Anne
@annehstevenson.bsky.social
Advocate for public health, health equity, and tennis.
Because it was time to address the dark clouds overhead at #RolandGarros: I wrote about how Alexander Zverev is almost certainly going to win the French Open, and how people around the sport are feeling about that likelihood. Read here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/alexander-...
Anyone But
As Alexander Zverev closes in on a near-certain French Open title, a sport that once held its breath is now sighing.
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A new commentary in @natureportfolio.nature.com by @annehstevenson.bsky.social, Karestan Koenen, and co-authors calls on the National Institute of Mental Health to change how people w/ lived experience of mental health (LE) conditions are included in psych gene research. ➡️ Read here: rdcu.be/e4IaT
🚨New paper alert!🚨 👉Check out the paper I am most proud of here: rdcu.be/e4IaT 🤔After 8+of working in 🧬🧠research, I didn't see many people with lived experience of mental health conditions (LE) w/🪑at the table. So, several of us laid out 5 recs to Nat. Inst of Mental Health to change this: 1/4
Centering lived experience within psychiatric genetic and genomic research at the National Institute of Mental Health
Nature Mental Health - People with lived experience of mental health conditions have historically been excluded from meaningful participation in psychiatric genetic and genomic research. This...
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Ever tried to explain research ethics to your family? This is a great piece of journalism (ie: written for a lay audience) of some of the thorny aspects of ethics in human subjects research - participant remuneration, beneficence. @npr.org
Why I volunteered to be infected with dengue fever
The U.S. has registered over half a million clinical trials since 2000. Here's a look at the business and ethics of human medical experimentation through the eyes of a volunteer.
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This is fascinating. I get multiple scam/AI emails a day asking me to publish in their journals, but I have never thought about in the context of writing letters to the editor. Another way to scam the system which hurts actual humans writing scientific articles/letters.
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
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Coffee + women’s empowerment + mental health in Uganda. A powerful article about how giving women (even some) control over their finances in the coffee business can allow them to leave situations of domestic violence. 🇺🇬 @npr.org #Uganda #coffee #women
For years, men controlled one village's coffee industry — but one woman changed that
Meridah Nandudu was a single mom of two kids, unemployed and in despair. Then she had an idea: Maybe the "humble" coffee beans she'd grown up with on her parents' farm could lead her to a better life.
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Public health at its best. Excited to watch this documentary about guinea worm eradication.
A new documentary about a dastardly worm and a heroic effort by Jimmy Carter
"The President and the Dragon,' premiering today, looks at Carter's momentous decision to try and wipe out a devastating and neglected disease. We spoke to writer and co-director Waleed Eltayeb.
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Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it Why? When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted Public health must communicate our successes We must be visible
#Academicchatter Help! I am getting almost 1 peer review request each day. I try to do 1 every ~3 months. This landslide is overwhelming. How do I get it to stop? (And get it to a more manageable request load?) @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academictwitter
a person is riding a motorcycle down a dirt road in the woods .
ALT: a person is riding a motorcycle down a dirt road in the woods .
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My family doesn’t have any underlying conditions, but I want these vaccines for all of us AND insurance should cover them. With this ruling, I cannot imagine my health insurance being willing to pay for them. 💉❤️🩹
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Great piece @npr.org. www.npr.org/sections/goa... 🐐🥤#neurosurgery #sierraleone
One neurosurgeon, 8 million patients
Alieu Kamara is the first and only neurosurgeon in Sierra Leone. "Before Dr. Kamara, there was no hope," said professor Kehinde Oluwadiya of the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospital Complex.
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US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children
The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday recommended that all young children get vaccinated against COVID-19, differing from federal policy that no longer recommends routine vaccination for healthy children.
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Calling mental health clinicians, researchers, and funders! Can we stop using the PHQ-9? Or at least change the response options? As someone who has had to fill it out many, many times, the response options make no sense. Quote from a friend: “I just fill out what I think they are trying to get at.”
#Academicchatter: Was asked by a senior author 2 give critical eye 2 paper. Argument of paper was sound but many errors like X citation does not support Y statement. I spent a lot of time on this. 1st author rejected most comments. Do u: 1️⃣Keep your name on paper? 2️⃣Take your name off paper? 3️⃣Other?
Keep my family and my community safe. Don’t take away the availability of vaccines (and requiring health insurance to cover their cost) @rfk-junior.bsky.social.
Husband read in @wsj.com how MAGA says scientific journals are “in bed with their friends and pharma.” His takeaway was that it sounded true. This is someone who lives in a house w a person who has published ~30 articles. I explained that that isn’t how it works. How would a lay person know that?
Feeling these blue skies today after submitting my revise and resubmit from my last PhD paper. Send good energy that it gets accepted 🤞
An important lesson that most faculty could stand to learn - one that I'm constantly reminding myself about - is that "I am supportive of junior colleagues" and "I am supportive of the specific junior colleagues I personally like and want to be around" actually have radically divergent consequences
American taxpayers provide the resources for CDC’s specialists and have the right to hear directly from them without interference by politicians. Eliminating communications staff from CDC means we all have less information on how to protect ourselves from health threats.
RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA's public records teams, despite "transparency" promises
It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.
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This has been on my to do list. Goodbye Twitter and good riddance.
PubMed has gone dark A database I've used for over 30 years I hope and pray it comes back soon!
Federico Agustin Gomez, the world no. 135, opens up about his mental health struggles and having suicidal thoughts. 💔 It takes a brave person to open up about their darkest moments and face them. Hopefully he can come out on the other side of this stronger. (via Federico's IG)
If you want your country to quickly control outbreaks and also prevent them, maybe you don't want to fire your best disease detectives?
