Maja Marcus
@maja-marcus.com
Economist | Global Health & Aging | Postdoc @ Harvard Medical School & BWH & Charité | she/her
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.
March 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.
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Come hear MPEC investigators share their research at #CROI2025 ! We have several posters during today’s session at 2:30pm PST. @caitlindugdale.bsky.social @anneneilan.bsky.social @andreaciaranello.bsky.social @iddocjen.bsky.social @mgh-id.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Come hear MPEC investigators share their research at #CROI2025 ! We have several posters during today’s session at 2:30pm PST. @caitlindugdale.bsky.social @anneneilan.bsky.social @andreaciaranello.bsky.social @iddocjen.bsky.social @mgh-id.bsky.social
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That didn't take anytime at all. What a waste. Defunding cancer research, health disparities research, gebe therapy and real vaccine research to waste the valuable time of scientists to study debunked conspiracies.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
www.reuters.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
That didn't take anytime at all. What a waste. Defunding cancer research, health disparities research, gebe therapy and real vaccine research to waste the valuable time of scientists to study debunked conspiracies.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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“Thinking about the event in the U.S. capital started about a month ago, when five scientists, nearly all of them graduate and Ph.D. students, bonded on Bluesky over their concerns about the impact of Trump’s executive orders on science.” 🧪
Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Thinking about the event in the U.S. capital started about a month ago, when five scientists, nearly all of them graduate and Ph.D. students, bonded on Bluesky over their concerns about the impact of Trump’s executive orders on science.” 🧪
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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
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BOSTON #StandUpForScience Friday March 7 at the State House, starting at noon, according to this @bostonglobe.com report 👇🧪
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...
In ‘Stand Up For Science,’ researchers aim to get loud and push back - The Boston Globe
Inspired by the 2017 March for Science that drew millions, organizers are planning rallies in Washington D.C., Boston and other state capitals.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BOSTON #StandUpForScience Friday March 7 at the State House, starting at noon, according to this @bostonglobe.com report 👇🧪
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...
Dieses Gefühl, wenn man täglich mit den Konsequenzen der Trump Regierung konfrontiert wird, und dann in der Bundestagswahl nicht mitwählen kann, weil die Briefwahl-Unterlagen nicht ankommen...
Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇
www.rnd.de/politik/bund...
www.rnd.de/politik/bund...
Warum ich erstmals in meinem Leben keine Wahl habe
Unser US-Korrespondent hat wie Tausende andere Auslandsdeutsche in den Vereinigten Staaten bis heute seine Briefwahlunterlagen nicht erhalten. Deshalb kann er seine Stimme bei der Bundestagswahl nicht...
www.rnd.de
February 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Dieses Gefühl, wenn man täglich mit den Konsequenzen der Trump Regierung konfrontiert wird, und dann in der Bundestagswahl nicht mitwählen kann, weil die Briefwahl-Unterlagen nicht ankommen...
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Environmental factors, or the "exposome", are about 10X more important than genes in explaining why some people have a higher risk of an early death than others, research has suggested.
🧪 #medsky
Link to open access study below.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
🧪 #medsky
Link to open access study below.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Environment more crucial than genes in risk of early death, study suggests
Analysis of UK BioBank data shows importance of factors including living conditions and smoking, say experts
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Environmental factors, or the "exposome", are about 10X more important than genes in explaining why some people have a higher risk of an early death than others, research has suggested.
🧪 #medsky
Link to open access study below.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
🧪 #medsky
Link to open access study below.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children*
Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre
doi.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Happy #YearOfTheSnake, hopefully an auspicious year for #snakebite, a neglected disease, to get the attention it deserves. 🐍 #NTDs
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Snakebite envenoming at MSF: A decade of clinical challenges and antivenom access issues
The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical care in more than 70 countries and admits more than 7000 cases o…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Happy #YearOfTheSnake, hopefully an auspicious year for #snakebite, a neglected disease, to get the attention it deserves. 🐍 #NTDs
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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These curves describe the relationship between longevity and income in U.S. states.
Historically these curves have shifted up. In the U.S., the 2019 curve lies *fully below* the 2010. That is shocking.
Whatever we are doing now may only entrench this concerning pattern.
#medsky #episky #econsky
Historically these curves have shifted up. In the U.S., the 2019 curve lies *fully below* the 2010. That is shocking.
Whatever we are doing now may only entrench this concerning pattern.
#medsky #episky #econsky
January 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This week, amidst a broader purge of LGTBQ-mentioning materials from federal health sites, NIAID deleted its HIV Language Guide, an important reference on destigmatizing, people-first terminology. But it's still a public domain document, so we reposted it on TheBody:
www.thebody.com/hiv/niaid-hi...
www.thebody.com/hiv/niaid-hi...
January 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This week, amidst a broader purge of LGTBQ-mentioning materials from federal health sites, NIAID deleted its HIV Language Guide, an important reference on destigmatizing, people-first terminology. But it's still a public domain document, so we reposted it on TheBody:
www.thebody.com/hiv/niaid-hi...
www.thebody.com/hiv/niaid-hi...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic," by @meredithwadman.bsky.social, Jocelyn Kaiser www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org @monscience.bsky.social
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic," by @meredithwadman.bsky.social, Jocelyn Kaiser www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org @monscience.bsky.social
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A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
January 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.
Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
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Die Zeit, a prominent German publication, titles its article: 'A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute.'
January 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Die Zeit, a prominent German publication, titles its article: 'A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute.'
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
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Trump unlawfully issues an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The U.S. first joined back in 1948 through a joint resolution from Congress. Presidents may not leave without the "express approval" of Congress. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The U.S. first joined back in 1948 through a joint resolution from Congress. Presidents may not leave without the "express approval" of Congress. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLDHEALTH ORGANIZATION – The White House
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Trump unlawfully issues an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The U.S. first joined back in 1948 through a joint resolution from Congress. Presidents may not leave without the "express approval" of Congress. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The U.S. first joined back in 1948 through a joint resolution from Congress. Presidents may not leave without the "express approval" of Congress. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ugh, RFK Jr made it clear he has HPV vaccination in his sights
A new study finds "a steep decline in cervical cancer mortality" in US women under 25 from 2016-2021
"This cohort of women is the first to be widely protected against cervical cancer by HPV vaccines"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A new study finds "a steep decline in cervical cancer mortality" in US women under 25 from 2016-2021
"This cohort of women is the first to be widely protected against cervical cancer by HPV vaccines"
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
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ugh, RFK Jr made it clear he has HPV vaccination in his sights
A new study finds "a steep decline in cervical cancer mortality" in US women under 25 from 2016-2021
"This cohort of women is the first to be widely protected against cervical cancer by HPV vaccines"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A new study finds "a steep decline in cervical cancer mortality" in US women under 25 from 2016-2021
"This cohort of women is the first to be widely protected against cervical cancer by HPV vaccines"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Remember this,
X, Threads, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have all kissed the ring of darkness.
BlueSky is our only social media salvation. We must protect it. 🦋
X, Threads, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have all kissed the ring of darkness.
BlueSky is our only social media salvation. We must protect it. 🦋
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Das ZEW hat ausgerechnet, welche Einkommensgruppen von den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien jeweils am stärksten profitieren: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
January 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Das ZEW hat ausgerechnet, welche Einkommensgruppen von den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien jeweils am stärksten profitieren: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
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Help spread the word. The @minnpop.bsky.social is a great place to work. @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social #Demography #PublicHealth #Sociology
We have two postdoctoral positions open for our Population Health Training Program! Join us for up to two years as part of this innovative program.
Learn more and apply: pop.umn.edu/training/pos...
Learn more and apply: pop.umn.edu/training/pos...
January 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Help spread the word. The @minnpop.bsky.social is a great place to work. @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social #Demography #PublicHealth #Sociology