Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
What a pill to swallow after presenting in the “Public Policy & Population Health” session yesterday at #paa2026.
One of the biggest challenges of doing work in this area has always been that institutions rarely provide researchers with evidence of their harms.
Now they won’t fund it, either.
A proposed OMB rule would shift federal science funding decisions away from independent expert review and toward political appointees, while restricting how research is communicated. The public can submit comments on the proposal through July 13 (Docket OMB-2026-0034) at Regulations.gov.
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
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Today I'm publicly releasing a paper that answers that question (download link in the comments) using data on 5.4 million local businesses across the US:
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During the first year of the current administration, ICE raids caused serious economic damage in seven ways:
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He said repeatedly that NIH-funded grants should seek to influence clinical decisions by providers or patients, and nothing else.
An incredible stance from a health economist who spent time in the population health world, and an absolute repudiation of the hopes that he is reachable on that basis.
…For those who weren’t there, something I didn’t post about (because we pivoted from policy to pop centers and I wanted to listen closely) was Bhattacharya’s absolutely astonishing claim that research evaluating the health effects of public policy is out of scope for NIH-funded research.
…For those who weren’t there, something I didn’t post about (because we pivoted from policy to pop centers and I wanted to listen closely) was Bhattacharya’s absolutely astonishing claim that research evaluating the health effects of public policy is out of scope for NIH-funded research.
