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Huiwen Xu, PhD

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Associate Professor (tenured) and Health Services Researcher @Emory. PhD from University of Rochester. Funded by NIA. #Aging #Longtermcare #HSR #AI Personal Website: aginglab.us Emory website: https://www.nursing.emory.edu/faculty-staff/huiwen-xu

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · Jun 18

I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student for Fall 2026 at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing to work on NIH-funded nursing home projects. Please email your CV and a short letter to: [email protected]. Please share the opportunity!

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Emory University hiring Doctoral Student in Atlanta, GA | LinkedIn

Posted 3:12:40 AM. Company DescriptionEmory University is a top research university located in Atlanta, Georgia…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 5d

[Tenured!] I am beyond grateful to share that Emory Board of Trustees has approved my Tenure in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University!

Now, let me continue my dedication to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Cheers! 🍾

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 5d

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Modeling suggests if the U.S. sustained a 1/3 reduction in foreign STEM graduates, it could see a loss of $22-43.9 billion per year off the U.S. GDP growth in the first year alone.

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 5d

Assemble iPhones, lol

Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 5d

public pressure works...

Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 6d

This is bad...NIA did not publish its payline for FY25, lol

Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 7d

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A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence

The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 10d

🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains

A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#SciComm #Inequality 🧪

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 9d

I felt NIA just gave the funds to a few large center grants, and substantially reduced number of R01s.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10d

Here is NIA.

NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Empathy + Action = A Better World

Thank you, Jane Goodall

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for sharing this! very informativ!

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 10d

Please read. #NIH #shutdown

NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12d

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.

Gift link.

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Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article)

As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 16d

"the benefits of NIH research in general are wide and diffuse. A very large number of advances—roughly one in two during the 21st century—are linked to NIH grants that are cut in our counterfactual scenario."

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 16d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 17d

A new report shows the ‘astounding’ impact of immigration on the Philadelphia region. The Welcoming Center nonprofit commissioned the report in partnership with WHYY using U.S. Census data.

🔗 inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16d

Curse of private equity.

After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals.

PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits.

People killed for profit.

Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds

The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16d

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.

That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 17d

"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

South Koreans Describe Fear and Anger After Georgia ICE Raid

Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the United States under murky circumstances, they had always planned to return home.

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Mark Hayward @mdhayward.bsky.social · 18d

New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪
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How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education? | Demography | Duke University Press

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CNN @cnn.com · 23d

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25d

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident

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Huiwen Xu, PhD @drxu.bsky.social · 26d

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China’s 100% Tariffs SHATTER U.S. Farm Exports – Billions Lost Overnight!

YouTube video by Capital Briefs

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 26d

Reducing access to abortions ...

- increases families' economic hardship,
- increases families' debt,
- increases income inequality,
- increases housing insecurity, and
- increases financially motivated crime rates.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 27d

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret on Sunday over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia and said those who returned home will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US

US Official Offers Regrets Over Detention of South Koreans

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc.com · 27d

Foreign firms weighing U.S., Georgia projects chilled by Hyundai ICE raid

The raid puts into conflict President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration and re-shoring of manufacturing jobs by using tariffs as a cudgel to prompt foreign investment.

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