Kathryn Macapagal

Don't start with 'sorry' - or anything that sounds like one

“Time for the dull bit”

“I won’t go on too long”

"I haven't really prepared anything"

. Instead, try these opening techniques.
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there is way more tea that hasn’t been spilled!!! I need a reunion part 2

I mean it’s efficient 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m obsessed with the work everyone has had done and all of Jordan’s reactions

I am dying just fyi

What?!?!? Omg the internet told me it was out tomorrow. I am going to finish my drink and go back to my hotel room stat

I hope nick shows up to the reunion 👀

You made me think that the reunion episode came out today. This season was a hot mess and I can’t wait

These public health researchers did not choose to be political activists; they were forced to be by a president and administration that despises expertise.

Don’t look away.

Look. Get mad. Take action.

A passionate plea that completely resonates with me.

"...Don’t you dare call me unpatriotic for refusing to worship corruption. Don’t you dare tell me that loving this country enough to fight for it makes me the enemy. That isn’t patriotism. That’s rot. That’s decay..."

SHOW OUT TO OUR COURT HEARING TO SUPPORT THE NU STUDENT'S CLASS ACTION MONDAY OCT. 20 2:00 PM COURTROOM: 1719 219 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60604 THE BUILDING IS ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF DEARBORN & JACKSON WE INVITE NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS, FACULTY, THE GREATER EVANSTON COMMUNITY, AND THE GREATER CHICAGO COMMUNITY TO COME TO THE HEARING! TO SHOW THAT WE ALL CARE ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND THAT THIS CASE AFFECTS US ALL! [HEARING ON PLAINTIFFS' PETITION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERI COURT ETIQUETTE • BRING YOUR ID • NO BANNERS OR DISRUPTIONS • DRESS NEUTRALLY • BE RESPECTFUL • BE ON TIME CASE INFO: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/FILEDCOMPLAINT

Folks I know there’s a lot going on, but if you’re free tmrw in Chicago plz support NU students been banned from classes for refusing to watch Israeli propaganda. Their lawyer (& mine), Rima Kapita, has filed an emergency order demanding the courts intervene. I filed an affidavit of support. 🙏🏾

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF STUDY TERMINATIONS As of July 2025, the National Institutes of Health has terminated approx- imately 4700 of the grants it awarded for scientific research, training, and infrastructure.1 Very little of the public discourse regarding the grant ter- minations has focused on their implications for research participants who were or would have been enrolled in the trials the grants supported. The terminated awards are linked to 200 active registered clinical trials, which had a total planned enrollment of more than 689 000 human subjects, approximately 20% of whom are infants, children, and adolescents.1 Nearly all the affected trials that included children and adolescents focused on stigmatized health issues (eg, HIV, substance use, depression), and/or persons with marginalized identities (eg, sexual and gender minor- ity; Black or African American and Latiné). Individuals with marginalized identities are underrepresented in clinical research,2 even when they are at greater risk for the illness under study. The issue of underrepresenta- tion in research is especially relevant for minor adolescents (those youn- ger than 18 years old) because of ethical and legal barriers to their participation. Barriers include concerns about minors’ capacity to consent, confidentiality of sensitive information (sexual behavior, substance use) when parental consent is required, and researcher and institutional con- cerns about liability when waivers of parental consent are granted for minors’ enrollment.3 As adolescent health researchers, we have each invested over a decade of work to address the complex ethical and legal issues that prevent ado- lescents from participating in research, especially on sensitive or stigma- tized health issues. Through meticulous efforts to engage and build trust with adolescents, parents or guardians, and regulatory personnel, we have enrolled thousands of adolescents in our studies...

Amelia Knopf, @karmacap.bsky.social and @knelphd.bsky.social write in Pediatrics about how the terminations of clinical trials of children and adolescents represent cracks in the foundation of ethical research, and the moral responsibility to repair them: doi.org/10.1542/peds...

mass grant terminations might be over for now, but their impact still harms people who were in the studies, including kids & teens. @knelphd.bsky.social @amyknopf.bsky.social and I wrote about ethical implications of abruptly ending studies for political reasons publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

ALRIGHT IF YOU HAVE JANE FONDA CONNECTIONS, YOU BETTER START YELLING IN MY DIRECTION.

(I've asked this before, but I had 10k fewer followers. Surely, someone knows someone who knows someone)

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Feds, get your eOPF stuff ready. Like now. Please respost. #fedstrong

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

United States academic landscape got you down? Apply to join my lab at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada!

I’m planning to accept a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Additional information:

https://www.uregina.ca/academics/programs/arts/master-phd-clinical-psychology.html

Fired By The Post The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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I looked a grants where the title was different between the original award and the noncompetitive renewal and limited the analysis to grants with no subawards so there was no ambiguity about what to compare.

There were 777 such grant pairs.

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We have our line-up for our 24-hour AIDS research livestream on September 16/17th: saveaidsresearch.org
Allison Agwu, MD, SCM • Ali Ahmed, PhD • Frederick Altice, MD • Annukka Antar, MD, PhD • Shashika Bandara, MSc • Katie Bar, MD • Joshua Barocas, MD • Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD, MPH 1/

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

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this longtime Mac user just now changed her default PDF app from preview to reader after spending uhh unnamed double digit amount of years getting unnecessarily upset with preview, trying to make it work like reader, and thinking "WHY ISN'T READER THE DEFAULT DAMMIT"