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2.7Billion in NIH research funding cuts in the first three months of 2025. This is not abstract No NIH funding = fewer new treatments for cancer, fewer new vaccines, fewer discoveries for chronic diseases, lower retention of scientific talent, more brain drain. www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Insane is exactly the phrase I would have used! ‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

I have an 8th percentile R01 that cleared council in Sept 2024 in limbo but has a foreign sub so dead in the water now. Not spending seems to be the point.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

More insanity. 1. Collaborative research gave us vaccines for Ebola 2. Drugs for HIV 3. Malaria vaccines 4. Researched and enhanced tracking of emerging infectious disease threats. And much more This is another damaging own goal. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

This is a disaster for global public health. I think moving to a model where the IC funds directly could be a not-bad thing, esp if it allows for capacity building re: admin for NIH grants and empowering institutions to lead them, but destroying everything first is not how you achieve that.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

They’re destroying federal science capacity & California needs to step up & expand science capacity at the state level. I introduced SB 829 to create the California Institute for Scientific Research & authorize the State of California to produce vaccines. It just passed the Senate Health Committee.

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

Vaccines save lives by the millions, this is not a point of debate.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 36 days ago • 383 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 53 days ago • 878 comments

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

I just want to do my work, man. That’s all any of us want to do.

submitted 55 days ago • 11 comments

UCSF is the 2nd largest employer in San Francisco.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I’m so grateful for silly dogs.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

The foreign aid cuts left partially-excavated, exposed pits of dioxin, a poison, left by the American military. Now, rainy season is coming & hundreds of thousands of people live right around the base. Worse, less than 1,500 ft away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, pop. 9 million.

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

Last week, a colleague who studies how the shingles vaccine affects the eye had her R01 terminated. She mentioned “physicians are hesitant” to recommend the vaccine to those who had a previous shingles infection. This is extraordinarily bad. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

I am so grateful for the reporters who are doing the work on telling the story of the incredible negative impact of the cessation of US aid. The human toll is hard to wrap one's head around. This article is a must read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

"Famine is really a human-made tragedy,”... “Food insecurity and malnutrition is not because we are not producing enough. It is a problem of poverty, access, war, political strife and other social-economic issues.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 61 days ago • 52 comments

The long list of words flagged for review includes several fundamental epidemiology terms which likely show up in every paper, grant, report, presentation, or conference talk. Does this mean epidemiology as a whole is now forbidden? My thoughts at: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

submitted 63 days ago • 301 comments

Vaccines do not cause autism. If you need a quick reference to studies that disprove this relationship: Commentary, how we got here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Meta-analysis synthesizing the results from studies on almost 1.3 million children: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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submitted 67 days ago • 428 comments

As I told @bostonglobe.com, “This goes beyond research on LGBTQ health & includes studies seeking to understand & address health issues affecting a wide range of other vulnerable communities. Scientific inquiry is under siege & the public’s health hangs in the balance as crucial studies vanish.”

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Worst timeline. Resources are not infinite. Any additional dollar wasted to relitigate this debunked idea is a dollar taken from important work elsewhere.

submitted 67 days ago • 16 comments

An excellent thread on T32s, which have launched so many scientific careers including my own. I was lucky to have 4 years of T32 support, which were instrumental in allowing me to explore and figure out where I wanted to specialize.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice

submitted 70 days ago • 93 comments

75% of Americans oppose cutting funding for scientific research on cancer; only 12% are in favor of doing so. ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Po...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

They are a basket of deplorables. She was right about everything.

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

Having spent a few too many years of my life studying vitamin A supplementation and infections/survival, I can confirm that vitamin A is not a panacea. The MMR vaccine remains the most safe and effective way to avoid getting the measles.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Berkeley and east bay folks - we will have a UC Berkeley campus event on Friday as part of this broader day of action — please join us and make your voice heard! www.standup4scienceberkeley.com

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

submitted 72 days ago • 14 comments

Regarding #NIH websites, including #RePORTER, #PubMed, #NCBI, being down: - This appears to be due to an issue with domain-name lookup. The websites are up, the lookup is (partially) broken - It could be caused by a denial-of-service attack or a misonfiguration 🧵 with explanation and workaround:

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Dr. Francis S. Collins, a renowned geneticist who led the NIH for 12 years, announced his retirement from both the institutes and the fed government. In his parting statement, he delivered a pointed yet measured message regarding the Trump admin’s decision to dismiss hundreds of NIH employees.

submitted 73 days ago • 36 comments