Inscription on a wall of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse

When We Fail Science, People Die: SCOTUS Strikes a Blow Ben’s Fight for His Life, Now Under Attack

Ben “has stage 4B metastatic colorectal cancer…

For millions like Ben, federal research funding delivers - transforming dead ends into second chances.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ben doesn’t deserve that chance.”

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NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities Many topics on Bhattacharya’s list are familiar, but order to re-evaluate grants draws concerns

Jay Bhattacharya’s priorities do not consider the needs of patients, caregivers or frontline clinicians. They are not informed by researchers.

And they are problematic and unscientific in several places. 🧵 1/5

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Congrats Sarah 🎊👏🏽

5/5 Please share how science matters to you. What excites you about science? Why is science rewarding? How does your research impact society? What ways has science improved your life?

Speak up for science, stand up for science.

4/5 Science and its many discoveries have generated multiple folds of returns and it will be to a great loss to all of us to undermine the infrastructure and foundation of science.

3/5 Science is not a "cost" to be cut, it is an investment for our communities, our well-being as a society, and our collective success in all areas including in education, healthcare, business, environment, and more.

2/5 I shared about the immediate and future impacts of having two of my NIH grants terminated. Many other investigators and research teams in Philadelphia are now similarly impacted. I am heartbroken to hear these stories growing by the day and hour from so many of my colleagues and friends.

Penn president says federal government has halted $175 million in research funding to faculty The halted payments follow comments from a Trump administration official last week that $175 million in federal funding would be paused because Penn allowed a transgender athlete to compete.

Thank you to @aubreywhelan.bsky.social and Susan Snyder at The Philly Inquirer who reported on the funding freezes and terminations at Penn, Drexel, and CHOP

#StandUpForScience #HealthEquity #CommunityEngagement #YourStoryMatters #ScienceNotSilence

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

Please please please continue to submit details of your terminated grant using this Google Form 👇

Your submissions continue to be key to understanding patterns of grant terminations and facilitating advocacy and litigation. 💪💪💪

Scientists Stand Up for Science in Philly today ✊🏽

🙏🏽Truly grateful for my mentors, my dedicated team at the HCEL @asc.upenn.edu, community and youth advisors, co-investigators, and many participants for all the contributions over the years for elevating our work together advancing communication science and equity:) This award belongs to you! 🤗

F.D.A. Tries Last-Ditch Move to Slash Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes The agency is asking the White House, in the final days of the Biden era, to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s first step toward a new rule to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels 👍🏽

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/h...

Please share widely 🙏🏽

Come join our team in the HCEL:)

We are seeking a scholar in communication regulatory science for a project focusing on continuum of risk of tobacco products!

Application details below

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher in Tobacco Communication Regulatory Science

Postdoc opportunity: The Health Communication and Equity Lab is seeking a postdoctoral fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year! Applications are due by January 15, 2025:

Please share widely! Our lab is seeking to 2 MindCORE Summer Fellows for 2025, applications are open and details below:

The MindCORE Summer Fellowship Program is a paid 10-week program for both Penn and non-Penn undergraduate students
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Kudos to Jaimee Heffner Tamara Stimatze Francisco Cartujano Barrera, MD John Lee Josephine (Tres) Hinds Joanne G. Patterson Emily Kaner Raymond Ruiz Tamar M.J. Antin & Natacha de Genna 🙏🏾

Such evidence will contribute to a deeper understanding of the relationship between structural stigma and tobacco use and cessation behaviors, inform context-specific tobacco prevention and control interventions, and advocacy to dismantle structural stigma among SGM populations

Our aim is to stimulate additional research that incorporates measures of structural stigma experienced by SGM people and to consider how it intersects with structural stigma that individuals may experience due to their other identities (e.g.,race/ethnicity or where they live) to impact tobacco use

In this essay, we examine the role of structural stigma in tobacco use and control within SGM populations

Structural stigma and inequities in tobacco use among sexual and gender minoritized people: Accounting for context and intersectionality Tamar Antin, DrPH, Francisco Cartujano-Barrera, MD, Natacha M De Genna, PhD, Josephine T Hinds, PhD, Emily Kaner, MPH, Juhan Lee, PhD, Joanne G Patterson,

Thrilled to be part of this essay with my colleagues in SGM and health equity research! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