Carrie McAdams MD PhD
@cjmcadams.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and Psychiatrist - interested in Mechanisms & Targets to improve treatments for people with eating disorders.
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While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
April 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
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11 of about 55 PIs terminated at NINDS yesterday, with downstream effects for all of us in terms of the lost research into neurological disease and stroke. 1/ www.wired.com/story/doctor...
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
11 of about 55 PIs terminated at NINDS yesterday, with downstream effects for all of us in terms of the lost research into neurological disease and stroke. 1/ www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
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SCANDAL: A Defense Secretary leaking war plans isn’t just a bad headline—it’s a global crisis. Enemies are watching. Allies are panicking. This could change EVERYTHING.
March 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
SCANDAL: A Defense Secretary leaking war plans isn’t just a bad headline—it’s a global crisis. Enemies are watching. Allies are panicking. This could change EVERYTHING.
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Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
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I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.
Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
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Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
1/
March 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.
Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
1/
Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
1/
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Was notified this morning that the study section for which I was a reviewer, AA-4, has been dissolved and the SRO is now without a job.
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
March 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Was notified this morning that the study section for which I was a reviewer, AA-4, has been dissolved and the SRO is now without a job.
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Slashing NIH and bragging about the money you’re saving is like burning down your house and gloating about the reductions in maintenance and utility bills.
Slashing NIH and bragging about the money you’re saving is like burning down your house and gloating about the reductions in maintenance and utility bills.
February 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Slashing NIH and bragging about the money you’re saving is like burning down your house and gloating about the reductions in maintenance and utility bills.
Slashing NIH and bragging about the money you’re saving is like burning down your house and gloating about the reductions in maintenance and utility bills.
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#episky #idsky #climate 🧪
"Run fast and break things" may seem clever when what you are breaking is software.
When you break alliances, complex research organizations, long term projects, and systems designed to protect public health that took decades or centuries to build,
PEOPLE ARE GOING DIE.
"Run fast and break things" may seem clever when what you are breaking is software.
When you break alliances, complex research organizations, long term projects, and systems designed to protect public health that took decades or centuries to build,
PEOPLE ARE GOING DIE.
February 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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No more anti-depressants, anxiolytics, ADHD medications, or GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Mounjaro, etc) for anyone! Unclear if that last category would also apply to treating type 2 diabetes, which is also a chronic disease.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
No more anti-depressants, anxiolytics, ADHD medications, or GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Mounjaro, etc) for anyone! Unclear if that last category would also apply to treating type 2 diabetes, which is also a chronic disease.
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@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I’m on one of ASMs IDEAA committees and we have received 0 communication from ASM staff on why this is happening. I had to find out via social media. Extremely disappointing.
ASM website screenshots from the wayback machine in December '24 (web.archive.org/web/20241211...) vs today. Pretty disappointing!! 🧪
February 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I’m on one of ASMs IDEAA committees and we have received 0 communication from ASM staff on why this is happening. I had to find out via social media. Extremely disappointing.
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FDA approves new pain killer- First non-opioid analgesic in decades targets sodium channels.
#painresearch
#physio
#neuroskyence
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#painresearch
#physio
#neuroskyence
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US drug agency approves potent painkiller — the first non-opioid in decades
The FDA’s nod for suzetrigine bolsters confidence in the pharmaceutical industry’s strategy to target sodium channels.
www.nature.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
FDA approves new pain killer- First non-opioid analgesic in decades targets sodium channels.
#painresearch
#physio
#neuroskyence
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#painresearch
#physio
#neuroskyence
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
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To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread.
#sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience
Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.
#sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience
Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.
December 12, 2024 at 8:37 PM
To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread.
#sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience
Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.
#sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience
Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.
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Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/
real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/
real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/
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November 29, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/
real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/
real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/
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Mentoring schemes to ‘fix the women’, unhelpful stereotyping, and cookie cutter approach to diversity (usually centering white women) are and will always be ineffective. They don’t help minoritised & marginalised women. They also don’t help mainstream white, cishet, able bodied women either. /12
December 1, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Mentoring schemes to ‘fix the women’, unhelpful stereotyping, and cookie cutter approach to diversity (usually centering white women) are and will always be ineffective. They don’t help minoritised & marginalised women. They also don’t help mainstream white, cishet, able bodied women either. /12
This is resonates painfully - People above view as ‘too assertive’ and those below think ‘not doing enough’. Exhausting tightrope.
One of the open secrets about female academic leaders is that backseat drivers (I.e. either junior colleagues or colleagues to whom it does not concern, all have strong opinions about how woman leaders should lead. They are often not afraid to tell us that. This is just one of many ways women… /10
December 1, 2024 at 1:49 PM
This is resonates painfully - People above view as ‘too assertive’ and those below think ‘not doing enough’. Exhausting tightrope.
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In this ten(!)-year follow-up of CBT for depression in older adults, 88% remission of depressive disorders, 63% for anxiety disorders, 58% for all diagnoses combined.
There was also a control group so that we could see the long-term results of those who did not receive full therapy.
There was also a control group so that we could see the long-term results of those who did not receive full therapy.
Long-term remission and relapse of anxiety and depression in older adults after Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): A 10-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial
This study examined the long-term durability of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for older adults with comorbid anxiety and depression 10 years after…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:44 PM
In this ten(!)-year follow-up of CBT for depression in older adults, 88% remission of depressive disorders, 63% for anxiety disorders, 58% for all diagnoses combined.
There was also a control group so that we could see the long-term results of those who did not receive full therapy.
There was also a control group so that we could see the long-term results of those who did not receive full therapy.
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"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:47 AM
"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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For so many reasons therapists dont take insurance but # 1
The reimbursement rates we have been quoted for #eatingdisorder specialty care range from $30-50 per hour, w overhead costs, note writing, working w/ care team this would mean a therapist is making about 7.50-12.50 an hour
Unsustainable
The reimbursement rates we have been quoted for #eatingdisorder specialty care range from $30-50 per hour, w overhead costs, note writing, working w/ care team this would mean a therapist is making about 7.50-12.50 an hour
Unsustainable
Why is it so hard to find a therapist who takes insurance?
We heard from more than 500 mental health care providers who left their networks because of red tape, low reimbursement rates, delayed payments and more.
📽️ @carissaqmb.bsky.social
We heard from more than 500 mental health care providers who left their networks because of red tape, low reimbursement rates, delayed payments and more.
📽️ @carissaqmb.bsky.social
Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance
In the midst of a mental health crisis, finding a therapist who takes your insurance can feel impossible. Insurers say that’s because there aren’t enough the...
propub.li
November 29, 2024 at 3:35 AM
For so many reasons therapists dont take insurance but # 1
The reimbursement rates we have been quoted for #eatingdisorder specialty care range from $30-50 per hour, w overhead costs, note writing, working w/ care team this would mean a therapist is making about 7.50-12.50 an hour
Unsustainable
The reimbursement rates we have been quoted for #eatingdisorder specialty care range from $30-50 per hour, w overhead costs, note writing, working w/ care team this would mean a therapist is making about 7.50-12.50 an hour
Unsustainable
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