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Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions
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Pregnancy, & life with a new baby, are times of immense transition.
If you know someone who is pregnant, or has a new baby, there are plenty of ways you can lean in & provide help.
Here are some tips:
💙 check in with them
💙 be there for them when needed
💙 offer emotional support & understanding
“ The United States spent roughly US$12 billion on global health in 2024.
Without that yearly spending, roughly 25 million people could die in the next 15 years…”
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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
Essentially, and unlike "health equity" research, "health disparities" research can be used (or misused) to promote a MAHA narrative that blames people for their own "bad" health. 3/
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Don’t miss @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social free lecture, "Towards Rigour and Justice in Research for Health" with Dr @seyeabimbola.bsky.social, Dr @ckyobutungi.bsky.social & Dr Samah Jabr, exploring justice in #globalhealth.
🗓️ May 7th 2025
📍Strand Campus, London
Sign-up here ⬇️
The Trump adminstration’s decision to end NIH-funded research on topics & populations they disfavor is reckless, illegal and WRONG. Today, we sued. Read the complaint in APHA v NIH, online now: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Our recent paper found child maltreatment and/or parental domestic violence exposure incurs large personal and societal economic burdens. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology.
This is a global crisis.
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Rutgers Faculty Senate calls for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact, including "a shared or distributed defense fund.... to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution."
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
"But these are pretexts. Universities are independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent. Autocrats are allergic to sources of dissent, so they almost invariably seek to silence, weaken, or control them."
www.thecrimson.com/a...
You can view the report "Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity" here: independentsage.org/...
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Arthur Caplan | Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power - The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I have a new Substack out today. It talks about the infamous National Science Foundation's "banned words" list and how the administration's cancellation of "woke" science and DEI initiatives is a thin smokescreen to undermine science & research more broadly. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The fight for equality
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Nature journalists will be at #StandUpForScience protests across the US later today; and in France the actions have already begun. Events will take place in more than 30 French cities, says @standupforscifr.bsky.social
No words.
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
"In its rush to meet Trump’s agenda, the UK government is damaging health too."
The UK’s cuts to development aid are morally repugnant, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Some reflections with @pascaleallotey.bsky.social on the impact of hegemonic policy decisions on sexual and reproductive health and rights @thelancet.bsky.social @hrpresearch.bsky.social @pmnch.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#DefendResearch
Incredible week launching our #ComplexInterventionTrials #CommunityofPractice with the amazing #PhDStudents + #PostDocs at Addis Ababa University, with a little help from some amazing speakers + support from @acmedsci.bsky.social #StarterGrant for Clinical Lecturers. Returning home fully inspired!
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Do you work in the field of #Perinatal #MentalHealth? Dr Claire Wilson invites you to the UKIMS Perinatal Mental Health Conference 2025, being held at King's on 24 January.
Find out more and register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ukims...
Tomorrow is my last day as a junior/resident doctor. My learning:
- Nurses, pharmacists, AMHPs, HCAs: we love you
- Nothing beats a good clerking
- Ancient tech lives on in healthcare
- The NHS is imperfect. But also, magnificent
- Practising psychiatry: truly, a privilege
- Take more photos at work
