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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Lawyer Arguing at Supreme Court to Save Birthright Citizenship Is a Birthright Citizen www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

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Lawyer Arguing at Supreme Court to Save Birthright Citizenship Is a Birthright Citizen

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UTMB Sealy Center on Aging & NIA Pepper Center @utmbscoa.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🚨 Call for Proposals: UTMB Claude D. Pepper OAIC 2026 Pilot Awards 🗓 LOI due: Apr 6, 2026 🗓 Full proposals (invite-only): May 15, 2026 Priority areas: chronic disabling conditions, tech & independence, disparities, geroscience, community function. Details + submission: www.utmb.edu/pepper

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Leigh Turner @leighturner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

From the OIG report: “We found that nursing homes inappropriately diagnosed schizophrenia to mask their misuse of antipsychotic drugs, artificially inflate their star rating, and skirt established safeguards meant to protect residents." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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Nursing homes falsely label patients schizophrenic to sedate them, OIG says

False diagnoses are used to mask inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs on patients with dementia, a practice called chemical restraint, a government watchdog report said.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The US NIH is stepping back from 'top-down' science. My latest analysis for @nature.com shows that funding calls have plummeted by 90%, funneling billions into broad, 'investigator-initiated' ideas, rather than targeted, agency-driven ones. A massive shift for the American biomedical enterprise.

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NIH pivots away from agency-directed science

US biomedical funding behemoth says the approach will boost innovation, but some researchers worry that understudied areas of science will suffer.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Bhattacharya is abt to testify in front of the House approps committee ~Halfway into the fiscal year the agency is behind on spending (again) There isn't one culprit — more involvement from OMB, staffing issues, and adjusting to new priorities are all at play www.statnews.com/2026/03/17/n...

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NIH grant awards are again lagging far behind historical averages, analysis shows

Nearly halfway into the 2026 fiscal year, the NIH is far behind on grant spending, new data show

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Wow. CBO estimates that U.S. consumers bear 95 PERCENT OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS. Basically, foreign firms bear 5% of them, U.S. companies bear 30% of them but other U.S. companies get to raise prices on consumers from less competition so that nets to zero. And consumers pay rest.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

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Judy Graham @judygraham.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The facts

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“State government must lead by example and ensure that employment opportunities — particularly those funded with taxpayer dollars — are filled by Texans first" said Abbott.

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Dismantling governmental programs

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Joanne Spetz @joannespetz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Want to spend a week learning skills & strategies to study the dementia care workforce? Join us for the @awardnetwork.bsky.social Summer Training Institute, July 20-24, 2026. A stipend of $1700 will be provided for travel expenses. Applications due Feb 27! awardnetwork.ucsf.edu/content/summ...

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Summer Training Institute | awardnetwork

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates. Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.

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CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 26/12/2025

I hope some of you #NIA researchers present and attend. @bryandjames.bsky.social , @sdukehan.bsky.social , @leadcoalition.bsky.social , @mariaglymour.bsky.social , @cgster.bsky.social , and anyone else interested? #geronsky

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 08/12/2025

A lot of NOFOs at #NIH have expired. If you wish to submit an unsolicited application, do so to the parent #NOFO. Furthermore, unsolicited applications no longer require prior approval for exceeding $500K. Please inform your networks. #geronsky #hspr #hpss #statssky

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 06/11/2025

As we come to @geronsociety.bsky.social 's #GSA2025, please follow us en masse. If you are an aging health researcher and want to be added to the starter pack, comment below. #geronsky #ADRD

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 30/10/2025

@savehealthresearch.bsky.social writes, "99% of recent treatments are #NIH supported. Erica wants everyone to have the same opportunity she had to benefit from this new medicine. What treatments are we about to discover that could be lost, and who may have been given years more of life?"

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Story in Being Patient about Alzheimer's disease funding noting the decrease in the funding of number of new projects due, in part, to the number of multiyear funded grants from the National Institute on Aging. beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r...

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NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects

Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimer’s, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

[Tenured!] I am beyond grateful to share that Emory Board of Trustees has approved my Tenure in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University! Now, let me continue my dedication to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Cheers! 🍾

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 01/10/2025

🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #SciComm #Inequality 🧪

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Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Here is NIA. NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24. 7/n

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Empathy + Action = A Better World Thank you, Jane Goodall

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 29/09/2025

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article)

As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

"the benefits of NIH research in general are wide and diffuse. A very large number of advances—roughly one in two during the 21st century—are linked to NIH grants that are cut in our counterfactual scenario."

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 24/09/2025

A new report shows the ‘astounding’ impact of immigration on the Philadelphia region. The Welcoming Center nonprofit commissioned the report in partnership with WHYY using U.S. Census data. 🔗 inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Curse of private equity. After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals. PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits. People killed for profit. Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

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Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds

The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education? | Demography | Duke University Press

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CNN @cnn.com · 18/09/2025

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. cnn.it/3K73pNn

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Reducing access to abortions ... - increases families' economic hardship, - increases families' debt, - increases income inequality, - increases housing insecurity, and - increases financially motivated crime rates.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14/09/2025

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret on Sunday over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia and said those who returned home will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US

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US Official Offers Regrets Over Detention of South Koreans

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia.

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 10/09/2025

NEW: Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to offer no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. This is projected to amount to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child. Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.

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Governor: New Mexico to provide universal access to child care

Currently, the state’s child care assistance program covers costs for families with incomes at or below 400% of the federal poverty level.

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