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This is so infuriating because we already know the answer: We had a public-private partnership that created Free File. It is a bad product because the private actors did not want real competition. Direct File was far better which is why it was killed! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...

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The National Academy of Science should be thinking strategically like this about the law. What can they be doing now to get ahead of the Supreme Court and protect themselves while standing up for science and medicine? Because right now they're just hiding. @nationalacademies.org

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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

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Thank you, @murray.senate.gov.

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The NIH has dropped its research funding by $2.7 billion so far this year. Cancer research funding has declined 31%. And new NIH research grants fell to the lowest level in more than a decade. Eye-opening findings in today's HELP committee minority report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Our government is full of dedicated people doing amazing work to make our lives better, and most of the time we don’t hear about them. With the current administration, we unfortunately hear about them when they’re gone.

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Super cool… #IDSky #TBSky

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“The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying” My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social and others about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”. 🧪

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It’s Black Inclusion Week this week. If you are a Black microbiologist we would recommend connecting with the Black Microbiologists Association. They are working hard to increase visibility and facilitate connections: blackinmicrobiology.org #BlackInMicro #BIW2025

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Funny how their priorities align because if you’re not getting your kids vaccines you’ll miss so much work you won’t be able to have a career.

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Even if you know nothing whatsoever about AI, I don't think this could make it clearer what your disposition towards the industry as it stands should be.

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My 4 year old has more accountability than this administration.

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People say "You can't accuse Trump of corruption because the public thinks all politicians are crooks," but Obama and Biden didn't let Qatar buy them a new Air Force One and they definitely DIDN'T TAKE AIR FORCE ONE HOME WITH THEM

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Surprise surprise surprise

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Well this is truly insane...

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Big news today: Bill Gates will wind down the Gates Foundation in 2045, earlier than previously planned, with accelerated giving over the next 20 years. “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people." www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/b...

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Casey Means is a grifter who dropped out of ENT residency to start a company selling glucose monitors to non-diabetics & a “health app.” She doesn’t know basic science concepts, yet claims she’s a metabolism expert. Incomplete ENT residency ≠ expert. Of course she’s put up for Surgeon General.

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Rage rage rage rage.

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As I complete grant reviews for a panel next week, I’m thinking just how much grants are earned and not given (and still then it’s sort of a lottery among great grants)… The sheer amount of work it takes to have the expertise, develop the ideas, and show preliminary data. Whew!

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For perspective.

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this video of panda youths making their zookeeper’s job impossible always brings a smile to my face when i’m feeling down

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Important message. Also important to remember that federal funding for science isn’t “given” to university laboratories - it is awarded based on highly competitive process, profs spend months/years on proposals that are reviewed by experts, most are rejected. www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

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The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security. More here: medium.com/@eblissmorea...

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Having the most FOMO about AAI this year. Have the best time everyone!!

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

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The US health secretary is a germ theory denialist and "holds these beliefs like a religious conviction". RFK is an extremely uneducated, conspiratorial, and deranged person, arguably the most dangerous person in Trump's cabinet. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

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“This doesn't feel like a strategic plan to reorganize and make the NIH better and more efficient. It feels like a wrecking ball,” says an NIH insider, who asked 60 Minutes to protect his identity due to his concern about reprisal. https://cbsn.ws/3EKcER9

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

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Catching up with colleagues and I feel like "have any of your grants been terminated yet" is the new "have you had COVID yet" from 2022 and I hate it.

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😱 😱 😱 Major life goal achieved, though not for the reasons I’d hoped. I will be on @thisamericanlife.org tomorrow. 🧪 www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-gr...

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This week 3 of my NSF grants were terminated illegally. apnews.com/article/nsf-...

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Some good news, relatively. Colorado State University President Amy Parsons signed off on the AAC&U Call for Constructive Engagement statement.

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Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

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His cuts have only “saved” $135 billion, which is a small fraction of the annual budget. Only problem? They also cost $135 billion, and that’s before the recession hits. No savings, huge damage 😒 #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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"Just some of the triumphs that have come from our robust biomedical research enterprise. NIDDK, as a reflection of work done across the entire NIH, is a prime example of government monies well spent" The 75th anniversary of #NIDDK #NIH diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

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This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity ever for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.

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Jay Bhattacharya had strong feelings about “censorship” when it came to his Tweets and YouTube videos. Now, he’s in charge of purges and banning research. My latest for SBM. sciencebasedmedicine.org/censorship/

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I’m hearing that some MOSAIC fellows are not only losing their grants (and for some in the postdoc phase their livelihoods), but also that their LRPs are now being cancelled. To have this population of scientists be targeted in such a manner should be unacceptable to everyone 😤

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Impeach.

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Wild thought: impeach him

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A new #ScienceImmunology study in mice suggests that bacterial skin infections can imprint eosinophils with innate immune memory and enhance allergic inflammation in the lungs.

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