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Neo Gebru
@neooology.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine @ Emory
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📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors?

Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1!

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The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Researchers take note: 👇🏼👇🏼

analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions:
49% substantially altered
106 had "gender" switched to "sex"
15 logged/indicated change occurred

🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Our own Mitchell Warren shared a sobering picture of the potential of a world without HIV prevention / reduced access to #PrEP at #IAS2025 satellite: Re-imagining Prevention.

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July 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Reunited with the legends, mentors who saw potential in the chaos. Thanks for a full circle moment @rsaofficial.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Scholars in the US and other countries have now a choice imposed on them:

Acquiesce or resist?

In this handbook, we outline how scholars can respond during democratic backsliding and encourage reflection on personal values and the consequences of different coping strategies.
June 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors?

Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1!

tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.

www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...

and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk
I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of
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May 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
(Somehow) we're now only one month away from the first due date to SUBMIT to our ECP SPECIAL ISSUE on health behavior change.

We look forward to highlighting your important and much needed substance use research.

See details here: tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What a dream, and what a time, to be starting this next epic chapter as Assistant Professor @emoryfammed.bsky.social 🎉
April 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The firing of esteemed IC directors, large numbers of dedicated HHS staffers, and those who run the NSDUH is truly devastating to research, surveillance, and public health capacity.
Absolute bloodbath at HHS. Damn every Senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr.
April 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors?

Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1!

tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...
February 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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For those of you interested in pulling excellent papers from this journal, I have created a public collection: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi...
The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr
February 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
the deepest sigh of relief in a long while....
a woman is sitting in a chair with her hands on her chest and a surprised look on her face .
ALT: a woman is sitting in a chair with her hands on her chest and a surprised look on her face .
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January 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
new year, new me...
January 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM