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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD

@laurastroudphd.bsky.social
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Professor @BrownPsychiatry | Director #BehMedRI @MiriamHospital | Director starcobre.org | Researcher: #pregnancy, #stress, #trauma, #resilience, #addiction, #tobacco, #depression | Mentor/Co-Director STAR T32 | Proud Mom of 2 | Views my own

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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're hiring! Join our fantastic team! The COBRE Center for Stress, Trauma and Resilience (STAR) at @brownunivhealth.bsky.social is seeking a Sr Research Assistant, FT, Hybrid, #ProvidenceRI. Please re-post & share widely!! Learn more @ starcobre.org @brownmedicine.bsky.social
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nat. Mental Health (2026) rdcu.be/fsqkm
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Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Nature Mental Health - In this meta-analysis of 49 studies, the authors find that self-reports of childhood maltreatment are generally stable, challenging assumptions of inherent unreliability and...
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
10/ The best way you can help right now is to donate blood if you’re able. And for parents, educators, and clinicians supporting kids after trauma, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network has excellent, practical resources like this one: nctsn.org/resources/talking-children-about-shooting
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Talking to Children about the Shooting
Provides information on how to talk to children about mass shootings. This tip sheet describes ways to talk to children about mass violence events that involve a shooting. It gives tips about how to s...
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Measurement congruence between record data and retrospective self‐report measures of child maltreatment: do positive childhood experiences affect discrepancies? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Discrepancies between retrospective self-reports and official record data of child maltreatment (CM) are well-documented, yet few studies have examined how newer self-report instruments c.....
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Early Life Stress Effects on Children's Biology, Behavior, and Health: Evidence, Mediators, Moderators, and Solutions - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Early Life Stress Effects on Children's Biology, Behavior, and Health: Evidence, Mediators, Moderators, and Solutions
This review synthesizes and critiques research on early life adversity and stress effects on multidomain health outcomes in child samples to fill a gap in the literature that has largely focused on ad...
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
An alternative framework for nonexperimental cross-sectional mediation studies: Associational variable analysis. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Dr Karen Bateson @karenjbateson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New research in Nature finds perinatal mental health screening in NICU's helps identify parents who need mental health support. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Implementation of perinatal mental health screening for parents of infants in a level IV neonatal intensive care unit: A quality improvement initiative - Journal of Perinatology
Journal of Perinatology - Implementation of perinatal mental health screening for parents of infants in a level IV neonatal intensive care unit: A quality improvement initiative
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🧵🧪”Paying taxes can feel like money lost. In truth, it is money shared. When we fund the NIH, we are betting on ourselves and on one another. We are saying that every American life is worth saving, whether that life sits next door or across the country.”
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
That moment in the midst of the current surreality when your long-time mentee gets a perfect 10 on her R01.... 💛💛
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our first Science Homecoming article for Mississippi 🚢 🍾
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Just celebrated the brilliant @debyee.bsky.social for receiving the prestigious Brown postdoctoral excellence award for community service! Love how you have fostered such a positive & kind community that benefits so many! Grateful to work with you! postdocs.brown.edu/news/2025-02...
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2025 Brown Postdoctoral Excellence Awards
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Mikela Ritter @mikelaritter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#standupforscience2025! Do you have a story to share on how science, funding, and federal institutions impact people in your region? Democratic representatives in congress are asking for your stories! Please fill out this form to share! @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social
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How has Science Impacted your Life?
Why do you personally stand up for science? Is it because a life-changing discovery sparked your passion, or perhaps because you’ve seen how science can directly improve the lives of people in your co...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Entomologist Megan Barkdull curates a world-class insect collection but she got her start through federally-funded science programs — like those that teach Florida’s kids about wildlife from the Everglades 🐊 to the coasts. Now, that funding is at risk. 🧪🏠 @meganbarkdull.bsky.social
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Commentary: Federal science funding fuels education, STEM careers
A science museum curator who grew up in Orlando talks about how federal science funding fueled her own life journey and so many others.
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Fantastic opinion piece on the importance of #fundingforscience and particularly how cuts will hurt the next generation….by the brilliant @debyeend.bsky.social.
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
DEI is under attack, but the stakes are higher than many realize. Universities *must stand firm* in defending it. I lay out why in my latest piece for Nature. Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Preliminary injunction in nationwide indirect cost rate case. This means that the judge found that the plaintiffs (AAMC, et al.) are likely to win on the merits when the ruling is finalized. www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...
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Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments
A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
From Newmarket, NH, 🫎 to Stanford, neuroscientist Robyn St. Laurent researches OCD & addiction to develop new treatments. ‘The opportunities I had shouldn’t be the exception; they should be the foundation for the next generation.’ 🧪🏠 @robynstlaurent.bsky.social www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...
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Robyn St. Laurent: Why science funding matters more than you think
Cutting funding to NIH and and NSF does more than take away career paths for our upcoming generations; it threatens the well-being of people.
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Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Reporting by Science Magazine: NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This rebuttal to Vinay Prasad’s point-of-view in Sensible Medicine has food for thought given the pace, nature, scope of cuts and impact on extramural science community throughout the US The NIH is Being Slashed and Burned, not “Reformed” open.substack.com/pub/sensible...
