J.B. Negrón

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New article out today. A more timely title might have been “How Doctors Become Fascists.”

I’ll have another essay out next week on the minority of doctors who refuse to simply go along with violence and who build underground care systems in response.
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On medical ideology and the production of docile doctors: The politics of care in an age of authoritarianism The United States is the only high-income nation that does not provide universal healthcare as a fundamental public service to its citizens. Instead, …

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Uncharacteristcally long 🧵 (sorry) re: #Qualitative methodologies, science, and 'AI'.

As Qualitative researchers, we should definitely care and remain curious about what 'good work' can look like - but we should be very wary about assuming that a focus on 'rigour' will address this question. 1/13

The challenges of open data sharing for qualitative researchers ‘Open Science’ advocates for open access to scientific research, as well as sharing data, analysis plans and code in order to enable replication of results. However, these requirements typically fail ...

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In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.

Important editorial in @nature.com.
As I said a decade ago in an op-ed in the @nytimes.com (back when they were publishing stuff like that), "If You See Something, Say Something" (www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/o...)
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Three years after Roe fell, more women are managing their abortions without doctors A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors changing their views.

A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors changing their views.

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#EULAR2025

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If you need to remember something from my presentation at #EULAR2025 remember this:

Lovely to know!😊

I hope they were able to assist you with the unexpected elevator issue so that you could be on time. It was a pleasure meeting you!

#EULAR2025 #PARE #Highlights:
Let's talk about relationships - conception to birth, chaired by Jeanette Andersen and Peter Boyd

Kudos to @eular.org , because now I really feel that I can be part of without losing my identity. Thanks!
#EULAR2025

Very important topic at this PARE session!
Prof José B. Negrón presents the Reumasutra project.

Sex & intimacy should be addressed from the moment of diagnosis — they are key aspects of living with a rheumatic disease

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If you are attending #EULAR2025 and want to know what is happening with Reumasutra, I invite you to the session on Thursday: Let's talk about relationships – conception to birth (1:30 p.m. at C3).

Next week I will be participating in #EULAR2025 with an oral presentation. If you are interested in the topic, I hope we can chat.
Meet you there!

Next week I will be participating in #EULAR2025 with an oral presentation. If you are interested in the topic, I hope we can chat.
Meet you there!

Reviewed an ethics application where "AI" would be used to record therapy sessions. No details on the "AI" software/provider and zero concern for data protection around its use. Obviously this gets kicked back to sponsor but it's also kind of wild for it to be described so causally.

Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

No matter how much money you have. You're closer to being homeless than to being Elon Musk.

A card reads: "The world's richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children." Bill Gates, discussing Elon Musk's cuts to USAID, in an interview with The New York Times

In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, the billionaire Bill Gates discussed Elon Musk’s “stunning” reductions to USAID. He also spoke about his decision to accelerate the end of his foundation’s giving and his plans for his personal fortune. nyti.ms/3Si2WJ7

Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

The most cited papers of the 21st century, including @vicclarke.bsky.social and @ginnybraun.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As they told us in this 2021 interview, 'thematic analysis has travelled to places we've never heard of'!
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YouTube video by EULAR What makes a successful EULAR 2025 Abstract: Insights from the Scientific Programme

What makes a successful #EULAR2025 Abstract?

1️⃣New data - not published before 15/01/2025
2️⃣Clear title, concise background, objectives, methods
3️⃣Results must be factual - only pivotal findings, no extra info
4️⃣Base your conclusion on the results

Webinar by Prof Dejaco youtu.be/gXjXpfEI2f8?...

Erasing science doesn’t make ‘undesirable’ problems go away—it makes them worse.

The #NIH is terminating grants. LGBTQ+ health research is a clear target.

LGBTQ+ people face stigma & violence. This research saves lives. Let’s not stay silent.

Terminated grants 👇🏻
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“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”

Exclusive from me and Jon Cohen @science.org: NIH is terminating nearly 1000 grants in a series of batches. One, which conducts HIV and TB clinical trials in South Africa, was labelled as a "DEI" study that "harms the health of Americans." www.science.org/content/arti...

First page of the paper Being really confidently wrong by Victoria Clarke et al.

Qualitative researchers' experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback

w/ @ginnybraun.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social & @joannasemlyen.bsky.social

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