Leah Abrams
Population health and aging researcher | Tufts University Department of Community Health via Michigan Public Health & Harvard Pop Center
http://LeahRAbrams.com
- Reposted by Leah Abrams🚨Postdoc alert! @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social is now accepting applications for 2026-2028 Bell Fellowship! Apply by March 3: popcenter.harvard.edu/postdoctoral... @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social @ashecon.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
- Reposted by Leah Abrams3 #PostDoc researcher positions at @helsinki.fi in collaboration with IIASA @iiasa.ac.at and MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social on population projections, migration dynamics, and human capital development #demography #박사후연구 www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsGender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsLess than half of U.S. workers hold a quality job with predictable schedules, safety & respect, a voice at work, and room for advancement. The Upjohn Institute partnered on a new survey revealing critical gaps in job quality and why they matter. Read more: #Jobs #Workforce #econsky #JobQuality
- Reposted by Leah AbramsFriendly reminder that @princeton.edu's Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows priority deadline is 10/31. Read about the incredible 2025 fellows cohort here.
- New report: Stagnating declines in cardiovascular disease mortality in the United States expanded the black-white life expectancy gap (especially for women) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- The @popassocamerica.bsky.social deadline is coming up on Sunday 📆 I welcome submissions to Session 708: Older Workers, Longer Working Lives, and Health. I look forward to reading your work in this area!
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThe Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026! ➡️ Applications are due December 15, 2025 ⬅️ Learn More: demog.pop.upenn.edu/prospective-...
- This is some of the very best writing on grief I've ever read (and re-read and re-read)
- Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the September 11 attacks. For her 2021 Pulitzer Prize–winning story, Jennifer Senior visited his loved ones to understand how their pain endures. theatln.tc/Txh867AC
- Reposted by Leah AbramsPostdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow Early Childhood Education Institute (ECEI), University of Oklahoma #econ_ra apply.interfolio.com/171415
- Reposted by Leah AbramsCommunications Coordinator position working with @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social and @micda-umisr.bsky.social at @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social More info here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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- Reposted by Leah AbramsA recent study shows even the wealthiest Americans have higher mortality than the poorest Europeans. Researcher Atheendar Venkataramani weighs in, in an article for @nbcnews.com: READ MORE:
- Reposted by Leah Abrams1/5 - The US workforce is aging, and older service sector workers already face tough conditions. Does new workplace tech help or hurt them? Our new paper explores the impact! @dschneider.bsky.social @kristenharknett.bsky.social @leahrabrams.bsky.social shift.hks.harvard.edu/new-technolo...
- Reposted by Leah Abramsdo you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter
- Reposted by Leah AbramsBoston is the first major Northeastern city to launch a pilot program offering free sunscreen dispensers in public parks. 💛
- Reposted by Leah AbramsAs the U.S. slashes spending on science and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.
- 💡New productivity hack! 💡 Travel to Finland where no one from the U.S. emails you before about 4pm local time, at which point you still have ~6 hours until sunset.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsAll NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!
- Great talk by Alessandro Feraldi showing how gender and educational gaps in Healthy Working Life Expectancy change depending on the operationalization of health and work — important for interpreting existing evidence and designing future research in this area #REVES2025
- We’re kicking of day 2 at #REVES2025 with a session on stagnation in life expectancy @reves-network.bsky.social @octaviobramajo.bsky.social @astokespop.bsky.social
- I’m excited to be in Finland for the first time to be attending REVES for the first time! REVES = Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé = Network on Health Expectancy @reves-network.bsky.social #REVES2025
- Tomorrow, when less jet-lagged, I’ll be presenting on what we can learn about US life expectancy stalls by examining birth cohort patterns in cause-specific mortality
- Reposted by Leah AbramsToday it starts! First REVES Conference in Finland (REVES=international network on healthy life expectancy and more). We are expecting around 80 researchers from 17 countries to join the 3-day conference. Welcome, enjoy the ride! @reves-network.bsky.social #REVES2025
- Check out these two exciting opportunities to work with @kerenladin.bsky.social in the REACH lab (Research on Ethics, Aging, and Community Health) at Tufts 1. Senior Research Coordinator - jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/21562?l... 2. Postdoctoral Fellow - details below
- Reposted by Leah AbramsSunsets this year will remain after 7:30PM until August. Have a nice day.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsWorkers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
- Reposted by Leah Abrams"Closing tabs" one of my main tasks completed for the day
- Reposted by Leah AbramsJust a reminder that there is no existing substitute for NIH in terms of biomedical research funding--anywhere in the world. These losses will be felt worldwide. And given spending as of the end of March, we're looking at an effective 60% cut to NIH funding.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsSo some good news: recruitment has resumed for postbac and postdoc programs at NIH www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThis country will not recover for a long time from what has happened to our public health and scientific infrastructure over the last few weeks. Decades of experience has been gutted.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsTrump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.
- It’s a horrible day to be a Michigan Wolverine www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/e...
- Reposted by Leah Abrams"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsSEIU MA State Council Denounces Detention of Tufts Graduate Student & SEIU 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk. Read more here: www.seiu509.org/seiu-massachusetts-state-council-denounces-detention-of-tufts-graduate-student-and-seiu-509-member-rumeysa-ozturk/
- Reposted by Leah Abrams🎉🎉🎉Congratulations!🏆IUSSP Early Career Award 2025 Europe for Diego Alburez-Gutierrez @demography.bsky.social The award recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to the development of our discipline and the wider field of population studies. @iussp.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsFrom 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
- Reposted by Leah AbramsI was just present as a valued colleague received an email that her NIH grant was terminated. I cannot fully convey the agony of the senseless destruction of the U.S. research infrastructure. It accomplishes NOTHING positive. It is a malicious attack on scientists who support the public’s health.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsRoses are red Violets are blue
- Reposted by Leah AbramsPlease share this great opportunity for early-career researchers from our colleagues at the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families! Applications are due by 4/18/25. More info here on eligibilty and how to apply: www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/emerging-sch...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsNew paper alert 🚨 in The Gerontologist! This was a paper with @jeffstokes.bsky.social where I got to extend my line of research in some interesting ways - by studying married dyads and focusing on loneliness doi.org/10.1093/gero...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThe People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsMy colleague and I wrote a local op-ed about why Michigan lawmakers should fight cuts to Medicaid: www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
- Since sharing, I've received stunning emails accounting tragic losses from academics who are getting up each day to go to work. Grief is so deeply personal and so profoundly universal. May we all love so well that we risk losses that shatter our worlds. And then, may we find ways to keep living.
- Out today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, my official coming-out as bereaved. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsCancer, Grief, and Academic Life: A new assistant professor shines a light on living and working amid personal loss. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThis is the best thing I've read this morning. Thanks, @leahrabrams.bsky.social for this really great essay. #academicsky
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThe #PAA2025 preliminary program is online: submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin... Make sure you are registered before rates increase in March: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-...
- I recently asked ChatGPT for book recommendations and got kind of specific about what I was looking for... It made up books that don't exist 🤦
- Reposted by Leah Abrams7AM in Boston.
- Reposted by Leah AbramsA truly beautiful, heart-wrenching essay, and a challenge to how we treat those facing grief, by the wonderful @leahrabrams.bsky.social. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...
- Out today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, my official coming-out as bereaved. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...
- This essay tells the personal story of losing my husband Andrew to cancer while starting on the tenure track. It peels back the curtain on an experience people often consider private or say they “can’t imagine”
- I hope it inspires us all to reflect on how a culture that asks people not to bring their losses into the workplace may hinder healing, drive out talented scholars, and prevent enriching opportunities for learning and connection in the classroom and in research.
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View full threadTL;DR -- Taylor Swift wrote I Can Do It With A Broken Heart just for me. DM if you hit a paywall and want a copy of the essay. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsIAPHS is accepting award nominations for 7 different awards until March 21. Learn more: iaphs.org/awards/
- Reposted by Leah Abrams1/ How should public health think about new GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic? Do pharmaceutical solutions undermine public health prevention efforts? In @milbankfund.bsky.social, Neil Mehta & I consider what new anti-obesity drugs might mean for population health. 🔗 www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsMMWR returns www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index20...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThere's widespread confusion and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling National Institutes of Health campus and at institutions dependent on the agency's funding.
- Reposted by Leah Abrams📣Call for Papers📰The @hmdatabase.bsky.social team invites contributions to the 7th HMD Symposium. This year, the Symposium will be dedicated to investigating the main drivers and obstacles to #longevity progress in the pre- and post-COVID eras. @ined.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
- Reposted by Leah AbramsMeals on Wheels America spox on OMB pause: "the uncertainty right now is creating chaos for local Meals on Wheels providers not knowing whether they should be serving meals today. Which unfortunately means seniors will panic not knowing where their next meals will come from."
- My graduate training was funded by an NIH T32 grant that supported students doing interdisciplinary aging research. The institutional grant propelled me and other young scholars into careers studying health and functioning in the growing population of older Americans
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThe fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social: theatln.tc/e1Ng2ddw
- Reposted by Leah AbramsDo you work under HHS? How is your work affected right now? My email is melodyaschreiber@gmail.com and DM me for Signal
- Reposted by Leah AbramsThe total research expenditure of Penn State was $1.4b last year. Much of that was federal money that came into the state -- paid wages and state income taxes, rents, property taxes, sales taxes. State representatives might want to consider what freezing federal funds does to their constituents.
- One thing I like about dogs is they don’t read the news
- Reposted by Leah AbramsTop-mentioned research this fall, from the Health and Retirement Study, found lifetime trauma can worsen end-of-life pain and discomfort, depression and loneliness. Kate Duchowny, Grace Noppert et al. @umisr.bsky.social From Michigan News: news.umich.edu/childhood-tr...
- Reposted by Leah Abrams**Call for Papers** The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...
