Michelle Tam @michelletam.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Congratulations to the team for such a phenomenal contribution! 030 3
Reposted by Michelle TamLGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 06/05/2025📣Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue. In our latest research pub: LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers. 📄@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth 🧵1/8jamanetwork.comDifferences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National CohortsThis cohort study uses data from the Nurses' Health Study 2 and 3 and Growing Up Today Study to assess differences in use of abortion care by sexual orientation. 2104 10
Reposted by Michelle TamBrittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/ 18492991951 9.3K
Reposted by Michelle TamBrittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025🧬 Key scientific leaders are being removed! 🧬 NIH directors—known for their expertise and institutional knowledge—are being ousted Result? ✅Undermines public health ✅Erodes scientific integrity ✅Risks unchecked actions A short 🧵 1/ #NIH #CDC #FDA #AcademicSky #MedSky #Science 21610 16
Reposted by Michelle TamChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time. 18263624616128 36.2K
Reposted by Michelle TamAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes. The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year. That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH. 1/ 9531261 531
Reposted by Michelle TamBrittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇 Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍 1 / 🧵 #HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealthairtable.comAirtable | Everyone's app platformAirtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free. 87346 73
Reposted by Michelle TamAriel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025truly devastating degree of cuts to LGBTQ+ health research last week - grateful to @bostonglobe.com for covering this and the negative impacts it will have on queer communities here in Mass #episky #medskybostonglobe.com‘It breaks my heart’: New wave of cuts to NIH research grants hit Mass. hard - The Boston GlobeFenway Health lost five grants in one day. 02712 27
Reposted by Michelle TamLGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 24/03/2025How can you support our LGBTQ+ health equity research? 1. Pledging to donate (or learn more): hsph.me/lgbtq-give 2. Subscribe to our newsletter: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20012... 3. Follow us and share #SupportLGBTQ #HealthEquity 032 3
Reposted by Michelle TamLGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 24/03/2025ICYMI Last week we lost ALL of our NIH funding. Here is some of the LGBTQ health equity research that NIH funding has supported. A thread ⬇️ #LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealthabcnews.go.comScientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental healthDr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens. 11411 14