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Research Saves Lives! See what NIH-funded research has helped accomplish at Johns Hopkins University: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

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📆Save the date! 📆 Women in Neural Engineering (WINE) will be hosting another panel & social along-side the IEEE NER and SfN meetings. Saturday November 15th, 2025, 6:30pm Come discuss how researchers can use our voices to advocate for ourselves & our work, and meet fellow neural engineers!

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Health Central: '5 Years After the Pandemic, Their Battle Against COVID Continues' 'Hospitalizations, job losses, chronic symptoms, and a fight for acceptance: People living with Long COVID share their real-life ups, downs, setbacks, and triumphs' www.healthcentral.com/condition/co...

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I don't feel like people are focusing on him enough in public protests etc either

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Important update about local impacts of funding cuts. Depressing but compelling... Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together. scienceimpacts.org

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Why a Vaccine Expert Left the C.D.C.: ‘Americans Are Going to Die’ Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h... #GiftLink

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For those interested in following virus trends in Texas, here’s the TEPHI dashboard dashboard.tephi.texas.gov/public-dashb...

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May. 4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May. The total funded was 99! Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments. 1/2

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Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.

submitted 16 days ago • 762 comments

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Please read this and share widely, especially with people outside of science. Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is. apnews.com/article/nih-...

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Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.

submitted 18 days ago • 204 comments

The global virus network @globalvirusnews.bsky.social has put out an excellent summary on the new #COVID19 strain NB.1.8.1 and vaccine protection. I am linking the press release but also summarizing the key points in a 🧵 below: gvn.org/global-virus...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Episode 3 of Science Amplified is up now! I talk to Dr. Rachel Marsh about her pioneering research on mother-baby outcomes from prenatal covid exposure and the consequences of terminating her funding for that project. Please share and give us a rating! open.spotify.com/episode/0rCp...

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ATTENTION: I am working on a project and need some assistance. If anyone might have some time this weekend, particularly if you are in a red state, please DM me (and provide an email address and/or cell number) or reach me on Signal (jeremymberg.78). THANK YOU!

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In 5 years, long covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness among children in the US. The only way to avoid long covid is to avoid catching covid. Masks lower your instance of illness. These are facts. Cognitive dissonance & denial are kicking people’s ass.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

There’s something uniquely upsetting about seeing an A1 grant score that is worse than the score on the first submission… 😩😮‍💨

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We have allowed a multi system vascular virus to spread unchecked for nearly 6 years. Public health has failed to advise folks of the risk to long term health, or of the fact that there’s no such thing as “mild” COVID. Yet doctors blame sudden rise in young stroke patients on everything BUT Covid

submitted 21 days ago • 43 comments

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

submitted 21 days ago • 436 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Please, Karma, please! 🙏

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 23 days ago • 1277 comments

In Missouri, overturning the will of voters has almost become the legislature’s main business. Lawmakers wasted no time moving to undo a constitutional amendment that legalized abortion up to fetal viability. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social‬

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CDC now says all kids "may receive" COVID vaccines. This means insurance companies will likely still cover the shots. BUT the new guidance is more confusing than a broad recommendation, and COVID vaccines during pregnancy are now listed as "No Guidance/Not Applicable," which will decrease uptake.

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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 26 days ago • 4555 comments

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 26 days ago • 352 comments

Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here... Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process? Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Scientists need to adapt to a changed world. We must learn to communicate with the public. Our Institutions should prioritize and reward public engagement efforts. @bcmhouston.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

When we communicate science, we often don't say where the resources for it come from. This is clearly a mistake: people consuming science should know who is funding it--and if that funding is being taken away. So, I decided to document the funding sources of every scientist mentioned in my book.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Back of the envelope calculation for NIH funds cut in FY 2025 Funds cut due to terminations and slow noncompetitive renewal/grant awards: $8.6 B. 15% cut of research management and support ($2.48B), Intramural research ($5.18 B), and R&D Contracts ($3.91 B). $1.8 B. TOTAL CUT: $10.4 Billion

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What do we know about the new coronavirus NB.1.8.1 strain. "A new highly contagious variant of the coronavirus is being linked to large surges of cases throughout Asia, and now it’s hit the US. Here is everything you need to know about it." Source: archive.md/D6Nup

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U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children. #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/h...

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India reports 1,000+ active COVID cases and 7 deaths in the past week. New subvariants NB.1.8.1 and LF.7 found; NB.1.8.1 may spread faster due to stronger binding to human cells, says India’s SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG).

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of any religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

submitted 29 days ago • 864 comments

The new 'razor blade throat' Covid variant is causing an increase in hospitalizations across Asia France reported a 19% positivity rate on tests The US has detected it in a number of major cities What's being done? They're taking away boosters. No free tests or paid time off Wear a respirator.

submitted 30 days ago • 79 comments

Plenty of folks in neuro who should take a cold hard look at what they have (likely unknowingly) built a narrative for.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

submitted 33 days ago • 37 comments

“Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Administrator” So much to unpack here. (Also, the Trump administration doesn’t care about regular ol’ Americans. Only the super rich ones.)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Saying that the US should let other countries take their turns at being the global leader in biomedical research really makes no sense at all. Sure. While we’re at it, let’s also stop being leaders in terms of economic influence and military might. Kudos to @jeremymberg.bsky.social’s quick reply

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Why we should care about the measles outbreaks: -In wealthy countries, 0.1%-0.2% of measles cases result in death -In poorer countries or populations, up to 10% of cases will die -15-30% of measles cases will require hospitalization Thread [1/8]

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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

Taiwan: Weekly COVID-19 hospital visits surge 88% A 10-month-old unvaccinated girl with no prior health issues became the youngest severe case last week. She had cold-like symptoms, then developed appetite loss, shortness of breath, and croup. She remains in ICU after 4 days of treatment.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health: 'Scientists’ Uncertain Future' 'Her project was among 29 cut by NIH reportedly because “the pandemic is over.”...the research also was to support her team’s next grant proposal, on the effects of long COVID' magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/scienti...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Neuroscience News: 'Long COVID Is Fueling a Mental Health Crisis in Children' 'A new study from Kennedy Krieger Institute is calling attention to an emerging mental health crisis among children with long COVID.' neurosciencenews.com/long-covid-c...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you to some amazing colleagues who took time and precious energy to craft this rapid response to the recent @bmj_latest piece. When people try to hijack #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other complex illness as psychosomatic it is important we strike back: www.bmj.com/content/389/... 1/

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