Carissa W Tomas, PhD

Social and environmental adversity predict poor mental health in a Milwaukee, WI community sample Racism functions as a system of continued devaluation, disempowerment, and inequitable allotment driven by racial hierarchy. Operating at multiple lev…

🚨 NEW PUB ALERT 🚨 In a community sample of Black Milwaukeeans, PTSD, depression, and anxiety are predicted by the interconnectedness of individual, social, neighborhood, and community factors. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Keep calm and trust science, Wisconsin! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead

Preliminary injunction in nationwide indirect cost rate case.

This means that the judge found that the plaintiffs (AAMC, et al.) are likely to win on the merits when the ruling is finalized.

www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

I'm very happy that we at @nature.com published this editorial denouncing Trump's assault on science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Texas announces first death in measles outbreak The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting the first death from measles in the ongoing outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions. The school-aged child who was not vaccinated was hospitalized in Lubbock last week and tested positive for measles. As of Feb. 25, 124 cases of measles have been confirmed in the outbreak since late January. Most of the cases are in children. Eighteen people have been hospitalized over the course of the outbreak.

Texas measles outbreak update: 124 cases, 18 hospitalized, & now the first death of a child, who was not vaccinated.

Tragic, preventable, & a direct consequence of the deadly lies spread by anti-vaxx grifters, one of whom is now the most powerful health official in the US.

Never heard of Matthew Memoli?

Until recently, I hadn't either.

But he's the acting director behind the ongoing illegal shutdown at NIH. This Atlantic story gets into the weeds to explain why everything is still jammed up.

Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending

Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...

"AI summaries do very little to help us learn how to listen. Skim and speed-read, no physical discomfort of sitting through a tedious conversation... the summary of the meeting so you don’t have to go, and in the process, you don’t have to engage with the mess that is a bigger set of relations."

Thanks to a generous sponsorship from Teacher's College at Columbia University, #SAVIR2025 short courses are now at a substantial discount! Rate is only $75 for professionals and $25 for students. Join us for 3.5 hours of skill-based learning on 4/6. https://buff.ly/3MJ17Sp

UW–Madison responds to NIH announcement about indirect cost cap The following statement is in response to the federal directive issued on February 7, 2025 to change the Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate for all existing and ongoing new National Institutes o...

UW-Madison on proposed NIH indirect cost cap: “This proposed change to NIH funding–UW–Madison’s largest source of federal support–will significantly disrupt vital research activity and delay lifesaving discoveries and cures related to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and much more.” 1/x

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.

Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.

Say equity, which a just society should pursue.

Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NEW: I am asking the Trump Administration to immediately reconsider actions aimed at unilaterally forcing all federal agencies to stop nearly all federal assistance and grant and loan funding that support kids, families, and communities in Wisconsin and across our country.

Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants

The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation: bit.ly/4gq9i2I

Proud to contribute to the latest special issue in the Wisconsin Medical Journal on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read our paper out now "A Milwaukee Syndemic? Penetrative Injury and COVID-19"

wmjonline.org/122no5/

Some of our ur work cited by media in the context of yet another tragedy… #itstheguns www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...

So many great discussions, questions, and words on encouragement today at #APHA2023! Proud to contribute to the firearm research field in this community with the CIC at MCW!

Excited to be in Atlanta again for #APHA2023! Come find me tomorrow morning in the 3074.0 Firearm Violence Poster Session presenting my recent brief report linked here 👉🏼 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to share my KL2 work with the Comprehensive Injury Center representing the Medical College of WI and the CTSI of SE WI this year at the #2023FallCTSAmtg #CTSAProgram @ncats_nih_gov @CCOS_CTSA

Had the best time team building with the best data team out there #CIC at #MCW.

Hi 👋🏻 PhD in neuroscience now Asst Prof in an Epi dept. Researching mental health outcomes of traumatic injury and contextual factors of injury and violence! Also love all things data science 🤓