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In case anyone is wondering, this incredible breakthrough had funding from Biden's NIH Cancer Moonshot initiative. ⬇️

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Check out this Google sheet of universities pausing or reducing graduate admissions due to the threat of losing indirects. Feel free to add others. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...?

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ATTENTION: If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date. I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter. DM me if you wish or just reply

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20 #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #BlueskyBooks #CPAC #stevebannon #elonmusk #trump

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February so far.

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Another plane crash today. This time in Arizona. Republicans are saying this is a typical year in aviation accidents, however the data reveal deaths are way up www.newsweek.com/how-many-pla...

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This Gen Z TikTok’er is going viral for laying out the most compelling, mic-dropping argument for abortion rights that you’ve never heard. Pass it along! #reprorights www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yvvS9C/

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A great question to ask Trumpers who are celebrating the mass firings as an act of “efficiency” is: What would happen at your workplace if instead of firing the slack offs they just fired everyone hired in the last two years?

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If there’s good news, I must have missed it.

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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Green truck man is my hero. 🤩

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Fantastic op ed in NYT by asthma researchers explaining how censoring health inequity research will cost lives and forfeit US leadership in medical innovation. 🚨 We need to flood the zone with pieces like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20 #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #BlueskyBooks

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Excellent 🧵on how Musk’s DOGE is basically the “George Costanza” approach to public management. In effect, breathtakingly incompetent.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20 #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #BlueskyBooks

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Former NIH Director, Harold Varmus on Trump’s attack on science: “What’s most disheartening is the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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This is the country we’re in now. Doctors and scientists under attack. “Dr Maggie is responsible for saving lives around the world, including my own. Yet, Louisiana alleges she’s a criminal.” TY for speaking out @mayabidaya.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/m...

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Remember the “Open Mike” NIH blog? That’s Mike Lauer. He was fired this week for following the court order to stop the NIH funding freeze.

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My heart goes out to all these post docs who landed their dream job only to be ruthlessly fired without cause. 💔 We're going to lose a generation of scientists. 😢

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Excited to be writing again for @psychologytoday.com. Since my comeback post is on Valentine's Day, I decided to write about love ❤️ Gender roles are no longer serving us in modern relationships, we need a new model. Here is one, for your consideration. www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/sh...

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Roses are red, Violets are blue. Little does Trump and Musk know, We are ALL Reviewer 2. #academicvalentines

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Reading between the lines: This “Make America Healthy Again” doc is teeing up the narrative that vaccines are responsible for child mental health issues and obesity. 👇🏼

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Check out the Exec Order establishing the "Make America Healthy Again" Commission. It is very anti-medication for youth mental health: "assess the prevalence of and threat posed by SSRIs, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20 #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #BlueskyBooks #NIH

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We are hearing today that NIH is restarting issuing grant awards — that is, for awards already approved by council, or renewals that normally happen as matter of course, money will start going out. Caution, though, before we interpret this as a win... 1/ 🧪

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Fascinating NIH-funded trial finds that low-dose semaglutide (aka Ozempic) reduced alcohol cravings and some drinking-related and smoking outcomes in people with alcohol use disorder. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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What NIH funding cuts mean for universities : NPR | "The easy way to think about it is that the institutions and the government have been splitting roughly 50/50 the costs of building the research enterprise in the U.S." since World War 2

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If you're hoping the chaos ends with the next election, fight the SAVE Act. It requires a BIRTH CERTIFICATE to vote. If you're a married women who changed your name---you wouldn't be able to register to vote unless you have a passport that shows married name. www.newsweek.com/married-wome...

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📢 Join this webinar of higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8PM ET for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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I’m realizing that when we talk about studies on social media or in convo, we rarely mention NIH. People aren’t making the connection. So when posting or talking about some amazing study that was funded by the NIH, be sure to refer to it as an “NIH-funded study.”

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20 #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #BlueskyBooks

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How to get 146% return on investment? The NIH. That's just the economic benefit. Biomedical research promotes human health.

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Boston Children's Hospital would lose $54M annually too. All this from the "pro-life" party 😑 datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/9/

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I had a total fan girl moment last night when I ran into UConn’s legendary women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma. 😄

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It's like former illegal immigrant Elon Musk doesn't know what NIH does.

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Republican Senator from Alabama, Katie Britt, is expressing concern at how devastating the NIH cut will be to her state. Let’s see if she has the guts to stand her ground. Keep pushing on those red state reps! www.al.com/news/2025/02...

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in addition to the lost research advances, this will lead to tens or hundreds of thousands of lost jobs - and not just "fancy" academic ones these costs cover housekeeping, maintenance, engineering, security, and myriad other everyday jobs held by people at these universities

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