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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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New video- my new @statnews.com colleague @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social and I chat about RFK Jr.'s dismissal of all the members of ACIP, CDC's vaccine advisory board. Also I'm going to be doing a video every week now so please wish me luck (and like & subscribe plz) youtu.be/brVDswDpaeQ

NEW: A rescission of a rescission — after we reported on the NIH rescinding a policy banning new grants to unis w/ DEI initiatives or boycotts of Israel that notice was taken down HHS confirmed to STAT the DEI policy is still in place www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/n...

A handful of folks are live-blogging NIH Director Bhattacharya's testimony to the Senate's Appropriations committee, thread of some of the ongoing threads 🧪🩺 @standupforscience.bsky.social:

This rescission was rescinded just hours later ... story coming shortly, if you have any idea what is going on my signal is aniloza.16

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

BREAKING: RFK Jr. fires the panel responsible for advising on vaccines “It scares me to think of what’s ahead” one expert told @helenbranswell.bsky.social 🧪 #idsky www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

NIH walks back ban on DEI -- but officials there are not answering questions from @aniloza.bsky.social so unclear what this means for new/existing/pending/terminated grants, or why policy was suddenly rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

NEW: The NIH, for now, is walking back an April policy that required grantees to certify they didn't have DEI programs/boycotts of Israel in order to receive funding www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

NIH, for now, walks back ban on new grants for universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts. Via @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

Several hundred NIH employees sign a letter of protest to the agency’s director www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n... via @statnews.com @aniloza.bsky.social

Bhattacharya has now responded to the letter emailed to him this AM:

NIH scientists are pushing back, @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com reports. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

Jay Bhattacharya shot to international attention as a founder of the Great Barrington Declaration, a protest of #Covid control measures. Now #NIH director, Bhattacharya is facing a protest declaration — from his agency's angry staff, @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

Several hundred NIH employees are coming together to protest many of the agency's moves in the last several months Modeled after Jay Bhattacharya's Great Barrington Declaration, they're asking him to hold true to his promise to embrace dissent 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

Big plans, big fears, public health people told me. After another Friday night budget drop, here’s my story at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/06/07/r...

Fascinating story from @aniloza.bsky.social on race and genetic ancestry, two very different things. www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

“The clear message here is that these are two distinct constructs [race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry], they mean different things, and they should not be used interchangeably,” said Luisa Borrell @cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social #EpiSky #SocialEpi www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com

"The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future." 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

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...

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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...