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Ariel Beccia
@albeccia.bsky.social
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social epidemiologist with @harvardstriped.bsky.social | queer mental health, eating disorders, quantitative intersectionality | she/her 🌈
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harvardstriped.bsky.social
STRIPED team member Ariel Beccia presented a poster on our advocacy work to re-include items assessing eating disorders into the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) at #SER2025 last week! @societyforepi.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??...

Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
actionnetwork.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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rheumcat.bsky.social
Met @albeccia.bsky.social at #SER2025 and heard a story of persistence in lobbying for a public health database to include important questions — work that has been threatened by the current administration
Dr Ariel Beccia presenting a poster about eating disorder surveillance in the YBRS database at SER 2025 in Boston
June 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social
Thanks to @theresagaff.bsky.social for highlighting the devastating impact that terminated #eatingdisorder grants will have on Americans - including our work on LGBTQ-affirmative therapy for EDs @ajblashill.bsky.social
standupforscience.bsky.social Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 3
Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic.

Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them.

This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...
Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions
Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.
www.statnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
albeccia.bsky.social
eating disorder research was already so severely underfunded - 7 terminated grants is devastating to our field!
standupforscience.bsky.social Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 3
Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic.

Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them.

This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...
Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions
Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.
www.statnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic.

Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them.

This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...
Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions
Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.
www.statnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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harvardstriped.bsky.social
STRIPED’s Ariel Beccia speaks out in Theresa Gaffney’s new STAT piece on how eating disorder research is being gutted under the Trump admin. $2.7M in NIH grants already cut. Read more: www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e... @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social @statnews.com
Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions
Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.
www.statnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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harvardstriped.bsky.social
Honored to share that Dr. Bryn Austin has received the Leadership Award for Mentorship from the Academy for Eating Disorders. Deepest thanks to the colleagues and mentees who made this recognition possible. #ICED2025 @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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harvardstriped.bsky.social
Honored to receive awards for two STRIPED projects from the AED Epidemiology & Public Health Practice SIG at ICED 2025! Thanks to the SIG for this recognition. Presented by Chloe Gao & Bryn Austin at #ICED2025. @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped.

This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.

www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up
The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
www.eenews.net
May 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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harvardstriped.bsky.social
The STRIPED team is on Capitol Hill for the Eating Disorders Coalition’s Advocacy Day, helping advance the recognition of eating disorders as a public health priority across the U.S. @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social
📣Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue.

In our latest research pub:
LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers.

📄@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth

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Differences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National Cohorts
This cohort study uses data from the Nurses' Health Study 2 and 3 and Growing Up Today Study to assess differences in use of abortion care by sexual orientation.
jamanetwork.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Trevor Project (Ages 13-24):
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LGBT National Hotline:
(888) 843-4564

LGBT Youth National Chatline (Up to age 25):
(800) 246-7743

Trans Lifeline:
(800) 246-7743

True Colors United (LGBT Runaway Support):
(212) 461-4401

National Runaway Safeline:
(800) 786-2929
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Apr 22
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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scott-delaney.bsky.social
🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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davidimiller.bsky.social
🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants:

"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Statement of NSF priorities April 18, 2025 NSF priorities are grounded in the mission of the agency and modulated by statutory directives and administration priorities. NSF uses two statutory criteria to ensure that every award has the potential to advance new knowledge (Intellectual Merit) with maximum impact on the Nation and its people (Broader Impacts). NSF investments unleash groundbreaking discoveries, translational solutions and expand participation in STEM. These efforts strengthen our domestic workforce to fuel economic prosperity, national security, and global S&E competitiveness. The principles of merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence are the bedrock of the NSF mission. NSF continues to review all projects using Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts criteria. NSF's broadening participation activities, including activities undertaken in fulfillment of the Broader Impacts criterion, and research on broadening participation, must aim to create opportunities for all Americans everywhere. These efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others, or directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities. NSF will continue to support research with the goal of understanding or addressing participation in STEM, in accordance with all applicable statutes and mandates, with the core goal of creating opportunities for all Americans. NSF will continue to support basic and use-inspired research in S&E fields that focus on protected characteristics when doing so is intrinsic to the research question and is aligned with Agency priorities.
April 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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scott-delaney.bsky.social
On it.

Report your terminated NSF grant here:

airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions.

All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
April 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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davidimiller.bsky.social
🧪 Today, NSF disbanded its advisory committees of external experts, leaving only the ones mandated by law.

This is a move towards using less input from the broader scientific community to drive NSF's strategic direction.

www.nsf.gov/executive-or...
What is the status of NSF's advisory committees? Consistent with the President's February 19, 2025, executive order, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, the following federal advisory committees are disestablished as of April 15, 2025: Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences Advisory Committee for Business and Operations Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Committee for Engineering Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education Advisory Committee for Geosciences Advisory Committee for Integrative Activities Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee for STEM Education The following advisory committees are required in statute and will therefore continue to meet and provide advice to the NSF under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA): Alan T. Waterman Award Committee President's Committee on the National Medal of Science Advisory Committee for Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE)
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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medievaliste.bsky.social
🧵 You might have seen a post urging you to donate to Harvard, a wealthy university that needs no financial reward for doing the bare minimum.

Instead, I'd like to tell you about some organizations that are working to protect academic freedom and at-risk scholars and deserve your support

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April 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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datarescueproject.org
If you want something to do but don’t have time to rescue data or clean metadata, this is what we mean by speak out. Tell them why public data matters.
apduorg.bsky.social APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · Feb 1
URGENT: APDU urges you to contact your representatives, regardless of their party affiliation, and let them know that you, as a constituent, believe that the loss of public data is unacceptable.

☎️ is most effective and takes just two minutes of your time.

Contact lookup and sample script in 🧵
Call your representatives and ask them to defend public data
April 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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kevinguyan.bsky.social
The grim commonalities between Germany in the 1930s and the USA in the 2020s #QueerData
albeccia.bsky.social Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · Apr 11
sounds familiar
April 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
albeccia.bsky.social
sounds familiar
April 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
It’s almost like it’s not about antisemitism
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 9
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions. This is more than an attack on individual agencies. All autocracies do this. And the effects of this purge will be profound and long lasting. My latest for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge
The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.
www.thenation.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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luckytran.com
The White House just removed the only public database showing how federal dollars are approved for spending - despite a law requiring it. We’ve lost a key tool for transparency and oversight.
April 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM