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A new commentary in @natureportfolio.nature.com by @annehstevenson.bsky.social, Karestan Koenen, and co-authors calls on the National Institute of Mental Health to change how people w/ lived experience of mental health (LE) conditions are included in psych gene research.

➡️ Read here: rdcu.be/e4IaT

Such a beautiful poster too.

🥅Changing how the NIMH funds research & sets strategic priorities for psych gene research 👉 bridge gaps btw research priorities and real-world MH needs + improve the science.

#psychiatry #genetics #genomics #policy #mentalhealth #research @cmcnguyen.bsky.social (4/4)

4️⃣ Require that people with lived experience are part of any research
5️⃣ Have people with lived experience review grant applications
(3/4)

1️⃣ Create specific community engagement grants for genetics and genomics
2️⃣ Form an empowered stakeholder advisory board/steering committee @ NIMH
3️⃣ Have people with lived experience have more involvement in the strategic planning process @ NIMH (2/4)

🚨New paper alert!🚨
👉Check out the paper I am most proud of here: rdcu.be/e4IaT
🤔After 8+of working in 🧬🧠research, I didn't see many people with lived experience of mental health conditions (LE) w/🪑at the table. So, several of us laid out 5 recs to Nat. Inst of Mental Health to change this: 1/4

Hallelujah 🙌 This paper is so needed. The response options on the PHQ are terrible.

Why I volunteered to be infected with dengue fever The U.S. has registered over half a million clinical trials since 2000. Here's a look at the business and ethics of human medical experimentation through the eyes of a volunteer.

Ever tried to explain research ethics to your family? This is a great piece of journalism (ie: written for a lay audience) of some of the thorny aspects of ethics in human subjects research - participant remuneration, beneficence. @npr.org

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

This is fascinating. I get multiple scam/AI emails a day asking me to publish in their journals, but I have never thought about in the context of writing letters to the editor. Another way to scam the system which hurts actual humans writing scientific articles/letters.

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I listened and have told people not to and they have done it anyway 🤦‍♀️

This is heartbreaking. What a scientific breakthrough to have this vaccine, to then let it go to waste.

For years, men controlled one village's coffee industry — but one woman changed that Meridah Nandudu was a single mom of two kids, unemployed and in despair. Then she had an idea: Maybe the "humble" coffee beans she'd grown up with on her parents' farm could lead her to a better life.

Coffee + women’s empowerment + mental health in Uganda. A powerful article about how giving women (even some) control over their finances in the coffee business can allow them to leave situations of domestic violence. 🇺🇬

@npr.org #Uganda #coffee #women

A new documentary about a dastardly worm and a heroic effort by Jimmy Carter "The President and the Dragon,' premiering today, looks at Carter's momentous decision to try and wipe out a devastating and neglected disease. We spoke to writer and co-director Waleed Eltayeb.

Public health at its best. Excited to watch this documentary about guinea worm eradication.

Correct

Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it

Why?

When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows

Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted

Public health must communicate our successes

We must be visible

This is terrifying.

#thetreethatbends

a person is riding a motorcycle down a dirt road in the woods . ALT: a person is riding a motorcycle down a dirt road in the woods .

#Academicchatter Help! I am getting almost 1 peer review request each day. I try to do 1 every ~3 months. This landslide is overwhelming. How do I get it to stop? (And get it to a more manageable request load?)
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#academictwitter

My family doesn’t have any underlying conditions, but I want these vaccines for all of us AND insurance should cover them. With this ruling, I cannot imagine my health insurance being willing to pay for them. 💉❤️‍🩹

One neurosurgeon, 8 million patients Alieu Kamara is the first and only neurosurgeon in Sierra Leone. "Before Dr. Kamara, there was no hope," said professor Kehinde Oluwadiya of the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospital Complex.

Great piece @npr.org. www.npr.org/sections/goa... 🐐🥤#neurosurgery #sierraleone

🤯 This is madness.

US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday recommended that all young children get vaccinated against COVID-19, differing from federal policy that no longer recommends routine vaccination for healthy children.

Resistance

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Calling mental health clinicians, researchers, and funders! Can we stop using the PHQ-9? Or at least change the response options? As someone who has had to fill it out many, many times, the response options make no sense. Quote from a friend: “I just fill out what I think they are trying to get at.”

Study Finds Jack Shit BALTIMORE—A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins University announced Monday that a five-year study examining the link between polyphenols and lower cholesterol rates has found jack shit.

Excuse the swearing but this is perfect 💯 theonion.com/study-finds-...

Thank you for your response! I wouldn’t describe any of the paper as unethical, parts are wrong though. Ie: “you say the prevalence of X is Y in Z country but it wasn’t a pop representative sample, and half the sample had this other disease which you didn’t mention.” Lots of stuff like that…

#Academicchatter: Was asked by a senior author 2 give critical eye 2 paper. Argument of paper was sound but many errors like X citation does not support Y statement. I spent a lot of time on this. 1st author rejected most comments. Do u:
1️⃣Keep your name on paper?
2️⃣Take your name off paper?
3️⃣Other?

Oof. Not good.

Keep my family and my community safe. Don’t take away the availability of vaccines (and requiring health insurance to cover their cost) @rfk-junior.bsky.social.

When you publish your very last PhD paper.