#Trialists
Sounders organizational photo. I’m sure sone trialists are in here.
January 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's funny how these guys respond to coverage that holds them to account.

Yes, the story was about NDAs, but it was also about what those NDAs prevented people from saying: That trialists were getting sick on Bryan Johnson's products.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/t...
March 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Jenna Norton
@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Comment deadline: Sep 30.

Today (9/28), more than 30 organizations signed a letter addressing important considerations for training the next generation of clinical trialists.
Please read the letter link in: linktr.ee/Jenna_M_Norton
September 29, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Some folks say they see no ethical issues since Guinea-Bissau is “too poor” to roll out the birth dose & that won’t happen until next year—with Gavi funding

But you can’t ethically exploit scarcity. The trialists will knowingly protect just half the newborns; they have the means to protect ALL.
Yup—it is absolutely unconscionable that these researchers would knowingly and deliberately do this:

“To consign 1,425 infants to almost certain (70%-90%) Hepatitis B infection (and the chronic liver disease that eventually follows) is unthinkable.”

Knowingly do this to vulnerable kids? Grotesque
Future ethics in medical research students- get a head start on your syllabus and read it now. Because this will be taught as an example of unethical research 👇🏻
January 16, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Just read The Mandela Brief, about Kentridge, who also served as a lawyer for the Treason Trialists, Bram Fischer, anti-apartheid clergyman Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, and at the inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre.

Now reading Biko's I Write What I Like. Biko would be 78 now if not murdered.
The great S African lawyer Sir Sydney Kentridge is 103 today. In a Pretoria court in 1977 I watched in awe as he crucified the secret police who had murdered the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko - arguably the start of apartheid’s downfall. A very happy birthday, dear Sydney!
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It’s only preseason, but an MLS Next Pro team full of trialists (Chattanooga FC) beat Atlanta United today…
January 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
#NIH will eliminate clinical trials for K awards starting October 2027. Again, there are troubles with training clinical trialists. That doesn't mean eliminate the program. It means support trainees to the fullest extent possible. Read the statement from @asa-scipol.bsky.social.
Letters Organized, Signed, and/or Sent
The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest community of statisticians, the “Big Tent for Statistics.
www.amstat.org
October 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Five notes from Seattle Reign's preseason roster
The Reign have four non-roster trialists in preseason training. #HereForTheCrown

www.sounderatheart.com/2025/01/five...
Five notes from Seattle Reign's preseason roster
The Reign have four non-roster trialists in preseason training.
www.sounderatheart.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This, but it's clinical trialists explaining why they don't use the estimands framework.
Next time someone asks you to sum up MAGA in 30 seconds or less, show them this clip of Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books.
March 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
For the 30-minute “match,” Farr in goal, Tubbs, Peltola, Enow, Murrell, trialists and academy players.
February 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
D.C. United lineup for preseason opener vs NY Red Bulls in Bradenton:

Kim; Dodson, Bartlett, Tubbs, academy player; Enow, Kijima, Peglow, Pirani, academy player, Benteke.

Different 11 in the second half, including trialists.

No TV or live stream.
January 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Seattle Reign have invited four trialists to their preseason training, which officially kicks off on Jan. 20.

Here are five of our takeaways from the Reign's 2025 preseason roster:
www.sounderatheart.com/2025/01/five...
Five notes from Seattle Reign's preseason roster
The Reign have four non-roster trialists in preseason training.
www.sounderatheart.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Let NIH know that we need pathways to train future clinical trialists. We must not remove the current pathway before a new model is available. Thank you to @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social , @jeremymberg.bsky.social and University of Colorado based advocates for leading this effort.
September 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Long COVID has me building a decentralized clinical trial platform with ex-Microsoft friends who write code better than I breathe.

What we need now is experience.

Any clinical trialists (or those who know them) willing to spare 30 minutes to help us get it right?

DM/email me!
October 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Please read this letter with important considerations for training the next generation of clinical trialists.

Its powerful that so many organizations came together. Thanks to everyone involved.

Consider commenting on the NIH RFI by the 9/30 deadline: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
September 29, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Midfielder Brandon Servania, who returned to Toronto FC late last season after recovering from ACL surgery, was among the second-half trialists for D.C. United. #dcu
January 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
somehow I don’t see this logic being applied to clinical trialists
..." it would be regrettable if a scientist identified too closely with a single tool in this rapidly evolving research landscape." ..."A scientist should no more identify solely as a “mouse modeler” than as an “immunoblotter” or an “organoidologist.” "...
August 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A supersized new midweek @flyoverfooty.bsky.social drop! A lot of interviews and quotes in this one to listen to from the opening couple days of camp plus a breakdown of Edelman to @stlcitysc.com and some background on our trialists! #AllForCITY
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Camp is underway & it’s our 1st midweek show of the year! We break down the newest @stlcitysc.com signing, Daniel Edelman, before covering the start of camp: the roster, early words from leadership, an interview w/Timo & more! #AllForCITY
🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Ari Schulman is the editor of the New Atlantis, funded by the hard-right Ethics and Public Policy Center.

“The New Atlantis…written from a social conservative stance that
utilizes religion”

Exactly. They are modern Scopes monkey trialists.
September 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
DCU second-half lineup:

Jordan Farr; academy player, Lukas MacNaughton, Garrison Tubbs, academy; Jacob Murrell, trialist, trialist, academy, Randall Leal; Dominique Badji.

Trialists presumed to be Brandon Servania & Rida Zouhir, who are in the process of finalizing MLS contracts, per sources.
February 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
NIH is an institution that requires randomized controlled trial evidence to inform clinical practice, yet it has just removed one of the few structured mechanisms by which clinicians learn to design and execute RCTs.

www.clinicaltrialvanguard.com/clinical-bel...
NIH Just Killed the Training Ground for Clinical Trialists. The Damage Will Take a Decade to See.
NIH's Program Update 3 eliminates Independent Clinical Trial Required K awards — 573 active K23s affected. The clinician-scientist pipeline breaks quietly…
www.clinicaltrialvanguard.com
August 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Angel City FC announced that the club has parted ways with defender Hannah Johnson and goalkeeper Bre Norris following the expiration of their roster relief contracts with the club.

Johnson and Norris both joined the ACFC as trialists during the 2025 NWSL preseason.
June 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
DCU has three young trialists in camp -- the team is not identifying them publicly -- as well as two academy players. Others could enter the picture during training camp.
January 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is a great example of what happens when trialists like @biovie.bsky.social listen to patients. Based on feedback from patient-researchers at PLRC & other orgs, the trial changed eligibility criteria for illness duration from a 2 year cap to include patients sick for longer. 2/
September 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM