Jena Doom

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

📄 In #JCPP: Hunger as an uncontroversial predictor of poor adolescent mental health: evidence from a multiverse analysis of 410,213 adolescents across 79 countries 👉 https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70176 #MentalHealthResearch

RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪

There is no world in which a police officer should be justified in shooting at a parent accused of shoplifting diapers for their child. www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/u...

This is a heist. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

Read more about the study here: theconversation.com/treating-dep... @elysiapdavis.bsky.social @benhankin.bsky.social @lillybelledeer.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com

Excited to share our new study out today in Nature Communications! In a follow-up of an RCT, we found that a maternal depression treatment during pregnancy influenced infant hippocampal volume, which was associated with lower negative emotionality at 6 months. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More excellent reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social on the GB study! Want to add some extra layers on the GB side of how this happened...🧵 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Today is the last day--comment NOW!

Submit comments to the Request for Information (RFI) NOT-OD-26-088 by OCTOBER 13th. 27unihted.substack.com/p/how-to-com...

“Current leadership at the NIH & HHS has cultivated an environment of fear among agency staff. Through threats, firings & other forms of retaliation, they have created a workforce that is largely cowed. The have used this fear to force compliance with administration orders, even when harmful” 😢

Thanks for the nudge (and well said), @annaschapiro.bsky.social. Here's mine (a reshuffle of Anna's great points). Please submit something too! rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...

As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

If you are an NIH funded scientist and have not commented, you are agreeing that this change is a good idea. If, you, like me, think ditching peer review is a bad idea, take the 5 minutes and post a comment.

Trump and RFK jr. want to use your tax dollars to let children die from preventable diseases in Guinea-Bissau. Stand Up For Science says: NOT ON OUR WATCH!

4 reasons the Trump administration is attacking science. 🧵 This is still one of the most common questions I hear from people - but why!? Isn't science good for everyone?! So, here is my current thinking on why...

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

As news unfolds from Cornell to Epstein files, know that a different future is possible: One in which we each view violence against girls/women as *our* issue and take action. To explore your self-interest, check out Every 90 Seconds (even literally from this #Waukegan Public Library, IL!). #DVAM

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s paying big publishers for science that should be open. And thanks to Cam @camhostinar.bsky.social and the editors, now we don’t have to! Check out her new journal that is FREE to publish open access in!

I am pleased to announce the launch of our new diamond open access journal Psychology Across Development (accepting submissions starting today!). We are a lifespan developmental journal. (1/3) escholarship.org/uc/psycdev

Terrible news for higher education. This will effectively kill OPT, which is major incentive for international students. $70k fee university must pay. Seems like game over for OPT. Will go into effect after 30 day public comment and 60 day implementation delay.

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.

New coverage of the Trump administration's move away from housing first for folks experiencing homelessness: apnews.com/article/trum...

This is ridiculous. The only avenue for fellowships for international scholars has been the K99. It was already so hard to get, and now there is no way for them to come and train and build a career in the US. It will decimate our ability to recruit the best scholars around the world.

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A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Please read this letter with important considerations for training the next generation of clinical trialists. Its powerful that so many organizations came together. Thanks to everyone involved. Consider commenting on the NIH RFI by the 9/30 deadline: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

I agree with some points, not all. 1. America's world leadership is slipping due to the continued assaults on science. 2. Meanwhile. China ramps up its R&D spending. Now, Beijing accounts for 1/3rd of the world's clinical-stage drugs. 3. The NIH budget should be increased.🧵 🧪 archive.today/DtX6y

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

One has to wonder if the NIH requiring a change in biosketch formats and releasing the new template just a week before one of their major submission deadlines is a feature or a bug?

A great overview of NIH science under Trump: www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...

The NIH RFI (NOT-OD-26-095) closes Sept 30. If leading a pilot on your K shaped your career, or losing it would affect your trainees, institution, or patients, please share your perspective: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... #NIH #ClinicalTrials

Apparently $12M was moved from HHS's Office of Minority Health to help fund RFK Jr's security, while grants supporting preventive care for low income communities were canceled. Waste, fraud, abuse, and a spectacularly bad use of public health dollars 😒

“…the new policy creates a catch-22: investigators must demonstrate independence to successfully compete for larger trial funding, while the K award can no longer support the career development needed to demonstrate it.” Excellent piece, please read.

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

Importance of Pilot Clinical Trials. James Feinstein, MD, Amy Huebschmann, MD, Russell Glasgow, PhD, & Lilia Cervantes, MD make a solid case for why NIH should continue to allow a mentored pathway for K awardees to lead pilot clinical trials. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...