Felicity Enders, PhD, MPH
Professor of #Biostatistics @MayoClinic. Health Outcome Population Engineering, #HiddenCurriculum for #Research, and Population Conscious Analysis. Mom of 2xBipedal, 1xCanine. Love to cook, camp, sing. Love trees.
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- We all need to donate to MEER, preferably as a recurring donation. This is forward-thinking solutions for climate change that decouple greenhouse gasses from the Earth’s temperature - all while reducing interior building temperatures. www.meer.org
- MEER uses mirrors on roofs to reflect sunlight back to space in a format through which is does not heat the atmosphere. Dr. Ye Tao is also working on housing materials using bamboo to sequester carbon. He’s a visionary.
- NOTE: US contractors are currently using mirrors that collect energy, which does nothing to reflect heat to space.
- Reposted by Felicity Enders, PhD, MPHDr. Felicity Enders delivering a powerful #ACTS2025 keynote, Optimizing hope for a new generation of clinical and translational science. So grateful to have gotten to know her through #ELAM! @felicityenders.bsky.social @actscience.bsky.social
- It was an incredible honor to give today’s keynote presentation. An outstanding #TS25DC is in the books!
- 🎤 Thank you @felicityenders.bsky.social for closing out the last day of #TS25DC with a powerful talk on Optimizing Hope through health equity and diversity in research.
- Reposted by Felicity Enders, PhD, MPHThe dam is starting to crack. -4 GOP Senators joined the Dems to rebuke his tariffs -a GOP Senator wrote a WaPo op-ed decrying his attacks on research and higher ed -Rogan & Coulter are questioning his immigration policies -his economic approval dropped to 40% -his right-hand man lost big in WI
- The vote was 51-48, so couldn't pass a filibuster if it came to an actual bill and not a resolution, but it's a start. apnews.com/article/cong...
- Reposted by Felicity Enders, PhD, MPHThe general vibe we are getting across #NIH institutes is deeply bleak — that the agency is nearly, if not already dead. Top people are leaving or have left. Nearly everyone's looking for other jobs. People still care about what NIH was, but are growing resigned to its death. 1/
- I just tried getting ChatGPT to create a visualization for this outline: • Who is impacted by biases • How are biases written into letters • Terminology and examples • Examples • Summary and tips • Letter exercise • Conclusion I gave it two tries, because 👀 Try reading the results!!! 🤣
- Beautiful & thoughtful thread. Read the whole thing.
- Welcome @actscience.bsky.social! I’m so glad the Association for Clinical and Translational Science is now on BlueSky. This has become one of my very favorite societies. Anyone in this space but not yet in the know, check out the annual meeting, April 14-17! www.actscience.org/Translationa...
- Reposted by Felicity Enders, PhD, MPHThe American Bar Association is made up of all political affiliations, remaining committed to justice. This letter from Bar president William R. Bay speaks volumes.
- Important for statisticians and folks who use Likert and Visual Analog Scales
- The thing is, cutting indirects doesn’t just hurt research institutions. Research institutions are the nexus of medical innovation. Companies have to demonstrate something has a high chance of success to justify work, so they depend on this nexus. And…
- 1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- There is an incredible return on investment of research dollars (see below). This single cut has high potential to initiate economic collapse by turning off the economic engine of research nationally. And it’s illegal. Indirect rate changes must go through congress. bsky.app/profile/timt...
- Here’s info on how “indirects” work. Ignore the link she gives - that’s just a citation. Instead, read her replies, which describe indirects in normal-people-language. bsky.app/profile/mega...
- For those curious about the purpose of “indirects,” I suggest this FAQ from AAU (thread to follow). In the lingo of Musk et al - BLOF = this hurts economies, employment, science, & health. 🧵 www.aau.edu/key-issues/f...
- This thread has amazing data. Led me to follow @altmetric.com
- Hey @altmetric.com do you have plots over time of the average number of times papers are mentioned on Twitter vs Bluesky? That would make for a very interesting post.
- Generational wealth includes home ownership. Public schools are funded by local property taxes. Education drives wealth and opportunity. This triumvirate fuels the opportunity gap. You know what doesn’t fuel the opportunity gap? Immigrants. Trans people. DEI. These are smoke & mirrors.
- I am seeing a lot of new followers with completely blank info and no posts or replies. You have about 24 hours to post something that looks human before I begin blocking. I recognize there are lots of new folks on Bsky, but I am So Done with Bots.
- Cora says to remember to breathe - even when you may be feeling tense and toothy
- Over the next week or so, I will be sharing adorable pics of my dog, Cora. Cora embodies love while holding her own firm opinions. She loves stuffed animals and selects a different one to carry around each day. She loves chasing her ball or burying it in snow. She loves her double bed or couch.
- Apropos of nothing, the photo search interface on iOS 18 (18.2.1) is horrifically bad. Truly abysmal. Legendary level of suckiness. Apple, why did you break something that was working so well??!
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- Discussion over breakfast. Me: Orca are not whales; they’re the largest dolphin. Kid: dolphins are a type of toothed whale. The kid brought a taxonomy chart. Evidence for the win. Time for coffee.
- Our Mayo Clinic faculty are teaching medical students at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan this week. Here are some questions these incredible students have asked. “If you had a choice, what ONE social determinant of health would you fix?”
- “As a heterosexual white man who is going to be a physician, how would you recommend I prepare to care for all my patients?” “What are some ways to increase research participation by financially disadvantaged patients?”
- “Children differ from adults in their physiology. How do we appropriately consent pediatric patients?” “What are key barriers to taking a new therapeutic option from basic science studies to clinical research in people?”
- “New therapies are often tested in patients who have not had benefit from existing therapies. Doesn’t that skew the results?”
