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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🎉 New publication alert! Super proud of my wonderful postdoc, Dr. Angie Mayorga, for leading this important new narrative review. "Understanding Risk and Resilience: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Use among Racial and Ethnically Diverse Adolescents"

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Ruvvy Resilience Lab @ruvvyresiliencelab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Submission deadline is tomorrow! Our team members Ujala Janjua and @scientificruvvy.bsky.social are proud to be supporting this initiative in their roles on the ISDP DEI Committee. Please consider submitting your work! @drjennyzd.bsky.social @hmarusak.bsky.social @jevanski.bsky.social

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Are you a researcher/professor/clinician scientist and have a personal website and can share with me? I am finally creating a personal website and would like to see some examples!

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A week after the Super Bowl, we met Puerto Rican boxer Xander Zayas in our home 🇵🇷. Xander Zayas, and Mexican-American boxer Emiliano Vargas, were the ones who appeared in the halftime show! I’m technically one degree separed from Bad Bunny now. 😂 ¡Orgullosísima de ser Boricua y Latina! 🫶🏽

Man dressed in black holding two boxing championship belts, standing next to a woman on his right and man to his left.

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

💯 and not the touristy side, the constant power outages, the watching TV in your family in your cozy living room, piraguas, pinchos 🇵🇷🇵🇷❤️❤️

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Feeling pretty great to be from P fkn R! 🇵🇷

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Safe to say I disassociated hard this year. 😅

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

1: Crowdsourcing #academia help. TL;DR: we wrote a paper on reactions to the 2025 executive orders but it's gotten rejected several times and we're looking for an appropriate venue for it. @claudialugo.bsky.social @egv.bsky.social @drjennyzd.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

After a 7 month delay, I finally received the NIH/NIAAA notice of award for my K08! I’m most grateful to NIH staff for trying their hardest under these conditions. Just in time to submit a new RPPR. 😅

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Timely paper published by our team. #pubs Exposure to vicarious racism (i.e., witnessing other Latinx individuals experience racism) was related to generalized anxiety and internalizing symptoms 1 year later, for youth whose sleep quality was less stable. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Longitudinal Links Between Vicarious Racism and Mental Health Among Mexican-Origin Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Daily Sleep Quality

To investigate how exposure to vicarious racism for Mexican-origin adolescents is associated with subsequent generalized anxiety and internalizing sym…

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I miss seeing these types of posts on my feed. Keep sharing good news, all! Congratulations, Dr Shick!

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

One of my summer interns is interested in "radio pharmaceutical, researching radioactive drugs, and general drug development." Would someone close to this field be willing to chat with him about your educational and career trajectory? Please RT.

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Feels rather pointless that I’m about to submit three papers on an NIH project that is 5+ months late on the NOA, effectively creating a 75% salary gap for most of this year. 😐 But, I made a commitment to the funders & participants, and I'm seeing this project through to completion.

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NPR @npr.org · 05/07/2025

Puerto Rican eateries are finally getting their due in the national food scene. If you asked Reinaldo Sánchez a decade ago where he’d be now, his answer was not co-owning ice cream shops with his longtime friend, Lorivie Alicea. (via @ctpublic.bsky.social)

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Out-of-this-world, James Beard-nominated ice cream shop arrives in New Haven from San Juan

The co-owner of Vía Láctea explains what drew him to plant-based ice cream –– and Connecticut.

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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

deprived of all meaning #KeepTellingofGaza #GazaGenocide

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The plaintiffs did not accuse the NIH of racial discrimination, but Judge Young raised the issue. “I have never seen racial discrimination by the government like this,” in his 40 years on the bench he said, to which there was an audible gasp in the courtroom. 6/n

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/06/2025

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yes! I heard some people haven’t signed because they aren’t a scientist or academic. But this is about all of us. If you are against harming research participants, sign! If you want more life-saving treatments, sign! If you value free speech, sign!

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 12/06/2025

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

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Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis

Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curable

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10/06/2025

“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”.

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APHA @apha.org · 09/06/2025

See how NIH employees are standing up for the health and safety of the American people and faithful stewardship of public resources. Read the Bethesda Declaration and add your name in support. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

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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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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/06/2025

Finally some good news today. EVERYONE deported to CECOT is now part of a single class action case.

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

“Oof, what a day 🥵,” I say, seemingly surprised, despite saying this every day this year.

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Melissa Flores @melissafloresphd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We're hiring! The Health Equity Analytics Lab (HEALab) is seeking a full-time Research Technician III, ideal for a post-bac applying to grad school in Fall 2026. Bilingual, research-savvy, and detail-loving? Join us! 🔗 arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Research Technician III

Coordinate and implement all phases of human subjects research, including IRB submissions, amendments, and continuing reviews; monitor study timelines...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/06/2025

how it started / how it's going

Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship

Executive order Jan 20, 2025.

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

How many trainees were supported by your award?
Enter your answer
14.What was the reason given for your grant’s cancelation?
Enter your answer
15.Is there anything else you would like to share with the Committee?
Enter your answer
16.Are you comfortable with the Committee publicly sharing the information you provided?
If you select “ask me first,” please be sure you have provided an email address or phone number.

Yes

No

Ask me first

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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Me when my kids climb on me

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A 72-page complaint w/ 30+ exhibits filed less than 18 hours after the attack was announced. They were ready. ✊

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The pronatalist movement is a eugenics movement exhibit # 1 million. We need more children, but we will let some children starve.

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

One of the benefits of having 1 and 2yo toddlers is that there is never any time to be alone with your anxious thoughts, so work stress is mostly contained to working hours. 😆

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

My heart breaks for my colleagues at Harvard. And my fury grows.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest. E.g.: --Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants) --Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate) A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵

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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Sure, there are risks of speaking out. But the risks of NOT speaking out are far greater. NOW is the time to speak out, otherwise science in America will burn to the ground and you will have sat there with a bucket of water in your hand, watching it burn.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🎉🎉🎉 A huge relief and a really important step.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

⚖️ Terminated NIH grant litigation update: There's a hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction today at 11:30a EDT in Mass. v RFK et al, a case brought by some states against HHS. This is 1 of 2 diff. cases on this topic. I'll be live-tweeting it later this morning. Check back on this thread.

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Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 07/05/2025

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Cientifico Latino and Simons Foundation logos.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"These $25,000 grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing already collected data or writing, thoughtful project closure with community partners, or preparing grant proposals to continue the research."

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