Ariana Thompson-Lastad

Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...

It's Monday morning and Casey Means still doesn't have the votes to become Surgeon General. Let's keep it that way. Send a letter to your Senators now. If you have friends, famiy, colleagues who can do so, urge them on to act now. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Unions in health care & universities have many purposes--some are supporting their immigrant members in getting out of detention. higheredlaborunited.org/2026/02/25/s...

A close up of Toad, his head swallowed by his giant hat, and Frog, who appears to have a solution to Toad's problem. From "The Hat" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

Then Frog said, “Toad, here is what you must do. Tonight when you go to bed, you must think some very big thoughts. Those big thoughts will make your head grow larger. In the morning your new hat may fit.”

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

So well written. Thank you Elizabeth Ginexi for describing what’s going on inside the NIH. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

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#sociology

I love this quote.

Healthcare Workers Must Continue Alex Pretti’s Fight Pretti was one of us. We have to carry on his struggle.

Alex Pretti wasn't the first healthcare worker on the front lines against authoritarianism. We have a proud history in public health, from Brazil in the 70s and 80s, to Minneapolis now; we understand how fascists in more ways than one are hazardous to your health. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What is this wild show called?!

I can cover social determinants of health related topics for social science (eg medical sociology), public health, medicine, nursing, other health professions. Also qualitative research methods.

Press Release | January 13, 2026 Today, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Democracy Defenders Fund, and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller filed a motion to intervene in EEOC v. The University of Pennsylvania on behalf of five organ...

BREAKING : DDF & @aclupa.org are intervening to block an EEOC demand that UPenn disclose Jewish students’ and faculty members’ identities, a move that violates the First Amendment.

READ HERE:

Here's what the merchants of hate and fear will never understand Care, unlike terror, is a renewable resource

"Our care will sound like a protest chant, feel like an embrace, and taste like a potluck" ~ @garrettbucks.bsky.social

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The Cost of Staying Human Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

NIH director says DEI-related grants that were restored under a court order won’t be renewed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a podcaster that DEI-related grants restored under a court order won't be renewed in 2026

Director Bhattacharya spending more time on podcasts, this time taking about not renewing grants NIH was forced to restore.

Good reporting from @aniloza.bsky.social

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Healthcare Stories - Take Action Medical Education is Changing The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is proposing changes to Standard 7 that would remove structural competency requirements from medical school curricula. W...

Proposed changes to US medical school curricula would remove requirements around structural competency (understanding & addressing social & structural determinants of health). Anyone can comment by Wednesday 1/7 to keep current curriculum standards: details at
www.healthcarestories.org/take-action

Proud to be a very very tiny part of this big effort to keep University of California research funded

N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

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ICYMI: Did you know that Long COVID Justice and The Sick Times worked together to create a series of 30+ resource sheets about Long COVID and associated diseases (LCAC)?
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@longcovidjustice.org‬ x @thesicktimes.bsky.social

Check out our Long COVID Essential series: www.tiny.cc/LCE

This is horrible news. This program is a huge success, identifies brilliant scholars and gives them a transitional landing place that can help them land a tenure track job in the system. It’s a win for students, their programs, and all the schools in the system. Why end it?

Thank you! Great to see @nytimes.com memorializing more women but they often do it this way

From coast to coast, we’re protecting immigrant communities through #SanctuaryHomes trainings and practical resources for domestic employers standing in solidarity with the workers they employ, and in their communities. 🧵 1/4
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Our message to Congress: We demand a world where everyone has the care and support they need to thrive and survive— healthcare, home care, reproductive care, childcare. It’s time for the government to invest in the care people need, and stop putting profits over people.

Our message to Congress: We demand a world where everyone has the care and support they need to thrive and survive— healthcare, home care, reproductive care, childcare. It’s time for the government to invest in the care people need, and stop putting profits over people. #CareNotCuts #EndTheShutdown

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Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge is 'inclined' to order Trump to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants A San Francisco-based U.S. district judge, Rita F. Lin, said she was "inclined" to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA that the gover...

NEW: A federal judge said today that she’s “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA grants, the bulk of the remaining grant suspensions at the Westwood campus: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

New Mexico Will Be the First State to Make Childcare Free New Mexico Will Be the First State to Make Childcare Free. The move is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually.

“It is so timely and it answers so many needs”

On the good news front: New Mexico is making #UniversalChildcare a reality in November 👏

Let’s not stop there, let’s make that happen EVERYWHERE U.S. 💪 #CareCantWait

From @msmagazine.com 👇 msmagazine.com/2025/09/12/n...

Yes! Working on this with @domesticemployers.bsky.social

Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.

Bless the whistleblowers at NIH and everywhere. We have a lot to do www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

New Study to Explore Midwives Unionizing for Better Care UCSF research faculty Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD, and research associate Jessica M. Harrison, PhD, have been awarded a Mount Zion Health Fund grant to launch a pilot study on the growing movement tow...

Excited to be doing research with midwives who are unionizing with @jessicamharrison.bsky.social and team. keep us informed about midwives doing labor organizing! osher.ucsf.edu/news/new-stu...