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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 19h

THIS WEEKEND! Join us for No Kings Day nationwide, across 50 states, in DC and Puerto Rico, and internationally! We're standing up for science and democracy, and in solidarity with fired federal workers.

#standupforscience #nokingsday

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

Who is Russell Vought cutting at our health agencies? The data people. The scientists. The comms people.

Project 2025 is a war on truth.
We are fighting an information war.

Sources of reliable truth are who they are after.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3d

More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 2d

"The Trump administration ended the annual U.S. Department of Agriculture survey on food insecurity, just in time for Republicans’ cuts to SNAP to take effect."

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 2d

No surprises here - removed or altered data sets include health data, and other data related to climate change, air pollution, etc., which enable threats to health and wellbeing and health inequities to be tracked and intervened upon.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 2d

Make an effect size prediction!

@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)

Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to add another important debugging tactic:

Sometimes *your brain* just needs to be turned off and turned back on again.

If I stop troubleshooting for the day and go get some sleep, >90% of the time the bug is blatantly obvious when I return in the morning.

a man is talking on a phone and saying " hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again ? "

ALT: a man is talking on a phone and saying " hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again ? "

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 3d

🎃 This Halloween, the real horror? A future without trusted public health agencies. When the CDC and science are under attack, even the skeletons start protesting.

Trust science 🔬,
not scare ☠️ tactics.

Share your Halloween decorations with us.

halloween decoration skeleton holding a sign that states "save the CDC"

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 3d

How about a 2×2 design?
(4 words + 4 numbers)

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 4d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 4d

I'm pinning this here so that I remember it.
"The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d

Happy pride, Atlanta!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 5d

Even though English is my one & only language. #ADHD

Speaking/writing, for me, is often like when you're loading a Power Point presentation & some of the image files won't load, or the text is corrupted into identical squares because the computer forgot where that particular font is stored.

Fay Anne Aura Arts @fayanora.bsky.social · 5d

My #ADHD #memory issues mean sometimes I sound like #English is my 2nd language, cuz I use the wrong word for something cuz the one I need is hiding, or I'll say something like "the thing with the four pokey thingies," even though the word "fork" is in my permanent memory, & has been since I was 3.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 7d

@cosetterhoads.bsky.social

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 7d

Trainees also received travel awards via Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience in cooperation with International Brain Research Organization @ibroorg.bsky.social . ❤️

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 7d

This work was supported by the Hope for Depression Research Foundation, Grinnell College Center for Careers, Life, and Service, Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Foundation, and *federal science funding* from The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). ❤️

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 7d

Link to the paper:
doi.org/10.1111/jsr....

<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library

How does sleep deprivation affect the brain? We performed a meta-analysis of publicly available transcriptional profiling datasets characterising the effects of sleep deprivation on cortical gene exp...

doi.org

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 7d

Link to the paper:
doi.org/10.1111/jsr....

<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library

How does sleep deprivation affect the brain? We performed a meta-analysis of publicly available transcriptional profiling datasets characterising the effects of sleep deprivation on cortical gene exp...

doi.org

Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 7d

🧠 🧬 Our paper "A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Rodent Models" is now out in the Journal of Sleep Research! Very exciting.

Congratulations to all involved! 🎉
@cosetterhoads.bsky.social @huda-akil.bsky.social @ummni.bsky.social

cosetterhoads.bsky.social @cosetterhoads.bsky.social · 7d

I’m excited to announce that my (first first-authored!) paper is live!

So grateful to @mhagenauer.bsky.social for her mentorship and guidance, to JSleepResearch for their fantastic reviewers, to Grinnell College’s summer internship funding, and of course to all my co-authors!

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 9d

🧠🦠 Link to paper:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Virus exposure and neurodegenerative disease risk across national biobanks

We identified 45 viral exposures significantly associated with increased risk of neurodegenerative disease and replicated 22 of these associations, including the association between the Epstein-Barr v...

www.cell.com

Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 9d

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"People treated for a type of inflammation of the brain called viral encephalitis were 31 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease"

www.sciencealert.com/a-study-of-5...

A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Linked Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again

A study of around 500,000 medical records published in 2023 suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ...

www.sciencealert.com

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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social · 9d

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19 percent this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August (Gift Article)

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 15d

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?

Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)

#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 15d

I would love to see this, but the time slot for the lecture is in the middle of the night where I'm located. Will it be recorded?

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 16d

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