News of the first NIH grant cuts at Columbia medical center have come in. Center grants (including of the diabetes center where I am), training grants for PhD students. PhD students are certainly not the reason for federal budget woes, they are among the most altruistically motivated people, often postponing their own personal dreams in favor of advancing human health. What an utter disappointment.
A driving assumption behind the admin's proposed restrictions on grants & aid seems to be that any use of "DEI" signals a political agenda that is antithetical to conducting good research. Let's unpack that. Why would DEI language be used in a grant?
Had a wonderful time at @ASAnews this past week! S/o to @jason_jisu_park for his great work on our project!! And highly recommend Montreal - a slice of Europe in North America :)
New paper alert! People consider their pets family, so why does social science ignore how pets impact family dynamics, interactions, and experiences?
Ecoexpansive kinship: A model for expanding conceptualizations of family to include companion animals https://t.co/zGuOS4kR5r
In a new paper using @Add_Health, I find that young people disconnected from school and work during the transition to adulthood (ages 18-26) report greater depressive symptoms through early midlife relative to their peers.
❤️While a college degree is linked to lower odds of heart disease for white men, Black + Hispanic men don't see this benefit, finds a new study by Kelsey Shaulis. This builds on the skin-deep theory, which holds that success can come at the cost of physical health for minorities.
New ERS report provides information on three underserved groups of farms and may serve as a baseline for evaluating policies and programs that aim to increase equity and inclusion in the farm sector.
Learn more: https://t.co/xBl4Ffe38o.
My second dissertation chapter is now live in @ASR_Journal
"Rooted America: Immobility and Segregation of the Intercounty Migration Network"
Link: https://t.co/EltjqQDTC7
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My newest publication! This was a collaboration between researchers at Penn State and the Max Planck Institute to test associations between epigenetic age acceleration and cognitive function in cohorts from the U.S. and Germany.
Rounding out the session, Gailey returned to discuss redlining - using a sibling study design, living in historically redlined neighborhoods is associated with poor birth outcomes today
Carla Nyquist and Stephanie Pease discussed environmental justice in Denver - while individual behavior changes are great, system-level changes are necessary!