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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I’m looking forward to being a zillion years old and still reminding people of what our universities did when challenged by baldly illegal hate-driven garbage dictums because I guarantee that the second trump is out of power they’ll expect everyone to forget and stop talking about it

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/05/2025

At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided. From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives. We need everyone in this fight. The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in? The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.

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Devin Banks @phd-banks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

These people really just say ANYTHING. 🥴

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Devin Banks @phd-banks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

In some good news today, I’m happy to share a newly published Methodology describing some of the most rewarding work of my career so far: working in partnership with a CAB with lived experience to design and execute a research project: harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Header of the manuscript entitled “CENTER-ing Black voices: incorporating lived experience across the research process to advance equity in drug treatment and outcomes”

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 21/04/2025

A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

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Count the Dead by the Millions

From HIV and tuberculosis infections to millions of dead children, the deadly impact of Rubio, Musk and Trump’s agenda has been quantified.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This survey is a vital resource for researchers and the public to track the prevalence and impact of drug use and mental health problems in the US. It's a VITAL database. And it's just going to be gone. Devastating.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

“We preface everything with an admission that our opponents are right and somehow we’re losing the messaging war. We don’t understand why this isn’t working.”

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Columbia’s leaders’ capitulation makes it harder for every other scientist in the country to fight grant terminations.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My grants were terminated.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ryan is 100 percent correct.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@standupforscience.bsky.social , @cdelawalla.bsky.social , @samschuelstein.bsky.social , @mikelaritter.bsky.social , and all the grad students, ECRs, and everyone who organized the rallies today. You are all amazing and have given us so much hope. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

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Devin Banks @phd-banks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is extremely bad for science across the board in myriad ways. But most of the discourse seems to ignore that if this is true, it is potentially career-ending for people like me who’ve dedicated their lives to inquiry that represents those oppressed & denied access to health by our society.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2025

Sorry to report to all the fuckfaces out there that I spent multiple hours today doing work that I am passionate about and find interesting, reading ideas, thinking about them, and even writing about them

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Academics and researchers are receiving emails from their higher-ups, explaining that rules are changing and their institutions are carefully monitoring the situation. Have any university higher-ups sent emails saying "We continue to be unwavering in our support for the rights of all human beings?"

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

For Black History Month, key facts about the nation's Black population: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... In less than 25 years, the percentage of Black Americans with a college degree has nearly doubled. Black women have seen the fastest gains in educational attainment.

Line chart showing dramatic growth since 2000 in the percentage of Black Americans – especially Black women – with a college degree.

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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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Devin Banks @phd-banks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For scale, the NIH Diversity Supplement Program is older than me. Of course, this will hurt and limit opportunity for junior scientists who are Black, Latinx, Native, and from low income backgrounds. But it will also hurt and limit science.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 23/01/2025

I cannot decide if this is my optimistic or my cynical take, but I have a feeling that incredibly large proportions of NIH funding will continue, with the DEI emphases stripped, and we are going to get to see how many of our institutions and scientists are windsocks.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

When I talk to upper administration, they seemed to think that things would never go this far. I guess this puts the issue front and center early. I'm curious how much more bending of the knee we'll see in order to curry favor for things like NIH grants.

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Devin Banks @phd-banks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just 3 months left to submit to our Special Issue! 🗣️ We’re open to approaches ranging from #CBPR to exploring initial collabs with community. Topics include #addictionsci, infectious disease, incarceration & any others where harm reduction may apply. Submit @ www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

Abstract image of the scales of justice adjacent to text: Special Collection Call for Papers on Community-Engaged Harm-Reduction Research for Social Justice in
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The basic principle is that reviewers are tired, they're rushed, they're reading your and 10 other grants on top of their normal workload. Anything you can do to make it easy for them will help. Here's a list of my suggestions.

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Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sharing over here as well! I’ll be reviewing applications for the UNM clinical psych PhD program this cycle. More here: bonessaddictionslab.wordpress.com/prospective-...

Screenshot of tweet from me that reads “will be reviewing applications for the @UNMPsychDept clinical psychology PhD program this fall. Our lab is currently in an exciting period of growth, and we are looking for applicants interested in substance use to join us! More here:” and links to bal.UNM.edu

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Devin Banks @phd-banks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ok, #addictionsci 🛟, this seems like a better place to share a new article. This is one I’m particularly proud of that represents a new direction I hope to take my lab in: characterizing & mitigating the impact of *racialized* substance use stigma.

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The intersection of substance use stigma and anti-Black racial stigma: A scoping review

Substance use stigma poses a barrier to treatment and recovery from substance use disorder. Stigma is amplified when intersecting with other stigmatiz…

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Devin Banks @phd-banks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Even the menswear guy is here??? I’m behind.

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