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Clinical researcher, rare diseases, eosinophils, healthcare leader, program director, allergy-immunology and AI. Bringer of chocolates, roaster of coffee #MedGrind. Music, art, soccer and food. Value based care mostly for my people. Opining for myself only
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My piece for @thenation.com on the bravery of NIH employees who are standing up to those that would destroy the institution, including the NIH director himself. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

submitted 5 days ago • 293 comments

concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again? stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment

submitted 9 days ago • 133 comments

We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly it doesn’t really matter. We should be providing healthcare to those who need it most and implementing or translating the discoveries. I don’t buy the notion that we’re fixing chronic disease because at every turn there are cuts that impact the environment and medical care

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency. Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

submitted 57 days ago • 16 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 67 days ago • 884 comments

I gotta say @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of the best writers I’ve come across in recent times. The writing is both beautiful and crushing at the same time. Can’t wait to read this one.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Now available for preorders! My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC," comes out October 1 via @georgetownup.bsky.social. A 100k word history of the D.C. punk zine community with 130+ full color images. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Yo...

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments

My sincere thanks to Jeanne Marrazzo for her service as NIAID director. She delivered the Merigan lecture last year & then kindly met w/our trainees & faculty, listening openly to ideas & suggestions for how to make NIAID stronger. A brilliant yet humble physician-scientist. This is such a loss

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 85 days ago • 738 comments

Science is an ecosystem, it’s all interconnected. It’s only a matter of time before labs and groups across the country are forced to pull back/close, PhD programs aren’t accepting apps, college grads can’t do internships. We will lose the next generation of physicians and scientists.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I guess we’re aiming for blissful ignorance. Good luck to the kids.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

“Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.” These are high-performing labs — absolutely senseless destruction

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Firings at FDA over the weekend taking out A.I. staff www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f... Note the subtitle.

submitted 118 days ago • 11 comments

A shining example....there are 1,000s of these fundamental science discoveries that NIH supports to promote human health

submitted 125 days ago • 8 comments