Lisa Simpson

Five years ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

“We must use our time and our space on this little planet that we call Earth to make a lasting contribution, to leave it a little better than we found it, and now that need is greater than ever before.”
TY John Lewis.
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July 17, 2025

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The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but Should

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

"A kind of genealogical amnesia was eating holes in these family histories as permanently as moths eat holes in the sweaters lovingly knitted by our ancestors."
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Many people don’t know very much about their older relatives. But if we don’t ask, we risk never knowing our own history.

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Dr Rasu Shrestha

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Peace. Not pieces.

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Peace, not war
Creativity, not destruction
Empathy, not hate
Generosity, not greed
Everybody, not just us.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen

@abbyhiggs.bsky.social

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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The Travel Writer’s Dilemma: Share, or Gatekeep?

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

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"Life offers few greater pleasures than that of passing on your enthusiasms and secret discoveries. But the greatest pleasure of all may be to uncover something that no one else has mentioned."
I have loved Pico Iyer since I read Video Nights in Kathmandu after 6 wks in Thailand
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Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

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I have heard many monikers associated with #data - e.g. junkie, hippy, etc... but this was a new one: #data thug.
From the #MedicalEvidenceProject
Factoid: "one in every 50 papers published by scientific journals should probably be retracted."
tinyurl.com/3v7t248j
@academyhealth.bsky.social

Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

Brain-reading devices raise ethical dilemmas — researchers propose protections

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

The recommendations focus on protecting users from technology misuse that could infringe on their human rights, including their autonomy and freedom of thought. Delegates [...] included scientists, ethicists and legal specialists.
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Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on maintaining users’ privacy.

The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

It just keeps getting worse.
Yay for #Standupforscience!
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Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”

“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

Profound.
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May 31, 2025

Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

"Racism, too, carries an economic toll. A 2020 analysis from Citi found that systemic racism has cost the U.S. economy $16 trillion since 2000."
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From civil rights to corporate boardrooms, efforts to expand inclusion have long shaped American life. What does research show about the returns – and limits – of today’s DEI programs?

Opinion | DOGE Has Left Do-Gooder Washington in Ruins

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

"Our country has always run on the quiet competence of people committed to their work, whether they’re keeping credit card companies from ripping us off or making sure our airplanes land safely."
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I live in D.C., and I’ve always cherished my friends and neighbors who signed on for public service. Now they’re being chased out of town.

The Beauty That Moral Courage Creates

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

I love Arthur C. Brooks's Thursday column in @theatlantic.com.
This week's really resonated:
"...choose what’s morally beautiful, and you will be rewarded."
Every single day is a choice to find moral beauty, especially in a country so focused on power, wealth, and hate.
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A lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.

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Saeed Jones

@theferocity.bsky.social

I spent all of Monday and Tuesday watching capstone presentations from students in our program. Media, Medicine and Health at Harvard Medical School.

These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

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TED Partners with Academic Travel Abroad to Launch TED Branded Travel Program

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

So proud of my sister launching this new partnership!
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The initiative is designed to transform travel into an immersive, educational journey.

Judge rules Trump administration cannot carry out $11B in public health funding cuts

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

Excellent news. Let's hope the cuts are permanently stopped.
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It’s the second time a federal judge has sided with states in their legal battle to stop the Trump administration from slashing funds for public health initiatives.

AcademyHealth Joins Lawsuit to Restore Public Health Data Removed from Federal Websites | AcademyHealth

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

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WELL DONE @AcademyHealth! We must challenge the disappearance of public data!!
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What it Means to “Meet the Moment” as Researchers

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

An excellent post from @aaronecarroll.bsky.social, CEO @academyhealth.bsky.social
"When we produce and communicate research, we embrace moral responsibility, not neutrality."
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Timothy McBride

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Medicaid: CBO releases preliminary estimates of House Budget reductions

Proposal would lead to $912 billion in cuts over 10 yrs, $715 billion from health provisions. Proposal would raise uninsured by 13.7 million, including 8.6 million from new proposal
timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-c...

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The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

"Cost reductions from laying off federal employees have been too small to show up in the data. This is not surprising, because even laying off one quarter of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees would shave off just 1 percent of federal spending"
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If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.

Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

So important that NSF uses "broader impacts" as a criterion for funding! Wish NIH did more of this.
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Basic research that doesn’t have a specific industrial or experimental application still adds value outside the lab by engaging people with exciting research.

What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

I had not heard of the 4 B's that
religious communities offer:
BELONGING: social support
BONDING: spiritual connection
BEHAVING: cultivation of character through religious practices n norms
BELIEVING: embracing hope, forgiveness n shared spiritual convictions.
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A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.

What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences

Lisa Simpson MB BCh

@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social

"...younger adults today face growing mental health challenges, financial insecurity and a loss of meaning that are disrupting the traditional U-shaped curve of well-being."
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A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis

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ProPublica

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

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Mother Jones

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At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.

24-hour vigil to save Medicaid takes over National Mall

"This is a matter of life and death for millions of people," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin.

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