Carrie McAdams MD PhD

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.

11 of about 55 PIs terminated at NINDS yesterday, with downstream effects for all of us in terms of the lost research into neurological disease and stroke. 1/ www.wired.com/story/doctor...

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.

Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

SCANDAL: A Defense Secretary leaking war plans isn’t just a bad headline—it’s a global crisis. Enemies are watching. Allies are panicking. This could change EVERYTHING.

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

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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Was notified this morning that the study section for which I was a reviewer, AA-4, has been dissolved and the SRO is now without a job.

What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Slashing NIH and bragging about the money you’re saving is like burning down your house and gloating about the reductions in maintenance and utility bills.

#episky #idsky #climate 🧪

"Run fast and break things" may seem clever when what you are breaking is software.
When you break alliances, complex research organizations, long term projects, and systems designed to protect public health that took decades or centuries to build,
PEOPLE ARE GOING DIE.

(iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs;

No more anti-depressants, anxiolytics, ADHD medications, or GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Mounjaro, etc) for anyone! Unclear if that last category would also apply to treating type 2 diabetes, which is also a chronic disease.

Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

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@ebi.embl.org:

Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.

Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?

@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m on one of ASMs IDEAA committees and we have received 0 communication from ASM staff on why this is happening. I had to find out via social media. Extremely disappointing.

US drug agency approves potent painkiller — the first non-opioid in decades The FDA’s nod for suzetrigine bolsters confidence in the pharmaceutical industry’s strategy to target sodium channels.

FDA approves new pain killer- First non-opioid analgesic in decades targets sodium channels.

#painresearch
#physio
#neuroskyence
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

Definitely logs.

To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread.
#sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.

Here for the hilarity that is the NIH directors panel #ACNP2024.

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Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/
real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/

Mentoring schemes to ‘fix the women’, unhelpful stereotyping, and cookie cutter approach to diversity (usually centering white women) are and will always be ineffective. They don’t help minoritised & marginalised women. They also don’t help mainstream white, cishet, able bodied women either. /12

This is resonates painfully - People above view as ‘too assertive’ and those below think ‘not doing enough’. Exhausting tightrope.

Long-term remission and relapse of anxiety and depression in older adults after Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): A 10-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial This study examined the long-term durability of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for older adults with comorbid anxiety and depression 10 years after…

In this ten(!)-year follow-up of CBT for depression in older adults, 88% remission of depressive disorders, 63% for anxiety disorders, 58% for all diagnoses combined.
There was also a control group so that we could see the long-term results of those who did not receive full therapy.

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

For so many reasons therapists dont take insurance but # 1

The reimbursement rates we have been quoted for #eatingdisorder specialty care range from $30-50 per hour, w overhead costs, note writing, working w/ care team this would mean a therapist is making about 7.50-12.50 an hour

Unsustainable

The psychiatrist who says medicine is failing women Dr Linda Gask has struggled with depression for years. Now, as female mental health issues surge, she wants to help others who still aren’t taken seriously

The psychiatrist who says medicine is failing women

www.thetimes.com/article/9c3d...

Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression

For Thanksgiving I want to spend the week highlighting some work that I’m really proud of from 2024. In doing so I’m going to highlight the wonderful research of students I am so thankful and lucky to work with! 🦃

Happy to announce that our paper is now published in Science Advances!

science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.