Karen-Inge Karstoft

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Experts in traumatic stress are concerned about global impact of what is happening in U.S. Trauma is a global issue and public health concern. Political decisions may directly impact rates of trauma exposure, be it individual trauma or mass disaster, and guide how we deal with the conseq...

World leaders in traumatic stress have written this editorial to express concerns about the global impact of what is happening in U.S., how decisions are impacting exposure to and consequences of trauma
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thanks for a nice collaboration to @ludvigdb.bsky.social, Séamus Power, Nataliia Korchakova, Vibeke Koushede, @marie-h-t.bsky.social , Anne Agathe Pedersen, Thomas Morton, and Brian Hall. Thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk and @rockwoolfonden.dk for financial support.

Also, we examine if having someone to turn to for social support buffers the stress from those daily life problems.
I could tell you the results, but you could also just download the open access paper and read it yourselves!

In this paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.so...), hot off the press in Social Science and Medicine, we look at how daily life obstacles in Denmark are associated with PTSD and Complex PTSD in Ukrainian refugees in the Danish Refuge Cohort (DARECO).

KU er uhyggeligt afhængig af amerikansk tech Vi byggede et stykke software til forskere, baseret på open source. Men for at kunne køre det på KU’s servere, skulle vores kode benytte software fra amerikanske techgiganter. Det er både dyrt, uigenn...

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Best way to find a typo in a paper is to read the draft carefully 100 times, print it, mark it up, submit it, get it accepted, have copy editors review it, read it again, finalize it, get it published, and then proudly share it will all of your close colleagues

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

This is chilling and will cause a wider conversation about the safety of having conferences in the US.

Having been involved in such discussions about other countries firsthand I know how delicate this is.

This situation is another blow to science in the US.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
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At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.

Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.

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Taking a single issue - polarization - we ask people what institutions they, on balance, feel do bring us together and which divide us. Again, social media are seen differently from other platforms - but news media, journalists, and politicians are seen as far more divisive 4/5

Karen-Inge Karstoft forsker i traumer. Hun mener, at vi tillægger begrebet for meget vægt I ny bog udfordrer forsker vores syn på voldsomme oplevelser som nogle, der altid sætter langvarige spor. Hun mener, at der er grund til at ændre vores syn på traumer

‘Hvorfor taler alle om traumer?’ Sådan spørger forsker Karen-Inge Karstoft i ny bog, hvor hun udfordrer forsker vores syn på voldsomme oplevelser som nogle, der altid sætter langvarige spor. Hun mener, at der er grund til at ændre vores syn på traumer. (🎁) www.information.dk/indland/2024...

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

New blogpost:
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Is it worth it to personalize the treatment of #PTSD?👇🏻

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Trauma

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Trying to bring the twitter presence over here

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

A long, but important and well-written (and shocking!) read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

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