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Colleen Stiles-Shields, Ph.D.

@colleenss.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ UIC, @ijr-uic.bsky.social | Director of @the-matters-lab.bsky.social | Pediatric Digital Mental Health Researcher | Mom | Order Muppet | Will happily soapbox about equity any day

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The OMB proposed rule will impact more than just science...we are talking $1.5 TRILLION in federal funding including: Veterans benefits (e.g., VA, housing) WIC SNAP TSA Air traffic control Pell Grants Headstart Vocational training, to name a few. GO YELL: fight2win.standupforscience.net
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title
Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Like how dare you
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 08/04/2026
Health care providers are the most common source of health information for Americans, who view them as more accurate than other sources. 85% of Americans say they get health information from health care providers at least sometimes.🧑‍⚕️
Chart showing Americans say they get health information from health care providers more often than other sources.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It is both very good that Trump chickened out *AND* he just because he didn’t follow through, doesn’t mean he is off the hook. Trump is a madman and must be removed. We want democracy, peace, and stability. Pump the breaks, Congress. This is EGREGIOUS.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It is not clear to me how we are supposed to just go about our Tuesdays as though the president of the United States did not make a public threat to destroy a “whole civilization” this morning.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/03/2026
Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hey guys I know it's really hard to be conscious of your health right now, so please remember that after every hour muttering "wtf" while scrolling on your phone you should stand up and banshee scream for at least 5 minutes to stretch out your lower back
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
There are just no words. More power to her. May she find peace as she continues to do her amazing work.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I was quoted in Charlotte Markey’s new book “The Body Image Book for Girls” (2nd edition)! I love this quote and am glad it made the final cut :)
A quote from Charlotte’s book
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is BLEAK. And illustrates why we didn’t celebrate the funding “wins”.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I get messages from high schoolers regularly asking about the future of science.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Universities you work for love to be like: 💖 ✨ YOU ARE INVITED ✨ 💖 🪩 🕺 to give us money 💃🏼 🪩
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 08/03/2026
Thinking of this quote from Erikson’s Malazan series today (from Book 2, Deadhouse Gates): “‘Children are dying.' Lull nodded. 'That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.’l
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2026
TODAY. Take Back our Science Rally. Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down. Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience.... #StandUpForScience #March7 #Rally #science #savescience
TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY TODAY.
DON'T TAKE THIS SITTING DOWN.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
standupforscience.net/march7
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Thank you, @aniloza.bsky.social for covering @standupforscience.bsky.social since it's inception! www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s...
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How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public
Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Cartoon by Jeff Stahler 🎯🎯🎯
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Ashlie Weeks, Esq. @ashlieweeks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Public pressure and threat of impeachment helped get Noem out. This is why we are pushing for impeachment of RFK, because that kind of pressure works. @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience #savelives #removerfkjr
Stand Up for Science National Day of Action tomorrow March 7th around the nation. Standupforscience.net/march7
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#GoTeam! 🙏 @standupforscience.bsky.social pulls every lever www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s... @statnews.com "...we think people care about science. We think people care about biomedical innovation." "We think that people care about not getting polio. Like, it’s really simple. That’s our strategy."
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How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public
Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/03/2026
US health officials are trying to delay a regional World Health Organization meeting that would confirm the loss of its measles elimination status until after the midterm elections in November. This is a reckless, accountability-dodging move that puts politics over public health.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
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NPR @npr.org · 28/02/2026
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund. Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars). Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science. To what end?
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Colleen Stiles-Shields, Ph.D. @colleenss.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sweet home, Chicago 💚
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Katie Barnes @katiebarnes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million. The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...
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Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing
The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.
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Lena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
listen, girls need pockets because we need a place to put cool rocks and shit
rock with lichen
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I’m happy to announce the UCSF Gender Psychiatry Program is expanding! We are looking to hire a new faculty pediatric psychologist to join our team. Please share with your networks! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05944
aprecruit.ucsf.edu
Attending Psychologist
University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
thinking of all the clinical and counseling psych students on match day 🫶🏼 14 yrs ago i matched to the best place for me, even though i wanted to stay close to home. my spouse didn’t match on his first try and the year after made him way stronger. regardless of what your outcome was, you got this 💜
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NPR @npr.org · 13/02/2026
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
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RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
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Terika McCall, PhD, MPH, MBA @telementalhlth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
✨Yesterday our “User-Centered Design of Digital Health Tools” class at @yalesph.bsky.social had the honor of Dr. Ihudiya Finda Williams being our first guest speaker this semester. Dr. Williams spoke about accessibility considerations for designing digital health tools, and how access isn’t agency.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is giving me señor Rogers vibes and I am very here for it
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
You ever sit back and just think about what an enormous impact puppets have had on your life? It’s pretty wild if you really give it some thought.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Me when I saw Pedro Pascal during the halftime show
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/02/2026
Science cannot thrive when censorship shuts down research. Shutting down research doesn't make people healthy. Help us impeach & #RemoveRFKJr by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr . (1/5🧵)
SCIENCE IS UNDER CENSORSHIP. “WOMEN” “VACCINE” “EQUITY” “ADDICTION” FROM PEN AMERICA’S LIST OF WORDS BANNED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORK.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
When you’re out shopping for that special someone this Valentine’s Day, remember flowers wilt and chocolates get stale but rolling library ladders are forever
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Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/02/2026
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)
Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Oh look, Podcast Jay lied to Senate. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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NIH Cuts Disrupted Hundreds of Clinical Trials, Study Finds
Tens of thousands of patients were affected
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
CHICAGOANS!!!! Voting is open for the annual snowplow naming contest. And “Abolish Ice” is one of the options. You know what to do (vote): chicagoshovels.org
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"A republic, if you can keep it." We are in the second part of that sentence, right now.
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just Dave @justdave.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/01/2026
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal        
          WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.
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