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Marya Gwadz, PhD (she/her)
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HIV, COVID, health equity intervention research; Professor & Associate Dean for Research @ NYU Silver School of Social Work; mother; partner; rescue dog owner; FREE PALESTINE; ** no longer effectuates agency priorities **
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This is concerning.

NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).

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November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Trump: Do you consider yourself a leader of the Democrats?

Mamdani: I consider myself the next mayor of New York City
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I am LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY at this meeting! Republican campaign consultants built their entire midterm strategy around making Mamdani into the devil incarnate and the face of Democratic Party, then Trump slobbers all over him today in the Oval!
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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A provocative bestseller wins the National Book Award for nonfiction www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
A provocative bestseller wins the National Book Award for nonfiction
Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering in Gaza.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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“NIH fully expects recipients to comply with the new terms and conditions, unless otherwise stated in the Notice of Award, or unless NIH has been enjoined by court order from imposing or enforcing such terms while that court order is in effect. “

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-007: Reminder of Compliance Requirements for NIH Extramural Recipients Related to Renegotiated Aims, Objectives, Titles, and Abstracts
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Reminder of Compliance Requirements for NIH Extramural Recipients Related to Renegotiated Aims, Objectives, Titles, and...
grants.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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📽️ Jeremy Scahill On The Gaza Vote: “Extraordinarily Dark Moment In The History Of The United Nations.”

Scahill says the new UN resolution gives an “international stamp of legitimacy” to the U.S.–Israeli plan to privatize and occupy Gaza. The UN now “endorses Israel’s war of subjugation and...
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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61% of people diagnosed with HIV at 56 Dean Street in London last year had previously used PrEP but stopped.
New European data shows scale of PrEP challenges in access, uptake and maintenance.
Huge disparities in PrEP uptake across Europe – injectable PrEP largely inaccessible
While 41% of HIV-negative people from sexual and gender minorities in the UK are taking PrEP, figures drop to below 15% in most of the Balkans and eastern Europe, according to results from the Europea...
www.aidsmap.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Larry Summers has learned his lesson.

by Susan Collins
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Breaking News: Larry Summers said he was “deeply ashamed” about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and would step back from public commitments, but continue teaching.
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails
New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Sex pest : i am retiring from public life

public : good fuck off

sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions

public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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POTUS tells a woman to shut up by snapping "Quiet, Piggy."

Strike up the band for another rousing chorus of our theme song:

🎵MAGA is a war of men against women
And Donald Trump is its Generalissimo🎵
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I posted yesterday about the shift to triaging 70% of NIH applications rather than 50%.

This is apparently just a temporary step to catch up for all of the study section meetings cancelled due to the government shutdown.

I hope NIH will collect some data to track the impacts of this change.
a woman wearing a beanie says this is a temporary fix netflix
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media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Here in Australia 🇦🇺
Over 35% of all houses are using Solar Panels! Plus all new housing developments are made compulsory Solar homes.

Why because the Government has embraced it and subsidized the change over!

Which only cost us about $2000 US that we paid off over 4 years! 👍😎
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November 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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This seems like a big deal. A chance to get one more proposal in the hopper for …when?

“we will be rescheduling all October and November grant application submission deadlines (specific dates to be announced in a future Notice). “
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Have questions about application submissions and missed peer review meetings due to the shutdown??? Check out this notice.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
uh not cool - a lot of us collaborate with people all over the world. NYU has a campus in China.
This would have broad impact, one presumes.

www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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ok, ok, we might as well get started. rumor is that study sections will Not Discuss ~70% of applications rather than the usual ~half.

Given how long it has been (20 years?) since anything with a 30th percentile is within reasonable discussion room of funding, I am not sure this has much impact.
Not sure if you saw someone say that triage is going to 70% for next two cycles supposedly?
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I went to Bosnia last summer and witnessed the ongoing, unresolved trauma among the Bosnian people and the fact that many structures are not rebuilt. The idea that someone would want to shoot at people, trapped in a city in a valley, no words
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The NIH passed three major #NIHGrant submission deadlines during the shutdown with a fourth hitting on Monday. There is a huge backlog of proposals needing to be referred to study sections and ICs for potential funding.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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DSA member Zohran Mamdani was just elected mayor of NYC—the biggest socialist electoral victory in a century! Our movement is winning & growing across the country, w DSA now at 86,000 members. 📈🌹

Join us TODAY to talk abt what’s next, w/ electeds, union organizers, & more!
go.dsausa.org/WIN
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Live look at NIH SROs today….
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November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Very cool - conference on AI and poverty research and policy @nyusilver.bsky.social @nyumcsilver.bsky.social - starting now !
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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In the U.S., Medicare for All would save the country $450 billion and, more importantly, 68,000 lives annually.

M4ALL: the only moral means to provide health care.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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CLIMATE TROLLS: "Yeah, what about China?"
ME: "Yeah, what about the U.S.?"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM