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"Our oceans, food, soil and air are teeming with tiny bits of Tupperware. Scientists still don’t know what this plastic is doing to us." Great read by my colleague @megha.bsky.social on why regulators should act even while science is still evolving. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... 🧪

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The federal government is defining sex by the size of reproductive cells people make. “The biology of sex and gender makes it very clear,” says @nathanlents.bsky.social author of The Sexual Evolution. “These are not hard categories with clear definitions.” www.sciencenews.org/article/biol...

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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The MMWR on indoor cats getting sick from dairy workers exposed to bird flu, which was briefly alluded to in an earlier MMWR that was taken down, was finally posted today: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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Exclusive scoop @statnews.com: Trump administration to fire 5,200 HHS employees this afternoon www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

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This story by @arminda.bsky.social was my quiet source of joy this week. Ridiculous cooking method? ✔️ A whole heap of eggs cooked in the name of science? ✔️ Plot twist at the end? ✔️ 🧪

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Texas measles outbreak doubled, now into 4 counties www.houstonchronicle.com/health/artic...

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Texas health department cancels immunization conference amid CDC gag order Texas Department of State Health Services has described the biannual immunization conference as a "vital platform" www.keranews.org/health-welln...

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In other news, the FDA approved the first clinical trial of xenotransplants last week. The trial of United Therapeutics's xeno pig kidney will begin with six human recipients later this year and potentially scale up to 50: www.scientificamerican.com/article/pig-...

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RFK, Jr., is confirmed as HHS secretary. Here are 5 ways he will influence and harm public health: www.scientificamerican.com/article/reca...

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Here's your weekly update on bird flu news, from a new strain of H5N1 in cattle to infected birds at NYC zoos: www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

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This is literally all of Medicaid btw

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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“These cuts should be a rallying cry for higher education to come together to make the case for the American system of research and teaching…This is a moment to unite.” This system is by no means perfect by universities play a critical role in upholding democracy.

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The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine. youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU

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Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

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Quick update: @charles_gaba has completed uploading the archives of the full FDA site! Enjoy the easy of navigation. Next up, we're converting the CDC archive to this more convenient drop-down menu format. And after that, more archiving from more agencies. acasignups.net/fda-website

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Oy. Not great news for containing the outbreak in cows...

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump's attempts to shut down USAID could have a significant impact on some U.S. farms. Why? Good question! Let's talk about it. 🧵

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We're relaunching the Press Freedom Defense Fund to assist newsrooms and reporters facing serious legal threats.

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New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

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Breaking news: A Senate panel voted to narrowly advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the nation’s health agencies.

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Senators will vote today on whether to confirm RFK, Jr., as secretary of HHS, overseeing vast swaths of the country's health care. Here are 5 ways his nomination poses a threat to public health (by me, with help from @laurenjyoung.bsky.social): www.scientificamerican.com/article/reca...

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A New York Times analysis found that more than 8,000 webpages across federal websites, including 3,000 from CDC, had been removed since Friday afternoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

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N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care — not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in a letter on Monday.

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The tariffs will cost the average American $830/year.

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The, what appears to be, scrubbing happening right now at NIH is mind boggling "Accounting for sex as a biological variable in clinical studies"... gone "Supporting Women in Biomedical Careers"... gone

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There's a wide range of "ultra-processed foods." A recent Nature Foods paper zoomed in on this www.nature.com/articles/s43... and the graph rankings are shown below from @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...

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CDC page on data related to HIV, Hepatitis, STIs, and Tuberculosis is down: www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/inde...

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The purge begins: www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

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NIH site stating all NIH-funded research must include women and ethnic minorities has been taken down: orwh.od.nih.gov/toolkit/nih-...

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If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The below is in relation to this story. Beyond moral dimensions, such a directive has major health implications. Different drugs and devices can work different in different populations and you don't know that unless you have a diverse pool for trials.

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"NIH is mandated by the Public Health Service Act sec. 492B, 42 U.S.C. sec. 289a-2 to ensure the inclusion of women and members of racial and ethnic minority groups in all NIH-funded clinical research in a manner that is appropriate to the scientific question under study." tinyurl.com/3aexms9s

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The Trump administration has delayed the release of important studies on the bird flu as the outbreak escalates across the United States. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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5 takeaways from RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing showing how his nomination poses a threat to public health. By me, with reporting and editing by @laurenjyoung.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/reca...

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Tests identify H5N9 avian flu at California duck farm Meanwhile, H5N1 struck more poultry farms in 11 states, affecting egg producers, broiler farms, turkey facilities, and backyard flocks. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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Trump attempts to freeze $3 trillion in federal grants. If this goes through, the nuclear blast radius will be huge—Suicide hot line, domestic violence shelters, cancer survivors. Time to see how strong our checks and balances are. Congress, universities and governors, it’s beyond time to engage

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All of this is so deeply frustrating and infuriating because all of the administration's plans were laid out extremely clearly ahead of time, as we wrote about it. (1/2)

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New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

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