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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 19d

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Ruth Malone, RN, PhD @remalone.bsky.social · 25d

In case you missed it, this is a great piece featuring my dear colleague Carol McGruder, co-founder of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council: exposetobacco.org/news/menthol...

A U.S. Menthol Ban Could Save 255,000 Black Lives - STOP

45,000 Black Americans die every year from using tobacco, especially menthol. Meet the woman fighting to protect her community.

exposetobacco.org

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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 25d

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Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program @ru-tdp.bsky.social · 25d

Meet Kimberly Jordan-Casarona! Dr. Jordan-Casarona will be a presenter at the Rutgers Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) virtual training, and registration is still open!

To learn more and sign up, go to tobaccoprogram.org

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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 25d

So very excited for Rafael to join the Rutgers family!!

Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · 25d

Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! @rutgerscancer.bsky.social @rwjms.bsky.social Learn more about Dr. Meza here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! Rafael Meza, PhD, has joined the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies as a Core Member and the Rutgers Cancer… | ...

Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! Rafael Meza, PhD, has joined the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies as a Core Member and the Rutgers Cancer Institu...

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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 26d

a man with a headband on his head says one more

ALT: a man with a headband on his head says one more

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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · Sep 8

A new study led by Cristine Delnevo, Director of Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS), suggests that nicotine pouches may offer a path to reduced tobacco harm ➡️

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Sep 3

More than 1,000 HHS staff call on RFK Jr. to resign thehill.com/policy/healt...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

For the serious policy wonks.

The White House released an amended version of OMB Circular A-11.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

I have NOT been through this (it'a ~1000 pages) but I understand it asserts more authority to not spend appropriated funds.

This is relevant to the FY 2027 budget.

www.whitehouse.gov

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March For Our Lives @marchforourlives.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today, little kids at Annunciation Catholic School were forced into a club that no child should ever join. It’s a fucked up club, and it’s growing because our so-called leaders refuse to act.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Aug 13

$5M. 2/2

www.commondreams.org/news/russell...

Vought Bills CFPB $5 Million for His Security Detail While Gutting Agency's Consumer Work | Common Dreams

"At heart, these guys are all kleptocrats," wrote one critic.

www.commondreams.org

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Aug 13

Your tax dollars pay around $7 million per year for Russell Vought’s personal security detail, while he and his friends incite stochastic violence against scientists and the CDC. 1/2

I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · Aug 13

He meant what he said and he said what he meant #CDC

Image of bullet holes at the CDC with Russell Vought's quote on traumatizing federal workers.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 4

Updated funding curves (new format)

(Data through July 18)

Fraction of grant budget, all awards

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 31

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!

Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).

"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.

ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · Jul 24

is this written policy somewhere for all of NIH? i see it in the NCI final plan.. but cant find anything else

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ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · Jul 10

Nerds.

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Sarah Jackson @drsarahejackson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Concerns have been raised that vaping has created a 'new generation of nicotine addicts'.

We examined changes in the proportion of US high-school students reporting symptoms of nicotine dependence, in the context of changing patterns of nicotine product use.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Changing patterns of nicotine product use and nicotine dependence among United States high‐school students: The National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2014–2023

Background and aim Concerns have been raised that e-cigarettes have created a new generation of people addicted to nicotine. This study aimed to measure changes in the proportion of US high-school s...

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Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) @ru-ints.bsky.social · Jun 25

@crisdelnevo.bsky.social & Andrea Villanti are coauthors of a new study published in Tobacco Control examining trends in U.S. cigarette consumption—specifically comparing menthol & non-menthol cigarettes—since the enactment of the Tobacco Control Act in 2009.

tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

Trends in menthol and non-menthol cigarette consumption in the US: 2009–2024

13 years after the Tobacco Control Act tasked Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) with studying the removal of menthol in cigarettes, FDA proposed a product standard in 2022 that would prohibit menthol ...

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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · Jun 18

Donate to @trevorproject.bsky.social here. give.thetrevorproject.org/give/696138/...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Jun 14

Not every decision requires an RCT (and no RCT is infinitely generalizable).

Scientists would do well to incorporate power and wealth and their agendas into their thinking about scientific progress. Science is political by its nature, but for pro-democracy parties, it should not be partisan.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 13

6. That’s the dynamic I see it here.

To what degree should corporations be liable for harms that they cause as judged by the best available science and a consensus among experts?

If I can’t sue Philip Morris for selling cigarettes to kids without a double blind trial to prove harm, we are sunk.