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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.

This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A couple years ago U of MN was intentionally poaching researchers from politically conservative states. And now they announced that political stances are against university policy. Sobering stuff.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Are you interested in analyzing small samples from marginalized communities and aren't sure how? My new commentary in AJE's collection on Methods in Social Epidemiology lays out rec's for researchers, public health practitioners, and data owners. DM your email address if you need access.

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Insufficient sample size or insufficient attention to marginalized populations? A practical guide to moving observational research forward

Naomi Harada Thyden; Insufficient sample size or insufficient attention to marginalized populations? A practical guide to moving observational research for

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17/02/2025

The good news: CDC's webpages have been restored following court orders. The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Whitney Robinson @whitneyepi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yesterday I realized that people do not understand that the “DEI” purge is a cover to get Black people fired and sidelined from government, university, and civic and corporate life in the US. This is so clear based on who is being targeted that I hadn’t thought to say it explicitly Happy #BHM! 🙃

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm with a dozen public health professionals meeting with @amyklobuchar.com 's staff... next to her Minneapolis office. (We thought we had a meeting here but it turns out they don't meet with constituents in person in Minnesota, only in DC?! So we scrambled to find a public space) #VoughtNo 1/

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2025

We can confirm that the communication ban at CDC (and presumably all of HHS) has been extended for at least another week with no specified end date. No external communication with local, state, or territorial health departments, healthcare systems, or the public. In the setting of ongoing outbreaks.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” T.Snyder.

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Naomi Harada Thyden, PhD MPH @naomithyden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I'm going to miss having Dr. Vivek Murthy as our Surgeon General. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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