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Kathryn Macapagal
@karmacap.bsky.social
2.2K followers 920 following 150 posts
clinical psychologist, associate prof studying HIV prevention and sexual health in LGBTQ teens. cofounder prep4teens.com
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njbbari3.bsky.social
Health supremacy is a form of fascism. Places outside Sweden that tried that model could not implement it in part or whole and faced spectacular death rates.
joho.bsky.social Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11d
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
Ultimately, public health agencies encouraging people to take whatever steps they can to improve their health will have a dramatic effect during the next pandemic. Whether simply by stopping smoking, controlling hypertension or diabetes, or getting up and walking more, anything that makes the population healthier will prepare us better for the next pandemic. The best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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dannykay68.bsky.social
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
TikTok video by Jenna
www.tiktok.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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dyellowlees.bsky.social
Don't start with 'sorry' - or anything that sounds like one

“Time for the dull bit”

“I won’t go on too long”

"I haven't really prepared anything"

. Instead, try these opening techniques.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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thebulwark.com
These public health researchers did not choose to be political activists; they were forced to be by a president and administration that despises expertise.
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Don’t look away.

Look. Get mad. Take action.
madisonswart.bsky.social Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social · 29d
Today ICE and federal agents detained a man at 26 Federal Plaza during court recess, before he had the opportunity to have his hearing.
October 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
A passionate plea that completely resonates with me.

"...Don’t you dare call me unpatriotic for refusing to worship corruption. Don’t you dare tell me that loving this country enough to fight for it makes me the enemy. That isn’t patriotism. That’s rot. That’s decay..."
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
Folks I know there’s a lot going on, but if you’re free tmrw in Chicago plz support NU students been banned from classes for refusing to watch Israeli propaganda. Their lawyer (& mine), Rima Kapita, has filed an emergency order demanding the courts intervene. I filed an affidavit of support. 🙏🏾
SHOW OUT TO OUR COURT HEARING TO SUPPORT THE NU STUDENT'S CLASS ACTION MONDAY OCT. 20 2:00 PM COURTROOM: 1719 219 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60604 THE BUILDING IS ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF DEARBORN & JACKSON WE INVITE NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS, FACULTY, THE GREATER EVANSTON COMMUNITY, AND THE GREATER CHICAGO COMMUNITY TO COME TO THE HEARING! TO SHOW THAT WE ALL CARE ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND THAT THIS CASE AFFECTS US ALL! [HEARING ON PLAINTIFFS' PETITION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERI COURT ETIQUETTE • BRING YOUR ID • NO BANNERS OR DISRUPTIONS • DRESS NEUTRALLY • BE RESPECTFUL • BE ON TIME CASE INFO: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/FILEDCOMPLAINT
October 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
flglchicago.bsky.social Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · Oct 8
Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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noamross.net
Amelia Knopf, @karmacap.bsky.social and @knelphd.bsky.social write in Pediatrics about how the terminations of clinical trials of children and adolescents represent cracks in the foundation of ethical research, and the moral responsibility to repair them: doi.org/10.1542/peds...
ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF STUDY TERMINATIONS As of July 2025, the National Institutes of Health has terminated approx- imately 4700 of the grants it awarded for scientific research, training, and infrastructure.1 Very little of the public discourse regarding the grant ter- minations has focused on their implications for research participants who were or would have been enrolled in the trials the grants supported. The terminated awards are linked to 200 active registered clinical trials, which had a total planned enrollment of more than 689 000 human subjects, approximately 20% of whom are infants, children, and adolescents.1 Nearly all the affected trials that included children and adolescents focused on stigmatized health issues (eg, HIV, substance use, depression), and/or persons with marginalized identities (eg, sexual and gender minor- ity; Black or African American and Latiné). Individuals with marginalized identities are underrepresented in clinical research,2 even when they are at greater risk for the illness under study. The issue of underrepresenta- tion in research is especially relevant for minor adolescents (those youn- ger than 18 years old) because of ethical and legal barriers to their participation. Barriers include concerns about minors’ capacity to consent, confidentiality of sensitive information (sexual behavior, substance use) when parental consent is required, and researcher and institutional con- cerns about liability when waivers of parental consent are granted for minors’ enrollment.3 As adolescent health researchers, we have each invested over a decade of work to address the complex ethical and legal issues that prevent ado- lescents from participating in research, especially on sensitive or stigma- tized health issues. Through meticulous efforts to engage and build trust with adolescents, parents or guardians, and regulatory personnel, we have enrolled thousands of adolescents in our studies...
October 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
karmacap.bsky.social
mass grant terminations might be over for now, but their impact still harms people who were in the studies, including kids & teens. @knelphd.bsky.social @amyknopf.bsky.social and I wrote about ethical implications of abruptly ending studies for political reasons publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
Ethical Implications of Study Terminations
As of July 2025, the National Institutes of Health has terminated approximately 4700 of the grants it awarded for scientific research, training, and infrastructure.1 Very little of the public discours...
publications.aap.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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jeremymberg.github.io
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer
October 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
ALRIGHT IF YOU HAVE JANE FONDA CONNECTIONS, YOU BETTER START YELLING IN MY DIRECTION.

(I've asked this before, but I had 10k fewer followers. Surely, someone knows someone who knows someone)

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era
In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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tyk314.net
Feds, get your eOPF stuff ready. Like now. Please respost. #fedstrong
September 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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tyk314.net
The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.
September 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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laurenshallion.bsky.social
United States academic landscape got you down? Apply to join my lab at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada!

I’m planning to accept a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Additional information:

https://www.uregina.ca/academics/programs/arts/master-phd-clinical-psychology.html
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...
Fired By The Post
The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.
www.status.news
September 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
I looked a grants where the title was different between the original award and the noncompetitive renewal and limited the analysis to grants with no subawards so there was no ambiguity about what to compare.

There were 777 such grant pairs.

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September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
We have our line-up for our 24-hour AIDS research livestream on September 16/17th: saveaidsresearch.org
Allison Agwu, MD, SCM • Ali Ahmed, PhD • Frederick Altice, MD • Annukka Antar, MD, PhD • Shashika Bandara, MSc • Katie Bar, MD • Joshua Barocas, MD • Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD, MPH 1/
24 Hours to Save AIDS Research
saveaidsresearch.org
September 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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allisonharvey.bsky.social
Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM