News: NIH research reveals new insights about how 'bad' cholesterol works in the body nih.gov/news-events/ne…

With a #NativeAmerican scholar in our #Grief, #Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) lab, we study #AmbiguousLoss from #MMIW/#MMIP and #loss from deaths of loved ones in the #Native community. Please pass on this survey, or take it yourself--we would be honored. redcap.link/MMIP

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

Researchers uncovered the structural details of how low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or “bad” cholesterol, interacts with its receptor molecule to enter cells. Read more about how this impacts heart disease: bit.ly/3ClHqys

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

RIP ❤️ Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be a blessing.

The Mixed Methods Program at U of M welcomes applications for our 2025-26 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! This hybrid 2-year position is a fantastic opportunity to have a mixed methods research apprenticeship focused on empirical projects chosen with mentors. Please share!

One of the things that is so odd about all the sudden reversals in so many policy domains at our major universities is that it suggests that their commitment to their previously stated principles was never deep or fundamental to begin with. How venal and disillusioning.

Read our latest issue in full ➡️ bit.ly/42Pq2wX

My lab at Northwestern is hiring! We have openings for a Project Coordinator, Research Assistant, MRI Data Analyst, and Postdoc for studies examining neuroinflammation and mental and physical health. Please RT and share!! Click here for more information: acnlnorthwestern.com/join-the-lab

Train your mind to think, doubt, and question. Don’t worry about what others think of you. 🧠

Insomnia, lack of sleep linked to high blood pressure in teens #EpiLifestyle25 American Heart Association Epidemiology and Prevention | Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2025 - Moderated Poster Presentation MP13 spr.ly/6010LNzTn

As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the Department of Health and Human Services, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health was placed on administrative leave. trib.al/fIOTUII

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields Read the full story: go.nature.com/3YBJJ8x

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

Congrats to Melissa Flores & Designated Campus Colleague Nadia Corral-Frias (@UArizona), awarded the ORCA Catalytic Award in collaboration with ABRIR to advance DEI in open & big team science! Proud of our work! More info: orcaopen.org/work/cap #OpenScience #ORCA #ABRIR

Congratulations to Dr. Hesham Sadek, who was awarded the AHA Transformational Project Award for “Novel Small Molecules that Enhance DNA Repair for Mitigating Cancer Therapy Induced Cardiac Toxicity.” This work advances solutions to reduce cardiac toxicity from cancer treatments.

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