Steven Safren
@drstevesafren.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at University of Miami (UM), Director of UM Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health.
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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
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Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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May 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
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Recent statement from the @abctnow.bsky.social board given recent times.
May 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Recent statement from the @abctnow.bsky.social board given recent times.
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⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️🌈
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
Harvard Medical researcher sues NIH for cutting grant to study LGBTQ mental health
"This is not just an attack on the LGBTQ community — it is a blow to the integrity of science and the health of every American," a Harvard Medical School associate professor studying the mental…
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April 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️🌈
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr.
As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“
#SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth
Folks - LGBT health is so under attack. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter-century.
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April 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Folks - LGBT health is so under attack. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Now would be a great time to donate to the ACLU foundation to support their litigation work. Fight the attack on science ! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Now would be a great time to donate to the ACLU foundation to support their litigation work. Fight the attack on science ! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you
March 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you
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We know Trump & Elon are corrupt. We’ve learned even more in the past 48 hours:
🚙 Trump’s State Department tried to funnel $400 million to Tesla.
💰 Elon received $38 billion in government contracts, loans, & tax credits.
🛰️ The FAA gave a contract to Elon’s company Starlink, worth billions.
🚙 Trump’s State Department tried to funnel $400 million to Tesla.
💰 Elon received $38 billion in government contracts, loans, & tax credits.
🛰️ The FAA gave a contract to Elon’s company Starlink, worth billions.
February 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We know Trump & Elon are corrupt. We’ve learned even more in the past 48 hours:
🚙 Trump’s State Department tried to funnel $400 million to Tesla.
💰 Elon received $38 billion in government contracts, loans, & tax credits.
🛰️ The FAA gave a contract to Elon’s company Starlink, worth billions.
🚙 Trump’s State Department tried to funnel $400 million to Tesla.
💰 Elon received $38 billion in government contracts, loans, & tax credits.
🛰️ The FAA gave a contract to Elon’s company Starlink, worth billions.
Personally I just think things like NIH, USAID, education programs , Medicare, social security are better things to do with tax money than getting that money to businesses like spaceX and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. #oligarchy
February 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Personally I just think things like NIH, USAID, education programs , Medicare, social security are better things to do with tax money than getting that money to businesses like spaceX and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. #oligarchy
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It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.
This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Bad news for the health of the U.S. and the world
February 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Bad news for the health of the U.S. and the world
Thank you, @mitchprinstein.bsky.social and APA. Happy to have signed on, on behalf of ABCT.
Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Thank you, @mitchprinstein.bsky.social and APA. Happy to have signed on, on behalf of ABCT.
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ABCT is happy to introduce our members to Volunteer Me. Here, our CEO Dr. Courtney White walks you through the easy to use portal, where you can indicate your interest in joining one or many of ABCT's vibrant and diverse committees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbSr...
What is Volunteer Me?
YouTube video by Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
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February 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
ABCT is happy to introduce our members to Volunteer Me. Here, our CEO Dr. Courtney White walks you through the easy to use portal, where you can indicate your interest in joining one or many of ABCT's vibrant and diverse committees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbSr...
ABCT Members: Hope to see you at the Presidential Fireside Chat on Tues, Feb 25th at 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET. Focus was supposed to be about the conference changes, but I have a feeling some other issues might come up. Register here.
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February 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ABCT Members: Hope to see you at the Presidential Fireside Chat on Tues, Feb 25th at 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET. Focus was supposed to be about the conference changes, but I have a feeling some other issues might come up. Register here.
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Another great read - this is about staying silent versus speaking up within the medical profession. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
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February 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Another great read - this is about staying silent versus speaking up within the medical profession. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
More information about why the slash to indirect costs will cripple the advancement of science. www.facebook.com/share/p/15Bw...
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February 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
More information about why the slash to indirect costs will cripple the advancement of science. www.facebook.com/share/p/15Bw...
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Someone gonna get big mad at this
The new cover of TIME magazine has an illustration of Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk.
February 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Someone gonna get big mad at this
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Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
This is really bad and devastating to research and science. Grants have direct and indirect costs - both needed to carry out a project. This will make doing research in academic institutions and hospitals pretty much impossible. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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February 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is really bad and devastating to research and science. Grants have direct and indirect costs - both needed to carry out a project. This will make doing research in academic institutions and hospitals pretty much impossible. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Statement from ABCT President (me) and our CEO about the recent executive orders.
February 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Statement from ABCT President (me) and our CEO about the recent executive orders.
“America’s most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election by an average of 77.7%.” investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/t...
January 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“America’s most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election by an average of 77.7%.” investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/t...
Wow people. Public health = national security. “The U.S. had a playbook — now undermined — for responding to biological threats.”
There have been 12 outbreaks of Ebola or Marburg (a close cousin) in the past 4 years
Zero have landed in the US
Why?
Because of people like Stephanie Psaki and a US deeply engaged in the world
So Stephanie asks
Who is protecting Americans from Marburg now?
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Zero have landed in the US
Why?
Because of people like Stephanie Psaki and a US deeply engaged in the world
So Stephanie asks
Who is protecting Americans from Marburg now?
www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/m...
Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now?
The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.
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January 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Wow people. Public health = national security. “The U.S. had a playbook — now undermined — for responding to biological threats.”
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The NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office website has been taken down.
LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately subjected to violence, discrimination & stigma, affecting their health outcomes.
Ignoring these facts endangers us all.
#MedSky #LGBT #LGBTQ #NIH #research #science
LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately subjected to violence, discrimination & stigma, affecting their health outcomes.
Ignoring these facts endangers us all.
#MedSky #LGBT #LGBTQ #NIH #research #science
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM