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I got the official word this morning that I am to be reinstated at NSF. I don't know what the future holds, but for now I am tremendously relieved!

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Best thing I've read today: "But to stop disease, it’s also critical to address the social, economic and political conditions that enable its spread." theconversation.com/covid-19-is-...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH" apnews.com/article/nih-...

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Predicting the path of tornados, the landfall of hurricanes, or whether it's going to rain next Monday might seem like magic. But it's not. It's the hard work of the people at NOAA who make the impossible possible through science. This is dangerous.

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A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID.

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NEWS: The Trump administration has funneled Elon Musk's company $86 million out of NASA coffers since the inauguration - all while NASA now slashes 5 percent of its entire workforce.

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Trump's "secretary of health" is more Orwellian than any secretary of health Orwell could have imagined 🧪🚑

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Severe cuts to intramural research “Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.” 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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"Memoli had no choice, he insisted: He was following the direction of three HHS officials—Dorothy Fink, then the acting secretary; Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff; and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy—who told him, in no uncertain terms, that the pause was to continue..." /1

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The NIH funding freeze has blocked 3 of our grant proposals (so far), which threatens to shut down our Lyme disease research program within a year. 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬 #MicroSky www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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Why are we still teaching 100-year old statistics? scienceforeveryone.science/p/why-are-we... 🧪

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And reminder the age for pneumoccoal vaccine was lowered to 50 recently! #medsky www.npr.org/2024/10/24/n...

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

This is the first movement from Sen. Fetterman, please fill out immediately if you have been impacted. Please circulate Penn, Pitt, PSU, Temple etc @cbartman.bsky.social

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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ᗰᗩKE IT Oᖇ ᗷᖇEᗩK IT we can train bacteria to make things we desperately need—such as insulin and we can train them to break things we desperately need to go away—such as nylon waste Fantastic new research with engineered 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘢 in 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In this video interview I discuss some of the constraints when it comes to antibiotic development as well as the threat of antibiotic resistance www.contagionlive.com/view/a-perso...

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“Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?” 🧪

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Ripples of color, Mississippi river, New Orleans

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The New Orleans Health Department will not be abiding by this order. Hopefully there are other independent entities that will do the same.

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🧪Arghhh! They should change the name of their agency to "The Louisiana Department of Sickness and Sorrow!" www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/h...

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"The CF story of progress and transformation would not exist as it does today without the NIH and the research it supports. “ www.cff.org/press-releas...

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Turning antagonists into allies: Bacterial-fungal interactions enhance the efficacy of controlling Fusarium wilt disease #ScienceAdvances from Dongyang Liu/Qirong Shen at Nanjing Agricultural University www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Today's reading: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... "Ultra-Processed Foods: A Narrative Review of the Impact on the Human Gut Microbiome and Variations in Classification Methods"

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„I feel ashamed because people agreed to work with me and they’ve been screwed,” says Sharon Hillier, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Pittsburgh who had to halt an observational study that had enrolled 11 pregnant women in Lesotho. 🧪

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I always get compliments on this mug. It’s a great mug with a perfect weight and I just love it! But I also love the secret message inside that no one knows about! 🤣😂

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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such a clever way to monitor water quality 👏 thanks for sharing, joanna 🙏

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The flu shot is different this year, thanks to #Covid. This year's shot doesn't target influenza/B Yamagata strain. That’s because there haven't been confirmed cases caused by Yamagata lineage since spring 2020. The FDA decided the strain now poses little to no threat www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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USA: A nasal vaccine for COVID-19 – based on technology developed at Washington University in St. Louis – is poised to enter a phase 1 clinical trial in the U.S. “All effective vaccines reduce sickness and death, but COVID-19 vaccination through the nose and mouth also seems to reduce transmission”

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The immune response from the Covid boosters introduced last September is holding up very well against current circulating variants 👍https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00058-1/fulltext

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@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

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Programs teaching science k-12 were cancelled this week. Hear a first hand account in this 9 minute clip. www.audacy.com/stations/kdk... (^^click see all chapters and double click part 29 to listen)

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#ThankYouLaura

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My old friend Diane Porter posts lovely mini-essays about nature in Iowa: Jumping for Joy open.substack.com/pub/mygaia/p...

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