Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
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She/Her, NIH/NIA, Ex-PCORI, Health Policy (UMD), Biostats (UW). AMSTAT 2027 HPSS Chair. 🏊♀️🥐🌈🐱🐔Human to @parrishpets.bsky.social. My posts, not NIH's. BD Signer. RT Speaker. Reposts &❤️≠endorsements. Signal: tyk314.15.
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
@tyk314.net
· Sep 25
I hope some of you #NIA researchers present and attend. @bryandjames.bsky.social , @sdukehan.bsky.social , @leadcoalition.bsky.social , @mariaglymour.bsky.social , @cgster.bsky.social , and anyone else interested? #geronsky
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I hope some of you #NIA researchers present and attend. @bryandjames.bsky.social , @sdukehan.bsky.social , @leadcoalition.bsky.social , @mariaglymour.bsky.social , @cgster.bsky.social , and anyone else interested? #geronsky
Reposted by Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
Without taking a position on the legal issues in this post—
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Without taking a position on the legal issues in this post—
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
I wrote on Tue about the broader strategy employed by the right on free speech: Insisting on maximal individual free speech, while rightwing billionaires tilt public debate by paying to elevate speech they like. Link in next post: 1/
Reposted by Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
My segment on CNBC today
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
‘These aren’t benign diseases’
grabien.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My segment on CNBC today
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
#NIH Director, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, has worked with ESI. He and colleagues benefited from such programs. We must hold him accountable so that ESI funding remains.
This idea is supported by work from none other than Jay Bhattacharya... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Age and the Trying Out of New Ideas | Journal of Human Capital: Vol 13, No 2
The aging of the scientific workforce and graying of grant recipients are central concerns in science policy. These trends are potentially important because older scientists are often seen as less ope...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
#NIH Director, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, has worked with ESI. He and colleagues benefited from such programs. We must hold him accountable so that ESI funding remains.
Reposted by Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
We need to support early stage investigators. This is the greatest ROI the country can have. #NIH
NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We need to support early stage investigators. This is the greatest ROI the country can have. #NIH
Reposted by Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
Hey, @echr.coe.int , this research would not happen in the United States because of Tuskegee. It is appalling that this is happening at the University of Southern Denmark. Shut this down promptly. #publichealthsky
Notice of Award of a Single Source Unsolicited Grant To Fund University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the award of approximately $1,600,000 over a five-year period, in resp...
www.federalregister.gov
December 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hey, @echr.coe.int , this research would not happen in the United States because of Tuskegee. It is appalling that this is happening at the University of Southern Denmark. Shut this down promptly. #publichealthsky
Reposted by Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
An 🧪 #NIH peer review scientist was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2009. Stalling of clinical trials slows down the development of new drugs. New patients won't be enrolled. Patients already undergoing treatment are put on hold. The cuts affect future patients.
via @savehealthresearch on IG
via @savehealthresearch on IG
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
An 🧪 #NIH peer review scientist was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2009. Stalling of clinical trials slows down the development of new drugs. New patients won't be enrolled. Patients already undergoing treatment are put on hold. The cuts affect future patients.
via @savehealthresearch on IG
via @savehealthresearch on IG
1. IMPACT Collaboratory seeks a postdoc with the Design and Statistics Core (DSC). The aims are to develop and disseminate research methods and best practices in the conduct and implementation of embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCT) for people living with #dementia and their care partners.
Design and Statistics Core - NIA IMPACT Collaboratory
Core Activities The Design and Statistics Core focuses on biostatistical methods for the design, conduct, and analysis of health system-embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) among people living w...
impactcollaboratory.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
1. IMPACT Collaboratory seeks a postdoc with the Design and Statistics Core (DSC). The aims are to develop and disseminate research methods and best practices in the conduct and implementation of embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCT) for people living with #dementia and their care partners.
