Introducing... 🥁 our new series: Editor Spotlight of the Month! ✍️ First up is Bryan James (@bryandjames.bsky.social‬)✨, Associate Editor for Social Media at AJE & Associate Professor at Rush University Medical Center! This month, we chatted with him about his work with AJE.

🏆 Donna M. Wilcock, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2025 Bill Thies Award for Distinguished Service to ISTAART.

This award recognizes an @istaart.bsky.social member who has provided continued and outstanding service to the ISTAART community.

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🌟AAIC 2025 Tech & Dementia PIA Pre-Conference in July! 🌟
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Come celebrate WorldPride at the Lincoln Theatre in DC with @timmiller.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @jonlovett.bsky.social and more on June 6! It's going to be a big, beautiful, extremely gay live show!

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Evaluating linked ICD‐10 Medicare claims data as a method of dementia case ascertainment in research settings INTRODUCTION US Medicare claims can be used to identify dementia cases for research. Our objective was to evaluate the performance of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10)...

🚨 New @alzdemjournals.bsky.social paper from our @rushalzheimers.bsky.social & GWU R01 team, led by GWU Dept of Epi student, Joya Bhattacharya! #episky doi.org/10.1002/alz....

So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:

NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase

Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:

💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.

📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.

Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

President Donald Trump today asked Congress to make massive and unprecedented cuts to the 2026 budgets of major federal science agencies. scim.ag/3Yszqnm

NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

Science article with perspectives from NIH insiders

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Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer.

Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.

Study: Cuts to Science Funding Will Yield Great Recession-Level Economic Hit Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

The cuts to science funding *alone* will generate a Great Recession-sized hole in the economy.

"It’s less a 'self-inflicted wound' and more 'jumping head-first into a wood chipper.'”

This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

Federal cuts to National Institutes of Health could threaten medical progress Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans’ health.

Thank you @60minutes.bsky.social for giving the NIH freezes, termination, and proposed budget cuts the attention they deserve. ALL Americans, regardless of party, will feel this impact to their health far beyond one administration. www.cbsnews.com/video/nih-cu...

Who Will Use New Alzheimer’s Drugs? Addressing Barriers to Access Is Critical - April 17, 2025 - USC Schaeffer Focus groups with a population at high risk for Alzheimer's provided valuable insights into the real-world barriers and concerns that influence healthcare decision-making. - April 17, 2025

Please check out this blog post from our collaborative study on addressing barriers to accessing new Alzheimer’s drugs for Black older adults @schaeffer.usc.edu @rushalzheimers.bsky.social @ucimind.bsky.social @zisspolicyusc.bsky.social @cgster.bsky.social schaeffer.usc.edu/research/who...

This is utterly dystopian: Leaders who have dedicated their careers to making our country healthy are being forced to resign or--get this--be reassigned to work on reservations for the Indian Health Service. This is beyond insulting, it is sick: using Native Americans as punishment

Go @gabriellepfund.bsky.social! On a tough day for science like today, we must celebrate the wins

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Happy International Women's Day to all the incredible women out there, especially the women in science and academia!! Thank you for breaking barriers, fighting for fairness, and driving progress toward greater equity in these fields.🌹

Image of Bill Nye, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️

Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!

More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Today is yet another reason to #StandUpForScience MARCH 7 🧪⚒️🌀❄️🌋🫨

Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.

Short-sighted. Dangerous. Unnecessary. Not actually going to save our country any money. What else can be said about this?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com/destructive-...

What The NIH Cut To Indirect Cost Payments Could Cost Red States The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants would cost 10 red states more than $1 billion.

Alzheimer’s disease is non-partisan. Cancer is non-partisan. Diabetes is non-partisan. This is a short-sighted policy that could cost thousands of jobs and set biomedical research progress back by years. Contact your local representatives and urge them to stand against this dangerous policy.

Please see a collective response from an esteemed group of leaders in the dementia field to the NYT article and book “doctored” by Charles Piller. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

🧵 about "indirect costs"

Hi, it’s nice to meet you. I am a #brain scientist. My life's mission is to prevent #Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias...or to contribute enough puzzle pieces so that someone else can unlock the mysteries of disease.

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

Now under Trump, the NIH says it is cutting ~$9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's diseases.

“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

@thelancet.bsky.social does not plan to sit idly by ✊
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

There are so many awful asinine things going on in the country right now but I feel that it is my mission as a scientist to communicate what is happening to health research. Frankly we are in CRISIS mode--this blog post lays it all out. #episky #sciencesky www.science.org/content/blog...