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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 2 days ago • 711 comments

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-hundreds-of-millions dollar contracts at fed and state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that repeatedly delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Regarding #NIH websites, including #RePORTER, #PubMed, #NCBI, being down: - This appears to be due to an issue with domain-name lookup. The websites are up, the lookup is (partially) broken - It could be caused by a denial-of-service attack or a misonfiguration 🧵 with explanation and workaround:

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 6 days ago • 606 comments

Looks like the NIH study section that was supposed to review my grant tomorrow (2/24/25) is postponed indefinitely - DBD= developmental brain disorders. public.csr.nih.gov/StudySection... .... For anyone still keeping track ( @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Obsessed with this thread.

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Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Save Foreign Aid

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 24 days ago • 270 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 105 comments

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

This NYT piece describes the devastation being wrought in the global health sector by the foreign assistance freeze. Let me say a few words about what this looks like in the sector I work in, often called democracy and governance (DRG). 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

More from inside NIH: Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday. That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.

submitted 38 days ago • 92 comments

One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it. #Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.

submitted 38 days ago • 36 comments

Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.

submitted 40 days ago • 59 comments

We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely unbelievable technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.

submitted 53 days ago • 60 comments

A little holiday card I got to draw for a public library last year that I’m still proud of; happy almost-new-year ✨

submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

I thought Gracula must be a media property

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Looks like bluesky is going to be added to altmetrics! #philsky #academicsky

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Crypto shills have a plot to leverage about $750 billion in public assets so the government can buy a million Bitcoins. Why? So crypto moguls can cash out into real money, @ryanlcooper.com reports: prospect.org/power/2024-1...

submitted 97 days ago • 30 comments

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr., considered one of the chamber’s leading champions of disability policy, conceded in his Senate race last night, ending the Democrat’s decades-long career in Congress.

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

“Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead.” @roxanegay.bsky.social [This is a gift link; please just read Roxane’s piece or don’t. I don’t care about subscription politics.]

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Context: Elon Musk dislikes Scientific American’s editorial perspectives on social and climate justice, and has been fanning a targetted harassment campaign this week in an effort to silence the magazine. It appears to have worked.

submitted 109 days ago • 89 comments

Well I'm fucked.

submitted 110 days ago • 3446 comments

NIAID releases alternative to BioRender, all illustrations freely available in public domain bioart.niaid.nih.gov

submitted 124 days ago • 29 comments

Harris’ proposal to expand Medicare is a tangible step to making “it possible for people with disabilities to participate in the everyday commercial, economic, & social activities of American life,” as the ADA envisioned, writes @pamherd.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni... pls read & share

submitted 126 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t usually think that I have much to contribute here but today I think you all need a kitten.

submitted 233 days ago • 0 comments

This is in the refrigerator for families on the peds ward in the hospital and I have gratefully eaten this sandwich.

submitted 239 days ago • 0 comments