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Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

submitted 4 days ago • 371 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 206 comments

ATTENTION: Do you or someone you know get fired or have a job offer rescinded because of uncertainty due to the NIH funding freeze? Please DM me! THANK YOU!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This is very bad!!! The damage expands, as we all knew it would. It is interesting tho this time around that admin is NOT claiming to rely on Title VI (perhaps bc it recognizes the many problems that creates) but is relying upon some other, free-floating power www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

Uncuring cancer to own the libs. How else do you possibly explain this?

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

We’re already at the crowdfunding stage.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/h...

submitted 21 days ago • 63 comments

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

submitted 25 days ago • 74 comments

All the better to plunder and pillage: This woman explains why greed-driven billionaires want the U.S. economy to tank. 😳👇

submitted 28 days ago • 37 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 30 days ago • 1573 comments

None of this means what he thinks it means. This is why peer review is better than review by political appointee.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

And now back to our regularly scheduled "Data and Concern" segment...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Organizing a -80

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

As a board member of @sciencewriters.org and a science writer who covers university research, I can also speak to reporters on record. 🧪

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I know many universities are asking folks not to speak to reporters on the record. If you have need for someone who will be effing glad to speak on the record, DM me! 🙏

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

A new White House freeze on using government-issued credit cards is the latest shock for federal scientists, potentially affecting everything from conference travel to needed purchases for clinical care or lab work. scim.ag/4hV9oRb

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

submitted 37 days ago • 87 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 37 days ago • 434 comments

Breaking: Hours after Elon Musk reassured Cabinet that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda had only been “accidentally canceled very briefly,” the Trump administration terminated at least four of the five contracts for Ebola-related work in that country. nyti.ms/4ikHi1Q

submitted 37 days ago • 35 comments

More NIH intramural news... As part of the new Executive Order IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT'S "DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY" COST EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE, NIH staff are advised not to use their NIH Purchasing Cards. If this get any more efficient, they will not be able to so anything...

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Please read this great piece. This is pure evil and lawlessness.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

OK longtime Capitol Hill (and now former) journalist here. Hi. Gonna put together a little "How to Reach Your Member" primer here for ya. FIRST BIG RULE: Do not do anything that in any way threatens, implies a threat, etc to a member. This is intended to help you in productive ways.

submitted 37 days ago • 43 comments

This is a straight ban on purchasing at #NIH — for cancer trials, treating patients, and developing cures. @chrislhayes.bsky.social Almost all purchases at NIH are made on govt credit cards. It’s clear what’s happening: Trump/Musk are blowing up the govt using devious… 1/ www.forbes.com/sites...

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

Trump administration imposes new restriction that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists - “stopping renewals of Title 42 employees would be devastating to the intramural research program and to NIH as a whole.” Senseless gutting of intramural workforce. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

submitted 38 days ago • 214 comments

JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

submitted 37 days ago • 179 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 37 days ago • 474 comments