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Putting this on every self-eval now www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Wow…I had to double, triple check to make sure this tweet from Senator Smith was real. Rare to see a US Senator tweet like this. Not complaining, just surprising.

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Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

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THIS IS A MUST-READ PIECE. Please share, off Bluesky as well as on it. Most people do not understand how harmful these short-sighted cuts are going to be - for our economic as well as our physical health. 🧪🛟🩺

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

‘This week alone, the N.I.H. had scheduled some 47 meetings for handpicked experts in various fields to weigh grant applications, the first stage of a lengthy review process. But 42 of those meetings were canceled, stalling proposals…’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

"The scientific review officer said he could describe the impact of these layoffs on the agency’s ability to review grant applications and fund research in two words: “We’re fucked.” "

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Nature Story "Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order" (with non-paywalled link) archive.ph/7h6Im

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

$1 billion… Just refusing to fund federal health research and pocketing away the designated money for their own slush funds Sucking $1 billion out of the economy, diverting it from health research… For what?

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 862 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 4 days ago • 322 comments

Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated). 30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.

submitted 99 days ago • 112 comments

Melissa and I wrote about our research being purged... www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

They have killed the Epidemic Intelligence Service AKA “the disease detectives.” These are the experts on the frontlines protecting us from new and old infectious disease threats. Gone. In tbe stroke of a pen.

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Exclusive scoop @statnews.com: Trump administration to fire 5,200 HHS employees this afternoon www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

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Texas says its measles outbreak is now up to 48 cases in the last 3 weeks; 13 people have been hospitalized. All were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status: www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Great new resource from @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social on public health comms - with both well-tested language, and actionable tips. This is FABULOUS. debeaumont.org/resources/co...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

🧵 The New York Times has reported on two JAMA Original Investigations examining the impact of abortion bans on fertility and infant mortality. 📰 Read the @nytimes.com article:

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"So there is always hope for something else, something better. It’s in ordinary people organizing like my comrades in the Treatment Action Campaign did, against the odds, because failure would come at too high a cost." - @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan says she will run for the U.S. Senate in 2026, the first Democrat to jump into what could be a crowded field to replace outgoing Sen. Tina Smith.

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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 19 days ago • 95 comments

Do Americans want safe food? Which Departments are responsible for food safety? USDA HHS -> FDA and CDC Commerce -> NOAA (fisheries) If one Department is disabled, we don’t have safe food Enjoy your dinner 🍲

submitted 11 days ago • 294 comments

Still thinking about the NIH, et al.: The largest employment sector in ME, MA, RI, CT, PA, MD, DE, MN, ND, SD, AZ, UT, ID, WA, and AK are hospitals and med centers. In VT, NY, NC, MI, IA, NE, NM, CA, and HI: public universities. For most of the rest of the country it's retail.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 16 days ago • 75 comments

For those curious about the purpose of “indirects,” I suggest this FAQ from AAU (thread to follow). In the lingo of Musk et al - BLOF = this hurts economies, employment, science, & health. 🧵 www.aau.edu/key-issues/f...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 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 16 days ago • 271 comments

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Your Local Epidemiologist has been incredibly impactful the past several years. This is terrible news.

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Lost my CDC contract after a visit from DOGE. I feel like I’m in the dirt (or TBH eating a pint of ice cream on a couch crying). But here’s the thing: Pushing people down—especially those with heart, purpose, and love for public service—doesn’t mean they stay down. It’s literally against their DNA.

submitted 16 days ago • 149 comments

This is an insane move for NIH to make when the obvious answer is to review all the F grants this cycle as a single pool.

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This is a very valuable resource: it estimates the HIV infections and deaths that are likely to occur due to the U.S. aid freeze. Suddenly freezing health aid, with no careful plan to fill the funding gap, is a death sentence for many people. This is human-caused misery, suffering, and mortality.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

NIH Director-to-be Jay Bhattacharya demonstrating his commitment to scientific integrity by uhhh creating a "journal" only he & his buddies can submit to where every paper is autoaccepted & his buddies are also the editors & the peer reviewers who get paid $500 to write 4 sentence uncritical reviews

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field now asking @amyklobuchar.com staff members what steps she is taking to oppose what’s going on in DC. What action is she taking?

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I'm with a dozen public health professionals meeting with @amyklobuchar.com 's staff... next to her Minneapolis office. (We thought we had a meeting here but it turns out they don't meet with constituents in person in Minnesota, only in DC?! So we scrambled to find a public space) #VoughtNo 1/

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments