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he/him Assoc Prof @dukemedschool.bsky.social Anesthesiology. Immigrant. Fights against chemicals that hurt you. Research on chemosensation, pain, TRP channels, toxicology & tobacco control. Views my own. #TobRegSky feed. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🟧
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#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #PainResearch #addictionsci 🧪🛟 Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance

Gave it a extra month because Knicks went deep in playoffs. Now June 1st im over at BRINGtheNoiseApp.com my own app 80% of my time . Film Art Music and Sports it’s TikTok 35+ . Special shows footage new music and im on tour with Guns And Roses this summer in EUR. But ill be here too quite often now

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #PainResearch #biotechfeed🛟💊🧪 The silence of Big Pharma & Biotech about the destruction of NIH, FDA and CDC has been a huge disappointment. Executives are twisting themselves into a noose, trying to avoid criticizing the Trump administration.

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #PainResearch #biotechfeed🛟💊 🧪

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

BREAKING: Texas lawmakers passed S.B. 37, which dramatically increases state control of public universities. Allowing politically appointed bureaucrats to police curricula and override faculty expertise is a direct threat to academic freedom in Texas.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Happy Duanwu (Dragon Boat) Festival to all who celebrate !! And eat some Zongzi and leave some for the fish !

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

Weekend reads: MAHA report cites nonexistent studies; RFK Jr. threatens publishing access; can ‘zombie papers’ be killed?

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch #addictionsci 🧪🛟 Happy #WorldNoTobaccoDay 🚭

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch #addictionsci 🧪🛟 @altcdc.altgov.info

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

No words

“That study was swapped out with a new “systematic overview” authored by psychologist Pim Cuijpers, who told NOTUS via email that MAHA’s new citation is also wrong."

The president's budget request for NSF FY26 is also out. It zeroes out the NSF astronomy & astrophysics and NSF MPS ASCEND postdoc fellowships. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

HHS backtracked on some Covid #vaccine limits, leaving the shot for kids on the schedule under "shared decision-making." Barriers remain for pregnant women, who face elevated risks of preterm birth, still birth, hospitalization and death: GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!

Someone hacked the personal cellphone of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and impersonated her in texts and calls (possibly with an AI voice clone) to leading Republicans and corporate executives: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“Too much of America has simply grown too comfortable with violence and cruelty… "Part of being a physician is being kind to people who are in their weakest place," Michael said. "And I feel like our country is devolving to really step on people who are weak and vulnerable."

i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #NIH #health

The amount of space this particular strip occupies in my mind and has since I was a kid is hard to convey.

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

Seems I outlasted Elon as an SGE !! 💪🫡

Dear Dorks, I’m not afraid of incompetent bullies who always chicken out, can’t write a simple report without AI, and have the charisma of a square of used toilet paper. And you shouldn’t be either ✊🏼🖤 Yours truly, A mad scientist

I got the opportunity to speak with Science about my individual research fellowship being terminated. I was awarded the NSF GRFP before I chose Harvard for graduate school, but I still got cut. I study how we can improve treatments for a common antibiotic resistant bacteria, so this is sad to see

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #health #medicine #MedEd #polisky #episky🛟 France to ban smoking outdoors in most places: minister www.france24.com/en/live-news...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #health #medicine #MedEd #polisky #episky🛟 Of course they have. White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

In 2023 I wrote a commentary for @jamainternalmed.com how AI can generate health disinformation using a combination of real and fake refs that look real jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Currently 3rd most-read @theguardian.com's commentary. by @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com Carol Greider, @briannosek.bsky.social & yours truly. (we proposed the title "Fool's Gold Standard Science")

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)...

Not that it matters, but my MOSAIC was scored a 14. Reviewed in study section w non-MOSAIC K99s. I'm to write another grant that may not be funded, that doesn't provide transition to faculty funds, instead of doing the work that was reviewed so highly? That's the best use of time & tax payer money?

WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP? The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancellation of federal research awards. Fill out the form here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Industry friends, now is the time for MUCH more speaking out on behalf of academic colleagues under duress. Here are core open source methods that many of your products doubtlessly depend on either directly or indirectly (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMMER) being abruptly defunded. Make noise.

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #health #medicine #MedEd #polisky #episky🛟 Bill moving forward in Texas legislature that would ban sales of all Chinese-made e-cigarettes. www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/H...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #health #medicine #MedEd #polisky #episky🛟 The UK's disposable e-cigarette ban will come into effect on Sunday . news.sky.com/story/dispos...

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

#VaccinesWork #PedSky #MedSky #policysky #health #medicine #MedEd #polisky #episky🛟