Melissa Garrido

Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨Attention! AshEcon call for papers! 🚨
www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...

Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025

I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular

Some tips for prospective authors in thread below

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We're recruiting a social media editor! Requirements and duties below… | Health Services Research We're recruiting a social media editor! Requirements and duties below. Before 15 Sep 2025, send a brief letter of interest, cv, and links to personal and professional LinkedIn and other social media...

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A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black. Text reads: I defragged my zebra

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

Judge Mulls Stepping In as Detainees Detail ‘A Lot of Blood’ and ‘Terrible Smells’ Inside 26 Federal Plaza Immigrants rights groups and the Trump administration will have their say before District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday about ICE’s shadowy detention floor.

Judge Mulls Stepping In as Detainees Detail ‘A Lot of Blood’ and ‘Terrible Smells’ Inside 26 Federal Plaza

[noise from pocket]: "I have more of a comment than a question"

The most interesting cat in the world

The order strips the basic rights of people who are homeless, people with mental health disabilities, and people who have substance use disorders & further stigmatizes mental health disabilities and homelessness. In essence, [it] makes communities less safe. www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

Just used @statacorp.bsky.social 's -reshape- function without receiving an error message... I'll take the win, as small as it may be

Agenda with PEPReC presentations 3:30-5 on 6/23, 8:30 and 5 on 6/24, and 10:15 on 6/25

Going to Nashville for #ASHEcon2025 ? Come see my colleagues present work on capacity, productivity, and access in the VA health care system

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Agenda with PEPReC presentations 3:30-5 on 6/23, 8:30 and 5 on 6/24, and 10:15 on 6/25

Going to Nashville for #ASHEcon2025 ? Come see my colleagues present work on capacity, productivity, and access in the VA health care system

see also: the widely accepted "gravity theory" of things falling down

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

More PEPReC #arm25 presentations today!

Several hundred NIH employees sign a letter of protest to the agency’s director Several hundred NIH employees signed on to a letter rebuking agency actions since the start of President Trump's second term

do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

If you’re in Minneapolis for @academyhealth.bsky.social ‘s #arm25, come see PEPReC presentations on methods, the health care workforce, and more

If you’re in Minneapolis for @academyhealth.bsky.social ‘s #arm25, come see PEPReC presentations on methods, the health care workforce, and more

Grant Cancellation Web Form WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. If you had multiple awards terminated, please fill out a separate form for each award. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you to leave your contact information if you are open to having a confidential conversation with Committee staff. Please find our confidentiality policies at the following link – any information you share will be treated with these protections, regardless of your current affiliation with any current or former funding agency: https://democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whistleblower

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration?

Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

Research to Advanced Racial and Indigenous Health Equity We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?

RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️

More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

I was denied permission to host a roundtable at the Puget Sound VA to hear from women veterans about their health care.

I have NEVER been outright denied from having open & honest conversations with VA—until this administration.

I'm demanding an answer from VA Secretary, Doug Collins.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Great to see this

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.