STRIPED team member Ariel Beccia presented a poster on our advocacy work to re-include items assessing eating disorders into the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) at #SER2025 last week! @societyforepi.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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Met @albeccia.bsky.social at #SER2025 and heard a story of persistence in lobbying for a public health database to include important questions — work that has been threatened by the current administration

Thanks to @theresagaff.bsky.social for highlighting the devastating impact that terminated #eatingdisorder grants will have on Americans - including our work on LGBTQ-affirmative therapy for EDs @ajblashill.bsky.social

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic. Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them. This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives. www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...

eating disorder research was already so severely underfunded - 7 terminated grants is devastating to our field!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic. Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them. This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives. www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...

Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic. Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them. This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives. www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...

Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions

Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.

statnews.com

STRIPED’s Ariel Beccia speaks out in Theresa Gaffney’s new STAT piece on how eating disorder research is being gutted under the Trump admin. $2.7M in NIH grants already cut. Read more: www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e... @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social @statnews.com

Eating disorder research defunded despite MAHA focus on chronic conditions

Experts on eating disorders like anorexia worry that research funding cuts mean patients won't get the care they need.

statnews.com

Honored to share that Dr. Bryn Austin has received the Leadership Award for Mentorship from the Academy for Eating Disorders. Deepest thanks to the colleagues and mentees who made this recognition possible. #ICED2025 @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social

Honored to receive awards for two STRIPED projects from the AED Epidemiology & Public Health Practice SIG at ICED 2025! Thanks to the SIG for this recognition. Presented by Chloe Gao & Bryn Austin at #ICED2025. @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social

NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped. This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity. www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...

NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up

The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.

eenews.net

The STRIPED team is on Capitol Hill for the Eating Disorders Coalition’s Advocacy Day, helping advance the recognition of eating disorders as a public health priority across the U.S. @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social

📣Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue. In our latest research pub: LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers. 📄@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth 🧵1/8

Differences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National Cohorts

This cohort study uses data from the Nurses' Health Study 2 and 3 and Growing Up Today Study to assess differences in use of abortion care by sexual orientation.

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Trevor Project (Ages 13-24): (866) 488-7386 LGBT National Hotline: (888) 843-4564 LGBT Youth National Chatline (Up to age 25): (800) 246-7743 Trans Lifeline: (800) 246-7743 True Colors United (LGBT Runaway Support): (212) 461-4401 National Runaway Safeline: (800) 786-2929

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last yr.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants: "Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

On it. Report your terminated NSF grant here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions. All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.

a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾@chasesolidago.bsky.social · last yr.

I need to lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while, but then maybe we should start building something like @scott-delaney.bsky.social ‘s NIH canceled grant form for NSF

🧪 Today, NSF disbanded its advisory committees of external experts, leaving only the ones mandated by law. This is a move towards using less input from the broader scientific community to drive NSF's strategic direction. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

🧵 You might have seen a post urging you to donate to Harvard, a wealthy university that needs no financial reward for doing the bare minimum. Instead, I'd like to tell you about some organizations that are working to protect academic freedom and at-risk scholars and deserve your support 1

If you want something to do but don’t have time to rescue data or clean metadata, this is what we mean by speak out. Tell them why public data matters.

APDU@apduorg.bsky.social · 2y ago

URGENT: APDU urges you to contact your representatives, regardless of their party affiliation, and let them know that you, as a constituent, believe that the loss of public data is unacceptable. ☎️ is most effective and takes just two minutes of your time. Contact lookup and sample script in 🧵

The grim commonalities between Germany in the 1930s and the USA in the 2020s #QueerData

Ariel Beccia@albeccia.bsky.social · last yr.

sounds familiar

sounds familiar

It’s almost like it’s not about antisemitism

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions. This is more than an attack on individual agencies. All autocracies do this. And the effects of this purge will be profound and long lasting. My latest for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge

The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.

thenation.com

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

The White House just removed the only public database showing how federal dollars are approved for spending - despite a law requiring it. We’ve lost a key tool for transparency and oversight.

Today higher ed workers, students, and communities are standing up to demand our elected leaders Kill The Cuts! Federal funding is critical for research and education that benefits us all. Here's a thread of action photos! Starting with this rally currently happening in LA:

for those who may need it: you can search for specific ABCD Study variables names here, and then click on the file name to bring you to a data dictionary of sorts. an OK workaround for now!

Ariel Beccia@albeccia.bsky.social · last yr.

does anyone happen to have a saved copy of the #ABCDStudy data dictionary? #episky #medsky #neurosky

A great (ongoing) thread of how pushback IS working:

Kathleen Clark@kathleenclark.bsky.social · last yr.

Pushback works:

does anyone happen to have a saved copy of the #ABCDStudy data dictionary? #episky #medsky #neurosky

🚨HEY DORKS! PROTEST ALERT🚨 Kill The Cuts National Day of Action is Tomorrow, Tuesday April 8th! Find an action near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-... Stand Up for lifesaving research, healthcare, and education! @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social #standupforscience #killthecuts