You don't do single arm trials when you know the treatment already benefits people. This is Tuskegee 2.0. We should be equally angry with University of Southern Denmark for allowing this garbage to happen. #statssky #publichealthsky
Notice of Award of a Single Source Unsolicited Grant To Fund University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the award of approximately $1,600,000 over a five-year period, in resp...
www.federalregister.gov
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
You don't do single arm trials when you know the treatment already benefits people. This is Tuskegee 2.0. We should be equally angry with University of Southern Denmark for allowing this garbage to happen. #statssky #publichealthsky
I am getting coaching/ref training for Taekwondo. The AAU performed a background check to ensure I'm not a pedophile. I start training next week. Turns out, I need a brown belt to ref. I mean, it's not like we have Senate approvals for incompetent department secretaries and agency directors. 🙄😒🫠
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am getting coaching/ref training for Taekwondo. The AAU performed a background check to ensure I'm not a pedophile. I start training next week. Turns out, I need a brown belt to ref. I mean, it's not like we have Senate approvals for incompetent department secretaries and agency directors. 🙄😒🫠
Tap tap tap. Does this work? @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is serves the people. Not the political will. We are #scientists.
#NIHStrong #imwithjenna #BethesdaDeclaration
#NIHStrong #imwithjenna #BethesdaDeclaration
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Tap tap tap. Does this work? @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is serves the people. Not the political will. We are #scientists.
#NIHStrong #imwithjenna #BethesdaDeclaration
#NIHStrong #imwithjenna #BethesdaDeclaration
The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!
Become a Summer Intern in DCEG
DCEG offers a summer research internship in cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, or genetics fo college, postbaccalaureate masters-level students, and graduate students, including medical and dental st...
dceg.cancer.gov
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!
I just can't be bothered with renegotiation right now. Instead, I ought to "air my grievances" and challenge Dr. Bhattacharya to a feats of strength. Who would win? Just as we say, if we ignore inclusion reports in progress reports, then no health disparities exist. 🙄😒
Jay Bhattacharya (who ought to look in a mirror) has brought the Great Replacement Theory to science. My friends, funding health disparities research does not mean that NIH will ignore diseases that affect White men. And we have laws to protect inclusion in research.
thespectator.com/topic/cured-...
thespectator.com/topic/cured-...
How we cured DEI at the National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health will no longer fund research based on DEI that has diverted resources from advancing health
thespectator.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I just can't be bothered with renegotiation right now. Instead, I ought to "air my grievances" and challenge Dr. Bhattacharya to a feats of strength. Who would win? Just as we say, if we ignore inclusion reports in progress reports, then no health disparities exist. 🙄😒
📣 @bryandjames.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc at @rushalzheimers.bsky.social. This work examines predictors and consequences of a timely #dementia diagnosis using CMS claims linked to cohort data. Could be great for an #hpss #statssky #episky #hspr #geronsky PhD student finishing up this year.
Risks and Benefits of Clinical Diagnosis Around the Time of Dementia Onset
Diagnostic delay in dementia is common in the U.S. Drivers of diagnostic delay are poorly understood, but appear related to misconceptions about dementia, stigma, concerns about autonomy, the nature of the diagnostic process, and provider-related ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
📣 @bryandjames.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc at @rushalzheimers.bsky.social. This work examines predictors and consequences of a timely #dementia diagnosis using CMS claims linked to cohort data. Could be great for an #hpss #statssky #episky #hspr #geronsky PhD student finishing up this year.
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This isn't how it works. This isn't how anything works🤦. #NIH #ICO directors need to be vetted, and ideally we'd have search committees. It shouldn't be based on whether you officiated a powerful person's wedding.
NIH has for decades used a rigorous recruitment process to hire its top scientists, the institute directors.
The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance.
This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.
The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance.
This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.
Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors
The institute directors at NIH are top scientific leaders who in principle can redirect grant money as they please. The Trump NIH must not install new directors without a real hiring process.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hey #statssky and #geronsky and #realworlddata lovers, if you're into data linkage and high quality data for #dementia research, and if you're an early stage investigator, have I got a mentoring program for you! See what the #NIA has posted and log on to the informational webinar next week!
The 1-year mentored training program builds skills and professional networks for postdocs, PhD students, and early-career investigators, interested in using real-world data to improve care of people living with #dementia. Info Webinar 12/08/2025, 1:00 PM ET!
#geronsky #statssky #realworlddata
#geronsky #statssky #realworlddata
Real World Data Scholars Program - NIA IMPACT Collaboratory
Program Overview The Real World Data Scholars Program is a 1-year mentored training experience designed to build practical skills and professional networks for early-career investigators, postdoctoral...
impactcollaboratory.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Hey #statssky and #geronsky and #realworlddata lovers, if you're into data linkage and high quality data for #dementia research, and if you're an early stage investigator, have I got a mentoring program for you! See what the #NIA has posted and log on to the informational webinar next week!