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Biomedical policy and climate-and-health reporter at Science. Author of The Vaccine Race. Book lover. History lover. Dog lover. Dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, proud Vancouver native. Signal me at: meredithwadman.13
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"Promising" is overused when it comes to potential medicines, but here I think it's justified. 10s of millions of Americans have sleep apnea; many reject CPAP. @science.org.bsky.social : Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The Trump administration has made it official, letting Women's Health Initiative investigators know that their money won't dry up in September after all.

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The #TraumaticBrainInjury unit at the Centers for Disease Control was wiped out in last week's firings. @science.org looks at what was lost. www.science.org/content/arti...

@altcdc.altgov.info Contact me today if you were impacted by, or know someone impacted by, the elimination of the team focused on traumatic brain injury at CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention. I'm on Signal: meredithwadman.13

Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

@taaltree.bsky.social could you reach out to me about EEID program? [email protected] or Signal meredithwadman.13

Exclusively from @science.org : ‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

icymi, @science.org has a new tracker to keep you up to the minute: Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

From @science.org : Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

@altnih4science.bsky.social if you are a probationary NIH employee who is losing your job today, reach out to me on Signal meredithwadman.13 to help @science.org tell this important story.

@altfda.bsky.social If you are a probationary FDA employee who is losing your job today, reach out to me on Signal meredithwadman.13 to help @science.org tell this important story. Confidentiality guaranteed.

@altcdc.bsky.social if you are a CDC probationary employee who is losing your job today you can reach me on Signal. meredithwadman.13 Please help @science.org tell this story. Confidentiality guaranteed.

BREAKING from @science.org Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine opponent, as health secretary | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Breaking from @science.org Larry Tabak was at NIH helm for much of the COVID19 pandemic:Top NIH official suddenly steps down | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Are you an NIH funded researcher with a frozen grant or contract? Find me on Signal: meredithwadman.13

The latest from your government, brought to you by @science.org.bsky.social NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Are you an HHMI-funded researcher affected by the cancellation today of IC3 (Inclusive Excellence 3)? Find me at [email protected] or on Signal: meredithwadman.13

Carbon monoxide blamed for deaths of 22 research monkeys at troubled supplier | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Are you a CDC scientist affected by the order to pull back submitted papers containing terms including the following? Find me today on Signal. Time-sensitive. Confidentiality promised.

@turban.bsky.social could you contact me? [email protected]

What’s going to kill more people in the US in the next pandemic: The virus itself or the toxic stew of misinfo, ignorance and cynical profiteering and politicization?

One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.

@altcdc.bsky.social anyone posting here with a document to share confidentially on Signal I would welcome hearing from you here in the next 3 hours and I can share contact info

EXCLUSIVE from @science.org : NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Tidbits from RFK Jr Senate follies, day 2. www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump tried to destroy a USDA think tank. Here’s what other U.S. agencies could learn from its fate | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Looking for an antidote to the hate? Sumit-Paul-Choudhury's excellent "The Bright Side" is just out from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social Highly recommended, for optimists and pessimists alike! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Br...

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Here's the latest on RFK Jr from Science magazine. www.science.org/content/arti...

Our new summer diversity internship applications are open! Come work with a great news team at Science magazine. www.aaas.org/programs/div...