Lisa Simpson MB BCh
@drsimpsonhsr.bsky.social
Pediatrician, health services researcher, passionate advocate for use of evidence in policy; committed to diversity and equity in life, healthcare, and research...love to do yoga n cook!! #foodislove #cookingismyzen
“We must use our time and our space on this little planet that we call Earth to make a lasting contribution, to leave it a little better than we found it, and now that need is greater than ever before.”
TY John Lewis.
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TY John Lewis.
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July 17, 2025
Five years ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“We must use our time and our space on this little planet that we call Earth to make a lasting contribution, to leave it a little better than we found it, and now that need is greater than ever before.”
TY John Lewis.
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TY John Lewis.
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"A kind of genealogical amnesia was eating holes in these family histories as permanently as moths eat holes in the sweaters lovingly knitted by our ancestors."
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The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but Should
Many people don’t know very much about their older relatives. But if we don’t ask, we risk never knowing our own history.
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June 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"A kind of genealogical amnesia was eating holes in these family histories as permanently as moths eat holes in the sweaters lovingly knitted by our ancestors."
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Even in the darkest times I appreciate wit
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Even in the darkest times I appreciate wit
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Peace. Not pieces.
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June 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Peace. Not pieces.
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"Life offers few greater pleasures than that of passing on your enthusiasms and secret discoveries. But the greatest pleasure of all may be to uncover something that no one else has mentioned."
I have loved Pico Iyer since I read Video Nights in Kathmandu after 6 wks in Thailand
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I have loved Pico Iyer since I read Video Nights in Kathmandu after 6 wks in Thailand
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The Travel Writer’s Dilemma: Share, or Gatekeep?
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June 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Life offers few greater pleasures than that of passing on your enthusiasms and secret discoveries. But the greatest pleasure of all may be to uncover something that no one else has mentioned."
I have loved Pico Iyer since I read Video Nights in Kathmandu after 6 wks in Thailand
tinyurl.com/3k9r6wjm
I have loved Pico Iyer since I read Video Nights in Kathmandu after 6 wks in Thailand
tinyurl.com/3k9r6wjm
I have heard many monikers associated with #data - e.g. junkie, hippy, etc... but this was a new one: #data thug.
From the #MedicalEvidenceProject
Factoid: "one in every 50 papers published by scientific journals should probably be retracted."
tinyurl.com/3v7t248j
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From the #MedicalEvidenceProject
Factoid: "one in every 50 papers published by scientific journals should probably be retracted."
tinyurl.com/3v7t248j
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Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’
Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I have heard many monikers associated with #data - e.g. junkie, hippy, etc... but this was a new one: #data thug.
From the #MedicalEvidenceProject
Factoid: "one in every 50 papers published by scientific journals should probably be retracted."
tinyurl.com/3v7t248j
@academyhealth.bsky.social
From the #MedicalEvidenceProject
Factoid: "one in every 50 papers published by scientific journals should probably be retracted."
tinyurl.com/3v7t248j
@academyhealth.bsky.social
The recommendations focus on protecting users from technology misuse that could infringe on their human rights, including their autonomy and freedom of thought. Delegates [...] included scientists, ethicists and legal specialists.
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Brain-reading devices raise ethical dilemmas — researchers propose protections
Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on maintaining users’ privacy.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The recommendations focus on protecting users from technology misuse that could infringe on their human rights, including their autonomy and freedom of thought. Delegates [...] included scientists, ethicists and legal specialists.
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It just keeps getting worse.
Yay for #Standupforscience!
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Yay for #Standupforscience!
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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”
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June 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
It just keeps getting worse.
Yay for #Standupforscience!
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Yay for #Standupforscience!
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"Racism, too, carries an economic toll. A 2020 analysis from Citi found that systemic racism has cost the U.S. economy $16 trillion since 2000."
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Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI
From civil rights to corporate boardrooms, efforts to expand inclusion have long shaped American life. What does research show about the returns – and limits – of today’s DEI programs?
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May 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Racism, too, carries an economic toll. A 2020 analysis from Citi found that systemic racism has cost the U.S. economy $16 trillion since 2000."
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"Our country has always run on the quiet competence of people committed to their work, whether they’re keeping credit card companies from ripping us off or making sure our airplanes land safely."
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Opinion | DOGE Has Left Do-Gooder Washington in Ruins
I live in D.C., and I’ve always cherished my friends and neighbors who signed on for public service. Now they’re being chased out of town.
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May 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"Our country has always run on the quiet competence of people committed to their work, whether they’re keeping credit card companies from ripping us off or making sure our airplanes land safely."
