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malar0ne.bsky.social
thinking about infectious diseases & misinfo Postdoc UMD College Park
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BREAKING: Federal judge extends the restraining order on NIH capping indirect costs to 15% www.statnews.com/2025/02/21/t...

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"FIRE is effectively endorsing professors who silence their critics and victims, and penalizing colleges that hold those professors accountable." Remember that Trump's NIH Director pick Jay Bhattacharya wants these rankings weighed in funding decisions (1/2)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing to remove members of key outside committees that advise the government on vaccine approvals and recommendations. w/ @adamcancryn.bsky.social + @gardnerlm19.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

Snow is now coming down as hundreds of people protest outside HHS. #FundDontFreeze

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

DMV-area grad workers speaking now at #FundDontFreeze protest outside HHS. "It is unacceptable that we are out here begging for money that has already been guaranteed. This is theft."

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Medical professionals are in the crowd outside HHS, fighting for their patients. NIH research saves lives. www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

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Congressman Jamie Raskin addresses crowd at HHS calling to #FundNotFreeze medical research. Raskin is a two-time cancer survivor and life-saving cancer research is being jeopardized by recent action at HHS.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Huge turnout at HHS fighting the defunding of and political interference in life-saving health resarch. #FundDontFreeze

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Florida did something like this - their Public Health Integrity Committee was introduced to counter the CDC (although they haven't met since DeSantis ended his presidential campaign). Trump's pick for NIH Director was part of the committee. www.floridahealth.gov/about/ssg/pu...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"this initial phase is almost certainly a prelude to something even worse: an administration that appears intent on ushering in a golden era of pseudoscience."

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Last summer, Trump's pick for NIH director (Jay Bhattacharya) called for a "political revolution" in public health during a panel at a Symposium on Ideological Capture of Universities and Institutions (presumably for, not against).

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's pick for NIH Director hasn't been confirmed yet but he previously stated his support for mass firings in HHS and funding cuts at NIH.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

@murray.senate.gov: "In our meeting today, I pressed Dr. Bhattacharya on the Trump administration’s reckless attacks on biomedical research...I am not any less alarmed by how thoughtless and destructive this administration’s approach to NIH research has been." www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

An absolutely scorching OpEd by Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, on Trump's destruction of the vaunted US scientific & biomedical enterprise & on Trump's kooky picks to lead the US health & science agencies Gift link to share far & wide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Remember they always do bad announcements on Friday nights.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

"I can’t help but wonder if authority figures had simply been honest about the existence of misinformation and its dangers if that could have moved the needle in a meaningful way."

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We're working on an ep about what's going on — find me or DM me to talk! (Same goes for scientists who are NOT at AAAS this weekend — reach out!)

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"I am afraid for our country because I know what happens when science denialism comes into power." Always grateful for @gregggonsalves.bsky.social's leadership, especially today. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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When Stanford IT had an internal guide on using more precise/respectful language, Trump's NIH Director said: "we have the federal government looking to suppress speech, and you have major universities trying to control the words that you say. It's a really dangerous kind of thing to actually do."

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Will be covering RFK Jr.’s HHS and his impact on the nation’s health — reach out any time with tips, thoughts and insights. My email is [email protected] and my signal to talk confidentially is below: signal.me#eu/T6C56m5PP...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Virulent anti-vaxxer and HIV denialist confirmed as Secretary of HHS. Lord have mercy.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

I worked + wrote a book on Covid. A key theme was the misuse of data and information related to silent infections that built a false narrative that the pandemic would end as quickly as it had begun. (It did not) Now, the COVID minimizers are returning. a 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

A lot of talk about cutting "wasteful" spending. How much do you think NIH is about to spend investigating baseless anti-vaccine theories with Jay Bhattacharya at the helm?

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments