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American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) @amergastroassn.bsky.social · Sep 25

Welcome to #AGAAdvocacy Day 2025! We’re excited to have our largest crowd ever in D.C. this year! Government Affairs Chair @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social is kicking off our day’s agenda.

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · May 4

Starting soon @amergastroassn.bsky.social session on the evolving landscape in GI! Room 20A at 4pm 👇🏽
#DDW2025 @ddwmeeting.bsky.social

Lauren Feld, MD @laurenfeldmd.bsky.social · May 4

Interested in practical solutions for addressing gender and racial disparities in GI?

Come to the AGA Research Forum "The Evolving Landscape of Gastroenterology" *today* at 4pm in 20A

Excited to co-moderate with the wonderful Dr. @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social

#DDW2025 @amergastroassn.bsky.social

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · May 4

My approach to recharging:
🔸 morning exercise & music (alone)
🔸if I'm giving a talk that day, block off an hour (anytime) before
🔸treat alone-time like a meeting (don't be late 😉)

Any other #DDW2025 survival tips for introverts? Pls share 🙈 @ddwmeeting.bsky.social

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · May 4

Fellow introverts - ready for Day 2 #DDW2025 ?

How's everyone finding time to recharge? I'll go first 👇🏽

Hope to see you @amergastroassn.bsky.social Central 📍Sails Pavilion today!

#AGAGastroSquad
@ddwmeeting.bsky.social

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American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) @amergastroassn.bsky.social · May 3

Nothing like a blender bike battle! Bring your #AGAGastroSquad to AGA Central for a little friendly competition at #DDW2025. Bonus: you get a gut friendly smoothie 🥤 at the end! @issakamd.bsky.social

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · May 3

Anyone else feeling uncertain & concerned reading rapid changes to health care in the past 100 days?

Join us for an important conversation Monday noon at @amergastroassn.bsky.social Central to discuss potential impacts & how to take action 📢 (including an activity to contact your reps!) #DDW2025

American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) @amergastroassn.bsky.social · Apr 26

What lawmakers decide on Capitol Hill impacts you at home & in your lab or clinic.

Come to AGA Central during #DDW2025 for tips & resources from AGA advocates like @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social and @jessicakormanmd.bsky.social on how to fight for you & your patients!

📅 Monday, May 5, 12 p.m.

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American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) @amergastroassn.bsky.social · Apr 26

What lawmakers decide on Capitol Hill impacts you at home & in your lab or clinic.

Come to AGA Central during #DDW2025 for tips & resources from AGA advocates like @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social and @jessicakormanmd.bsky.social on how to fight for you & your patients!

📅 Monday, May 5, 12 p.m.

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Alison Kim @alisonkimphd.bsky.social · Mar 20

Congratulations 🎉 and thank you 🙏 to our guideline authors for all of their hard work on this document! Read the full guideline at @aga-gastro.bsky.social www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001... #GastroSky #GISky cc @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social @petersliang.bsky.social

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Mar 11

🙏🏽 to represent the AGA at the FightCRC rally

American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) @amergastroassn.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our government affairs committee chair @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social shares our vision at @fightcrc.bsky.social’s #UnitedInBlue rally: a world free of colorectal cancer.

We call on everyone to prioritize CRC screening and research funding to ensure a better future for all. 💪🏼💙

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 20

The AGA @amergastroassn.bsky.social wants to hear about how NIH cuts are impacting you!

Share your story here: surveymonkey.com/r/AGANIH

#AGAadvocacy

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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · Feb 11

Breaking: Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide, not just in certain states. My latest for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...

Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments

www.statnews.com

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Feb 11

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Feb 11

Interestingly these associations didn’t sue over the diversity funding being retracted.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 10

How to get 146% return on investment?
The NIH. That's just the economic benefit.
Biomedical research promotes human health.

the yield on NIH research for economic activity

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 8

NIH cuts aren't just a loss for "liberal woke" universities.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 8

15%.
In 2018, 10% was tried, but it was blocked by Congress.
www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/u...
www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH plan to reduce overhead payments draws fire

White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%

www.science.org

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 8

@drsmeena.bsky.social @helenburstinmd.medsky.social @amergastroassn.bsky.social @drfolamay.bsky.social @issakamd.bsky.social

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 8

These funds are used to support labs and staff and researchers- they're what make our work viable. This cut is a huge blow to science advancement.

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 8

This will have a crippling financial impact on academic institutions, increase unemployment, & stifle science

The $47B NIH budget generates ~$93B in economic activity/yr. Unparalleled 2.46-fold ROI. nearly every new drug has an origin in science funded by NIH incl pharma/biotch

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 4

If this is real, it seems intended to cause confusion, fear, and panic.

I maintain that we should not self-censor pre-emptively until things settle down and more is known (criteria to flag vs reject etc).

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Helen Burstin, MD, MPH @helenburstinmd.medsky.social · Feb 2

Important thread by @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social on the danger of using race as a biologic construct.

#MedSky - I asked her to join us from X. Please follow her for insights on science, evidence, and equity!

Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 2

Perpetuating the false notion that race is biologic is dangerous. We've sequenced the human genome & know there's more genetic variation within a racial category than amongst them. (1/3)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 30

ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant?

RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ...

ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 2

The AHRQ website went down for 24 hours and when it came back up, two of our reports were taken down (algorithms impacting disparities, and implicit bias training on patient safety outcomes). The censorship is real.

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 2

Differences in disease prevalence and treatment response by race are NOT *because of* race.
If trends showed people from NJ (like me!) had different responses would you treat them all differently or figure out why (social, economic, genetic factors). This line of reasoning is dangerous (3/3)

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 2

Race-based medicine is antiquated, deepens disparities and has limited applicability to our fastest growing group in the US- those with mixed racial & ethnic background. We cannot go backward. (2/3)

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Shazia Siddique @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social · Feb 2

Perpetuating the false notion that race is biologic is dangerous. We've sequenced the human genome & know there's more genetic variation within a racial category than amongst them. (1/3)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 30

ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant?

RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ...

ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?

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