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Sylvie

@bohemiantornado.bsky.social
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Behavioral scientist, pediatric psychologist, Director Center for Translational Behavioral Science and CTSA at Florida State University, Motto: protect the vulnerable and speak the truth, she/hers

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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If House Republican Medicaid and ACA cuts pass, and enhanced ACA premium tax credits aren't extended, the state with the biggest increase in the number of people uninsured: Florida. www.kff.org/affordable-c...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The consolidation of review at NIH is really driven by the Trump/Republican desire to control NIH grantmaking from the top. Here’s an example of the chaos that’s happening now. It will get worse unless CSR and review are walled off from political interference.
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Dr. Brian Mustanski @mustanski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging local and state laws banning so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ youth. Our new study in @JAMANetworkOpen is first to show these discredited practices increase risk for later heart disease. Free article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Conversion Therapy Exposure and Elevated Cardiovascular Disease Risk
This cohort study assesses whether exposure to sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts is associated with cardiovascular disease risk in sexual and gender minority young adults assigned ...
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...
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Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health (Gift Article)
Nearly half of the N.I.H. grants canceled through early May — together worth more than $800 million — addressed the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Tallahassee May Day Strong · May Day Strong
Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/04/2025
Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.
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‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
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Institute on Digital Health and Innovation | Florida State Univ. @idhifsu.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
How do you grieve this depth of loss? Read more from Rebecca about her work in #HIVresearch and the impact of life-saving developments born out of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network: bit.ly/RGsubstack #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIV #research #publichealth #HIVprevention #womenshealth
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CTBScience @ctbscience.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We had the pleasure of having our newest postdoc scholar, Dr. Amy Hall, visit CTBS and attend FSU College of Medicine Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine BSSM Post Doc Research Day. 😊 Thank you Dr. Ennis and Michelle Childs, for organizing a successful program for our Postdocs!! 👏
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Institute on Digital Health and Innovation | Florida State Univ. @idhifsu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You can't make America healthy again if you leave youth behind. Share this post - together, we can make sure the ATN’s life-saving work continues. #restoretheATN #NIH #MAHA #makeamericahealthyagain
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Institute on Digital Health and Innovation | Florida State Univ. @idhifsu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The ATN was the only national #research network focused exclusively on adolescents & young adults living with or at risk for #HIV in the US, until it was terminated by NIH on 3/21. Hear Dr. Sylvie Naar's crucial insights about the ATN's breakthroughs beyond HIV prevention & care. #terminatedscience
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hands Off at the Florida Capital.
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
To protect our mental health, we all need a break from doomscrolling, but what should we do instead? In my new Psychology Today piece I share the science behind how creative pursuits quiet the noise of stress and can even help with depression. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shri...
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How Creative Pursuits Can Quiet the Noise of Stress
Creative hobbies reduce stress by giving you a sense of mastery and pleasure while silencing mind noise, but a broader look at your life may be needed to achieve total well-being.
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Impact Institute at Northwestern University @impactinstitute.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In the past month, the NIH terminated many ISGMH grants focused on HIV prevention, LGBTQ health, and training early career scholars. The effect on our institute has been devastating. Director @mustanski.bsky.social spoke to @nbcnews.com about the impact. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
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Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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Dr. Brian Mustanski @mustanski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
120 scientist working together to study how to effectively implement programs to end the HIV epidemic! That’s epic!
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Institute on Digital Health and Innovation | Florida State Univ. @idhifsu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“We’ve built the ATN over 25 years,” says Lisa Hightow-Weidman at Florida State University’s College of Nursing, one of the network’s main investigators. “And it was destroyed with an e-mail in a day.” www.nature.com/articles/d41... #HIVresearch #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIV
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Big cuts to US AIDS prevention feared as NIH axes HIV research grants
More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS have been abruptly terminated in the past few weeks.
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Institute on Digital Health and Innovation | Florida State Univ. @idhifsu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
On 3/21, the HAPPY study, along with all other studies in the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions was suddenly and mistakenly terminated by NIH. #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIVresearch #research #HIVprevention #reproductivehealth #pregnancy #womenshealth #NIH
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Institute on Digital Health and Innovation | Florida State Univ. @idhifsu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We are standing for a generation of American youth who deserve care, support, and the promise of a healthier future. While we appeal the termination decision, help us spread the message that ATN #research is vital. #HIV #HIVresearch #HIVprevention #HIVcare #adolescenthealth #NIH #grants
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CTBScience @ctbscience.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
CTBScience at #SBM2025 Society of Behavioral Medicine Exhibit Hall Sessions. Brenda Echeverri and Sara Shaw Green, MSW, are promoting CTBS initiatives, including the ORBIT Institute and the FSU College of Medicine Postdoctoral opportunity. More info: ctbs.fsu.edu
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Institute on Digital Health and Innovation | Florida State Univ. @idhifsu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"A study funded by #NIH that would test if an #antibiotic, #DoxyPEP, can prevent sexually transmitted infections in #women was been terminated by the Trump administration as part of its ongoing attempt to halt what it considers 'diversity, equity and inclusion' in scientific #research."
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am horrified though not shocked to say that our NIH r01 grant to improve the HIV testing of young people across florida has been terminated. This further marginalization of stigmatized populations is a human rights violation.
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
And @mcuban.bsky.social, NIH research has also given us amazing advances in human health: childhood leukemia (survival rates are now >90%); dramatically reduced birth defects and infant mortality; dropped heart attack and stroke rates. Now it's all in danger of collapsing. Please help us.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/03/2025
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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In 2023, Heritage described AIDS as a “lifestyle disease” and argued that PEPFAR was “a patronage program for clients of the Democratic Party.” Heritage analyzed the political giving of USAID and key contractors and concluded that it’s a left-wing plot. Source.

