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science journalist @stat | also: npr, nature, sciam, science, science news covering health equity, neuroscience, and interaction btwn science & society (he/him) (signal: aniloza.16)
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I've dug up even more fresh info on the FDA's AI rollout, which will be coming to you tomorrow, only in AI Prognosis. Sign up here to get it in your inbox: www.statnews.com/signup/ai-pr... 🖥️🩺

apparently this was news to most of the folks at NASEM too ... from @meredithwadman.bsky.social

RFK Jr. is slowly making good on his promise to remove fluoride from water New study tried to measure the impact if he's successful: $9.8B & 25 million cavities in 5 years If that were to become a reality, "the system’s going to implode" one dentist said 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...

New from @aniloza.bsky.social 25 million cavities and $9.8 billion: Study estimates the costs of removing fluoride from water. www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

‘Corrupt’ medical journals, including NEJM and JAMA, have to change, RFK Jr. says, or the NIH will publish in-house, per new @aniloza.bsky.social story. The remarks come a week after the FDA commissioner rolled out a new vaccine framework in ... NEJM. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r...

Calling medical journals "corrupt," Kennedy says gov't scientists may be barred from publishing in Lancet, NEJM, etc going forward. #NIH may establish its own journals, he said. Meanwhile #CDC 's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal is on the budget chopping block. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r...

A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n... via @statnews.com @aniloza.bsky.social

All the gratitude -- - to scientists who've reported their grants to grant-watch.us. Your willingness to share matters & has made a difference. - to @aniloza.bsky.social for this article and many others that document the destruction of American science. - to @noamross.net as the perfect teammate.

@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...

National Academies, facing a $40 million shortfall in funds has laid off 50/1000 of its staff and could lose as many as 250 more by the end of the summer its president told @mmolteni.bsky.social 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

If you'll permit me to pitch you: the work my colleagues and I do is expensive and time consuming and we can only do it with the support of subscribers. We're running a big sale right now: half off of an entire year.

If you appreciate the work me and my colleagues do (or have hit the paywall trying to read our work 😇), the best way to support us is by subscribing to STAT+ Right now, we are running a half off deal for your first year 🧪

Do you want political appointees in charge of deciding who gets federal research grants? Neither do most scientists. Story by @mmolteni.bsky.social and @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

Turning NIH and NSF employees into political appointees "makes it easier to weaponize science funding, to use it to bring desired groups under control,” historian Melinda Baldwin said. @aniloza.bsky.social and @mmolteni.bsky.social at @statnews.com explain: www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

A new proposal by the White House could further politicize the NIH Thousands made their reservations about the rule known “There is a threat of more politics, more instability, [and] loss of people who have the institutional memory” w/ @mmolteni.bsky.social 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

In a lawsuit filed yesterday, a group of physicians and researchers argue that the termination of more than $800 million in LGBTQ+ research funding endangers lives: www.statnews.com/2025/05/21/l...

Just so many questions raised today and few clear answers from HHS/FDA. Can healthy adults get existing boosters this fall? Will Covid shots for kids and babies authorized under emergency use still be allowed? When will this all take place? Is any of this legal? www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

one outtake from this story: 30 years ago!! Hanna Gray gave a talk at the AAAS meeting where she warned about -less funding in light of inflation -a decline of regard for the value of the scientific enterprise -controversies over indirect costs -scientific integrity -breaching of peer review

I spoke with @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com about how it feels to see opportunities shrink after finding out that the HGF HHMI postdoctoral competition has been canceled this year. Have a read here. www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/h...

How do you solve a chronic disease crisis? It depends on what you care about most. That's what RFK Jr. will have to decide soon. Our new project splits the nation's health into 9 "priorities." Choose your adventure based on your top concerns. Dive in: www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/k...

Was happy to provide a little excerpt, along with others, about the recent @hhmi.org Hanna Grey decision last week as an applicant and a former Gilliam Fellow that knows how important these fellowships are for early career scientists with limited resources.

"to run a contest that you end up not funding as a private organization at this time is… both extremely wasteful of these people’s time, and just devastating in terms of morale." I spoke with @aniloza.bsky.social at STAT today about HHMI's decision not to fund this round of Hanna Gray applicants.

More bad news for early career scientists. By @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/h...

HHMI has paused consideration for a new round of its Hanna Gray postdoc fellowship Applicants feel it's the latest step in the academic pipeline contracting 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/h...

Great analogy in this @jasonmast.bsky.social story: "If early CRISPR was a molecular scissors, base and prime editing was like taking a pencil and eraser to the genome." 🧪🧬 www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...

@matthewherper.bsky.social hosting a timely discussion about *gestures broadly at everything* at #STATBreakthrough w/ wide-ranging panel: —Georges Benjamin @apha.org —Susan Desmond-Hellmann, board member, Pfizer & OpenAI —Eric Rubin, EIC @nejm.org Threading some of the thoughts from the panel 🧪

On the Trump admin's cuts to science funding, American Public Health Association executive director Georges Benjamin said at #STATBreakthrough: "We're not using science. We've taken apart the public health infrastructure. And the truth of the matter is, as they say, we're up the creek."

A study in @jama.com last week documented that in just over a month 139 training grants were terminated by the NIH

ICYMI yesterday, a federal court ruling means the PTAB will have to go back and look at CVC's claims of priority on inventing CRISPR gene editing in eukaryotic cells, this time with a broader range of evidence. 13 years in, the battle continues... www.statnews.com/2025/05/12/a...

Huge news: Andrew Witty is out at UnitedHealth Group after a tumultuous four-year tenure. The company is going back to the man who built it into the sprawling, profit-hunting conglomerate it is today: Stephen Hemsley. www.statnews.com/2025/05/13/s...

Recently, I put out a call for people to share their personal experiences with measles, mumps, rubella, and other vaccine-preventable diseases. I heard from dozens of people who discussed their own illnesses as well as those of friends, siblings, and patients. www.statnews.com/2025/05/10/w...

How much federal research funding has been axed so far in the new administration? An early estimate is $1.8B, but that's likely an underestimate, @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t...

New STAT story on a JAMA paper on the NIH grant terminations www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t... 1/n

Ed Martin — who sent letters to medical journals about alleged bias — is no longer Trump's pick to be DC US attorney www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...

I took a look into the hype around peptides in this new video for @statnews.com . What are they? How can there be a peptide for so many different conditions/ailments/cosmetic issues, etc? Who is selling them? How reliably safe are they? All that and more youtu.be/xX7rWXK5ME0?...

Likely an undercount, outside experts told @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t...