Erika Crable, PhD

Last day to comment on a proposed rule that would turn many civil servants into at will political appointees. Voice your comments here: www.regulations.gov/document/OPM... Cite the Doc ID to have your comment count: OPM-2025-0004-0001

📢 We’re wrapping up our APCS-funded D&I speaker series with one last exciting panel! Join us for a panel on Policy Dissemination and Implementation featuring @emmabethmcginty.bsky.social, @erikacrable.bsky.social, and Dr. Jonathan Purtle 🏛️🧠 Use the QR code to register and get the Zoom link!

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In case this wasn't obvious - calling something "evidence based" requires accurately presenting rigorous data from multiple reliable sources to show a consistent outcome.

Great new visual from KFF breaking down the nearly 14 million additional people who'd be uninsured if the GOP is successful.

As always, KFF delivers with a useful tracker of proposed changes to Medicaid policy 👇

HEAL Workshop: Health Economics Research to Address the Needs of Those With Serious Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorder, and Comorbid Conditions A forum for partners to engage with health economic researchers to identify priorities for people with mental illness and SUD.

Join us 5/22/25 for a #NIDA HEAL Workshop about health economics tools to address practice challenges in preventing & treating mental illness & SUDs. Conversation & presentations by me & other NIDA-funded investigators bit.ly/HEALHealthEc...
@ucsd-disc.bsky.social @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social

Uncertainty in Science and Among Early Career Investigators This JAMA Forum discusses the current climate of uncertainty in scientific research and suggests mechanisms to support early career scientists.

Early career researchers, scientific advancements & return on tax payer $ for funded grants are in jeopardy. A clear explainer of what is at stake & how to help early career folks.
#ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation

Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump - KFF Health News A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically. Of the organizations that had grants cut in the first month, about 40% ar...

📣 It's simple: politicizing science = less safe, effective cancer care, SUD treatment, vaccines = poor quality of life, unnecessary deaths. Helpful visualization by @kff.org. At least 780 grants terminated (universities alone, more across other institutes). Tell your neighbors why this matters! 🧪

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.

The proposal cuts the #NIH budget 40% to $27 billion, consolidates the NIH’s into 8 institutes, eliminating many. This would be devastating for keeping Americans healthy & scientifically advanced. Call Congress now!

Do you know about health-related programs that have been cancelled due to federal funding cuts or delays?

@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.

Send me a DM or email amym@kff.org 🌈

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

@mcuban.bsky.social this is a long shot but my account is small & the losses to science are too great to not ask for favors. Please consider getting the word out about AHRQ & NIH funding cuts. We are losing a generation of scientists & American innovation. Thanks! 🤞🙏

More resources & talking points for when you make that call to Congress or talk with your neighbors: academyhealth.org/page/stand-a...

🙏 Shameless ask: It’s my birthday. Scientists, please call your Congress peeps & tell them why AHRQ & NIH are critical to curing cancer, treating & preventing substance use, ensuring healthcare access in rural America, the list goes on. Without real #AHRQ & #NIH funding we will be a sicker country.

White House withdraws Trump's pick Dave Weldon as CDC director pick The White House is withdrawing President Donald Trump's nomination of Republican former congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon to serve as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a source briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

Trump just withdrew the bad CDC nominee after public blowback about the measles vaccine.

Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
Your voices are needed now. Please take action. 🧪

Top addiction researcher Nora Volkow on NIH cuts, optimism, and the limits of RFK Jr.’s 12-step experience In a Q&A, NIH addiction chief Nora Volkow speaks about RFK Jr.'s policy shake-ups, 12-step recovery limits, and why overdose deaths are falling.

Sage words from Dr. Volkow about how the NIH and NIDA that have "no parallel in the world in terms of its contribution to knowledge, to science, to solutions, to health care, and to economics." #SavetheNIH

@altnih4science.bsky.social Is there a way the public can transparently see that the federal register is closed? Can we count the days that it is closed publicly?

Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year.
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH

Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies

📢 Make it a goal to talk to 3 family members, friends, or strangers each week about how freezes on scientific progress & higher education will negatively impact people’s lives in a personal way (cancer tx, their kids college, etc). The general public needs to know why this matters.

“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪
European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...

Even if the administration allows meetings to resume, there is already a huge backlog of applications and far fewer federal officials to process the backlog.

2025 will go down as a dark year for American science. We need to keep speaking out about this.

#NIHMatters #ScienceMatters

Some brief thoughts from someone who studies public opinion. The federal firing spree can be made unpopular because it is being done in a haphazard way, there will be huge economic effects not just in DC but also across country & it's also likely illegal in many cases. But how to make that argument?

Yes please. I would love to find ImpSci community over here!

Firing the heads of Institutes at the NIH (NIAID, NIDA, NCI, etc) will mean:
-More cancer deaths
-More overdose deaths
-More AIDS deaths
-More asthma deaths
-More cardiovascular deaths
-More lupus deaths
-More measles deaths
-More sepsis deaths
-More liver & kidney-related deaths
-More infant deaths

#HealthPolicyValentines - the bright spot we need today!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Of evidence-based SUD treatment policies,
There simply are too few,
Next time you think,
'Hey, why not just get treatment?'
Remember, SUD stigma and misinformation are all too frequent 💜

@kffhealthnews.org

Please someone cover this!
@jaketapper.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social

CDC is being gutted by 5pm today.

- There is a “Stand up for Science” event happening on March 7, 2025 in DC (standupforscience.org).
- Federal workers: Watch for changes in your work processes and not any changes you’re asked to make. Document everything.

Hey 🧪 NIH Loan Repayment Program awardees: Anyone notice their quarterly payments have stopped? The January payment never happened. Curious if others are seeing this (I expect this is not uncommon).

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.

GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.

Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

EXPLAINER: How Senate Democrats Can Shut Down Trump's Agenda with Procedural Hardball

@sarajacobs.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov I know you support rigorous, non-partisan science. As a CA constituent, UC faculty, & NIH-funded scientist whose research is directly impacted by this - please stop Congress from enabling this attack on science. LMK how I can help