3. Support can come from so many places: perinatal peers, partners, and health care providers. We all know it takes a village for infant health, but that village can and should extend to moms as well.

2. There’s still a lot of misinformation about what a non-diet approach entails and how it can support health and wellbeing.

Some of the main takeaways? 1. Women are ready to engage in non-diet approaches to self care during the perinatal period. Think intuitive eating, finding ways to engage with movement that feel good, etc.

New research! Proud to share my first, first author paper is finally published. I’m so grateful for the mentorship of @nataliep310.bsky.social and the women who shared their experiences navigating postpartum body image, diet culture, and the ways they want to practice self care in this tender time.

At some point we have forgotten that there must be a social contract and we as reviewers, readers and colleagues expect a bare minimum, default of truthfulness, correctness and collegiality. Otherwise, we're not doing science anymore 🧪

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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The best thing I did this break was leave my laptop at home. I worried that I would regret the decision & that disconnecting was something that could happen “after tenure.” If this year has shown me anything, it’s that time is our most precious resource. When it’s gone, we can’t get it back.

Listen, I know the peer review process is painfully broken. I just didn't realize the extent of brokenness. This paper has been under review for ~5 months. Any advice? Before anyone comes for me: Im not complaining without being part of the solution. I easily reviewed 20+ papers this past year.

"[I]t will be critical to maintain a human in the loop even as we seek to incorporate the strengths of #AI-based review in our editorial process." Read this Editorial from the editors and staff of JAMA and the JAMA Network journals. ja.ma/4oXjl3H

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Ben Ross@benross.bsky.social · last yr.

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations

Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious

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Our article, “Eating disorders and later incidence of cancer – A nationwide longitudinal study in Denmark” is out today. This one was a team effort & I’m so grateful to UNC CEED for their collaborations over the years. 🩵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Eating disorders and later incidence of cancer – A nationwide longitudinal study in Denmark

We examined the incidence of cancer types among individuals with eating disorders (EDs).A nationwide longitudinal study of 6,807,731 individuals born …

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Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally. click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

Pica, the eating of non-food substances, is an eating disorder we know very little about. So this Eating Disorder Awareness Week I thought I would share research I did with @nataliep310.bsky.social and on Pica prevalence pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38097525/

Prevalence and recurrence of pica behaviors in early childhood within the ALSPAC birth cohort - PubMed

This study enhances understanding of childhood pica behaviors, addressing a significant gap in knowledge. Pica occurrence in the general population is poorly understood due to few epidemiological stud...

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For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

PRAMS

Surveillance project of CDC and health departments used to improve maternal and infant health.

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Can I interest y'all in a preprint in these trying times? My student Joy Qiu recently completed work on using ensembles of LLMs to perform coding of free text response data. A 🧵

Ensemble of Large Language Models for Curated Labeling and Rating of Free-text Data

Free-text responses are commonly collected in psychological studies, providing rich qualitative insights that quantitative measures may not capture. Labeling curated topics of research interest in fre...

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How should you respond to a regime that has disregard for health and wellbeing, ignores the central role of inequalities in poor health outcomes, and believes science and scholarship to be enemies of progress? @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in the latest Editor's Choice www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Teachers, edu folks, allies: We will not let them destroy our Dept of Ed & its vital research, programs, & funding for our kids. Join us for an all-hands-on-deck organizing call this Sun, 2/16 at 7pm ET to plan actions to fight for our Ss, Ts, & schools. sparkstreetdigital.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Excited to join the peer reviewer academy and grateful to @sbm.org for these training opportunities! 🥳

Sheila Schuster when asked how we keep going (advocating/fighting for progress) in this political environment “Think of the people you’re serving. And we can’t give up- that’s letting them win” Needed that today.

What started out as a healthy living article idea for @sbm.org turned into a commentary in Women's Health Issues! Check it out here ⬇️ lnkd.in/gTrwUSfA

This is a great article reviewing strategies that can help detect 🤖 s - a MUST READ for anyone doing online survey or m-health research! (Yes, ema-ers, this includes you too) I am loving the articles shared by @sbm.org this winter! #BehavioralMedicine

SO happy to read this piece! Promoting weight loss=contributing to weight stigma. The shift from focusing on weight as the “be-all-end-all” outcome doesn’t mean we ditch scientific inquiries focused on improving access & adoption of physical activity behaviors & eating a well-rounded diet.

Our commentary, that will surely spark debate, is now accepted ‘Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment Promotes Weight Loss by Increasing Eating Disorder Symptoms: A Response to Grilo & Pittman (2024)’ in International Journal of Eating Disorders @uofleatlab.bsky.social

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019. But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

In one of our sample of folks with #eatingdisorders 11% endorse Ozempic use Of course we need more data but there should be a contraindication to use this if you have an eating disorder @doctorpipes.bsky.social

Arielle Smith@ariellesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Terrifying stuff…

We are actively recruiting people who are: -18+ years old -pregnant 🤰🏼 -live in the USA 🇺🇸 -willing to meditate and receive 1 text per day for 1 week 🤳🏽🧘🏻‍♀️ to complete a week-long meditation practice. Please share with your networks! #research #studyrecruitment

I am so happy about this “X” odus. Looking forward to connecting with other scientists & academics on bluesky! 🦋