Maja Marcus
Economist | Global Health & Aging | Postdoc @ Harvard Medical School & BWH & Charité | she/her
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- Reposted by Maja MarcusWe do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusCome hear MPEC investigators share their research at #CROI2025 ! We have several posters during today’s session at 2:30pm PST. @caitlindugdale.bsky.social @anneneilan.bsky.social @andreaciaranello.bsky.social @iddocjen.bsky.social @mgh-id.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maja MarcusThat didn't take anytime at all. What a waste. Defunding cancer research, health disparities research, gebe therapy and real vaccine research to waste the valuable time of scientists to study debunked conspiracies. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Reposted by Maja Marcus“Thinking about the event in the U.S. capital started about a month ago, when five scientists, nearly all of them graduate and Ph.D. students, bonded on Bluesky over their concerns about the impact of Trump’s executive orders on science.” 🧪
- Reposted by Maja MarcusAlmost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
- Reposted by Maja MarcusBOSTON #StandUpForScience Friday March 7 at the State House, starting at noon, according to this @bostonglobe.com report 👇🧪 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...
- Dieses Gefühl, wenn man täglich mit den Konsequenzen der Trump Regierung konfrontiert wird, und dann in der Bundestagswahl nicht mitwählen kann, weil die Briefwahl-Unterlagen nicht ankommen...
- Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇 www.rnd.de/politik/bund...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusEnvironmental factors, or the "exposome", are about 10X more important than genes in explaining why some people have a higher risk of an early death than others, research has suggested. 🧪 #medsky Link to open access study below. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/... - Reposted by Maja MarcusHappy #YearOfTheSnake, hopefully an auspicious year for #snakebite, a neglected disease, to get the attention it deserves. 🐍 #NTDs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusIt’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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- Reposted by Maja MarcusThese curves describe the relationship between longevity and income in U.S. states. Historically these curves have shifted up. In the U.S., the 2019 curve lies *fully below* the 2010. That is shocking. Whatever we are doing now may only entrench this concerning pattern. #medsky #episky #econsky
- Reposted by Maja MarcusThis week, amidst a broader purge of LGTBQ-mentioning materials from federal health sites, NIAID deleted its HIV Language Guide, an important reference on destigmatizing, people-first terminology. But it's still a public domain document, so we reposted it on TheBody: www.thebody.com/hiv/niaid-hi...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusTrump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic," by @meredithwadman.bsky.social, Jocelyn Kaiser www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org @monscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maja MarcusA paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
- Reposted by Maja MarcusDie Zeit, a prominent German publication, titles its article: 'A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute.'
- Reposted by Maja MarcusHistorian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusTrump unlawfully issues an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... The U.S. first joined back in 1948 through a joint resolution from Congress. Presidents may not leave without the "express approval" of Congress. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusUgh, RFK Jr made it clear he has HPV vaccination in his sights A new study finds "a steep decline in cervical cancer mortality" in US women under 25 from 2016-2021 "This cohort of women is the first to be widely protected against cervical cancer by HPV vaccines" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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- Reposted by Maja MarcusDas ZEW hat ausgerechnet, welche Einkommensgruppen von den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien jeweils am stärksten profitieren: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusHelp spread the word. The @minnpop.bsky.social is a great place to work. @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social #Demography #PublicHealth #Sociology
- Reposted by Maja Marcus2025 will be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health These books can help prepare us communities.springernature.com/posts/want-t...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusJust a reminder for Germans abroad that you need to re-register to vote in the Federal Election, even if you didn't move houses since 2021 (yes, I'm a political scientist and had to google this). Here are the docs you need: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa.... (1)
- Reposted by Maja Marcus**New working paper** How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students? Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusArmut ist einer der Hauptrisikofaktoren für psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter aber auch über die gesamte Lebensspanne. Kinderarmut zu bekämpfen ist damit auch eine enorm wichtige und wirksame präventive Maßnahme für die psychische Gesundheit der Gesamtbevölkerung.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusA right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusStudy of healthspan-lifespan gaps among 183 WHO member states finds "widening healthspan-lifespan gap worldwide but... US (has) largest healthspan-lifespan gap (Fig. 3B)... 24% larger than projected from the country’s life expectancy..." 🛟😷demography medsky sociology jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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- Reposted by Maja MarcusHigh out-of-pocket spending on health means that 1 in 8 people are having to choose between basic necessities and accessing healthcare. Healthcare shouldn’t push people into poverty. #HealthForAll
- Reposted by Maja MarcusNice post with a discussion of the validation problem in ML/AI. Defining a prediction target and groundtruth remains a key challenge for prediction problems more generally. (disclaimer: @verawilde.bsky.social discusses our own work very kindly)
- Reposted by Maja MarcusNot that I love systematic reviews, but the threat by fake papers is a serious issue.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusWe've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data. Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusA staggering statistic: Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a *9 percent* increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The math of our housing crisis is brutally clear.
- 2 in 3 older adults will need support for daily living, yet only 33% of countries can provide it. Informal caregivers, often older women, are filling the gap at great cost to their own health. ❗Reminder for the urgent need to invest more in prevention for healthy aging❗ #HealthyAging #GlobalHealth
- Reposted by Maja Marcus“Seventy-six per cent of respondents said that they could no longer treat patients in accordance with evidence-based medicine. Twenty-one per cent said that they were either considering leaving the state or already planning to do so; thirteen per cent had decided to retire early.” +
- Reposted by Maja Marcus"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusPURPOSE-2 results are now published. It demonstrates high level effectiveness of twice a year Lenacapavir for HIV prevention in Men and gender diverse persons. An important milestone for long acting injectables for PrEP. Now we need to address the issue of access. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Maja Marcusis it "housing" www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusIt was a true delight to contribute to this! Well done @robinvankessel.bsky.social and many others for making this happen! 127 determinants with a digital impact! This report is definitely worth your time and effort to assimilate into your practice! iris.who.int/handle/10665... #DigitalHealth
- Reposted by Maja MarcusScientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
- Reposted by Maja MarcusBy popular demand @science.org is on Bluesky!! No posts until after Thanksgiving, but stand by! @karaestellepowers.bsky.social @kakape.bsky.social @jakeyeston.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maja MarcusThe WHO Director-General, agreeing with the advice of the IHR Emergency Committee, has determined that the upsurge of #mpox continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusRe-post one of your best tweets. No screenshots. I'll go first. --- In the first part of this paper, I use a rigorous research design to estimate the causal effect of X on Y. I then turn to testing mechanisms by over-interpreting a bunch of correlations in the data.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusFemale content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusThanks for mentioning the #Blacksky feeds @stokel.bsky.social on @newscientist.bsky.social Chris was the first journalist to interview me about Blacksky and is still the only one that seemed to really get it.
- Reposted by Maja MarcusA very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959 It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up! Cool and empirically relevant stuff!
- Reposted by Maja MarcusI would even add: please shamelessly promote your work One terrific thing I enjoyed on old Twitter was discovering new papers Trust me, you will have an audience if you share your work on Bluesky
- Reposted by Maja MarcusPosting this because these images are making the rounds again. Plus, someone told me it was the best thing I ever did, and I was flattered. p.s. only possible since I've been directly involved with several papers that meet these exact criteria, so mea culpa blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
- Reposted by Maja MarcusThe world I dream of - or at least hitting the high notes www.nature.com/articles/d41...
