Elise Erickson PhD CNM

Bye! Sorry to not get to watch Hamilton for the 496th time… 🇺🇸

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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

BioBAYB2- Our new study launching now! Using wearables and remote monitoring- we'll be validating our labor prediction tools and training on maternal CV adaptation. Join Us! 💟

PhD student’s first pub! Proud mentor moment !!

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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Nurse-scientists shouldn’t have to choose between research and caring for patients While physician-scientists are supported in splitting their time between research and clinical work, nurse-scientists are not.

Sounds familiar- www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/n...

Sending strength

Worth considering that microbiome patterns are contributing to early ROM (breakdown of the BOW) before labor has taken hold or is ready to begin. They have a longer duration of ROM because labor needs to be induced. Also longer ROM is associated in this sample with use of antibiotics during labor.

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ACLU sues National Institutes of Health for ‘ideological purge’ of research projects The lawsuit says that NIH has canceled more than 670 research grants, which were due more than $1.1 billion in funding.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context

The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

Hard to find words… bracing for major hurdles for maternal health research in the years to come.

You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Rosalind Franklin (to father)

The institute leadership appear to include...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

The National Institute on Nursing

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

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a red warning light is lit up in front of a building ALT: a red warning light is lit up in front of a building

The horror show continues at NIH

I am hearing (reliably) that RIFs have started with entire institute Communication branches being terminated since their jobs not longer exist (reduction in force).

But that is not all...

The Trump Administration Goes To War With Health-Care Quality Inside its plan to destroy a small agency that keeps you safe.

The administration is working on demolishing AHRQ, the agency whose mission is to improve healthcare quality and safety.

www.offmessage.net/p/the-trump-...

University of Arizona- Tucson!

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Let me know if you need any help

@diannepat.bsky.social was this organized by you or anyone on campus that we can connect with-- this rally isn't listed on the standup website yet ?

Stand up for Science on March 7 at Noon: University of Arizona Mall.

Every Sunday morning - as I'm awake much earlier than I hope to be - I look forward to reading my NCBI "What's New in x" - new pubs matching my saved searches in PubMed that get pushed to my email - studies pertinent to my research. No updates this morning... no PubMed, no ERA, no IAR. #NIH

eRA Commons, PubMed, and NIH.gov are all offline right now 🫥🫥🫥

What are you seeing?

Hi friends,

I probably won’t survive the next culling. Let me know if you know of people hiring people like me!

I’m a nurse & scientist with experience in academia & managing research teams. I love mentoring & all things science, particularly related to health 👩‍⚕️

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George will conduct data analyses on the effects of midwifery care in improving maternal health outcomes & development of midwifery data collection systems working BIO5 member Elise Erickson @dr-e-phd.bsky.social in Nursing: bit.ly/4k37OOz

Science! Benefits! Everyone!