This study tested prenatal care experiences and parents’ perceptions of their child. Provider statements influence perceptions of the child before birth & correlate with how parents view their infants at 18 months.
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www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Read further and let us know what you think!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The statements made may seem small, but they related to parent perceptions of child difficulties almost 2 years later 🤯

This study opens the door for considering how statements made about the baby-- before they are even born-- influence ideas of who those babies are

Results suggest what patients hear in prenatal care settings may set a tone for parent-child relationships, which are central to child development

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Excited to share our work investigating how prenatal descriptions of babies relate to prenatal care visits AND how these descriptions relate to later child outcomes. With @klhumphreys.bsky.social a 🧵

I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.

Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.

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Thanks South Bend!
#standupforscience25
#sciencennotsilence

Will be joining in South Bend. Hope to see you there! #standupforscience2025

By @katherinejwu.com

"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”

The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan

prospect.org/health/2025-...

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.

https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl.

can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

I wrote an op-ed for voters in a red state about how devastating NIH indirect cuts are. This type of writing isn’t my comfort zone, but I think we as scientists need to get the word out. Happy to chat with others looking to do the same in their communities!
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...