Dana Howard

New hope for Alzheimer’s: Groundbreaking Harvard study finds lithium reverses brain aging - The Boston Globe The research suggests a new approach to preventing and treating the mind-robbing disease.

Funding for this groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's was terminated by the Trump Administration
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m...

Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally The investigation of folk concepts of race has been central to many theoretical and experimental contributions in recent decades; however, most of these contributions have been centred around the N...

1/ I'm excited to share our new open‑access paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah‑Damptey, Steffen Koch & Alex Wiegmann). Part of an ongoing project in comparative philosophy of race, exploring the peculiar & often fraught dynamics of race talk in Europe.

This reminds me of a time when someone was explaining how being a chiropractor made them an expert in non-western medicine and uh, chiropractic is a pseudoscience invented in Iowa

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

A transgender Brown University student told me they now feel unsafe at the school that is “functionally inaccessible" for trans people after the administration bent the knee to the Trump administration.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

The mRNA vaccine platform has already been assessed across diverse clinical indications, many with remarkable progress:
—cancer neoantigen vaccines [in patients with refractory disease (e.g. pancreatic)]
—more than 15 infectious diseases
—autoimmune diseases
—rare disease for genome editing

Donate Your 100% tax-deductible donation helps to ensure the continuation of the Museum of Jurassic Technology and its programs. We are eternally grateful for your support. To make a donation specifically to...

I really love the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and earlier this month it was damaged in a fire. I just donated a little money to help out while they’re closed, and so can you: www.mjtgiftshop.org/products/don...

Brown U alumni and community:

Please sign an open letter from Stand Strong Brown to Brown University and President Paxon: This Deal Was a Mistake.

standstrongbrown.org/tell-brown-t...

yiiiikes

YouTube video by D4I TDR D4I Tribal Data Repository - Protecting Tribal Data & Why It Matters

We explain what a tribal data repository is in our first video. Several members of D4I TDR share the importance of this project. youtu.be/twp6lABlTM8?...

#Datasovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #TribalSovereignty

YouTube video by D4I TDR D4I Tribal Data Repository - How Data Sharing Systems Work

When looking for data management solutions, Tribes can consider different models. In this video, D4I provides summaries of decentralized, federated, and centralized data systems. youtu.be/RNvNqoAXSGo?...

#Datasovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #TribalSovereignty

YouTube video by D4I TDR D4I Tribal Data Repository - Informed, Broad, and Dynamic Consent in Indigenous Based Research

Dynamic consent can promote Tribal sovereignty, this video provides an overview of different informed consent types. youtu.be/_4j8kKh4Zjc?...

#Datasovereignty #Indigenous #IDSov #Data #TribalSovereignty #Consent

Please please please help me get the word out about this. I’m afraid everyone is ignoring our emails. We’ve sent literally thousands and have <10 people enrolled. For reference, we need several hundred. So if you’re not a PI in one of these programs but know someone who is, pls send them this 🙏🙏🙏

Transgender Medical Treatment for Youth Ends at Yale New Haven Health — Assigned Connecticut parents of trans youth respond to the loss of gender-affirming care at Yale. Providers across the country as reducing care under pressure from the Trump administration.

Some families have uprooted their lives, fleeing states where care was banned, only to find the states they thought were safe are cutting care.

That's the case for one family in Connecticut who spoke with @transtextuality.bsky.social for our second story on the crisis today.

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university.

Farmworker Falls to His Death During Violent California ICE Raid “Other workers, including U.S. citizens, remain unaccounted for,” reported the United Farm Workers.

“Other workers, including U.S. citizens, remain unaccounted for,” reported the United Farm Workers.

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

I would especially recommend the political science article referenced in the piece. Accommodation by mainstream parties of far right immigration policies does not win votes by taking the issue off the table, it loses votes for the mainstream parties
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Navigation is a fundamental cognitive capacity…However, much of our knowledge about it… comes from a narrow subset of the world population solving navigational challenges in a small set of experimental settings…This expedition is a radical departure from the confines of the laboratory.” So cool.

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Interesting article: should journals that published articles from the Tuskegee study retract or otherwise comment on the fact that the study was deeply unethical. The publications are old but Tuskegee IS special. (Note; 1st author, Mikyung Kim, was a CLB fellow) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This week’s Dobbs anniversary has everyone reflecting on the last three years without the federal right to abortion.

Here’s what I'm reading (threaded below!). Feel free to add any highlights from your reading list in the comments below too.

That CDC publication saying there's no connection between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism? It was taken down earlier today.

Read more:

Up to 40% of Hepatitis B infections are actually acquired in childhood and kill thousands of Americans per year.

Three Years After Dobbs, Abortion Numbers Have Surprisingly Gone Up After the Supreme Court paved the way for a dozen or more states to ban abortion for the first time in almost half a century, abortion access is thriving in ways no one predicted. How did such a count...

Here's @carolejoffe.bsky.social and me in @msmagazine.com talking about what we know three years post-Dobbs.

Inside HIV Activists’ Plan To Save Lives as Trump Guts Federal Funding While Congress fails to stave off cuts to HIV care, community leaders in Mississippi and beyond race to limit the damage.

While Congress fails to stave off cuts to HIV care, community leaders in Mississippi and beyond race to limit the damage.
In partnership with @kffhealthnews.org
capitalbnews.org/hiv-funding-...

Well, two months later I'm not feeling any more optimistic, to put it mildly.

cc: @nathancortez.bsky.social

Read this article by Chantelle Lee about the heartbreaking decisions clinicians are making about whether to relocate their practice in the aftermath of Dobbs.

How the Dobbs Decision Has Shaken the Health Care Landscape “I didn’t train to become a doctor to tell people I’m not able to help you," one doctor tells TIME.

time.com/7297046/dobb...

3 years after abortion rights were overturned, contraception access is at risk Increasing limits on abortion are boosting demand for contraception. But access to family planning is shrinking in many states, and access to highly effective forms of contraception is at risk.

States with strict #abortion laws saw a 16% increase in women choosing long-acting contraception or sterilization after Dobbs. Men getting vasectomies jumped 33%. Public health scholars weigh in on shifting birth control trends: