Renee Cloutier, PhD (@rcloutierphd.bsky.social) co-authored an article in @us.theconversation.com that highlights a new website Dr. Cloutier and colleagues built that publishes and tracks #opioid settlement fund spending data in Pennsylvania.

Read it here: theconversation.com/new-website-...

As #xylazine spreads in the illicit drug supply, Maggie Shang, Ilana Hull, @liebschutz.bsky.social, Payel Roy, Brent Thiel, @feterik.bsky.social, @raaginizzle.bsky.social & more developed trauma-informed, team-based protocols to manage its complex effects.

Learn more: www.upmc.com/media/news/0...

🚨 I have been working with several addiction scientists and clinicians through the Addiction Science Defense Network (www.npscoalition.org/projects/add...) to craft a statement of concern about recent executive orders and actions that can be shared with members of congress.

🧪 Whoa this @aaup.bsky.social guide for navigating NSF grant terminations looks amazing!! 👀

And quite timely: there's another EO deadline this Friday (3/28) to "terminate or modify...grants...to advance the policies of my administration."

PDF: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Please please please continue to submit details of your terminated grant using this Google Form 👇

Your submissions continue to be key to understanding patterns of grant terminations and facilitating advocacy and litigation. 💪💪💪

DASHBOARD

(Yellow are fields with known data sources, gray are fields that would need to be crowd sourced).

Comments and suggestions welcome!

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Excited to #StandUpforScience on Friday with my 6yo, would love to connect with others especially if youll have kiddos with you:)

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful).

Let’s call it a Orwellial.

My colleagues at Pitt and I put together a Medicaid reliance dashboard, drawing on data from @charlesgaba.com @centeronbudget.bsky.social Georgetown and NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard. shiny.crc.pitt.edu/congressiona...

🧵Delighted to share a new guest post by Dr Anne Toomey on **8 things scientists can do right now to stand up for science in the US**

Thread of her *evidence-based* actions follows, whole post here
christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin... 1/11

C’mon folks… you don’t have to agree with everything APA does, but they have made it easy to make your voices heard. Budget battles are happening, take 2 minutes: www.votervoice.net/mobile/APAAd...

Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.

I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.

Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.

Start with SIFT method:

⚕️ What are the 'overhead' costs that the NIH wants to cut? ✂️

Improved and simplified explainer.

As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.

#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky

The antidote for despair is action ❤️

* Dial (202) 224-3121
* Enter zip code
* Leave voicemail
* Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so)

“The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.”

Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

Finally joined BlueSky. #addictionsci researcher dedicated to systems changes to improve the measurement and quality of care for patients with opioid use disorder and comorbid mental health as well as broader community health outcomes