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joshuasweitz.bsky.social
Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human and environmental health; 'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press, 10/22/2024) & 'Quantitative Biosciences' (Princeton U Press, 3/2024) & 'Science Matters' substack.
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A new post... On Sticks, Carats, and Charades: The Structural Dismantling of American Science open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...

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Good intention here on a policy change that pre-dated the current admin & yet, very little time to prepare. New policy: grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c... Story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

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Trump, who said last year that he had “saved” historically Black colleges, has canceled $140 million in grants to them since March. Agencies told HBCUs “to change the language in grant applications that explicitly focus on Black people — or lose federal funding.” www.chronicle.com/article/hbcu...

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National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

submitted 22 hours ago • 22 comments

The great @jimalwine.bsky.social and I on the absolute necessity of restoring the NIH's funding. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/n...

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From the same article... A quote: "Dr. Robert Malone, a chair of the panel, has said he considers the label “anti-vaxxer” to be “high praise.”" A fact: "Ms. Redwood’s presentation initially included a slide with references to studies that did not exist, Reuters reported on Tuesday."

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

A major step in the right direction: thanks to all the researchers who shared news and the team at grant-watch.us (from @noamross.net & @scott-delaney.bsky.social and beyond) for their work to draw public attention to large-scale terminations.... www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/n...

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🧪"NSF ... received $6.5 billion of the congressionally appropriated $9 billion it is supposed to spend on research ...Because of the halt in funding, new research ... is not getting underway" Awful mechanism to undermine Congress. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit... wapo.st/4niZnjS (gift)

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HUD has been touring the building for months. NSF says nothing…”nothing to see here”. I’m quite sick of gaslighting, bullying, and lack of respect for science and academia. It’s getting harder and harder to take.

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So about that @dangaristo.bsky.social scoop... It would seem the "New Golden Age of HUD" now supersedes "Restoring Gold Standard Science".

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Now in @sciam.bsky.social Via Jesus Soriano, NSF employee union president: "NSF’s management 'learned this afternoon [from HUD]' that ... 'HUD will take over the NSF building' and that the science agency was not involved in the decision." www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

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Midway through a full week, early career focused event at University of Maryland. Ever more excited for what could be in the study of phage dynamics across scales. Many thanks to all the lecturers, student/postdoc participants, lab instructors, and support. weitzgroup.umd.edu/workshops/

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"[A] sleeper issue is the proposed 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health, in the White House’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year." Perhaps injecting some economic impact data may help awaken what should not be a sleeper issue... @prospect.org scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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An anti-science administration hellbent on uprooting and dismantling 75+ years of American leadership in science. Why? To what ends? Who benefits when the White House makes it ever harder, if not impossible, to retain talent, advance use-driven research, and train the next generation of innovators?

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Today @science.org published White House OSTP Director Kratsios' opinion: 'Sound policy demands sound science' accusing critics harboring what he terms "reactionary attitudes" as "allowing politicization to creep into the nation’s scientific enterprise." a 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🚨RFK jr. is currently testifying before the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee. We're keeping a close watch. Follow along for updates HERE ⬇️ (🧵):

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Amidst the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee hearing, it may be relevant to take stock of what is likely to happen to economies and jobs in communities throughout the US if medical research $ is slashed, on top of halted trials, research and programs. scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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