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From life-saving cancer treatments to breakthrough vaccines, NIH funding fuels the medical discoveries that keep us healthy. Every dollar invested drives research that touches millions of lives. #NIH #MedicalResearch #SavingLives

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Let's be very clear: Gutting science/education sectors and calling it 'cost-savings' is manipulative and false. The truth: People in ALL states will lose jobs, cures for your diagnoses will be delayed, tuition costs will spike. The world depends on US Science and Ed and both will suffer severely.

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🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦 @ebi.embl.org: Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk. Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI? Do you plan to back up more U.S. data? @altcdc.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

HE’S REPLACING NPR WITH BREITBART !?!?!?

submitted 23 days ago • 622 comments

“Agency staff were also sent an email Friday directing them to contact scientific journals to pull back manuscripts that had been accepted, but not yet published, that did not comply with the executive order on gender ideology” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

www.the-scientist.com/monkey-poop-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Holy smokes I missed this. They have dismissed the directors of the VA’s Centers for Women

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Thoughts with all who died in the crash and with those who love them 💔

submitted 24 days ago • 56 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 24 days ago • 3627 comments

“A vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take America back to a troubling era when countless children suffered and died from horrific infections, leaving many with lifelong disabilities.” www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

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Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

submitted 25 days ago • 742 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 28 days ago • 1093 comments

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

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Some good news (h/t @natematias.bsky.social): “Caltrain is running its service on 100 percent renewable energy and is returning nearly a quarter of that energy to the grid” www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicle...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

It’s these stories that are important to highlight. The medications we rely on for any health condition trace back to research made possible by the NIH.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Federal disruptions delay research, jobs, & training: ➡️ NIH grant delayed ➡️ Study reviews stalled ➡️ Fellowship in limbo One billionaire's net worth > NIH budget by $385.3B, yet research funding faces cuts. Alarming. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"Terrible things are happening outside... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." - Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

submitted 30 days ago • 64 comments

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An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 31 days ago • 16 comments

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 33 days ago • 48 comments

There is a difference between being scared for your perceived way of life, and being scared for you literal lives, and the people who have and are using the former to justify imposing the latter are just the absolute worst that humanity has to offer. I fucking hate this.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

If you haven’t read this, you absolutely should. Dr Allwood makes a case for the limitations of Criterion A in one of the most integrated articles on the topic that I’ve seen. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." "creativity and innovation in the merchandise and services that we offer," - Costco Board. 98% of Costco shareholders agreed with the board.👍🏿 Segregationists denied.

submitted 32 days ago • 74 comments

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Excited to announce the 2025 @njgvrc.bsky.social Firearm Suicide Prevention Fellows! This amazing group of young scholars comes from so many fields + from all over the US. We have such a great day planned! @alliebond.bsky.social lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/ZNQxCCV/F...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 32 days ago • 2540 comments

Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 32 days ago • 191 comments

Studies (N=3,000) find men and women withheld contributions more in uncivil groups than civil ones. But women silenced more than men only when their group was uncivil. In civil groups, women reported speaking up just as much as men. hbr.org/2025/01/rese...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“Let us be clear: There is an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community that vaccines have saved millions of lives, prevented massive human suffering, & prevented the spread of infectious disease diseases, like polio, smallpox, & measles” @sanders.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gwD...

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

"Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline" Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy

submitted 32 days ago • 266 comments

Heart goes out to friends and colleagues whose work will be put on hold or lost because of this lunacy. #AcademicSky #EduSky #EducationalResearch

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.

submitted 33 days ago • 59 comments

This isn't reality, this is the theme and plot for a new Batman movie.

submitted 33 days ago • 179 comments

Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46 For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)

submitted 33 days ago • 61 comments