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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Sep 2

Study (N=1,400) finds female sponsors balance their own career interests w/ their protégés' interests. Men tend to focus more on how providing sponsorship benefits their own careers. This was especially true of men more senior in their role.
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Are Men More Selfish Sponsors? Gender Differences in Workplace Advocacy Explained

In many competitive industries, sponsorship is often seen as a key driver of career advancement. A new study from UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management reveals that men and women take distinctly di...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Sep 2

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: nyer.cm/NdcdPTJ

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 4

“To the scientists wondering if there will even be an NIH by the end of this administration, this committee’s resounding message is: ‘Yes, Congress has your back’,” said @murray.senate.gov

We’re not near the finish line yet - but this is a strong step in the right direction.

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‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget

Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law. Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.

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Hannes Jansson @hannesjsson.bsky.social · Jul 31

#MedSky

Julie Ann Sosa, MD MA @jasosamd.bsky.social · Jul 15

Paid sick leave mandates were associated w/ ➕ use of PCP, specialist, diagnostic & preventive care services, highlighting the role for policies enhancing workplace flexibility to improve access to health care. #MedSky @ucsfsurgery.bsky.social @mikepesko.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Health care utilization following the adoption of U.S. paid sick leave mandates: a cohort study using health insurance claims data

PSL mandates were associated with greater use of PCP, specialist, diagnostic, and preventive care services. These findings highlight the role for policies that enhance workplace flexibility, including...

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Julie Ann Sosa, MD MA @jasosamd.bsky.social · Jul 15

Paid sick leave mandates were associated w/ ➕ use of PCP, specialist, diagnostic & preventive care services, highlighting the role for policies enhancing workplace flexibility to improve access to health care. #MedSky @ucsfsurgery.bsky.social @mikepesko.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Health care utilization following the adoption of U.S. paid sick leave mandates: a cohort study using health insurance claims data

PSL mandates were associated with greater use of PCP, specialist, diagnostic, and preventive care services. These findings highlight the role for policies that enhance workplace flexibility, including...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 9

The dismantling of the National Cancer Institute and the FDA
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Michael Pesko @mikepesko.bsky.social · Jul 8

New paper alert! We use claims data to find that paid sick leave mandates in the USA increased a wide array of different healthcare visits, particularly for individuals in industries with low PSL coverage historically, and along the extensive margin of any visit.

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Health care utilization following the adoption of U.S. paid sick leave mandates: a cohort study using health insurance claims data

The U.S. is one of the only developed countries in the world without a federal requirement that employers provide paid sick leave (PSL) to workers. We…

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Jun 29

Like other universities, Stanford has been hit by the Trump administration’s cutting of federal research funding.

Stanford cuts $140 million, warns of layoffs as research funding dries up, endowment tax looms

Like other universities, Stanford has been hit by the Trump administration’s cutting of federal research funding.

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Jun 28

A guide to all the Michelin starred restaurants in the Bay Area

All the Michelin-starred restaurants in the Bay Area

A guide to all the Michelin starred restaurants in the Bay Area

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 27

The Trump administration has ended several U.S. science agencies’ subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, including the prestigious Nature titles. scim.ag/3I2aJJ4

Trump cuts subscriptions to Springer Nature journals

Other publishers appear unscathed in recent actions

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JAMA @jama.com · Jun 27

"Dismantling this system without ensuring that its functions are safeguarded will cost lives." This Viewpoint discusses the potential risks of the proposed overhaul of the US Department of Health and Human Services. https://ja.ma/4l7oHrb

Health and Human Services Restructuring—Threats to the US Preventive Services Task Force and Health

This Viewpoint discusses restructuring of the USPSTF while ensuring that its functions are safeguarded to avoid destabilizing vital public health infrastructure.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 25

Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal.
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Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants

After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jun 24

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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STAT @statnews.com · Jun 22

The Trump administration’s gutting of global aid is threatening to collapse a critical network of laboratories responsible for measles and rubella surveillance around the world. Now, philanthropic leaders are rushing to try to save it.
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Philanthropies rush to save measles surveillance network pushed to brink of collapse by U.S. cuts

The Trump administration’s gutting of global aid is threatening to collapse a network of laboratories responsible for global measles and rubella surveillance

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jun 19

The suicide rate for veterans is 50 per cent higher than that of the general population, and a quarter of V.A. workers are veterans. Nonetheless, Veterans Crisis Line employees were among the workers targeted for termination by the Trump Administration.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Is Not O.K.

V.A. insiders describe themselves as miserable—and they worry that the Trump Administration will do long-term damage to the agency.

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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Every medical educator in the country has been warning us about this....

"Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten patient care at hundreds of hospitals that depend on medical residents recruited from overseas."

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals

Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Jun 19

Health-funding cuts are wreaking havoc on many African countries’ ability to gain control diseases such as cholera, according to the continent’s main health-advisory body.

Africa Battles to Halt Cholera Cases as Funding Cuts Hurt

Health-funding cuts are wreaking havoc on many African countries’ ability to gain control diseases such as cholera, according to the continent’s main health-advisory body.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Jun 19

From me: It hasn't been stressed enough just how disastrous the Republican Medicaid cuts would be for the hospital system—rural hospitals, yes, but ALL hospitals will be more crowded, more burdened, & at more risk of collapse if hundreds of closures occur, as is likely.
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Republicans Threaten a Hospital Apocalypse

Experts warn of potentially hundreds of hospital closures, which would degrade the entire medical system.

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · Jun 15

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”

In the US alone.

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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Jun 17

New data analyzed by the Chronicle paints a complicated and granular picture of how the Great Highway’s closure has affected traffic in the surrounding SF neighborhoods.

Has the Great Highway closure led to a traffic nightmare? This is the most complete data yet

New data analyzed by the Chronicle paints a complicated and granular picture of how the Great Highway’s closure has affected traffic in the surrounding SF neighborhoods.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 16

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling:
"I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.

"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."

Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

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STAT @statnews.com · Jun 16

Medicaid cuts could result in more than 16,000 preventable deaths annually
The cuts would also result in 7.6 million people losing coverage

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Medicaid cuts could result in more than 16,000 preventable deaths annually

Health care proposals in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could lead to more than 16,000 preventable deaths, a new analysis finds.

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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · Jun 16

Major decision today regarding NIH funding, with some fairly scathing comments from Judge Young about the government’s anti-DEI bent.

How have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?”

Our full story:

Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Are Illegal, Federal Judge Rules

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 16

AP Story on Judge Young's ruling

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Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years

A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jun 12

Where are we with generative A.I./chatbots to support mental health?
John Torous MD and I provide a concise summary of progress and what's needed @thelancet.com
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