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Remember when precision medicine was (is) all the rage? Hard to do that without research to understand what to be precise about... www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

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Thought this was already obvious, but I guess for anyone still wondering if these willy-nilly NIH cuts and AHA reorg are good: www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

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Yo resisters, Fed family, veterans, and all the fabulous LGBTQ peeps— #WeSeeYou The crisis fatigue is real. Taking care of your well-being is not avoidance-it’s necessary. Seek out your posse, do good work, ask for help when you need it. #Resist, rinse, repeat. Get it trending: #WeSeeYou

submitted 49 days ago • 25 comments

Got to share my work on clinical research workflow analysis and clinical research informatics at our Spring Research Day. Glad to demonstrate why measuring work as imagined and as done is so important in any highly specified environment. #clinicalresearch #healthcare

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Vaccine expert worries that child #measles deaths are being normalized by the Trump administration. Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine, and it's highly effective. www.npr.org/2025/04/14/1...

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

Congratulations to senior biostatistician Andrew Guide on first-authorship of a new paper in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Co-authors include Shawn Garbett, Paul Harris, and Cindy Chen, plus colleagues at VUMC, Ohio State, and Columbia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 384 days ago • 0 comments

A 2021 study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that messages to doctors in patient portals increased by 157 percent between early 2020 and late 2021. And national data through mid-2022 show that the rates have stayed that high or even slightly increased.

submitted 589 days ago • 8 comments

The thing to understand re: OHRP/SACHRP, and so many of the axed programs/people, is that those "outside baseball" have no idea they exist, quietly working in the background to keep the American public safe. When things start to go wrong in research oversight + elsewhere, their absence will be felt.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

America is not the sickest country in the world and Americans are not the sickest they’ve ever been. Anybody saying either of those things is LYING CAUSE THEY THINK YOU’RE STUPID. Don’t let them. You can’t fix public health by eliminating it.

submitted 75 days ago • 15 comments

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

submitted 82 days ago • 2744 comments

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submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists move toward trying to develop an mRNA vaccine against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday I reported on the closure of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group, which maintains a database of all the spectral lines produced by atoms and ions. One Q people kept asking me was: "Don't we already know about atomic spectra?" The answer is quite interesting... 🧵 www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning. He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

submitted 83 days ago • 178 comments

A cartoon by Dave Coverly

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

They're not even trying to hide it anymore. They're coming for Social Security.

submitted 87 days ago • 182 comments

Hello Bluesky! This is my first post, and I'm starting with a story I published today, about FEMA halting almost all its grant funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/musk-fema-immigrations-doge-freeze-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7E4.IepP.vPJ_HHn4Amqb&smid=bs-share

submitted 81 days ago • 23 comments

I'd like one ticket to 'off this train.' In what world is abruptly ending contracts that fund SUD treatment a great idea?

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

In Lubbock, TX, public health officials received orders to stop work supported by 3 grants that helped fund the response to the widening #measles outbreak. #MedSky #IDSky #HIV #prevention #publichealth #addiction #mentalhealth #SAMHSA #CDC

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Collection of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Rural and Underserved Populations www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo... #MedSky #PublicHealth

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

From #OUP @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal, our paper is out, from discussions we had last summer at @iscb.bsky.social #ISMB2024 in #Montréal | Biological #databases in the age of generative artificial intelligence | #Bioinformatics #AI #LLM #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Really starting to feel like late 2007 early 2008 in here.

submitted 105 days ago • 5 comments

www.forbes.com/sites/george... I've seen a lot of reporting on indirect that fails to address the non 1:1 relationship of private v public indirects. What is a direct or indirect varies by source. I can charge more types of things as directs to foundations. #nih

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone think its kind of wild that RFK is suggested that there are annual outbreaks of measles?

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Great. USAID first. Then NIH. Maybe everyone's looking at the scoreboard (jobs # 's and stock market) now?

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Only PERFECT children are allow in the world. Ring any bells? 🌊 #Resist #5Calls #BlueCrew #fiftyfiftyone #3E #NoKings #boycott #p25 #ItISaCOUP #protest #advocate #persist #vote #FAFO #teslaTakeDown #doge

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Canceling the WaPo sub was a pretty easy decision. Democracy dies in darkness. Or as my mom would constantly tell me growing up: When the press is free, the people are free.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

It seems UHC is adding diagnostic codes to claims in order to extract more money from CMS through their Medicare advantage plans. Would love to see significant reform from this investigation, but most likely just a 50 million dollar fine followed by business as usual (sad trombone sound)

submitted 112 days ago • 12 comments

A helpful analogy for indirect costs: When a coffee shop sets the price of a cup of coffee, they build in the cost of electricity, rent, etc. Universities are not allowed to list these types of expenses as direct costs on a grant, even though they are very real costs of doing research.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

submitted 112 days ago • 832 comments

I used to start my morning reading the news. Now I start my morning calling my two senders and my representatives in Ohio to let them know that I am very unhappy and concerned with the executive branch of our government. I'm hoping that in the near future one of them will actually call me back.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

This is exactly the kind of thing Europeans rightfully mock the US for: Teacher preparation programs canceled by DOGE, like this one in Winston-Salem, are now resorting to GoFundMe's just to stay afloat. Absolutely outrageous.

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

The ACA’s enhanced tax credits are working. More people than ever have access to affordable health coverage, racial disparities are narrowing, and families are paying less for care. If Congress fails to extend them, millions will face skyrocketing costs.

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

are.. are republicans suddenly understanding what governments do?

submitted 117 days ago • 8 comments

The courts don't seem super interested in issuing congress wide writs of mandamus to.. literally legislate.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum." Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social. ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ #MedSky

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

Nothing like calling your senator only to be told their voicemail is full. Maybe someone can go ahead and check Jon Husted's voicemails?

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Even if we don’t stop RFK Jr’s confirmation, it’s still important to tell your senators how cutting infectious disease research funding and spreading vaccine misinformation will hurt people in their states. Contact their local offices. Save this link for the long haul. pluralpolicy.com/open/

submitted 126 days ago • 8 comments

Impact of NIH cut starting to sink in Here's Sen. Katie Britt urging "a smart, targeted approach" in order to protect important research at UA-Birmingham, a top NIH recipient Also, as article notes, the state's largest employer www.al.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 127 days ago • 218 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 127 days ago • 1151 comments

Now there’s a top of the front page Monday morning headline.

submitted 126 days ago • 16 comments

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

submitted 129 days ago • 315 comments