Such a distinguished lil gentleman

BREAKING: Bard College President Leon Botstein’s name appears in the Epstein files more than 2,500 times, including arranging travel to Epstein’s island and hosting a visit with “girls” on campus… As a Bard student parent, I demand Leon Botstein’s immediate removal.

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants. It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

I’m thrilled to learn that our work has been included in the latest HINTS® Brief, which examines the prevalence and predictors of sunburn among U.S. adults! #Cancer #SkinCancer #Sunburn #PublicHealth hints.cancer.gov/docs/Briefs/...

INTS core faculty member and assistant professor, Lauren Pacek, will discuss tobacco use and cessation and harm reduction strategies among people with HIV in the USA in the webinar hosted by the AETC Program on November 5, 11 am ET. Register here ➡️ www.e2neca.org/org/AETC/Por...

Here's my take on Vought's mass layoffs announcement talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-m...

In case you missed it, this is a great piece featuring my dear colleague Carol McGruder, co-founder of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council: exposetobacco.org/news/menthol...

A U.S. Menthol Ban Could Save 255,000 Black Lives - STOP

45,000 Black Americans die every year from using tobacco, especially menthol. Meet the woman fighting to protect her community.

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Meet Kimberly Jordan-Casarona! Dr. Jordan-Casarona will be a presenter at the Rutgers Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) virtual training, and registration is still open! To learn more and sign up, go to tobaccoprogram.org

So very excited for Rafael to join the Rutgers family!!

Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS)@ru-ints.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! @rutgerscancer.bsky.social @rwjms.bsky.social Learn more about Dr. Meza here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A new study led by Cristine Delnevo, Director of Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS), suggests that nicotine pouches may offer a path to reduced tobacco harm ➡️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

More than 1,000 HHS staff call on RFK Jr. to resign thehill.com/policy/healt...

For the serious policy wonks. The White House released an amended version of OMB Circular A-11. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... I have NOT been through this (it'a ~1000 pages) but I understand it asserts more authority to not spend appropriated funds. This is relevant to the FY 2027 budget.

Today, little kids at Annunciation Catholic School were forced into a club that no child should ever join. It’s a fucked up club, and it’s growing because our so-called leaders refuse to act.

$5M. 2/2 www.commondreams.org/news/russell...

Vought Bills CFPB $5 Million for His Security Detail While Gutting Agency's Consumer Work | Common Dreams

"At heart, these guys are all kleptocrats," wrote one critic.

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Your tax dollars pay around $7 million per year for Russell Vought’s personal security detail, while he and his friends incite stochastic violence against scientists and the CDC. 1/2

I-270, Exit 1@i270exit1.bsky.social · last yr.

He meant what he said and he said what he meant #CDC

Updated funding curves (new format) (Data through July 18) Fraction of grant budget, all awards 1/5

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Nerds.

Concerns have been raised that vaping has created a 'new generation of nicotine addicts'. We examined changes in the proportion of US high-school students reporting symptoms of nicotine dependence, in the context of changing patterns of nicotine product use. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Changing patterns of nicotine product use and nicotine dependence among United States high‐school students: The National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2014–2023

Background and aim Concerns have been raised that e-cigarettes have created a new generation of people addicted to nicotine. This study aimed to measure changes in the proportion of US high-school s...

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@crisdelnevo.bsky.social & Andrea Villanti are coauthors of a new study published in Tobacco Control examining trends in U.S. cigarette consumption—specifically comparing menthol & non-menthol cigarettes—since the enactment of the Tobacco Control Act in 2009. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

Trends in menthol and non-menthol cigarette consumption in the US: 2009–2024

13 years after the Tobacco Control Act tasked Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) with studying the removal of menthol in cigarettes, FDA proposed a product standard in 2022 that would prohibit menthol ...

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Donate to @trevorproject.bsky.social here. give.thetrevorproject.org/give/696138/...

Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last yr.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Not every decision requires an RCT (and no RCT is infinitely generalizable). Scientists would do well to incorporate power and wealth and their agendas into their thinking about scientific progress. Science is political by its nature, but for pro-democracy parties, it should not be partisan.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

6. That’s the dynamic I see it here. To what degree should corporations be liable for harms that they cause as judged by the best available science and a consensus among experts? If I can’t sue Philip Morris for selling cigarettes to kids without a double blind trial to prove harm, we are sunk.

RFK Jr. wants to Make America Healthy Again. But he's ignoring the country's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking.

There’s one vice RFK Jr. isn’t talking about

The health secretary, who wants Americans to make healthier choices, rarely mentions smoking.

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In 2021 Democratic turnout in NJ. 383,000. At 10pm today with 77% of the vote in —> 656,460 😱🤯🙊

From the makers of Zyn. How is this Rocket Pop Cigar ok? Who knew summer could taste like a carcinogen?

Cris Delnevo@crisdelnevo.bsky.social · last yr.

DO IT tobaccoreporter.com/2025/03/03/p... the egregiousness of White Owl & Game makes PMI's so called 'smoke free' mission a farce. In 2024 PMI sold $540+million in US C-stores - that’s 800 million cigars- 55% were heavily flavored w/names like Iced Donut, Tropical Twist, White Russian & Rocky Road

JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget… jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds today’s announcement by the FDA that they seized nearly two million units of unauthorized e-cigarette products, with an estimated retail value of nearly $34 million, during a joint enforcement operation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).