Heritage also analyzed the political contributions of Interaction, a non-profit association of development organizations, and found they were heavily weighted to Democrats. For Heritage, this justifies cutting off funding for Interaction. Source.

The author of those papers, Tim Meisburger, is now the head of USAID humanitarian operations, according to his LinkedIn. He’s an election denier and conspiracy theorist.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Trump administration is planning to completely eliminate the CDC Division of HIV Prevention, cutting $700 million that should be used to prevent HIV infections and control HIV the HIV epidemic. Such cuts would have horrific consequences for the health of Americans. aidsunited.org/action/polic...
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ACTION ALERT: CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back - AIDS United
CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back We have heard very unfortunate news that there is an effort un...
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 14/03/2025
If you celebrate our community in your art, you must speak up and defend our community as Lady Gaga always has. Mother Monster is our Perfect Celebrity. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/m...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 13/03/2025
h/t to our friends at @fairnesscampaign.bsky.social!
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Indivisible One New Jersey ❌👑 @njindivisible.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Never again for anyone. Never again means now." - Jewish Voices for Peace
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The editor of AIDS and Behavior has a message: In a World Gone Mad -- Nothing is Changing at AIDS and Behavior. "We will persist, with elevated scrutiny, filtering, and yes censoring, pseudoscience and denialism." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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In a World Gone Mad -- Nothing is Changing at AIDS and Behavior - AIDS and Behavior
AIDS and Behavior -
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Maybe this will make a difference
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This breaks my heart. We fought so hard to get EPA to look at environmental justice issues in an area of Birmingham called Collegeville hit, faced, massive health challenges. I’m sure there are similar areas all across the country. archive.epa.gov/epa/north-bi...
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North Birmingham Project | US EPA
EPA is moving forward with a coordinated approach to evaluate the environmental condition in neighborhoods in and around North Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Amplify this.
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mjarnett.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Strength in numbers for the scientific enterprise! Very happy to have joined the Philadelphia #StandUpForScience rally today, and to have seen so many other people there. These are hard times to be in science and science policy in a lot of ways, but inspiring ones as well!
A crowd of people listening to a speaker.A group of friends holding up signs supporting science.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
As a professor & a Jew I’m sick to my heart about the attack on Columbia—which is a) escalation of the war on all of higher ed; b) Jew-washing fascism, with the intention of inciting more antisemitism, which in turn will be used as cover for more fascism.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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