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Established in 1951, the EIS fellowship program is for our nation’s best and brightest. Abruptly firing these dedicated fellows is unconscionable, ghoulish, dangerous. I’m furious. www.cdc.gov/eis/php/abou...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

How Trump’s medical research cuts would hit colleges and hospitals in every state: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My colleagues and I crunched the numbers.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 13 days ago • 795 comments

The Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID left thousands of volunteers around the world w/ experimental drugs + medical devices in their bodies – cut off from care by researchers running clinical trials, in violation of the fundamental principles of research www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 days ago • 223 comments

New criteria for federal transportation funds say grant and loan programs should prioritize projects in "communities with marriage and birthrates higher than the national average." nyti.ms/41g4eJX

submitted 19 days ago • 292 comments

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

From @walkerbragman.bsky.social, more on the RealClear journal of COVID contrarians. www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochan...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 23 days ago • 1328 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 24 days ago • 4022 comments

horrifying shit being introduced in oklahoma — giving the DOC control over mental health & substance use disorder services

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

submitted 25 days ago • 233 comments

The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.

submitted 25 days ago • 1466 comments

💥 New Zealand knows what’s up!!

submitted 25 days ago • 763 comments

Yesterday, payroll. Today, communication. This is pretty much textbook how you do a coup.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪

submitted 25 days ago • 60 comments

oh look, that thing I was saying. more of this please and faster and louder.

submitted 26 days ago • 82 comments

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

submitted 25 days ago • 190 comments

Media purges have begun — you read that Reich Holy hell

submitted 25 days ago • 537 comments

Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

submitted 25 days ago • 913 comments

Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Without congressional approval or constitutional authority, the richest man in the world has taken over payroll of the US government. How is this not a coup?

submitted 26 days ago • 61 comments

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

submitted 27 days ago • 2180 comments

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

submitted 31 days ago • 65 comments

“Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong” Brilliant and much-needed takedown of the latest anti-vax misinformation and propaganda from the pseudo-scientists, ahead of the RFK hearings.

submitted 32 days ago • 95 comments

A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.

submitted 32 days ago • 92 comments

“An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States”

submitted 32 days ago • 493 comments

50 Over 50 Global: 2025

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump Administration’s abrupt cancellation of NIH meetings & grant reviews has sparked concerns that medical breakthroughs will be stalled and DEI initiatives shut down. My latest @Forbes.com feature. With thanks to the scientists who spoke with me for the piece www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/w...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The law-and-order party supports pardons for criminals who violently attack police. The pro-military party supports an utterly unqualified Defense Secretary nominee. The pro-life party is skeptical about the vaccines that have saved countless lives. With friends like these . . .

submitted 33 days ago • 31 comments

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

submitted 33 days ago • 1978 comments

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 34 days ago • 451 comments

When the Baltimore Ravens player Mark Andrews missed a crucial pass in a playoff game, at least some Buffalo Bills fans felt sympathy, even amid their win. The Bills fans set out to raise money for a diabetes charity on his behalf, drawing more than $100,000 in donations.

submitted 34 days ago • 96 comments

The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health. How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health? Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25

submitted 40 days ago • 9 comments

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

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submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

A systematic review involving >130 million people and 1 million dementia cases found that anti-inflammatory medications, vaccinations, and antibiotics were associated with reduced dementia, whereas vitamins and supplements linked to higher risk alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 36 days ago • 70 comments