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I spent all of Monday and Tuesday watching capstone presentations from students in our program. Media, Medicine and Health at Harvard Medical School.
These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.
These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I spent all of Monday and Tuesday watching capstone presentations from students in our program. Media, Medicine and Health at Harvard Medical School.
These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.
These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.
I love Arthur C. Brooks's Thursday column in @theatlantic.com.
This week's really resonated:
"...choose what’s morally beautiful, and you will be rewarded."
Every single day is a choice to find moral beauty, especially in a country so focused on power, wealth, and hate.
tinyurl.com/2v538ahp
This week's really resonated:
"...choose what’s morally beautiful, and you will be rewarded."
Every single day is a choice to find moral beauty, especially in a country so focused on power, wealth, and hate.
tinyurl.com/2v538ahp
The Beauty That Moral Courage Creates
A lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I love Arthur C. Brooks's Thursday column in @theatlantic.com.
This week's really resonated:
"...choose what’s morally beautiful, and you will be rewarded."
Every single day is a choice to find moral beauty, especially in a country so focused on power, wealth, and hate.
tinyurl.com/2v538ahp
This week's really resonated:
"...choose what’s morally beautiful, and you will be rewarded."
Every single day is a choice to find moral beauty, especially in a country so focused on power, wealth, and hate.
tinyurl.com/2v538ahp
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Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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May 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
So proud of my sister launching this new partnership!
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TED Partners with Academic Travel Abroad to Launch TED Branded Travel Program
The initiative is designed to transform travel into an immersive, educational journey.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
So proud of my sister launching this new partnership!
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Excellent news. Let's hope the cuts are permanently stopped.
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Judge rules Trump administration cannot carry out $11B in public health funding cuts
It’s the second time a federal judge has sided with states in their legal battle to stop the Trump administration from slashing funds for public health initiatives.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Excellent news. Let's hope the cuts are permanently stopped.
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WELL DONE @AcademyHealth! We must challenge the disappearance of public data!!
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AcademyHealth Joins Lawsuit to Restore Public Health Data Removed from Federal Websites | AcademyHealth
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May 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
WELL DONE @AcademyHealth! We must challenge the disappearance of public data!!
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An excellent post from @aaronecarroll.bsky.social, CEO @academyhealth.bsky.social
"When we produce and communicate research, we embrace moral responsibility, not neutrality."
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"When we produce and communicate research, we embrace moral responsibility, not neutrality."
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What it Means to “Meet the Moment” as Researchers
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May 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
An excellent post from @aaronecarroll.bsky.social, CEO @academyhealth.bsky.social
"When we produce and communicate research, we embrace moral responsibility, not neutrality."
@aaas.org
@nationalacademies.org
@rasushrestha.bsky.social
@helenburstinmd.medsky.social
tinyurl.com/mtm5hm9w
"When we produce and communicate research, we embrace moral responsibility, not neutrality."
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@nationalacademies.org
@rasushrestha.bsky.social
@helenburstinmd.medsky.social
tinyurl.com/mtm5hm9w
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Medicaid: CBO releases preliminary estimates of House Budget reductions
Proposal would lead to $912 billion in cuts over 10 yrs, $715 billion from health provisions. Proposal would raise uninsured by 13.7 million, including 8.6 million from new proposal
timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-c...
Proposal would lead to $912 billion in cuts over 10 yrs, $715 billion from health provisions. Proposal would raise uninsured by 13.7 million, including 8.6 million from new proposal
timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-c...
May 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Medicaid: CBO releases preliminary estimates of House Budget reductions
Proposal would lead to $912 billion in cuts over 10 yrs, $715 billion from health provisions. Proposal would raise uninsured by 13.7 million, including 8.6 million from new proposal
timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-c...
Proposal would lead to $912 billion in cuts over 10 yrs, $715 billion from health provisions. Proposal would raise uninsured by 13.7 million, including 8.6 million from new proposal
timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-c...
"Cost reductions from laying off federal employees have been too small to show up in the data. This is not surprising, because even laying off one quarter of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees would shave off just 1 percent of federal spending"
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The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts
If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Cost reductions from laying off federal employees have been too small to show up in the data. This is not surprising, because even laying off one quarter of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees would shave off just 1 percent of federal spending"
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So important that NSF uses "broader impacts" as a criterion for funding! Wish NIH did more of this.
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Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society
Basic research that doesn’t have a specific industrial or experimental application still adds value outside the lab by engaging people with exciting research.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So important that NSF uses "broader impacts" as a criterion for funding! Wish NIH did more of this.
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At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.
24-hour vigil to save Medicaid takes over National Mall
"This is a matter of life and death for millions of people," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.