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Adam Perzynski
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writer, professor, business owner; sociology, gerontology, medicine, research methods, population health

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 13
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · Apr 22
DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰

CALL FOR EDITORS
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (LLCS) Journal

1. Associate Editor (Health & Population Sciences)
2. Associate Editor (Statistical Sciences & Methodology)
3. Study Profiles Editor

Deadline for applications: 30.04.25

www.slls.org.uk/pages/opport...

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · Apr 8
Hamburg researchers scanned 44 Long COVID patients and found severe shrinkage in key brainstem-cerebellum bridges.

These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brainstem Reduction and Deformation in the 4th Ventricle Cerebellar Peduncles in Long COVID Patients: Insights into Neuroinflammatory Sequelae and "Broken Bridge Syndrome"
Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS), also known as Long COVID, is characterized by persistent and often debilitating neurological sequelae, including fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, motor deficits, and autonomi...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Apr 8
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state

in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
www.nytimes.com
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Apr 5
Users of the tigris / tidycensus #rstats packages:

The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday.

(Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!)

I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and everything should work.
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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Mar 29
This AI generated forest is really not keeping up with what real trees can do for me yet.

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · Mar 27
The photo at the right is actually the more hopeful one, because it was taken after liberation.
Screengrab of a selfie video recorded by US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, in front of barracks in CECOT, a forced-labor prison in El Salvador, from which the country's totalitarian president has promised no one will ever be freed, and to which the Trump administration has deported Venezuelan refugees who had been granted asylum by the United States. "Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high, in a barracks in the Buchenwald concentration camp." Photograph by Donald R. Ornitz, 23 April 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mary Dickinson. https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/pa11068 Presented here by me as fair use, without consultation with anyone at the Museum.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 21
Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig
www.theguardian.com
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · Mar 19
Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov. Mike DeWine.
Ohio Republican lawmakers reject proposed cigarette tax increase to pay for child tax credit • Ohio Capital Journal
Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov.…
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Mar 15
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · Mar 15
Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Mar 14
Take it from people inside #NIH:

If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead.

Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪
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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Mar 10
Weather improves I'm paddling this route in my kayak.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Mar 2
This is a lie. Social Security is even more efficient than the private sector. It's a political tool they're wielding to destroy Social Security. "Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...
The reality is that ‘fraud’ is almost non-existent in Social Security. An examination of data from 2015 to 2021 shows that after accounting for overpayments and underpayments, and the recovery of overpayments, the loss rate is around .001%. As a point of comparison, the 2021 average retail shrink in the private sector, due to administrative errors, vendor fraud, shoplifting, and return fraud, was 1.44%.
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Feb 24
This Wednesday at 12pm ET, I'll be giving a FREE 3-hour webinar on "Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in #rstats"

Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl!

Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Feb 23
This is a war on science, an illegal attack on functioning government, and it is racism. Real students, current and future research professionals -- working on the pressing issues of the day, for government and society -- which any functioning modern democracy needs, having their careers cut off.
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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · Feb 22
I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short.

www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...
Press Release | Press Office | SSA
2025 Press Releases
www.ssa.gov
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Feb 15
“The president has completely stopped funding for research that discovers cures for diseases that devastate families across the country, like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, all so he can give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations… crushing families’ hopes and dreams of having cures.”
NIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 Billion
After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases.
www.nytimes.com
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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · Feb 12
98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Feb 12
Less than two hours until the deadline and all of these pages are still down:
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
Removal of pages from CDC website brings confusion, dismay
www.cidrap.umn.edu
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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Feb 11
So excited to read this!
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Feb 11
JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Feb 11
This is the way.
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CK Craven @ckcraven.bsky.social · Feb 11
The attorneys general for Iowa, Missouri & all other state, red or blue, that did not join the lawsuit filed by 22 AGs this morning to stop the chopping of NIH funds, need to join the suit *now*. Because a judge temporarily halted the cuts. Rally all to call state AG! Demand to join the lawsuit

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CK Craven @ckcraven.bsky.social · Feb 11
The attorneys general for Iowa, Missouri & all other state, red or blue, that did not join the lawsuit filed by 22 AGs this morning to stop the chopping of NIH funds, need to join the suit *now*. Because a judge temporarily halted the cuts. Rally all to call state AG! Demand to join the lawsuit
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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Feb 10
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 8
US military budget: $850 billion

US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion

That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · Feb 8
Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 7
🚨RED ALERT for 🧪:

The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities.

“Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮

Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky
Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-068 Key Dates Release Date: February 7, 2025 Related Announcements None Issued by Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD) Purpose
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