🧪 The PhD class of 2025 faces a tough job market due to COVID-19's aftermath and science funding cuts. Five students reveal realigned priorities, with some considering international opportunities, highlighting the need for stable research support. #AcademicSky

Reflections from a tenure-track #acamama living with #chronicillness & #disability: it’s hard out here. I fell short on publications in 2024 in my annual review.

Not because I didn’t do the research.
Not because I didn’t care.
But because I was surviving. 🧵

As junior faculty, I often find myself reflecting on whether my presence, teaching, & mentoring have made an impact. Receiving the Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Award was a meaningful affirmation that the work I do matters. Grateful to my students who made this recognition possible. 💙🧡

🙏 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

📣 Headed to #PAA2025 in D.C.? Don’t forget to tag us at @geronmedia.bsky.social...we’d love to spotlight your #aging research! @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Stressed and depressed? Me too. You should check out this open access online Land Back course by the Yellowhead Institute instead of continuing to doomscroll.

learnonline.yellowheadinstitute.org

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency

We are facing the demolition of American higher education

ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

Wei Zhao, Jessica Faul, Jennifer A. Smith et al. conducted an epigenome-wide mediation analysis of the relationship between psychosocial stress and ten cardiometabolic risk factors in a multi-racial/ethnic population of older adults from the #HRS myumi.ch/ypDgJ 🧪

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:

1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @UMSocialWork affiliate Robert J. Taylor in The Gerontologist

Research on Religion and Aging Among Black Americans and Mexican Americans: The Impact of the National Institute on Aging

myumi.ch/nyNr8

What is happening right now is not just a targeting of minority groups and our integration into society. It is the targeting of minority groups as part of remaking the United States government and the theory of democracy that has organized it for over two centuries.

I’ve been quiet for a while, dealing with my own health struggles, but it’s made me think deeply about what healthy aging really looks like in today’s world. With a political climate that continues to overlook our older generations what are we really doing to ensure that folks age with dignity? 🧵

@aegutierrez.bsky.social and I have a new article on accurately accounting for Latino racial identities and how these affect feelings of closeness and solidarity with different racial groups. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you think the NIH cuts are really about “costs” & not part of a broad attack on Higher Ed—

suppression of protests, EOs on DEI, “rooting out Marxism;” P2025 student loan plans; long push to support applied majors rather than liberal arts (i.e., learning to think), etc.—

you’ve lost the plot.

Directory of free, open psychological datasets

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

📢 The Introduction to Community-Based Participatory Research (#CBPR) module on CITI is still accessible but now includes a notice about being under review due to recent 2025 Executive Orders. Has anyone noticed changes yet to other #CITITraining? #ResearchEthics

¡Hola! I’m new to the @bsky.app neighborhood & would love to connect with Latina/o/x aging & health scholars across the epidemiology, gerontology, public health, sociology, & statistics fields. I’m a gerontologist & population health researcher focused on older adults in U.S. Latina/o/x communities.