Opinion | America Was Finally Turning a Corner on Opioids. Until Now.

📉 Medicaid cuts could strip opioid treatment from 150,000 people, LDI and @bostonu.bsky.social researchers warn.

A @nytimes.com editorial says this threatens the 25% drop in overdose deaths since 2023. Progress is fragile — and lives are at risk. Read the editorial: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

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This is: 1) A heinous human rights violation, 2) Horrible and wasteful policy that ignores 40 years of data, 3)Totally nihlist with no solutions proposed, only punishment, 4) A fascist power grab that provides a mechanism to imprison anyone deemed "unwell."

I am having a Trump era nihilist moment of rage, indignation, depression, and fear. I HATE this feeling and I HATE the fact that it is the President of the United States creating it. I do not have the words to articulate this state of mind. Can a professional writer (or therapist) please help me…

Can we all agree that the Pope smoke was the best marketing concept ever in the history of marketing? How many video cameras are trained on it 24 hours a day? It certainly captures my imagination - and I am Jewish! They could give the chimney a glow-up however…

Pesach has never felt more contemporary and relevant to me than it does today. These are Jewish values, not arresting and deporting people with whom we disagree. Chag semeach to all.

Nothing humble about this brag. I am very proud of this! But it is not really my accomplishment. This represents the commitment and passion of an exceptional group of people at MA community Engagement Alliance of the NIH and Boston Medical Center.

This is what makes America great - inclusive work and community that benefit from diverse perspectives and lived experience. We ALL have something to learn from each other and we all are a better version of ourselves when we share our stories.

Research Data Analyst II, Infectious Diseases Syndemics Lab Position: Research Data Analyst II, Infectious Diseases Syndemics Lab Location: Boston, MA Schedule: 40 hours per week, Hybrid (On-site Mondays and Thursdays) ABOUT BMC: At Boston Medical Center (BMC)...

Here is a post with a change of pace from typical these days.... The Syndics lab is hiring! We seek an experienced (2-3 years) master degree level data analyst to help with our policy research. I like to think it is a good job and a supportive workplace.
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It continues to shock me how this administration is asking the scientists to self-evaluate and report back to them to facilitate the MAGA agenda. Isn't the clear resistance strategy to simply provide the "good" answers regardless of the work? Why participate in good faith?

He also pretended that he had never heard of the shocking idea that NIH would end research that is misaligned with the MAGA political agenda - at literally the same moment that stop orders are going out. He is a pants on fire liar. Or, he is so detached from reality that he is disqualified.

As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.

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Yes, cutting funds to univ. is fascist hate-based policy that is making America suck all over. AND WTF “Universities.” You are sitting on tens of billions of $ in endowments, but cutting students rather than investing in them? Are you education institutions or not?

I found this in the office kitchen. No idea who left it there, but I bet it was a team leader, like me, who has a tendency to conflate talking in the meeting with “getting things done” and “leading.” I put this pen right in front of me in my last meeting…

Hepatitis C Virus Screening in Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women After Universal Screening Guidelines This study examines whether hepatitis C virus screening differs among pregnant and nonpregnant women.

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We have work to do if we are going to eliminate HCV. Most women NOT screened for HCV, even when providers code their risk factors! Proud of my mentee, Rachel Epstein, and her mentee, Roshni Singh, for this work. FYI, join BU CHART and you could publish in JAMA too!

With Elon Musk playing the role of the superpower henchman - in the legacy of Odd Job and Jaws.

U.S.-Russia Talks in Saudi Arabia Set to Go Beyond Ukraine The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties are on the table.

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This could literally be the premise for a James Bond film. 007 disrupts the schemes of a corrupt U.S. leader, a Russian oligarch, and their petrostate implementation partner.

This, this, this, this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for sharing this! At age 52, I am getting more serious about my guitar playing. I love it, but have assumed that I missed my boat on being any kind of actual musician. Good to know I have some time to cut my first albumn.

That is the point, right? If we are not aware of an epidemic, then it is not happening... Reality can be very inconvenient when it leads to citizens pushing back on the fascist agenda.

I do not have words for this evil. Several of the most important people in my life suffer in misery without mental health meds. I suffer with them. Have you ever heard you child say they want to be dead? I have. I can never unhear that.

First they came for the trans...

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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"assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs"

Deep state now coming for our kids' mental health.

I do not understand which part of the pre-antibiotics, pre-vaccine era is so appealing? Is it the idea that everyone knows at least one person who has lost a child? Maybe it’s the excitement that any summer day could be the day that your kid gets paralytic polio?

Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies. We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.

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“Over the next few years, Americans who hope for something better will have to go toe-to-toe with this administration, at all levels of government…”

❤️ you @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

My toes will be steel tipped and filed down.

If you are a person and are experiencing homelessness, where are you allowed to stand? Any time I see 2 people experiencing homelessness standing together, the next day I see a barricade in that spot. Are we saying that your very existence is a crime if you do not have a house?

This is important work. Thank you. I would also comment that it is not simply that the majority believes that measles vaccine saves lives, it is that the majority understands that vaccines DO save lives. I believe the sky is blue - because it IS!!!!

It is poignant to read an old grant submission. Like discovering a professional time capsule. I am renewing our BU-CHART T32 and am reading the 2021 submission now. One faculty member tragically passed away. A few trainees are now famous faculty. It is surprisingly emotional work.

CDC websites, datasets taken down as agency complies with Trump executive order | CNN Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with...

Where is the fierce, vocal, widespread OPPOSITION from our medical orgs?
Where are the AMA, ABIM, AAP, ACS etc?

Thank you for this important statement. It is critical that our #HIV research community react, and resist this censorship. It is more than unfortunate. It does more than create gaps. It makes it impossible to effectively do the work of ending the HIV epidemic.

Over the last hour I wrote - and then deleted without posting - two posts about developments I think are important and want to share, but worried could bring harm to colleagues and my community if the wrong people saw them. Are we in the deep state yet? Tell me one way this differs from fascism.

The last two candies from the office post-Halloween candy drawer. I would generally say these are the evidence-based two “worst” candies. But maybe there is bias introduced by the fact that we are in office and both of these are a little messy and sticky? Please design causal inference evaluation!

Yes. Yes she is.