🚨🚨🚨 Four NIH institute directors have been removed from their posts and some offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, effective today. These institutes include NIAID (Jeanne Marrazzo), NIMHD (Eliseo Pérez-Stable), NICHD (Diana Bianchi), and NINR (Shannon Zenk). - ThreadSky

maxkozlov.bsky.social • 4 days ago

🚨🚨🚨 Four NIH institute directors have been removed from their posts and some offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, effective today.

These institutes include NIAID (Jeanne Marrazzo), NIMHD (Eliseo Pérez-Stable), NICHD (Diana Bianchi), and NINR (Shannon Zenk).

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warrenterra.bsky.social•4 days ago

Along with a blow to scientific research, this is a profound insult to the Indian Health Service, and of course to American Indians. Even stellar qualifications to head research into (for example) infectious disease do not equip someone to oversee the provision of medical care through the IHS.

ohiorob.bsky.social•4 days ago

NINR = National Institute of Nursing Research

Nurses: Largest occupational group in the United States. 90% women.

katbfisher.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you for connecting those dots for people.

quousquetandem.bsky.social•4 days ago

Paraphrasing Churchill’s March 6th, 1946 speech, we can safely say:
“an iron curtain has descended upon” the American science.

jaystu.bsky.social•4 days ago

Racist republicans

jrhanchey.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is such a loss. And clearly "reassignment to locations such as Alaska, Montana and Oklahoma" is just trying to make them quit.

loulanwest.bsky.social•4 days ago

If somebody was even willing to move to Montana or Oklahoma or Alaska, they would just be fired once they spent thousands $$ making the move.

n83z01qbui.bsky.social•4 days ago

@marcelias.bsky.social @nick-carmody.bsky.social

maxkozlov.bsky.social•4 days ago

Researchers did not mince words about this purge of senior NIH leadership:
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says @mtosterholm.bsky.social.

These cuts come on Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director.

maxkozlov.bsky.social•4 days ago

To add to the list: Kathleen Neuzil, head of the Fogarty International Center, has also been offered reassignment and placed on admin leave, an NIH source tells me.

mdwallach.bsky.social•3 days ago

So weird an economist doesn’t understand who actually does research

julia-paoli.bsky.social•4 days ago

Great reporting Max, important to make the public aware of

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