Jane Lowers

Congratulations Dr Ali!!

Got the pink sheets back on my first R01 submission. After a month of psyching myself up to deal with the worst, the comments were… completely reasonable. Now distracted by wondering why trauma response is baked into the #research industrial complex.

Loot that drops after defeating me: multiple half-used post-it pads, assorted colors; mechanical pencil with no eraser; handful of peanuts; flannel shirt (equip); HRT patch (potion); firewood (crafting)

Jfc, people, just because a code doesn’t make it into a theme you don’t erase it from your data set in #thematicanalysis Today I am methodological vengeance. Today I am Reviewer 2.

🚨CDC STAFF PSA🚨

Yesterday during an active shooter scare, our alert system failed. Again. Delayed or non-existent texts/emails, no alarm or intercom in labs.

⚠️Despite CDC warning Emory, Emory alerts went out before CDC.

📲Download the Emory Safe app to get Emory alerts. No Emory account required.

Cardboard box labeled “ Science prayer candle. 100% as effective as prayer. You’ve tried everything else, what harm could it do?”

The study section for my first R01 proposal is meeting Tuesday. Time to fire this up.

Yeah I slept like a log, my slowly decaying body provided shelter and sustenance to a wide variety of small invertebrates

The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action.

Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways.

www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

I’m quoted in this month’s AARP Bulletin, which is for people who miss the Parade magazine insert in the Sunday paper. Like me!

A screenshot of the sample ballot for Pine Lake City Council, featuring three csndidates for three open seats.

Don’t forget to get out today and vote for all the little down-ballot races that matter locally. Like, um, this one.

I was not prepared for the awkwardness of teaching a grad student how to lick and seal an envelope.

Serious adverse event reported. (I’m a social scientist mostly doing qualitative research so what even the hell…)

A red, plush squid rests on a gray fleece beanbag chair. It has jaunty tentavles snd soulful eyes.

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!

Not religious but would genuinely consider praying to Jane Goodall.

One of the reasons I love qualitative research is the high of a really good interview.

I’ve settled on “For science!”

Sharing in hopes that some #caregiving #aging #epidemiology #publichealth researchers apply. Good luck ☘️

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#researchfunding #sciencefunding

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POV: Something must be going right if a mentee sent a thank-you gift with my favorite dinosaur

I study conflicts of interest. Here’s why RFK Jr.’s approach to the vaccine advisory committee could backfire Ridding the government, including CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, of industry interests should not play out this way, writes an expert on conflicts of interest.

“If Kennedy really wants to limit industry influence in health policy and the health care system, the most impactful thing he could do is to roll back the funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health…”
www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/r...

Having been disappointed in Nvivo for the last time, I’m ready to move my team to CAQDAS that can handle large, multi platform teams and massive data sets. Qualitative folks, what’s your least bad software?

Assisted dying: five questions that need answering before it can work in practice Legalising assisted dying is one thing. Funding, staffing, medication, legal oversight - that’s the real test.

As the assisted dying debate continues, Prof Nancy Preston of the IOELC and Prof Suzanne Ost of Lancaster Uni Law School explore the 5 questions that need answering before it can work in practice 👇

@nancypreston.bsky.social | @ioelc.bsky.social | @lulawcrim.bsky.social | @uk.theconversation.com

Older Adults Without Family Caregivers Need Better Access to Medicaid Support Services Changes to improve waiver access to adults aging solo.

Ahem. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Had an utterly delightful @skypeascientist.bsky.social with Ms.Davis’s 8th grade class about how you become a scientist and what kinds of questions we ask about aging. Go be curious, kids!

Scientist life goal unlocked: getting a match from @skypeascientist.bsky.social. What classroom begged their teacher for the aging, dementia and dying expert?

Tfw your search for data goes so deep the source is HCFA. #healthservices

'We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain' as Scientists Flee America for France A French university says it's providing safe harbor to American scientists from Yale, Stanford, NASA, and the NIH.

gizmodo.com/we-are-witne...

Your post this morning was my reminder to do the same. Thank you!

My Endnote library disappeared overnight so I’m waiting for IT to call back so I can figure out if I’m going to still be a scientist or finally take up shepherding.