trump administration's plans to crack down on immigration and launch mass deportations could drain caregivers from the workforce as California and the country face the needs of an aging population...
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If they pull PubMed, do we have a plan B? #academicsky?
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s fun collaborating with informatics folks because they say things like, “This is Jane. She talks to *actual people*.”
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A powerful editorial from some of our patient co-investigators.
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Pain is a constant in our lives with CF: Please believe us
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Justice in Aging @justiceinaging.org · 08/01/2025
When helping a loved one move into a nursing home, be wary of signing documents that say "responsible party" or "personal representative." Although it's illegal, some nursing homes try to hold friends or family responsible for the bills. Learn more about your rights and how to protect yourself:
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Third Party Guarantees: When a Nursing Home Tries to Make You Responsible for Someone Else’s Stay
Although federal law and regulation prohibit the use of third party guarantees, some nursing homes may still attempt to get you to sign documents making you ...
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u... His work got me excited about the social sciences as an undergrad.
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William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
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Jane Lowers @agingsolo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Spent my Jolabokaflod with @worldbuildcast.bsky.social anthology Traveling Light and it was perfect.
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