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The NIH is Being Slashed and Burned, not “Reformed”
A strong and well-argued rebuttal to NIH criticism
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Good reporting out about Pittsburgh and the potential effects of indirect cost cuts. www.publicsource.org/research-fun... 1/2
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Trump NIH funding cuts, policies threaten Pitt research
A Trump administration decision to cap indirect cost rates in science and health grants, plus federal staff cuts, has Pitt researchers wondering if they can continue.
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Programs focused on increasing the diversity of the scientific workforce are imperiled. Ten trainees funded by these programs spoke with The Transmitter about what the uncertainty of the past few weeks has meant for them, their research and their futures. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...
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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/02/2025
Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How long until American research breaks? I have thoughts, as shared with @katiewuwrites.bsky.social in her outstanding piece. And I also know there is a blueprint for how we will rebuild (albeit slowly, sadly, after too much lost time & too many lost lives). www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
THIS IS A MUST-READ PIECE. Please share, off Bluesky as well as on it. Most people *do not understand* how harmful these short-sighted cuts are going to be - for our economic as well as our physical health. 🧪🛟🩺
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In my latest article for @science.org, I reflect on the current challenges faced by early-career researchers, including delays in grant reviews, uncertainty around NIH funding freezes and changes, and the critical need for continued support and advocacy. www.science.org/content/arti...
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I’m an NIH-funded researcher, drowning in uncertainty
“I’ll keep doing what I can to move my research forward. But I, and so many others, can’t do this indefinitely,” this assistant professor writes
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Federal judge extends restraining order on Trump administration's cap on NIH indirect costs
Judge Angel Kelley kept in place an order blocking the Trump administration from implementing a 15% cap on NIH indirect cost payments
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is what leadership looks like
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Nature @nature.com · 20/02/2025
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Developmental Plasticity in Early Human Development: Infancy
Click on the title to browse this issue
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Found this sign I made in my office 8 years ago. Wish it didn't feel so relevant right now
Poster board that says "Save our scientists" with symbols for 12 US federal agencies where scientists work
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New article describing design and methods of a remote yoga intervention study led by the brilliant #HerpreetThindPhD and #BethBockPhD www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Multi-site feasibility and fidelity of remote yoga intervention to improve management of type-2 diabetes: Design and methods of the HA1C (healthy active and in control) study
Diabetes is a leading cause of death in the United States placing tremendous burden on individuals and the health care system. Yoga could be an attrac…
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Great new resource from @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social on public health comms - with both well-tested language, and actionable tips. This is FABULOUS. debeaumont.org/resources/co...
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Communicating About Public Health
Common gaps in understanding, research-tested messaging to address them, examples to make it tangible, and practical tips for real-world communication scenarios
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The no cost extension button is back and at least some are being granted. If this applies to you, go for it. PLEASE SHARE
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a man in a suit and tie says go for it in white letters
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says go for it in white letters
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Lauren Weinstock, PhD @lmweinstock.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is all so exhausting, but I think that’s the intent? But at least there’s this for now.
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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?
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Dr. Laura Stroud PhD @laurastroudphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Trump Administration Cuts Put Medical Progress at Risk, Researchers Say
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. A planned $4 billion cut would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
APA is compiling stories of how researchers are impacted by the executive orders. Share your story here to help them advocate for you! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...
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We Need to Hear From You!
&nbsp;Why do we need your stories now?&nbsp;The White House and Congress have been issuing and considering executive orders, funding directives and policy proposals with harmful consequences for psych...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is what a cap on “indirect costs” through NIH grants will do. Going from >50% of grant total to 15% will change how your local university healthcare systems function everyday.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“The abrupt change represents “a nuclear bomb on university budgets,” says Morgan Polikoff, an education researcher at the University of Southern California. “I mean, listen, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. They're just trying to hurt universities.””
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In Rhode Island - NIH FUNDING: $256M JOBS SUPPORTED: 2212 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $502M www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
As the executive branch initiates rapid orders/changes, and agencies scramble to keep up, implement, or pause implementation of each order, clear, fast communication is needed within the psychological community. This new site will have all of the latest updates you need: updates.apaservices.org
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APA/APASI Response Center: Policy Changes & Advocacy Updates
Stay informed about APA/APASI's response to recent federal policy changes affecting psychology. Find resources, share your story, and learn how to advocate for scientific integrity.
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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Not seen anything like this." After a funding freeze & communications pause, the $250M in federal grants RI received in 2024 from NIH may be in jeopardy. #BrownSPH & @brownmedicine.bsky.social faculty & researchers say they're looking for answers amidst the chaos.
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Trump Administration actions cause ‘widespread panic’ among some RI scientists - TPR: The Public's Radio
Concern washed over the scientific research community in Rhode Island after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services paused all external communications on Jan. 22.  When researchers from acros...
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In the US, more than half of pregnant people who smoke and nearly all of Black pregnant people who smoke use menthol cigarettes, find Laura Stroud et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-... @laurastroudphd.bsky.social
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Menthol cigarette use in US pregnancies: Prevalence, racial/ethnic disparities, and associated characteristics from the 2010-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
AbstractIntroduction. Pregnant people who smoke constitute a uniquely vulnerable population likely to be impacted by a menthol cigarette (MC) ban. However,
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Many of you may not be familiar with #NIH grants. Here are some facts to help you understand the magnitude of this disaster. 1) NIH grants are extremely difficult to get & not "free money". Researchers must have preliminary data & write detailed proposals. Mine was >200pages & took years to put
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