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Ariel Beccia

@albeccia.bsky.social
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social epidemiologist with @harvardstriped.bsky.social | queer mental health, eating disorders, quantitative intersectionality | she/her 🌈

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Harvard STRIPED @harvardstriped.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
STRIPED team member Ariel Beccia presented a poster on our advocacy work to re-include items assessing eating disorders into the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) at #SER2025 last week! @societyforepi.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/06/2025
What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Met @albeccia.bsky.social at #SER2025 and heard a story of persistence in lobbying for a public health database to include important questions — work that has been threatened by the current administration
Dr Ariel Beccia presenting a poster about eating disorder surveillance in the YBRS database at SER 2025 in Boston
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Tiffany A. Brown @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thanks to @theresagaff.bsky.social for highlighting the devastating impact that terminated #eatingdisorder grants will have on Americans - including our work on LGBTQ-affirmative therapy for EDs @ajblashill.bsky.social
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
eating disorder research was already so severely underfunded - 7 terminated grants is devastating to our field!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/06/2025
Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic. Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them. This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives. www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...
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Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions
Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.
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Harvard STRIPED @harvardstriped.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
STRIPED’s Ariel Beccia speaks out in Theresa Gaffney’s new STAT piece on how eating disorder research is being gutted under the Trump admin. $2.7M in NIH grants already cut. Read more: www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e... @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social @statnews.com
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Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions
Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.
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Harvard STRIPED @harvardstriped.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Honored to share that Dr. Bryn Austin has received the Leadership Award for Mentorship from the Academy for Eating Disorders. Deepest thanks to the colleagues and mentees who made this recognition possible. #ICED2025 @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
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Harvard STRIPED @harvardstriped.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Honored to receive awards for two STRIPED projects from the AED Epidemiology & Public Health Practice SIG at ICED 2025! Thanks to the SIG for this recognition. Presented by Chloe Gao & Bryn Austin at #ICED2025. @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/05/2025
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped. This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity. www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
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NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up
The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
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Harvard STRIPED @harvardstriped.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The STRIPED team is on Capitol Hill for the Eating Disorders Coalition’s Advocacy Day, helping advance the recognition of eating disorders as a public health priority across the U.S. @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
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LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📣Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue. In our latest research pub: LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers. 📄@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth 🧵1/8
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Differences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National Cohorts
This cohort study uses data from the Nurses' Health Study 2 and 3 and Growing Up Today Study to assess differences in use of abortion care by sexual orientation.
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 22/04/2025
Trevor Project (Ages 13-24): (866) 488-7386 LGBT National Hotline: (888) 843-4564 LGBT Youth National Chatline (Up to age 25): (800) 246-7743 Trans Lifeline: (800) 246-7743 True Colors United (LGBT Runaway Support): (212) 461-4401 National Runaway Safeline: (800) 786-2929
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants: "Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Statement of NSF priorities April 18, 2025 

NSF priorities are grounded in the mission of the agency and modulated by statutory directives and administration priorities. NSF uses two statutory criteria to ensure that every award has the potential to advance new knowledge (Intellectual Merit) with maximum impact on the Nation and its people (Broader Impacts). NSF investments unleash groundbreaking discoveries, translational solutions and expand participation in STEM. These efforts strengthen our domestic workforce to fuel economic prosperity, national security, and global S&E competitiveness. The principles of merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence are the bedrock of the NSF mission. NSF continues to review all projects using Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts criteria. NSF's broadening participation activities, including activities undertaken in fulfillment of the Broader Impacts criterion, and research on broadening participation, must aim to create opportunities for all Americans everywhere. These efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others, or directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities. NSF will continue to support research with the goal of understanding or addressing participation in STEM, in accordance with all applicable statutes and mandates, with the core goal of creating opportunities for all Americans. NSF will continue to support basic and use-inspired research in S&E fields that focus on protected characteristics when doing so is intrinsic to the research question and is aligned with Agency priorities.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
On it. Report your terminated NSF grant here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions. All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🧪 Today, NSF disbanded its advisory committees of external experts, leaving only the ones mandated by law. This is a move towards using less input from the broader scientific community to drive NSF's strategic direction. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...
What is the status of NSF's advisory committees?
Consistent with the President's February 19, 2025, executive order, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, the following federal advisory committees are disestablished as of April 15, 2025:

Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences
Advisory Committee for Business and Operations
Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure
Advisory Committee for Engineering
Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education
Advisory Committee for Geosciences
Advisory Committee for Integrative Activities
Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering
Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Advisory Committee for STEM Education
The following advisory committees are required in statute and will therefore continue to meet and provide advice to the NSF under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA):

