Sylvie

Tallahassee FL

If House Republican Medicaid and ACA cuts pass, and enhanced ACA premium tax credits aren't extended, the state with the biggest increase in the number of people uninsured: Florida.

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The consolidation of review at NIH is really driven by the Trump/Republican desire to control NIH grantmaking from the top.

Here’s an example of the chaos that’s happening now. It will get worse unless CSR and review are walled off from political interference.

Conversion Therapy Exposure and Elevated Cardiovascular Disease Risk This cohort study assesses whether exposure to sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts is associated with cardiovascular disease risk in sexual and gender minority young adults assigned ...

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging local and state laws banning so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ youth. Our new study in
@JAMANetworkOpen
is first to show these discredited practices increase risk for later heart disease. Free article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Opinion | Did One of My Students Hate Me Enough to Lie to Get Me in Trouble?

U of Florida professor pens NYT piece on what it's like to teach under DeSantis' censorship law:

"For those who think that professors are the enemy, I invite you to spend some time in our classrooms. You might discover that we are, in the end, all on the same side."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health (Gift Article) Nearly half of the N.I.H. grants canceled through early May — together worth more than $800 million — addressed the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...

Tallahassee May Day Strong · May Day Strong Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...

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‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

How do you grieve this depth of loss? Read more from Rebecca about her work in #HIVresearch and the impact of life-saving developments born out of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network: bit.ly/RGsubstack
#terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIV #research #publichealth #HIVprevention #womenshealth

Termination is not always the end Maybe it is an inflection, but the work continues.

New in the Academic Activist:
The determination of health researchers isn’t just scientific—it’s deeply human. It’s about hope, healing, and never settling until we all have a chance at healthier lives. #AcademicActivist #CommunityHealthSciences

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We had the pleasure of having our newest postdoc scholar, Dr. Amy Hall, visit CTBS and attend FSU College of Medicine Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine BSSM Post Doc Research Day. 😊

Thank you Dr. Ennis and Michelle Childs, for organizing a successful program for our Postdocs!! 👏

You can't make America healthy again if you leave youth behind. Share this post - together, we can make sure the ATN’s life-saving work continues.
#restoretheATN #NIH #MAHA #makeamericahealthyagain

The ATN was the only national #research network focused exclusively on adolescents & young adults living with or at risk for #HIV in the US, until it was terminated by NIH on 3/21. Hear Dr. Sylvie Naar's crucial insights about the ATN's breakthroughs beyond HIV prevention & care. #terminatedscience

Hands Off at the Florida Capital.

How Creative Pursuits Can Quiet the Noise of Stress Creative hobbies reduce stress by giving you a sense of mastery and pleasure while silencing mind noise, but a broader look at your life may be needed to achieve total well-being.

To protect our mental health, we all need a break from doomscrolling, but what should we do instead?

In my new Psychology Today piece I share the science behind how creative pursuits quiet the noise of stress and can even help with depression.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shri...

Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.

In the past month, the NIH terminated many ISGMH grants focused on HIV prevention, LGBTQ health, and training early career scholars. The effect on our institute has been devastating.

Director @mustanski.bsky.social spoke to @nbcnews.com about the impact. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.

This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

120 scientist working together to study how to effectively implement programs to end the HIV epidemic! That’s epic!

Over 1,900 researchers describe 'assault' on science by White House: 'We see real danger' Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to the Trump administration calling for a stop to the “assault” on science.

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Big cuts to US AIDS prevention feared as NIH axes HIV research grants More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS have been abruptly terminated in the past few weeks.

“We’ve built the ATN over 25 years,” says Lisa Hightow-Weidman at Florida State University’s College of Nursing, one of the network’s main investigators. “And it was destroyed with an e-mail in a day.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #HIVresearch #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIV

On 3/21, the HAPPY study, along with all other studies in the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions was suddenly and mistakenly terminated by NIH.

#terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIVresearch #research #HIVprevention #reproductivehealth #pregnancy #womenshealth #NIH

It was great!

The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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HIV prevention efforts are being defunded at CDC. Check out this infographic on how this will impact the US epidemic by 2030 in terms of new infections, deaths, and costs.

Costs will spiral when infections rise bc annual cost of treatment for HIV is $420K/patient.

www.amfar.org/news/cuts-to...

We are standing for a generation of American youth who deserve care, support, and the promise of a healthier future. While we appeal the termination decision, help us spread the message that ATN #research is vital.
#HIV #HIVresearch #HIVprevention #HIVcare #adolescenthealth #NIH #grants

CTBScience at #SBM2025 Society of Behavioral Medicine Exhibit Hall Sessions. Brenda Echeverri and Sara Shaw Green, MSW, are promoting CTBS initiatives, including the ORBIT Institute and the FSU College of Medicine Postdoctoral opportunity.

More info: ctbs.fsu.edu

"A study funded by #NIH that would test if an #antibiotic, #DoxyPEP, can prevent sexually transmitted infections in #women was been terminated by the Trump administration as part of its ongoing attempt to halt what it considers 'diversity, equity and inclusion' in scientific #research."

We are meeting at the bar at 5-530 tonight say hi!

I am horrified though not shocked to say that our NIH r01 grant to improve the HIV testing of young people across florida has been terminated. This further marginalization of stigmatized populations is a human rights violation.