Dr. Hilary L. DeShong

Happy black cat appreciation day to these lovable boys. They make every day brighter. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛❤️

Howdy partner…. 🤠 🐱

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.

My coworkers for the day.

Black text on white background reading: I’m lonely, but I’m good. I’m bitter, but I swear I’m fine.

Been a while since I’ve posted some cat photos. Please enjoy my two inside boys being adorable sleepy loving boys and my outside mostly feral boy who still won’t let me pet him though he does hang out near by most days. Trust is a journey!

“We are seeing a very familiar playbook, but we are now seeing it from the highest levels of our government’s health agencies rather than the margins of the anti-vaccine conversation.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Petition to the American Psychological Association: Rescind the Capitulation on Diversity Standards To the American Psychological Association (APA) and its Commission on Accreditation, We, the undersigned psychologists, psychology students and trainees, and individuals contemplating entering the pro...

The APA has opted to no longer ensure the recruitment and retention of diverse staff and trainees as part of accreditation visits. If you disagree, sign the petition to demand APA: 1) Rescind the decision & 2) Champion diversity! tinyurl.com/APAmessage #APA #Diversity

Happy Caturday. Today Remus enjoyed some outside time. His brother Romulus still refuses to cooperate with the harness and simply plops down when it gets put on.

Forget ‘sparking joy.’ Try factoring in personal values for easier decluttering | CNN A clinical psychologist explains what drives the human need to keep stuff and how to use our personal values to make decluttering easier.

So excited to see this new article by my friend and colleague Dr. Mary Dozier @maryedozierphd.bsky.social!

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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

This is happening. You go librarians!

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NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

Trump and Musk’s illegal spending freeze has already setback critical research for cancer treatments.

Trump on “Truth Social”: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.”

Trump this morning:

Let’s be clear: the right to protest is enshrined in the Constitution, and no one, least of all the current president, has the authority to strip us of that right.

We will not let these threats deter us.

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #NoKings @polrev.bsky.social

If you have served in the U.S. military, please consider taking this brief survey about sense of control in military life being conducted by current graduate student Elizabeth Olson and faculty member Dr. Ben Porter from Mississippi State University. msstate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

He won’t let me near him just yet, but he comes running for the food as soon as I step back inside so we are building that trust for sure!

Then I put out a heated cat house for the cold. So he has a nice little set up these days. He comes around almost every day now for some food, some hangout chair time, and likes to just chill nearby for the day before departing in the evening hours to who knows where.

This is my friendly-ish feral neighborhood cat. I’ve named him Porch the Tortured Poet (he seems like he has lived a life and I’m a Swiftie). I first spotted him walking across my patio on thanksgiving of 2024, so I put a little bit of food and water out for him which he seemed very thankful for.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

I've had two papers come out over the past week, both systematic reviews. One is with some colleagues in exercise physiology, and the other is with my incoming graduate student. Starting research off right in 2025!

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

First post is obviously going to be a cat post! Meet Remus and Romulus. They are best buds. #cats #blackcats