Alan T. Waterman Award Committee
President's Committee on the National Medal of Science
Advisory Committee for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Advisory Committee for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships
Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE)
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🧵 You might have seen a post urging you to donate to Harvard, a wealthy university that needs no financial reward for doing the bare minimum. Instead, I'd like to tell you about some organizations that are working to protect academic freedom and at-risk scholars and deserve your support 1
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 13/04/2025
If you want something to do but don’t have time to rescue data or clean metadata, this is what we mean by speak out. Tell them why public data matters.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The grim commonalities between Germany in the 1930s and the USA in the 2020s #QueerData
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
sounds familiar
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/04/2025
It’s almost like it’s not about antisemitism
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions. This is more than an attack on individual agencies. All autocracies do this. And the effects of this purge will be profound and long lasting. My latest for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge
The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/04/2025
The White House just removed the only public database showing how federal dollars are approved for spending - despite a law requiring it. We’ve lost a key tool for transparency and oversight.
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Today higher ed workers, students, and communities are standing up to demand our elected leaders Kill The Cuts! Federal funding is critical for research and education that benefits us all. Here's a thread of action photos! Starting with this rally currently happening in LA:
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
for those who may need it: you can search for specific ABCD Study variables names here, and then click on the file name to bring you to a data dictionary of sorts. an OK workaround for now!
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NIMH Data Archive - Data - General Query
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A great (ongoing) thread of how pushback IS working:
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
does anyone happen to have a saved copy of the #ABCDStudy data dictionary? #episky #medsky #neurosky
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/04/2025
🚨HEY DORKS! PROTEST ALERT🚨 Kill The Cuts National Day of Action is Tomorrow, Tuesday April 8th! Find an action near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-... Stand Up for lifesaving research, healthcare, and education! @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social #standupforscience #killthecuts
KILL THE CUTS national day of action april 8th
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Dropkick Murphys @dropkickmurphys.com · 06/04/2025
Boston was out in full force today ✊🏼
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/04/2025
Every single photo in this thread should give you HOPE.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Same and same in Boston! ❤️👊💪
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
loving all the #Handsoff posts, especially the small town ones!
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 05/04/2025
New post on restricted access data. We've some calls for people to go rogue, but there are reasons not to and better ways to use your time. #DataRescue TL;DR version: SPEAK OUT www.datarescueproject.org/restricted-a...
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What you can do for restricted access data
Since we started working on this effort, we have had a lot of questions about restricted access data. We posted the challenges we face on our FAQ page. Participants with the DRP were also featured in ...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Today is the day to get involved. Get involved w local politics - in NYC volunteer for Zohran. Get involved/ start orgs in defense of public institutions -- like libraries or post offices. Volunteer at community pantries. Participate in Know Your Rights trainings! There's so much we can do!
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Boston! #Handsoff
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Incredible turnout at the #HandsOff rally in Boston
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Boston turned out this morning despite the rain ❤️💪 #HandsOff
Huge crowd on Boston Common
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 05/04/2025
We are saving as much public data as we can. The other thing you can do is speak out. Tell everyone you know about what is happening (here, IRL, everywhere). We need people to know the consequences of these actions.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience
The notice says "Funding Opportunities: None"
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The bloodbaths at IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) show that Musk's DOGE has NOTHING TO DO WITH SAVING $. IMLS budget: $295M NEH budget: $211M These are tiny drops in the federal spending bucket. This is about ideological control.
Graph showing the FY24 federal budget:

Dept of Defence: $841B
NIH: $47B
NSF: $9B
IMLS: $0.3B
NEH: $0.2B
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Really helpful, practical article on 5 tips if your federal grant is terminated. Summarizes from a AAAS webinar that had 2,000+ attendees. Appreciate that it has lots of links for specific agencies too!
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Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated
If you want to appeal the decision, know the rules that govern terminations, as well as the specific rationale given in your notice, science policy experts say.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/04/2025
As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/04/2025
HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY! *Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together. 🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨 In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s... #standupforscience #handsoff
Hands off! Our science. In partnership with indivisible. National day of action 4/5/25
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A post from fellow researcher. I hate this administration so much. #SaveOurScience
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump and Musk are demanding NIH cut 35% of contracts. That will devastate NIH science and grant funding — many of the contracts support people doing extramural work, or extramural/grant databases. Moreover, the number is bullshit. They just made it up. There is no need—and in fact, it's illegal.
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DOGE Orders HHS to Cut 35% of Contract Spending
In one email obtained by NOTUS, NIH employees were told they could not “use mission criticality as a justification to not make cuts.”
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🔍💔 Take a look at @bostonglobe.com spotlight on our Center's funding cuts Ironically, went online Wed during @hsph.harvard.edu's media retreat session & printed in Sun paper Props to @rickberke.bsky.social for nudge to share, but (for once) I was step ahead 👉 hsph.me/lgbtq-Globe-... #MedSky
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
✨ some positive public health news ✨ ... after nearly five years of advocacy to get eating disorder items into the YRBS, I'm so so proud to share our team's work analyzing the first wave of data coming out of Arizona. a🧵!!
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Unveiling Trends, Demographic Differences, and the Importance of Public Health Surveillance: Exploring Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors Among Arizona Youth
Objective Disordered eating and unhealthy weight control behaviors (UWCBs) among United States teens are critical yet understudied public health issues, disproportionately affecting diverse demograp...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/04/2025
After spending 24 hours on his feet to break the filibuster record, @booker.senate.gov kept going with an impassioned speech about the importance of funding scientific research. Thank you! 🙏
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