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Megan Meyer, MPH, RD (she/her)
@megannomnom.bsky.social
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Registered Dietitian + interdisciplinary health PhD student in Northern Arizona. Maternal/child health, child feeding, and body image. Food, nutrition, and bodies are political 🫶🏻
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megannomnom.bsky.social
The most important thing I’ve ever heard in a #fnce session. Thankful for the opportunity to see @aaronfloresrdn.bsky.social and Stephen Reeder at #fnce2025.
October 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
megannomnom.bsky.social
This was a really lovely paper by @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social and @katerinaldi1.bsky.social exploring weight related terminology preference and better understanding the 🔗 between how folks describe themselves, weight stigma, and disordered eating. Kudos on an excellent first pub!
February 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
February 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
This OpEd by @jimalwine.bsky.social and I was just published. In it, we pointed out that Arizona has 755 NIH-funded projects that bring $487,315,747 to the state. The new IDC rate cap of 15% will have devastating effects on the state. tucson.com/opinion/colu...
Local opinion: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dangerous for the health and economy of Arizona
Trump’s nomination of Mr. Kennedy for secretary of HHS is a blow to science. Kennedy is an anti-vaccine activist, science denialist and conspiracy theorist whose fringe beliefs and lies have
tucson.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
megannomnom.bsky.social
Grateful for every scientist who had the foresight to archive CDC sites when they saw the writing on the wall. Here’s the #YRBSS datasets 👇🏼

web.archive.org/web/20241226...
National YRBSS Datasets and Documentation by Year
View/download national YRBSS datasets and documentation by year.
web.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
megannomnom.bsky.social
Help me decide what to present at my University’s 3 Minute Research Presentation contest. The stakes are high and I want to win, but can’t decide what to present. Vote in comments!
January 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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aheise.bsky.social
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

This site has info on the economic impact of NIH in your state, if you want to write your senators about this.
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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chevee.bsky.social
Eating disorders are so deadly and affect so many children, adolescents and adults...and are sooooo underfunded and misunderstood. Why is that when so many have these disorders?
cherilev.bsky.social Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · Nov 24
Out of 100,000 kids

120 will have Down syndrome

SIDS-56

Cancer -15

Type ii diabetes -12

2,900 will have an eating disorder
January 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
megannomnom.bsky.social
A colleague told my PhD advisor “Megan is really cool. She’s studying anorexia and babies.” Guess I need to work on succinctly describing my research😂
January 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
megannomnom.bsky.social
Keeping this article in my back pocket for future publications @nataliep310.bsky.social
markrubin.bsky.social Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Dec 18
“Where are the findings? You only provide quotes.”

New article considers qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback

Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0...

Few quotes follow 🧵
Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process have been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have focused on peer reviewers’ comments on qualitative articles, which are often described as indicative of a quantitative mindset or hostility to nonpositivist qualitative research. We extend this literature by focusing on qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent reviewer and editor comments—comments that are incommensurate with the conceptual foundations of the reviewed research. Qualitative researchers (N = 163) from a range of health and social science disciplines, including psychology, responded to a brief qualitative survey. Most contributors reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the assumptions and expectations of postpositivist research and reporting. Some also reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the norms and values particular to specific qualitative approaches. Contributors were concerned that peer reviewers often accept review invitations when they lack relevant methodological expertise and editors often select peer reviewers without such expertise. In response to methodologically incongruent comments, many contributors described a process of initially “pushing back” and explaining why these comments were incongruent with their research. When this educative approach was unsuccessful, some knowingly compromised the methodological integrity of their research and acquiesced to reviewer and editor requests. Earlier career researchers especially highlighted the powerlessness they felt in the peer review process in the context of a “publish or perish” academic climate. We end by outlining contributors’ recommendations for improving the methodological integrity of the peer review of qualitative research.
December 20, 2024 at 2:22 AM
megannomnom.bsky.social
So glad to see that academic Bluesky is growing. Excited to grow my network and learn from others as I jump into my PhD and research.
November 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM