Nova Institute for Health
@novaforhealth.bsky.social
The Nova Institute for Health is a heart-centered think tank that takes action for the good of people, places & the planet. Formerly The Institute for Integrative Health.
This #Thanksgiving, we celebrate the profound links between connection, gratitude, and well-being. And we give thanks for all the big and small ways that people are building bridges of connection and resilience and making the future that much brighter. From all of us at Nova, happy Thanksgiving. 🍁
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This #Thanksgiving, we celebrate the profound links between connection, gratitude, and well-being. And we give thanks for all the big and small ways that people are building bridges of connection and resilience and making the future that much brighter. From all of us at Nova, happy Thanksgiving. 🍁
We're thrilled to congratulate @mariaparazorose.bsky.social on the launch of an innovative new reporting project with support from @rwjf.org. Maria's work will explore #Indigenous land return models around the world 🌏
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November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We're thrilled to congratulate @mariaparazorose.bsky.social on the launch of an innovative new reporting project with support from @rwjf.org. Maria's work will explore #Indigenous land return models around the world 🌏
Read more: novainstituteforhealth.org/nova-media-f...
Read more: novainstituteforhealth.org/nova-media-f...
#ICYMI: Nova Media Fellow Kate Morgan's latest piece in The New York Times reports on a small group trying to revive a tradition of community-based care in West Virginia's maternity deserts, where midwives fill a critical gap.
Read more: https://ow.ly/elU050Xurg4
Read more: https://ow.ly/elU050Xurg4
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#ICYMI: Nova Media Fellow Kate Morgan's latest piece in The New York Times reports on a small group trying to revive a tradition of community-based care in West Virginia's maternity deserts, where midwives fill a critical gap.
Read more: https://ow.ly/elU050Xurg4
Read more: https://ow.ly/elU050Xurg4
Recent Nova Campfire, "In Search of Consciousness: New Frontiers in Science, Wisdom, and the Nature of Reality," explored #consciousness through diverse perspectives and underscored our profound interconnection with all life.
🎥 Watch highlights: youtu.be/VcyWvkdd6bk?...
🎥 Watch highlights: youtu.be/VcyWvkdd6bk?...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Recent Nova Campfire, "In Search of Consciousness: New Frontiers in Science, Wisdom, and the Nature of Reality," explored #consciousness through diverse perspectives and underscored our profound interconnection with all life.
🎥 Watch highlights: youtu.be/VcyWvkdd6bk?...
🎥 Watch highlights: youtu.be/VcyWvkdd6bk?...
⭐ Join us for the free, virtual 2025 Nova Annual Conference, “Cultivating Connections: A Path to Transformation,” on 12/11. This event will explore how connection can serve as a unifying and healing force for individuals, communities, and our planet.
Register: https://ow.ly/VU9P50Xnpyb
Register: https://ow.ly/VU9P50Xnpyb
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
⭐ Join us for the free, virtual 2025 Nova Annual Conference, “Cultivating Connections: A Path to Transformation,” on 12/11. This event will explore how connection can serve as a unifying and healing force for individuals, communities, and our planet.
Register: https://ow.ly/VU9P50Xnpyb
Register: https://ow.ly/VU9P50Xnpyb
Nova Scholar Kurt Stange's latest opinion piece underscores the nationwide harm of cutting SNAP benefits—not just for recipients, but for all Americans.
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
From SNAP cuts to Social Security insolvency, we’re all in this together
We will all be better off when we recognize and act on our commonality, writes Kurt Stange of Beachwood in a letter to the editor.
www.cleveland.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Nova Scholar Kurt Stange's latest opinion piece underscores the nationwide harm of cutting SNAP benefits—not just for recipients, but for all Americans.
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Nova Media Fellow Rowan Jacobsen's quest to cure his insomnia led him to spend a month in the desert with no nighttime artificial light. Read about it in his latest piece for @harpers.bsky.social ☀️
In our November issue: a Harper’s Forum on media’s crisis of trust, Rowan Jacobsen on a good night’s sleep, Daniel Kolitz on porn’s new frontier, Joy Williams on Gene Hackman’s last days, Nick Pinkerton on Abel Ferrara and a new story by David Wingrave.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Nova Media Fellow Rowan Jacobsen's quest to cure his insomnia led him to spend a month in the desert with no nighttime artificial light. Read about it in his latest piece for @harpers.bsky.social ☀️
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We’re thrilled to announce that RTBC is part of the 2025-26 cohort of Nova Media Fellows (@novaforhealth.bsky.social)! Over the next year, we will explore the health impacts of environmental noise: the science, the solutions and the lived experiences. novainstituteforhealth.org/announcing-t...
September 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that RTBC is part of the 2025-26 cohort of Nova Media Fellows (@novaforhealth.bsky.social)! Over the next year, we will explore the health impacts of environmental noise: the science, the solutions and the lived experiences. novainstituteforhealth.org/announcing-t...
☀️ On @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, 2024-25 Nova Media Fellow Rowan Jacobsen talks about the healing potential of #sunlight, when you should wear sunscreen, and how to write narrative-driven science stories. Check it out ⬇️
Check out this week's SLR, guest edited by @alecmac.bsky.social and including writers like @freshparsley.bsky.social, @ichotiner.bsky.social, @chatterton.bsky.social + more mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
The Sunday Long Read: Alec MacGillis, Public Libraries, Texas Flood
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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July 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
☀️ On @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, 2024-25 Nova Media Fellow Rowan Jacobsen talks about the healing potential of #sunlight, when you should wear sunscreen, and how to write narrative-driven science stories. Check it out ⬇️
🗽 As federal changes threaten human & planetary health across our nation, this #July4th reminds us that #freedom is the foundation for healthy people & communities—& it is at risk. Today, we celebrate our nation’s ideals of liberty & justice & stand w/ those working to protect #health & well-being.
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In the @nytimes.com, Nova Scholar Steven Woolf details the dire consequences of federal changes that are dismantling American health care infrastructure.
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In the @nytimes.com, Nova Scholar Steven Woolf details the dire consequences of federal changes that are dismantling American health care infrastructure.
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
"Physicians like me know from the data that lives will be lost."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
#Medicaid #Medicare #HealthCare #HealthPolicy
#ICYMI: 2023-24 Nova Media Fellow Kate Morgan's latest in @nytimes.com uncovers the startling resurgence of black lung and the risks facing coal communities throughout Appalachia from recent federal cuts: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
#Appalachia #BlackLung #CleanCoal #WorkerSafety
#Appalachia #BlackLung #CleanCoal #WorkerSafety
How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#ICYMI: 2023-24 Nova Media Fellow Kate Morgan's latest in @nytimes.com uncovers the startling resurgence of black lung and the risks facing coal communities throughout Appalachia from recent federal cuts: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
#Appalachia #BlackLung #CleanCoal #WorkerSafety
#Appalachia #BlackLung #CleanCoal #WorkerSafety
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1/ Use the CRAAP method to evaluate information. What is the currency (is the information up to date)? What is the relevance to me & my question? Who is the author & what are their credentials? Is this accurate & supported by evidence? What is the author’s purpose or motivation for sharing this?
Library Guides: Evaluating Resources and Misinformation: CRAAP Test
Library Guides: Evaluating Resources and Misinformation: CRAAP Test
guides.lib.uchicago.edu
June 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
1/ Use the CRAAP method to evaluate information. What is the currency (is the information up to date)? What is the relevance to me & my question? Who is the author & what are their credentials? Is this accurate & supported by evidence? What is the author’s purpose or motivation for sharing this?
The Nova team is thrilled to be in great company today at the @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social's forum, finding hope and inspiration in this changing, challenging time for journalism and its supporters 🌟 Thanks to MIF for a great event!
June 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Nova team is thrilled to be in great company today at the @mediaimpactfunders.bsky.social's forum, finding hope and inspiration in this changing, challenging time for journalism and its supporters 🌟 Thanks to MIF for a great event!
Nova Media Fellow alum @virginiagewin.bsky.social explores the impact of sweeping federal layoffs on U.S. scientists and researchers in @nature.com:
"One thing is clear: whether they move abroad, pivot to other research areas or leave science altogether, their deep expertise is likely to be lost."
"One thing is clear: whether they move abroad, pivot to other research areas or leave science altogether, their deep expertise is likely to be lost."
The worst part of science reporting right now is chronicling the expertise that will be lost.
My latest piece for @nature.com
My latest piece for @nature.com
#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers
Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Nova Media Fellow alum @virginiagewin.bsky.social explores the impact of sweeping federal layoffs on U.S. scientists and researchers in @nature.com:
"One thing is clear: whether they move abroad, pivot to other research areas or leave science altogether, their deep expertise is likely to be lost."
"One thing is clear: whether they move abroad, pivot to other research areas or leave science altogether, their deep expertise is likely to be lost."
🫶 Join us on 6/4 for the next free, virtual Nova Campfire, "What the World Needs Now." Dominic Packer, @kurtjgray.bsky.social, and others will explore evidence-based approaches to build social trust, reduce partisan animosity, and cultivate greater love and kindness.
➡️ bit.ly/LoveKindness...
➡️ bit.ly/LoveKindness...
May 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🫶 Join us on 6/4 for the next free, virtual Nova Campfire, "What the World Needs Now." Dominic Packer, @kurtjgray.bsky.social, and others will explore evidence-based approaches to build social trust, reduce partisan animosity, and cultivate greater love and kindness.
➡️ bit.ly/LoveKindness...
➡️ bit.ly/LoveKindness...
🦠 Fantastic to see recent #legalome work from Nova Scholar Susan Prescott, Fellow Alan C. Logan, and Pragya Mishra cited in this MIT @technologyreview.com article today!
#microbiome #criminaljustice #gutbrainaxis
#microbiome #criminaljustice #gutbrainaxis
Is “My microbes made me do it” a valid legal defense?
Your gut microbes might encourage criminal behavior
Is “My microbes made me do it” a valid legal defense?
www.technologyreview.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🦠 Fantastic to see recent #legalome work from Nova Scholar Susan Prescott, Fellow Alan C. Logan, and Pragya Mishra cited in this MIT @technologyreview.com article today!
#microbiome #criminaljustice #gutbrainaxis
#microbiome #criminaljustice #gutbrainaxis
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Greatly enjoyed participating in such an incredibly interdisciplinary event!
#ICYMI: Last month's Nova Campfire convened experts to explore how modern science—from #neuroscience to #trauma research to #mindfulness and more—can reshape outdated #justicesystems.
Thanks to our terrific speakers and participants for making this such an engaging event!
Thanks to our terrific speakers and participants for making this such an engaging event!
May 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Greatly enjoyed participating in such an incredibly interdisciplinary event!
👏 Big congrats to Nova Media Fellow @mariaparazorose.bsky.social and colleagues on this tremendous award! Their reporting in @grist.org explores how the wealth from vast amounts of land taken from #Indigenous communities continues to transform public institutions—and Indigenous culture & community.
The winner of the 2024 Nina Mason Pulliam Award is "Misplaced Trust” by a reporting and data team @grist.org. Honorable mention goes to a @reuters.com team for "The Bat Lands," a five-part multimedia investigative report.
Congrats, all! #SEJAwards
www.sej.org/grist-wins-2...
Congrats, all! #SEJAwards
www.sej.org/grist-wins-2...
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
👏 Big congrats to Nova Media Fellow @mariaparazorose.bsky.social and colleagues on this tremendous award! Their reporting in @grist.org explores how the wealth from vast amounts of land taken from #Indigenous communities continues to transform public institutions—and Indigenous culture & community.
#ICYMI: Last month's Nova Campfire convened experts to explore how modern science—from #neuroscience to #trauma research to #mindfulness and more—can reshape outdated #justicesystems.
Thanks to our terrific speakers and participants for making this such an engaging event!
Thanks to our terrific speakers and participants for making this such an engaging event!
May 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#ICYMI: Last month's Nova Campfire convened experts to explore how modern science—from #neuroscience to #trauma research to #mindfulness and more—can reshape outdated #justicesystems.
Thanks to our terrific speakers and participants for making this such an engaging event!
Thanks to our terrific speakers and participants for making this such an engaging event!
"Law has come to give excited delirium much more credibility than science or medicine ever has": Nova Scholar Osagie Obasogie's latest about how legal rules uphold discredited science like diagnoses of #ExcitedDelirium and hinder police reform efforts.
novainstituteforhealth.org/excited-deli...
novainstituteforhealth.org/excited-deli...
May 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Law has come to give excited delirium much more credibility than science or medicine ever has": Nova Scholar Osagie Obasogie's latest about how legal rules uphold discredited science like diagnoses of #ExcitedDelirium and hinder police reform efforts.
novainstituteforhealth.org/excited-deli...
novainstituteforhealth.org/excited-deli...
⚖️👏 Congrats to Nova Scholar Susan Prescott, Fellow Alan C. Logan, & Dr. Pragya Mishra! Their work connecting emerging #legalome research and #JusticeSystems is a featured new publication on @elsihub.bsky.social!
Read it here: elsihub.org/publication/...
Read it here: elsihub.org/publication/...
April 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
⚖️👏 Congrats to Nova Scholar Susan Prescott, Fellow Alan C. Logan, & Dr. Pragya Mishra! Their work connecting emerging #legalome research and #JusticeSystems is a featured new publication on @elsihub.bsky.social!
Read it here: elsihub.org/publication/...
Read it here: elsihub.org/publication/...
Do you have questions about applying for the Nova Media Fellowship? Join us next Wednesday, 4/30 at 3 pm EDT for an information session and answers to your application queries. Recordings will be available.
Learn more and register: ow.ly/swZG50VGtyP
#MediaFellowship #HealthJournalism
Learn more and register: ow.ly/swZG50VGtyP
#MediaFellowship #HealthJournalism
April 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Do you have questions about applying for the Nova Media Fellowship? Join us next Wednesday, 4/30 at 3 pm EDT for an information session and answers to your application queries. Recordings will be available.
Learn more and register: ow.ly/swZG50VGtyP
#MediaFellowship #HealthJournalism
Learn more and register: ow.ly/swZG50VGtyP
#MediaFellowship #HealthJournalism
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Media fellowship opportunity w/ @novaforhealth.bsky.social! For journalists passionate about illuminating the complex connections between healthy people, places, & planet via print, broadcast, & digital media projects. This year, newsrooms are also eligible!
Apply by 5/19: bit.ly/2025MediaFel...
Apply by 5/19: bit.ly/2025MediaFel...
2025 Media Fellowship Overview
The Nova Media Fellowship supports outstanding print, digital, and/or broadcast journalists reporting on the complex factors that affect health.
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April 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Media fellowship opportunity w/ @novaforhealth.bsky.social! For journalists passionate about illuminating the complex connections between healthy people, places, & planet via print, broadcast, & digital media projects. This year, newsrooms are also eligible!
Apply by 5/19: bit.ly/2025MediaFel...
Apply by 5/19: bit.ly/2025MediaFel...
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The U.S. faces a crucial shortage of medical providers. The problem has been building for a while, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated it by pushing many doctors over the edge into early retirement or other fields. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Covid Worsened Shortages of Doctors and Nurses. Five Years On, Rural Hospitals Still Struggle. - KFF Health News
The U.S. faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, especially in rural areas. The problem has been building for a while, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated it by pushing many doctors over ...
kffhealthnews.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The U.S. faces a crucial shortage of medical providers. The problem has been building for a while, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated it by pushing many doctors over the edge into early retirement or other fields. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...