Jane Lowers

Serious adverse event reported. (I’m a social scientist mostly doing qualitative research so what even the hell…)

A red, plush squid rests on a gray fleece beanbag chair. It has jaunty tentavles snd soulful eyes.

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!

Not religious but would genuinely consider praying to Jane Goodall.

One of the reasons I love qualitative research is the high of a really good interview.

I’ve settled on “For science!”

Sharing in hopes that some #caregiving #aging #epidemiology #publichealth researchers apply. Good luck ☘️

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POV: Something must be going right if a mentee sent a thank-you gift with my favorite dinosaur

I study conflicts of interest. Here’s why RFK Jr.’s approach to the vaccine advisory committee could backfire Ridding the government, including CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, of industry interests should not play out this way, writes an expert on conflicts of interest.

“If Kennedy really wants to limit industry influence in health policy and the health care system, the most impactful thing he could do is to roll back the funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health…”
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Having been disappointed in Nvivo for the last time, I’m ready to move my team to CAQDAS that can handle large, multi platform teams and massive data sets. Qualitative folks, what’s your least bad software?

Assisted dying: five questions that need answering before it can work in practice Legalising assisted dying is one thing. Funding, staffing, medication, legal oversight - that’s the real test.

As the assisted dying debate continues, Prof Nancy Preston of the IOELC and Prof Suzanne Ost of Lancaster Uni Law School explore the 5 questions that need answering before it can work in practice 👇

@nancypreston.bsky.social | @ioelc.bsky.social | @lulawcrim.bsky.social | @uk.theconversation.com

Older Adults Without Family Caregivers Need Better Access to Medicaid Support Services Changes to improve waiver access to adults aging solo.

Ahem. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Had an utterly delightful @skypeascientist.bsky.social with Ms.Davis’s 8th grade class about how you become a scientist and what kinds of questions we ask about aging. Go be curious, kids!

Scientist life goal unlocked: getting a match from @skypeascientist.bsky.social. What classroom begged their teacher for the aging, dementia and dying expert?

Tfw your search for data goes so deep the source is HCFA. #healthservices

'We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain' as Scientists Flee America for France A French university says it's providing safe harbor to American scientists from Yale, Stanford, NASA, and the NIH.

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Your post this morning was my reminder to do the same. Thank you!

My Endnote library disappeared overnight so I’m waiting for IT to call back so I can figure out if I’m going to still be a scientist or finally take up shepherding.

Trying to write up a study’s inclusion criteria without saying “inclusion,”’which is on the naughty list now. 😡

Had an investigator call with @selenbw.bsky.social and @tina-ann.bsky.social for a couple of studies that genuinely could not happen without their respective skills and assets. I get teary when science actually works. #collaboration #aging

Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.

NIH freeze on grants, indirect-cost research cuts lead young scientists to look at opportunities abroad. "A fire sale on American academics right now."

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

A research assistant just told me coding transcripts about suicidal ideation was a refreshing break from doomscrolling. Yay?

About 30% of long-term care workers are immigrants.

Targeting and deporting them is not only cruel; it will also make it harder for families to find care for their aging loved ones.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

If they pull PubMed, do we have a plan B? #academicsky?

It’s fun collaborating with informatics folks because they say things like, “This is Jane. She talks to *actual people*.”

Pain is a constant in our lives with CF: Please believe us

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A powerful editorial from some of our patient co-investigators.