Lucy W. Naughton (she/her)
@lucywnaughton.bsky.social
Clinical Research Asst @ Violence Prevention Lab, Brown University Health | Hamilton College ‘24
sexual & intimate partner violence prevention | integrated treatment of OCD+PTSD | victim blame & shame | biphobia & bisexuality 🏳️🌈
views are my own
sexual & intimate partner violence prevention | integrated treatment of OCD+PTSD | victim blame & shame | biphobia & bisexuality 🏳️🌈
views are my own
Pinned
Hello academic Bluesky! I’m a clinical research assistant working with Dr. Lindsay Orchowski & Dr. Prachi Bhuptani in the Violence Prevention Lab at Brown University Health.
As an introduction, here are some favorite memories — my first conference ever & EPA this spring with my fellow RAs :)
As an introduction, here are some favorite memories — my first conference ever & EPA this spring with my fellow RAs :)
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Researchers take note: 👇🏼👇🏼
analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions:
49% substantially altered
106 had "gender" switched to "sex"
15 logged/indicated change occurred
🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions:
49% substantially altered
106 had "gender" switched to "sex"
15 logged/indicated change occurred
🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021
was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and
the words were also switched in ...
www.thelancet.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Researchers take note: 👇🏼👇🏼
analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions:
49% substantially altered
106 had "gender" switched to "sex"
15 logged/indicated change occurred
🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions:
49% substantially altered
106 had "gender" switched to "sex"
15 logged/indicated change occurred
🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
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Rage coding this morning using #TidyTuesday NSF grant terminations data.
Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration.
I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out
jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...
Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration.
I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out
jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...
May 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Rage coding this morning using #TidyTuesday NSF grant terminations data.
Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration.
I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out
jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...
Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration.
I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out
jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...
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Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research.
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research.
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
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Birdsong is vanishing.
83% of North American bird species are in decline.
And Trump? He’s gutting the protections meant to save them. 140+ actions to dismantle environmental protections already.
Birds are a warning siren. Sound the alarm. Fight back.
Read more ⬇️
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
83% of North American bird species are in decline.
And Trump? He’s gutting the protections meant to save them. 140+ actions to dismantle environmental protections already.
Birds are a warning siren. Sound the alarm. Fight back.
Read more ⬇️
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
North American bird populations suffering severe decline | Cornell Chronicle
North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving, according to new Cornell research.
news.cornell.edu
May 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Birdsong is vanishing.
83% of North American bird species are in decline.
And Trump? He’s gutting the protections meant to save them. 140+ actions to dismantle environmental protections already.
Birds are a warning siren. Sound the alarm. Fight back.
Read more ⬇️
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
83% of North American bird species are in decline.
And Trump? He’s gutting the protections meant to save them. 140+ actions to dismantle environmental protections already.
Birds are a warning siren. Sound the alarm. Fight back.
Read more ⬇️
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE:
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
More than a dozen states, DC sue Trump administration over ‘dismantling’ of federal health agencies | CNN
Democratic attorneys general across 19 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal hea...
www.cnn.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE:
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
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🧪 ICYMI: $25,000 bridge funding for terminated NSF grants.
Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix.
Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.
Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix.
Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🧪 ICYMI: $25,000 bridge funding for terminated NSF grants.
Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix.
Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.
Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix.
Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.
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Check this chart.
Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000.
This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars.
The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.
Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000.
This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars.
The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.
May 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Check this chart.
Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000.
This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars.
The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.
Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000.
This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars.
The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.
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I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
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I’m here to tell you that @standupforscience.bsky.social is working HARD behind the scenes to fight back against Trump’s destruction of science!
We are going all in this summer ahead of the budget vote…and setting up to support pro-science candidates in the midterms.
We are gonna save science!
We are going all in this summer ahead of the budget vote…and setting up to support pro-science candidates in the midterms.
We are gonna save science!
May 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I’m here to tell you that @standupforscience.bsky.social is working HARD behind the scenes to fight back against Trump’s destruction of science!
We are going all in this summer ahead of the budget vote…and setting up to support pro-science candidates in the midterms.
We are gonna save science!
We are going all in this summer ahead of the budget vote…and setting up to support pro-science candidates in the midterms.
We are gonna save science!
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Autistic people are not a disease. They never have been.
Autistic people have fundamentally shaped our world...an incredibly net positive community.
To condemn the existence of any autistic person is unacceptable.
Autism is an inherent part of our culture and history, and it always will be.
Autistic people have fundamentally shaped our world...an incredibly net positive community.
To condemn the existence of any autistic person is unacceptable.
Autism is an inherent part of our culture and history, and it always will be.
April 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Autistic people are not a disease. They never have been.
Autistic people have fundamentally shaped our world...an incredibly net positive community.
To condemn the existence of any autistic person is unacceptable.
Autism is an inherent part of our culture and history, and it always will be.
Autistic people have fundamentally shaped our world...an incredibly net positive community.
To condemn the existence of any autistic person is unacceptable.
Autism is an inherent part of our culture and history, and it always will be.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
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The wanton destruction of academia in the US right now is pretty depressing.
May 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The wanton destruction of academia in the US right now is pretty depressing.
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🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This is the part that sticks with me about those funding cancellation letters. Funding cancellation is bad enough, but working in the effort to insult and belittle the investigator betrays the fact that is being done with vindictive and cruel intentions.
It's pretty fucking crazy to grow up with all kinds of adversity and make it into school anyway and make it into science and do all the shit people say you should do to earn your place in society and fight to help others then have your government tell you that's evil actually
May 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is the part that sticks with me about those funding cancellation letters. Funding cancellation is bad enough, but working in the effort to insult and belittle the investigator betrays the fact that is being done with vindictive and cruel intentions.
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I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.
Grad Resources
Encouraging and equipping graduate students for impact.
gradresources.org
April 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.
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War on science
NEW: Starting May 5, NSF will implement an across-the-board 15% indirect cost rate (mirroring policies at DOE, NIH)
Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.
Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.
May 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
War on science
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You've heard a lot about grant funding lately with disruptions at the NIH threatening groundbreaking research at #BrownSPH. Our thanks to Brown Alumni & Friends for collecting 5 important ways grant-funded research at Brown directly impacts our lives today! alumni-friends.brown.edu/news/2025-04...
5 ways grant-funded research at Brown is changing and saving lives
Every day, researchers at Brown are working on groundbreaking discoveries—made possible through federal and private grant funding.
alumni-friends.brown.edu
May 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You've heard a lot about grant funding lately with disruptions at the NIH threatening groundbreaking research at #BrownSPH. Our thanks to Brown Alumni & Friends for collecting 5 important ways grant-funded research at Brown directly impacts our lives today! alumni-friends.brown.edu/news/2025-04...
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The brutal assault on American science by the Trump administration is such an incredible self-own. Our entire country suffers across various domains as we lose out on invaluable cutting-edge research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The brutal assault on American science by the Trump administration is such an incredible self-own. Our entire country suffers across various domains as we lose out on invaluable cutting-edge research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Current NIH funding slump represents:
- Research labs closing
- PhD students abandoning their dreams.
- Trial participants left to their own devices mid study.
- A halt to scientific progress and innovation for cancer, chronic and infectious diseases.
- Minority health research terminated.
Etc.
- Research labs closing
- PhD students abandoning their dreams.
- Trial participants left to their own devices mid study.
- A halt to scientific progress and innovation for cancer, chronic and infectious diseases.
- Minority health research terminated.
Etc.
April 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Current NIH funding slump represents:
- Research labs closing
- PhD students abandoning their dreams.
- Trial participants left to their own devices mid study.
- A halt to scientific progress and innovation for cancer, chronic and infectious diseases.
- Minority health research terminated.
Etc.
- Research labs closing
- PhD students abandoning their dreams.
- Trial participants left to their own devices mid study.
- A halt to scientific progress and innovation for cancer, chronic and infectious diseases.
- Minority health research terminated.
Etc.
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Venezuelan immigrants use their bodies to spell out an SOS distress signal from the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anton, Texas.
SOS, people. SAVE OUR SOULS.
SOS, people. SAVE OUR SOULS.
May 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Venezuelan immigrants use their bodies to spell out an SOS distress signal from the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anton, Texas.
SOS, people. SAVE OUR SOULS.
SOS, people. SAVE OUR SOULS.
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NIH training and career development funding...
3/n
3/n
April 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
NIH training and career development funding...
3/n
3/n
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NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer.
Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer.
Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
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“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Another thing i am adding in my message to my representatives.
It’s important that we share our displeasure, disgust, and anger about the dismantling of our sciences. These actions can and likely will lead to more people dying.
Good 🧵 explaining the importance:
It’s important that we share our displeasure, disgust, and anger about the dismantling of our sciences. These actions can and likely will lead to more people dying.
Good 🧵 explaining the importance:
The National Cancer Institute has disbanded its Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of experts that played a vital role in shaping the future of U.S. cancer research. Here’s why that matters. 🧵
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Another thing i am adding in my message to my representatives.
It’s important that we share our displeasure, disgust, and anger about the dismantling of our sciences. These actions can and likely will lead to more people dying.
Good 🧵 explaining the importance:
It’s important that we share our displeasure, disgust, and anger about the dismantling of our sciences. These actions can and likely will lead to more people dying.
Good 🧵 explaining the importance: