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I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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"Punishing campuses by cutting health research funding would destroy the equivalent of one-quarter of annual gross domestic product in the US." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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🇨🇦 Canada has secured 500,000 doses of an updated H5N1 (avian influenza) vaccine. Here's a Canadian perspective in @CMAJ on what this means, with colleagues from the Public Health Agency of Canada. Link: www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

FDA head Marty Makary today called #CDC 's vaccine expert panel a "kangeroo court" that "rubber stamps" every vaccine. 1. Vaccines come to #ACIP after approval by FDA. 2. ACIP doesn't automatically recommend as broad use as FDA does. Eg: RVS vaccines for adults. www.statnews.com/2025/06/01/f...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Any university leader doing this deserves all the shame that history will bestow upon them. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us." https://theatln.tc/HxwwbaTF

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 4 days ago • 460 comments

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

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A halt to foreign “subawards” disrupts ongoing global studies and has researchers scrambling to fulfill ethical obligations to trial volunteers. scim.ag/4dCzA1G

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To put these top-line budget numbers in context, cuts of this magnitude would effectively mean no new grants in FY2026. The entire extramural budget would go to existing, continuing grants. An abject failure of American ambition. And a betrayal of our global leadership in health science innovation.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

submitted 5 days ago • 447 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 169 comments

Australian COVID-19 cases update: Reported Cases have continued to rise sharply at the national level and in most states & territories, with the 7-day average doubling in the last 2 weeks. #COVID19 #Australia 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

“Gaza is the hungriest place on earth," said OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke. "It's the only defined area, a country or defined territory within a country where you have the entire population at risk of famine. 100 percent of the population at risk of famine." @afpnews.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

ICE agents were waiting outside the immigration court to arrest Dylan - a Bronx high school student with no criminal record. This was an ambush. The Trump Admin is undermining due process to meet their enforcement quotas. Bring Dylan home now.

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

"Evaluation of the currently predominant [Variant Under Monitoring (VUM)], LP.8.1, and the most recently designated VUM, NB.1.8.1, suggests no increased public health risk posed by these variants compared to other circulating variants." www.who.int/emergencies/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking News: A federal judge said she would block the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

“This obsession with controlling what can researched & taught on college campuses is antithetical to higher education, academic freedom, & most importantly our shared democracy. Ultimately, these are attempts to undermine our democracy in pursuit of authoritarian political power.” — Todd Wolfson

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

This policy alone will do enough to slow PRC brain drain into the United States that China should remove Rubio from its sanctions list as a gesture of appreciation.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

Secretary Kennedy's announcement that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women could reduce vaccine access for millions of Americans. IDSA urges insurers to maintain coverage for COVID-19 vaccines: bit.ly/4jjmwPV

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

submitted 6 days ago • 420 comments

Rubio's claim that cutting foreign aid didn't cost lives? Flat-out false. People are dying every day because of Rubio, Musk and Trump's dismantling of USAID — while China furthers its influence around the world. Shameful.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

In the CHAPAS-4 trial of second-line antiretroviral therapy in children with HIV in Africa, regimens including tenofovir alafenamide fumarate as the backbone and dolutegravir as the anchor drug were most effective. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/457GKc4  #MedSky #IDSky

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A federal judge has ordered that Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School scientist from Russia who was detained for bringing biological specimens into the country, be released from immigration custody.

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The ugly truth of Trump's mass deportation: There's not a ton of immigrant rapists, but lots of college students and essential workers to handcuff at bogus traffic stops or when they show up for immigration court This immoral crusade is about to get worse. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Since the CDC guidelines for COVID vaccines are now just misinformation here is what the NHS (UK) says about COVID in pregnancy and the recommendation for vaccination. www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/ke...

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

submitted 9 days ago • 212 comments

“Most of that grant money is appropriated by Congress for the National Institutes of Health to disburse to fund biomedical research after a lengthy application process by individual scientists, work that is not typically done at trade schools…” www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 8 days ago • 428 comments

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

Just remember: autocrats purge the universities or otherwise bring them to heel. It’s how it works: Orban, Modi in the modern era and dictators and tyrants going way back. They want a monopoly on telling you how to think. #doubleplusgood

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submitted 11 days ago • 250 comments

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

submitted 12 days ago • 196 comments

“MAHA” is a cringey rebrand effort and a superficial one at that. The actual policies being pushed are directly counter to the stated intent of their 70 page report. Save yourself the read. Also 70 pages to tell us what we already know…let’s save the trees too. @msnbc.com

submitted 12 days ago • 42 comments

This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

I've seen some liberals earnestly argue that rhetorical concessions on youth healthcare or youth sports would get Republicans to back off on other trans civil rights issues. This is a complete misreading of Republicans. They want trans people to suffer and force them out of public life.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 12 days ago • 315 comments