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Jamie Collins

@colljamie.bsky.social
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Biostatistician, SAS-lover, R-learner, outcomes researcher, she/her. Biostatistician at Brigham and Women's/OrACORe connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profi…

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research. n.pr/4ycseLJ
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Under Trump, NIH funding disruptions have evolved. Here's what the numbers show
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good thing he's not a Twitch streamer without any formal role in government or his entire political party would be compelled by the media to denounce him. Just a Nazi working in the State Department. No big deal!
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Jamie Collins @colljamie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I mean, sorry to my fellow New Englanders but the jokes write themselves 😂
Photo with a sign for “men’s upscale resale shop”, with a clothing rack with an old Red Sox pullover as the first item of clothing.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/09/2026
“Their proximity and access … [can] put them on a position to attract paid content sponsorships”:
The cover of Maggie Haberman’s book ‘Confidence Man,’ a bio of Trump. The cover of the book ‘Regime Change,’ a book on Trump’s second term authored by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.An Axios headline from Nov. 20, 2023, over an item bylined by Mike Allen. The headline reads: “Scoop: Haberman, Swan sign deal for Trump book”Maggie Haberman, with a semi-forced smile, accepting an awkward side hug from President Trump in his first-term Oval Office.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I just redirect to the real news of our Senator not disavowing a rascist and stealing the money.
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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026
this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Let’s call this what it is: an atrocious betrayal of people who risked their lives to help Americans.
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This will pretty much end international students pursuing doctorates. A shocking decision and one which will do irreparable damage to the United States in the long term. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump administration caps student visa stays at 4 years under final rule
Critics have castigated the measure, arguing it ignores average degree completion times and creates unnecessary burdens for international students.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE RADICAL TRANSPARENCY!!!!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Public comments open for how NIH should restructure funding mechanisms for mentored scientists who want to focus on clinical trials
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Jamie Collins @colljamie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thx to @rheumcat.bsky.social for sharing. We can find treatments, cures, etc. but it is the policy that determines how this gets to people. see *policies* shaping GLP1 availability, for instance. NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Like so many thing happening right now. Incredibly short sighted. Cruel. The only motivation is to punish higher education.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The NIH is requesting public comments on measuring and rewarding scientific impact. How about allowing funded researchers to continue international collaborations? osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...
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Comment Form: Measuring and Rewarding Scientific Impact
Request for Information on Measuring and Rewarding Scientific Impact
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The fact that these people have the nerve to open their mouths to talk about “protecting women and girls” while doing shit like this… whew!
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Once again, the administration is doing everything they can to make us less globally competitive
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Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal @oacjournal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🛑⚠️ Dubious Paper Alert ⚠️🛑 Can you easily identify #fabricated #OA publications? youtu.be/ghAHsZhZzMc This master class with Dr. Ben Faber will help you identify dubious OA publications and how we might stop them!
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Published examples of dubious osteoarthritis papers and how we might stop them - Dr Ben Faber
YouTube video by Joint Action
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Science is an international pursuit. This harms in the US and our standing in the global scientific community.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Immediately thinking of multiple people I know whom this could affect
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
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Jamie Collins @colljamie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New visa changes will upend international studies. Graduate programs are bracing for impact www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/31/m...
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New visa changes will upend international studies. Graduate programs are bracing for impact. - The Boston Globe
With new changes to student visas, graduate programs prepare to take the hit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ICYMI — Tennessee man Paul Vaughn, convicted in 2024 of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a felony to interfere with reproductive healthcare services, was just awarded 7 figures by Trump. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Odd, how Republicans are so angry at the *pretend* notion that Dr. Fauci undermined our health but are not even slightly interested in RFK Jr’s *actual* undermining of our health.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
TPS ended Monday for 350,000 Haitians in the US An extension for TPS passed in the US House but is stalled in the Senate A script to contact your Senators is here drive.google.com/file/d/1xg0z...
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TPS Advocacy Templates.pdf
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026
I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Feds cancel grant that would have helped "improve care for kids with congenital heart disease, stroke, and influenza." No reason given. www.inquirer.com/health/chop-...
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Penn and CHOP researchers lost millions in federal funding for healthcare research last week, forcing programs to close
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality last week cut dozens of grants, affecting multiple programs at Penn and CHOP. “These are not controversial topics,” CHOP doctor Christopher Forrest said.
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."
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Why we still don’t know what foods are the source of the cyclospora outbreak
“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/07/2026
There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Scientists have called the proposal “catastrophic,” “devastating” and “stupid.” So begins the NYT piece discussing the OMB proposed rule, whose public comment period ends today www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/w...
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A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy. (Gift Article)
In tens of thousands of comments, researchers, doctors and others warned the rule could hamper progress on important health issues.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
victory lapping on this one
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Jamie Collins @colljamie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
via @bostonglobe.com - Lorenzo Salgado Jr., a Tufts grad, remembers his dad www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/10/m...
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Tufts grad, son of man killed by ICE in Houston, reflects on father’s passion for education - The Boston Globe
For Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the father who had immigrated to the United States from Mexico decades ago, education meant everything.
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Lorenzo Araujo was killed by ICE agents this week. He should still be alive and with his family. Oversight Dems are demanding a full investigation and will hold all responsible accountable. Check out the immigration enforcement dashboard to learn more about DHS abuse.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Jamie Collins @colljamie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Please leave a public comment on the OMB Proposed Federal Grant Rule. @amstatnews.bsky.social has partnered with APS to make it really easy! I used this tool and focused my comments on international collaborations: www.aps.org/initiatives/...
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Comment on OMB proposed rule for federal financial assistance
Make your voice heard on the Office of Management and Budget's proposed federal grant funding changes and defend the scientific community from this existential threat. Submit your comments by July 13,...
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The NIH is an ENORMOUS bargain for the American people. Do folk think that private industry will do the background slog work for drug discovery for 250K direct costs?
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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.
NYT headline (July 2, 2026): U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady PaceNYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/07/2026
Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in Texas when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary and put her in handcuffs. She was released hours later after lawmakers intervened.
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ICE’s arrest of nun heading to church fuels bipartisan backlash in South Texas
The president’s deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, and a GOP congresswoman has joined Democrats calling for the sister’s release.
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