We're hiring a biostatistics postdoctoral research fellow at Stony Brook under the PRODIG+ program via SUNY. The position will be expected to work on various projects and should be interested in aging and public health. Here is the listing: apply.interfolio.com/175834
New paper alert 🧪! In this study, one of our fantastic students used functional connectivity to profile neurobiological signaling in responders with post-traumatic stress disorder. We found evidence of cortisol-induced neurotoxicity in PTSD-related dementia.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It‘s #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 🧪 I am fortunate to have been mentored by, and to work with, many fantastic #womeninscience.
I was lucky enough to be involved in this study where our student S. Mahwish used naturalistic language processing to measure resilience using people's own words! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Due to a trump executive order the national parks service has removed signage at the little bighorn battlefield that amplified the broken treaties and the assimilationist american policy of "kill the Indian save the man" that led to the reeducation 1/2
We published results from a new pre/post-infection long-COVID study today. Individuals with neurological symptoms of long-COVID experienced significant increases in a biomarker for cortical health called pTau-181 when compared to pre-COVID samples. #COVID-19 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We examined whether PTSD (or Major Depression) predicted Mild Cognitive Impairment in Firefighters who responded to the WTC attacks. We found it matters! But also that PTSD only explains about 10% of impairment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I totally forgot to boost her paper - it's a great study on how even surgical masks, when used by WTC responders during search, rescue, and recovery efforts were protective against later cognitive impairment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
9/11 responders reporting severe dust exposures had up to 2.9x greater risk of developing lung cancer >10 years after exposure. Dust, fumes & sewage odors were key factors in those—even after adjusting for smoking. Long-term health impacts persist. #WTCResponders url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at the upcoming PTSD Research Conference on May 5-6, 2025, in Boston! This event brings together leading researchers, clinicians, and experts dedicated to advancing our understanding and treatment of PTSD.
#mentalhealth
Measles isn't just a rash
Pneumonia - 5-10%
Encephalitis - Brain inflammation (~1 in 1,000), risks permanent damage
SSPE - Rare fatal brain disorder, 7-10 yrs later
Ear infections - 10%, may cause hearing loss
Blindness - Corneal damage
Immune amnesia - Vulnerability to other infections for mos/yrs
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
They must have done something they know is super illegal and are now trying to get out of it.
Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity.
It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated).
30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.
Smallpox used to kill >1/3 people.
In 1796, Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had had cowpox (a mild form of smallpox) seemed immune to smallpox. So he inoculated a child (not ethical today) and the child was also immune. The first vaccine! The original: books.google.com/books?id=QQm...
Today my student got her first paper accepted. It’s a big win for her, and it feels great to me too.
I also think it mistakes recipients for awardees. It states: “…award recipients are subject to a 15 percent indirect cost rate… (to) allow grant recipients a reasonable and realistic recovery of indirect costs”. The recipient is obv. the Univ. Who makes that error?
CNN: “.. in Gaines County, .. nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine. The 18% vaccine exemption rate for the county is one of the highest in the state ..”
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
#Long-COVID #neuroinflammation #glia #brainfog
The lingering effects of #COVID19 are more than just fatigue. New evidence suggests the virus may cause long-term artery damage, raising heart disease risk in millions. Here’s what that means:
This would, if implemented, cause an immediate collapse of real estate values across the US and a massive recession.
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
USAID provides stability around the world and reduces the chances of conflict - protecting our troops and making America safer.
Republicans have introduced a bill to abolish OSHA.
As a former labor secretary, I know firsthand how crucial this agency is to protecting workers from bosses who cut corners on safety to pad their own pockets.
This is the party of corporate greed, not the party of workers.
"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk"
To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky
That's right. Great thread, please read from the start ("These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States.")
Scientists need to organize too.
In our networks, across distance, in our professional societies. Reach out to your colleagues. We need coordinated work now.
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The USAID-led Famine Early Warning System (FEWSNet) is "currently unavailable." This is the preeminent global early warning tool for acute food insecurity and has traditionally had bipartisan support in Congress.
static.fews.net
Covid vs flu in the country of Denmark, among ~6 million people (just published today)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“COVID-19 represented a greater disease burden than influenza, with more hospital admissions and deaths, and more severe disease”
You can’t really be a champion of public health and also be against proven public health interventions including vaccines. #vaccines save lives
