Beth Shaaban

Senator Murray Opening Remarks at Full Committee Mark Up of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Thanks @murray.senate.gov and the Appropriations committee for the bipartisan bill that rejects the draconian cuts to NIH science and restricts the harmful multiyear funding scheme!

www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

🏆 Donna M. Wilcock, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2025 Bill Thies Award for Distinguished Service to ISTAART.

This award recognizes an @istaart.bsky.social member who has provided continued and outstanding service to the ISTAART community.

@wilcocklab.bsky.social @iusm-medneuro.bsky.social

Make sure to check out these poster presentations featuring @naccdata.org authors today at #AAIC2025!

Check out the great research posters being presented by #NIAfundedADRC REC Scholars today at #AAIC2025!

Learn more about the Research, Education, Component (REC): naccdata.org/adrc-resourc...

@mariacarrilloalz.bsky.social shares exciting #AAIC25 attendee stats:
🔬 Nearly 8,200 are in Toronto & 3,200+ are online
🔬48% of in-person attendees & 61% of virtual attendees are women
🔬 23% are under age 35
🔬 More than 22% are first-time attendees
🔬More than 70% are @istaart.bsky.social members

This is fun. Watching your first ever mentor in science give the plenary at AAIC. I was Katerina’s first technician, helping out with her 2002 mouse studies shown on this slide. Haven’t met a more tenacious scientist since. To see a single hypothesis all the way through to clinical trials is amazing

Takeaways from U.S. POINTER top line results:
➡️ Both a structured & a self-guided intervention improved cognition, with the structured group improving even more.
➡️ Cognitive benefits were consistent across age, sex, ethnicity, heart health status and APOE e4 genotype.
bit.ly/USPointerRel... #AAIC25

#PopNeurosciCollab at #AAIC25!

*Epi PhD student Daniel Willie-Permor presenting his talk: Social, Physical, and Cognitive Activity Patterns and Their Association with Tau and Amyloid Resistance and Resilience

#PopNeurosciCollab at #AAIC25!

*A fun meeting w/ @leadcoalition.bsky.social
*Mtg new folks interested in joining the Diversity and Disparities PIA while tabling @ PIA Day
*Daniel Willie-Permor (Aβ/tau resistance/resilience) & Ale Ramirez-Tirado (peripheral & central inflammation) posters @ AIC

A&D Journal Events at #AAIC25- Monday July 28
☑️ Meet the Editors- #BSEA Editor Jennifer Lingler @jlingler.bsky.social (10:30am)
☑️ Meet the Editors- #TRCI Editor Tim Hohman (12:30pm)
📍@alzassociation.bsky.social booth
☑️ Peer Review Workshop with Editors of A&D Journals (12:30pm)
📍 Room 603

For #AAIC2025 attendees: #ADRD researcher starter pack! Thanks @tyk314.net for promoting me to share this again

go.bsky.app/22DpUEy

🏆 Mary Sano, Ph.D., is the recipient of the Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Sano is a neuropsychologist by training and an award-winning clinical trialist, focusing on cognitive impairment in aging, Alzheimer’s and related dementias. #AAIC25

🧠 TIME-AD is now on Bluesky!

#TIME-AD brings together results from different study designs and populations to find what really works to prevent and delay dementia.

Follow along as we share what we’re learning and check out our website to learn more: www.time-ad.org

#EndALZ #EpiSky #NeuroSky

Cadres — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Joined the Advisory Board of @standupforscience.bsky.social alongside Viktor Ambros, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Carol Greider, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & @katestarbird.bsky.social. Impressed with @cdelawalla.bsky.social and the entire Stand Up for Science team!
www.standupforscience.net/cadres.

YouTube video by NPR Music Living Colour: Tiny Desk Concert

Just do yourself a favor and go watch Living Colour on NPR’s Tiny Desk NOW!✊🏿🤘🏿

Bonus points if you can hear me yelling several times! I was there!

Two mugs, one with the Constitution and one with a logo for the Bethesda Declaration, a letter written by NIH staff about actions misaligned with the NIH mission.

Someone made Bethesda Declaration mugs. One of the NIH folks who signed the Declaration shared this with me. 🥲

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Alzheimer’s Association Responds to Sec. Kennedy’s Mischaracterizations About State of Alzheimer’s Research Efforts The Alzheimer's Association responds to inaccurate statements made by HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in House Energy & Commerce committee hearing.

Our colleagues at @alzassociation.bsky.social address Secretary Kennedy's disinformation campaign on research we and AA support. Thank you, Drs. Pike and Carrillo for addressing these medical inaccuracies. #geronsky #dementia

It's been two weeks since we signed the #BethesdaDeclaration. #NIH matters. Science doesn't stop just because an administration censors what PIs do. Will you join in our fight against scientific disinformation? We thank those of you who are supporting us. #defenddata #defendresearch

Ugh...I am so sorry. Just maddening.

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

You can sign the #BethesdaDeclaration and support the NIH workers who are speaking out against the dismantling of life-saving biomedical research!

Diverging Mortality Trends by Educational Attainment in the US This cross-sectional study examines trends in US mortality rates by sex and educational attainment before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. once saw steady declines in mortality—but progress stalled around 2010.

New research: In 2023 alone, there were 525,505 more deaths than expected had pre-2010 trends continued.

91% were among adults without a BA degree. Most were due to CVD and diabetes.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case

Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL”

As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm

Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

I love this piece Maria! So good. Thank you for sharing with your hometown paper and with us.

Thanks to The Oklahoman (www.oklahoman.com) for running my opinions on the new budget and impacts on Alzheimer's research (bit.ly/4mZXrg7) and public health progress for all of us. #PublicHealth #EndAlzheimers #Epidemiology #ScienceHomecoming

"they are stealing your hope [of a cure for cancer or alzheimer's]...but it's not too late, we can right this ship"

Incredibly brave and powerful comments from these two...thank you!

It just so happens to be a @alzassociation.bsky.social advocacy day on the Hill, so it's a coincidence it lines up with this hearing, I'm told.

What do they hope to see from this hearing?
"We've worked too damn hard to see this critical research stop in its tracks," one advocate tells me.

One thing that is striking about JB testimony before the Appropriations Cmte: there is obviously bipartisan support for funding NIH. In normal times the NIH director would be advocating for MORE money for their agency, not arguing for LESS funding.

Sen. Merkley asks about the 14 of 35 NIA funded ADRCs and how their funding is delayed. Dr. Bhattacharya says he's trying to turn on all the light switches and catch up. You are not caught up! We still have no notice of award. #TruthMatters

Interesting that there is recognition of the importance of geographic sources of diversity and their influence on science, but not other sources of diversity. #TruthMatters

🚨 NIH head Bhattacharya is about to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

We'll be keeping a close watch.

Follow along for updates HERE⬇️

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