Julia Goodman
@julia-goodman.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. I study work as a structural determinant of perinatal health, especially paid leave. Views are my own.
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Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April Fools? 🙏🏼😬😫
NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today.
One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease.
By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:
One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease.
By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:
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 1:16 AM
April Fools? 🙏🏼😬😫
Devastating 💔
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Devastating 💔
This 👇🏼
I loved living in the Bay Area, but the pervasiveness of this attitude - and the unquestioned celebration of it - always puzzled and frustrated me.
"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable confidence that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things."
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This 👇🏼
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Does anyone have any info on when the SIPP online codebook will be back up? Or happen to have a downloadable version of the codebook? This is for the 2014 and later panels, which only had the online interactive codebook.
February 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Does anyone have any info on when the SIPP online codebook will be back up? Or happen to have a downloadable version of the codebook? This is for the 2014 and later panels, which only had the online interactive codebook.
Just submitted a grant to AHRQ that I’ve been working on for a year. I sure hope someone reads it…
February 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just submitted a grant to AHRQ that I’ve been working on for a year. I sure hope someone reads it…
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ICYMI: I joined 90 House Democrats in denouncing Trump’s cuts to NIH and demanding answers on the threats they pose.
Trump and Elon are slashing funding for scientists working on cures to Alzheimer’s and cancer. Funding that would save lives.
Restore NIH funding NOW.
Trump and Elon are slashing funding for scientists working on cures to Alzheimer’s and cancer. Funding that would save lives.
Restore NIH funding NOW.
February 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ICYMI: I joined 90 House Democrats in denouncing Trump’s cuts to NIH and demanding answers on the threats they pose.
Trump and Elon are slashing funding for scientists working on cures to Alzheimer’s and cancer. Funding that would save lives.
Restore NIH funding NOW.
Trump and Elon are slashing funding for scientists working on cures to Alzheimer’s and cancer. Funding that would save lives.
Restore NIH funding NOW.
Gross
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February 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Gross
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This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
A must read
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A must read
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This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
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Reuters is now covering the order for all CDC scientists to withdraw, take their name off of, or edit all existing publications in consideration if it has such evil words as "prenant people"
This is research that is done and written. Straightforwardly censorship.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
This is research that is done and written. Straightforwardly censorship.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
February 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reuters is now covering the order for all CDC scientists to withdraw, take their name off of, or edit all existing publications in consideration if it has such evil words as "prenant people"
This is research that is done and written. Straightforwardly censorship.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
This is research that is done and written. Straightforwardly censorship.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
I’ve been using IPUMS since my early grad school days as both a teaching tool (making it super easy for undergrads to do basic analysis without needing external software) and to conduct my own research. I’ve never appreciated them more than I do this week ❤️
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February 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I’ve been using IPUMS since my early grad school days as both a teaching tool (making it super easy for undergrads to do basic analysis without needing external software) and to conduct my own research. I’ve never appreciated them more than I do this week ❤️
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Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
February 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
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I've been reading and writing a lot on work requirements recently--They do not improve employment prospects and instead, end up kicking people off programs like SNAP and Medicaid.
Shorter post here: www.epi.org/blog/work-re...
Shorter post here: www.epi.org/blog/work-re...
February 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I've been reading and writing a lot on work requirements recently--They do not improve employment prospects and instead, end up kicking people off programs like SNAP and Medicaid.
Shorter post here: www.epi.org/blog/work-re...
Shorter post here: www.epi.org/blog/work-re...
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Trump keeps normalizing political violence and intimidation — first with his pardons of insurrectionists, and now this.
It is a crime to obstruct access to a reproductive health clinic. There must be accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
It is a crime to obstruct access to a reproductive health clinic. There must be accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Trump Pardons Anti-Abortion Activists Who Blockaded Clinic
The move came ahead of the March for Life, the annual anti-abortion rally in Washington where Vice President JD Vance is expected to address attendees.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Trump keeps normalizing political violence and intimidation — first with his pardons of insurrectionists, and now this.
It is a crime to obstruct access to a reproductive health clinic. There must be accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
It is a crime to obstruct access to a reproductive health clinic. There must be accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
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Trump administration is reportedly stripping appx 300,000 Venezuelans of their legal permission to live & work in the US. They tried something similar in 2017 & were blocked in court. I wrote about that at Immigration Law Unhinged open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/t...
Targeting Legal Migration
Homeland Security sets aim at people who received permission to enter
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February 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump administration is reportedly stripping appx 300,000 Venezuelans of their legal permission to live & work in the US. They tried something similar in 2017 & were blocked in court. I wrote about that at Immigration Law Unhinged open.substack.com/pub/ccgh/p/t...
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The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
February 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
It is not the constitution that is failing us.
It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.
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Saying every abortion is tragic is like saying every surgery is tragic. Saying it means the speaker thinks their hatred of surgery is more important than whatever motivated the patient to get the surgery.
RFK told Sen. Lankford that “every abortion is a tragedy” and said Trump told him he wanted to end later abortions and wanted him to look into the “safety” of mifepristone.
Sounds to me like hints Trump will push for a gestational ban and have FDA restrict the abortion pill
Sounds to me like hints Trump will push for a gestational ban and have FDA restrict the abortion pill
January 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Saying every abortion is tragic is like saying every surgery is tragic. Saying it means the speaker thinks their hatred of surgery is more important than whatever motivated the patient to get the surgery.
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The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cervical Cancer Mortality Among US Women Younger Than 25 Years
This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.
jamanetwork.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:43 AM
The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Excited for this super important line of research from the brilliant @arpilarz.bsky.social and Jessica Pac!
Work-family balance begins before childbirth—work-family policies should, too. In this talk, I argue that we need more robust policy supports during pregnancy to protect women’s economic wellbeing and health and that of their unborn children. 1/7
November 26, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Excited for this super important line of research from the brilliant @arpilarz.bsky.social and Jessica Pac!