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Katherine Quinn
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Associate Professor and health equity researcher | Trying to read more poetry and kill fewer houseplants | My heart is in Milwaukee |
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I know almost nothing about baseball, but I’ll always root for the underdog and my hometown team. Go Brewers!
“Here’s to the little things that make baseball beautiful. Here’s to baseball’s version of David using slingshots on the sport’s Goliaths. Here’s to the Brewers, however long they continue the fun.”

www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...
There’s a lesson for the rest of baseball in the Brewers’ recent run of success
Milwaukee isn't perfect – but their style of play could benefit large and small-market teams alike.
www.nytimes.com
These cuts to SNAP will be devastating. Other aspects of this initial proposal include new work requirements and preventing future administrations from increasing benefits in response to emergencies like COVID-19 or a recession.
In the budget reconciliation bill, House Republicans are trying to cut SNAP by $295 billion. This would cut it in third in what would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history.

This would rip food assistance away from millions of people, including households with children as young as 7 years old.
Harvard's response is pretty incredible and inspiring. Other universities and colleges should take note. This is how you stand up for your values.
To everyone (justifiably) applauding @harvard.edu 's response to the fed. administration's demands: that letter is only part of the story. Harvard's new website went public in coordination with Harvard Pres. #AlanGarber 's letter. It's completely revamped--and it's brilliant. www.harvard.edu. (1/8)
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
This is such an important and under-reported issue with NIH grant reviews right now. Submitted proposals are not being peer-reviewed with little to no justification.
SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts
A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.
www.chronicle.com
This will exacerbate disparities in HIV and rollback decades of progress. It's truly unfathomable and heart-wrenching to witness.
The retrenchment of HIV prevention, treatment, and research funding will be devastating and Trump is dismantling the very efforts he initiated in his first term. He didn't even give it the 10 years to see the full potential of this initiative.
And he did! What resulted was the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative and NIH funding for HIV-related research. Billions of federal dollars were allocated to state and local governments and community orgs to expand HIV prevention and treatment access. We continued to make scientific breakthroughs.
In his 2019 SOTU, Trump celebrated HIV research stating, "scientific breakthroughs have brough a once distant dream within reach" and pledged funds to "eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years . . . we have made incredible strides." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
Trump pledges to end HIV/AIDS epidemic, fight childhood cancer
In his 2019 State of the Union address, President Trump promised to "defeat AIDS in America and beyond.” He said also that he would ask lawmakers for money to fight childhood cancer.
www.washingtonpost.com
The cuts to HIV research are unprecedented and will have vast public health consequences. The rapidly growing list of terminated grants is devastating.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded its cuts to science funding, terminating a growing list of research projects that now encompasses hundreds of grants funding studies on a wide range of topics — from HIV in children to reducing mould exposure and its effect on asthma.
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An urgent modelling study finds ending US PEPFAR funding and other reductions in international aid could result in up to 10 million more HIV infections and up to 2.9 million HIV related deaths in just the next 5 years.
A grim return to a time when we did not have the ability to treat or prevent HIV.
This iconic Milwaukee gay bar is closing its doors today. It’s a huge loss for the city and gay community. They were so much more than a bar.
After 56 years in business, This Is It!, an LGBTQIA+ bar in Downtown Milwaukee, has shuttered. http://dlvr.it/TJQXQ2
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The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today.

Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com
I wish I had something more insightful and intelligent to say, but this new “warning” on federal websites like the YRBS is insane. I can’t believe we’re doing this.
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not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
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If you are joining us, change your @bluesky banner!!!
What are your plans March 7th? Join me in Madison, friends. Details to come.
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!

I #standupforscience2025 because women and girls belong in here and 💫 the whole world 💫 benefits from not limiting scientific investigation to men and male organisms!!

Why do you stand up for science?

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Appreciate @bmj.com calling this out. "It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."
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The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.

Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.

Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI