If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

👻 Boo! Our final October issue of #PTJournal is now available here: academic.oup.com/ptj/issue/10... 🎃 Headlined by an editorial on loneliness and disability from editorial board member @jrayfalvey.bsky.social articles also cover:

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Staffing in skilled nursing homes has been tough. Recent federal policy changes may be making things worse. Dr. Prusynski (@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social) discusses these issues with Kitsap Sun. familymedicine.uw.edu/chws/2025/08...

Have you seen the new #AcuteCare #ClinicalPracticeGuideline?? academic.oup.com/ptj/article/... @aptaofficial.bsky.social #CPG

A Core Set of Outcome Measures to Assess Physical Function for Adults Participating in Physical Therapist Treatment in the Hospital: A Clinical Practice Guideline

ABSTRACTImportance. Outcome measures (OMs) are an integral part of physical therapist practice and implementation can have a multifaceted effect on care de

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There is no evidence that Trump is in the Epstein files. There is no evidence that Trump isn't in the Epstein files. Therefore, Trump should be sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

#PTJournal is committed to publishing #ClinicalPracticeGuidelines to advance evidence-based practice in physical therapy and rehabilitation. Learn more about how @aptaofficial.bsky.social supports member academies and sections in developing #CPGs: academic.oup.com/ptj/article/... #PTSky 🧪

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Present, Past, and Future

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) supports its member academies and sections in the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) by fa

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👂 Have you heard about the latest workforce projections for PTs? 📈 🎙️ Don't miss our podcast interview with authors of "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation." www.apta.org/apta-and-you...

Podcast | PTJ Author Interview: Projected Physical Therapist Shortages Through 2037

Dall and Manal are co-authors of the article "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation.”

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So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · last yr.

That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear

When I visited Poland in 2018, I learned more about how the #Nazi party targeted German universities, scientists, and academics almost immediately after coming to power.

They got tired of fighting universities, only to have a powerful one (Harvard) fight back. So they're going to just screw us all over in one fell swoop unless we all bow down and throw away DEI programming and students' rights to free speech.

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · last yr.

With each passing day, the agenda-driven interference with science intensifies. We can't let the candle in the dark go out. NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews

As of today, the NIH is saying it will deny funds to institutions that have any DEI programs. Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.

NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts

NIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies

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a nice crowd for Bernie and AOC on a Monday night in *Nampa, Idaho*

Murphy Woodhouse@murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · last yr.

Better vantage, non pano

Bravo to colleagues at @uwsph.bsky.social for sharing their stories in @newyorker.com to highlight the negative human and economic impacts of the reckless, indiscriminate, wasteful, and partisan cancellation of important funding for science: www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”

Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.

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During COVID, we learned the hard way that nearly all our hospital PPE i.e. masks, gowns, gloves comes from China. A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠

Just spotted this paper on nursing home ownership changes and staffing. TLDR: ownership changes ==> staffing decreases. (You should read the full article!) Nice work by @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social @biancafrogner.bsky.social and others at @uwchws.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Impacts of Skilled Nursing Facility Change of Ownership on Staffing: A Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are experiencing significant regulatory scrutiny. Recent federal rules established guidelines for increased transpar…

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I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience

How it started // how it's going

Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."

If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap”

This Viewpoint discusses the differences between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare and the trade-offs between service and convenience that beneficiaries make when selecting MA; highligh...

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Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

I can’t believe we have to explain the difference between transgenic and transgender mice

Medicaid covers about one-fifth of all hospital spending. There's a hospital in pretty much every Congressional district, and it's often one of the biggest employers. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Medicaid covered 41% of all births nationally in 2023, including 47% of births in rural communities. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

In work led by Dr. Rachel Prusynski (@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social), the team found significant changes in staffing as nursing home ownership changed. The findings published in JAMDA were highlighted in McKnight's Long Term Care News: www.mcknights.com/news/nursing...

It’s human nature to desire wealth/privilege (resources). One example is we all get old or sick at some point and want to be able to survive w/o working, etc. It is pathologic, antisocial behavior to hoard excess resources while watching others suffer for lack of. There are no ethical billionaires

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

VA Research Funding Slashed

Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

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This, as health care folks push for special visas to ease nursing and homecare worker needs and tech firms lobby for H1B visas for people with engineering skills...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."