Emily Ansell
ebansell.bsky.social
Emily Ansell
@ebansell.bsky.social
Researching the complex interplay of stress, health behaviors and addiction. PI of REPEATlab at PSU. All views are my own. she/her 🏳️‍🌈
Can we just be explicit about what universities are doing that is irritating the M@g@ followers so much:

We are “blatantly indoctrinating students” in the use of scientific findings to support their rationale and shape their thought process.
September 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Remember when Mufasa was ruling the pridelands and everything was amazing and happy and then Scar took over and immediately turned it into a wasteland where everyone was poor and starving?

Just wondering...
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Maybe the federal government should try holding themselves to the same standards that they hold grant recipients to…🤔
July 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I can’t help thinking that if the president were a woman, the judiciary wouldn’t be quite so fond of deference to the executive.
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Jay, please stop gaslighting early career researchers.
June 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I do not believe
in the four horsemen,
but I confess
at this moment
all I can hear
are approaching hooves.
June 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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This... 👇
After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young:

"This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."
June 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Stay tuned. More to come.

Judge Young ruled narrowly today since he did not have time to justify broader rulings. But I don't think he has any uncertainty about where the law and justice fall on these cases.
This is incredible! But what does it mean for us that had NIH grants terminated? What about red states?
Judge Young was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here he excoriates the Trump Administration's termination of grants at NIH. This is just the start of a process. But it is ground-breaking and good news for today.
June 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young:

"This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."
June 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Sad that you missed out on #SAA2025 or unsure if you will be able to travel to Vienna for #SAA2026? We will offer an online participation option that will allow you to present live (in oral sessions) and interact with on-site participants in the sessions.
#HPGVienna is so excited to host @ambulatory-assessment.org #SAA2026 conference in Vienna @univie.ac.at next year!
📆 Save the date: 3 to 6 August 2026
Save the date: #SAA2026 will take place on 3-5 August 226 in Vienna 🇦🇹. We will be hosted by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @alearuf.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
May 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Save the date: #SAA2026 will take place on 3-5 August 226 in Vienna 🇦🇹. We will be hosted by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @alearuf.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
May 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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For all public figures with a platform — this is how it’s done:
Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back
May 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Over 500k veterans and 2½︎ million senior citizens rely on Meals on Wheels.

The program costs around $3.7M and comes from taxpayer’s money.

His $92M North Korean style military vanity birthday parade could fund Meals on Wheels for nearly 30 years.
May 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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My quote of the dy

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill
April 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Wtaf.
From WH pool: Trump is considering tariffs on pharmaceuticals
April 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
In short, if you had to choose between saving lives and improving human life or locking people up because they don’t look like you, the administration has chosen the torture and degrade option.
Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔
ICE is seeking $45 billion to expand immigrant detention. If approved, it could amount to a sixfold increase in spending for migrant detention.
April 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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So anyway, this idea that chromosomes and hormones match to a body that is the right body for a specific sports category is deeply unhinged and wildly disconnected from the fact that there is wide genetic diversity within assigned genders and trans girls do not magically uniquely have any advantages
April 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This is a moral moment. It is not left or right, it is right or wrong.
April 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The Trump regime has spent $40 MILLION to house 400 migrants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in its first month. Currently there are only 105 there. Talk about wasteful spending!
March 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
THIS.
Best summary of what this DEI agenda is really about.
Talked with @andersoncooper360.bsky.social about what is, and what IS NOT, DEI. And what Trump & his confederates are trying to accomplish with erasing the accomplishments of non-white people, women and LGBTQ people.
March 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM