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Everybody needs to read what is going on inside the NIH. This is what independent journalism looks like, talking to real sources in the middle of a conflict; and not the billionaire-fluffing press paying influential op-ed writers to normalize and whitewash the actions of the current administration.

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The view from inside the NIH. Many disturbing details. Among them: “They said that …staff were …barred from communicating with grantees about executive orders—only science. “As if they don’t bear on the science,” they said.” www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

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People w/ metastatic breast cancer take cancer therapies for the rest of their lives. But the drugs eventually stop working. A new study shows blood tests can alert them when they need to switch therapies. The approach helps them them stay healthier longer. www.nbcnews.com/health/cance... #asco25

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The VA has a huge and sophisticated research arm. This new requirement serves one purpose: to make sure researchers are towing the administration's line. Where does this stop? Do NIH officials have to start vetting all papers from NIH-funded studies?

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You had 300 years to break us. 300 years of trying to erase us, silence us, make us indifferent. And then you invaded. And guess what? You woke us up. Now we’re better. Smarter. Faster. Louder. We’re Ukrainians. We fight. We win. Suck it up, bitches.

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Principal Investigator submitting grant proposals for federal funding Circa June 2025

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This is art.

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I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required. Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

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A growing body of evidence suggests infections are tied to dementia, and that vaccines may minimize the risk. What do we know about these emerging links, and what is still unclear? Read the article: asm.org/articles/202...

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“All of science is underfunded—and now we really mean it.” Former NSF Director France Córdova on the future of American science. My piece for Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered its scientists NOT to publish in journals without clearance from the Trump administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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🧪Doctors are looking to move to Canada. Recruiters are seeing an increase in interest. Canada will happily oblige in order to deal with their own shortage. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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A lot of Americans used to not want to wear a seat belt. A lot of Americans wanted to be able to smoke indoors. A lot of Americans regularly consume alcohol, which is a carcinogen. Public health isn’t built by popular vote. It’s based on science.

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HIV vaccine research is useful because it is a very difficult virus. Lessons learned from this research has already “led to findings aiding the development of vaccines for other conditions, including COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus disease.”

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HIV vaccine research is useful because it is a very difficult virus. Lessons learned from this research has already “led to findings aiding the development of vaccines for other conditions, including COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus disease.”

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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

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“It’s been very intense emotionally and an extreme added stress that nobody needs. Cancer just shouldn’t be political.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Yuck. The Tijuana River pollution affecting SD isn’t just in the water- now it’s in the air. “the majority of aerosolized chemicals come from polluted water in the Tijuana River which feeds into the Pacific Ocean and are transferred to the air through sea spray.” inewsource.org/2025/05/28/u...

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🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

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Cancer shouldn’t be political I just don’t understand why this is all happening and so few care.

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“It’s been very intense emotionally and an extreme added stress that nobody needs. Cancer just shouldn’t be political.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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there’s nothing transparent about changing vaccine policy with no new evidence or change in expert opinion the immediate and unequivocal rebuttals from AAP (pediatricians) and ACOG (OB-GYNs) underscore this point there is no evidence-based argument here if one is to be had, make it

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Friends, I am teaching a virtual professional development workshop through the Association of Science Communicators, focusing on how to measure the impact of your social media communications. Register here: aosc41.wildapricot.org/event-6121762 #SciComm 🧪

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"Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda. The administration is attacking research, health & the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent." 🧪🔬 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“ US policymakers will need to let go of the idea that factories will produce a cornucopia of jobs as they did in the last century. Rather, the priority should be on leveraging the country’s scientific and technological strengths.” apple.news/AI7F-HPLWSuy...

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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

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Floored that the New Yorker would ever publish such an undeserving paean. Thanks @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for discussing it. RFK Jr as a persecuted heretic is overt propaganda. Invoking a revisionist history of the pandemic and HIV/AIDS denial in pursuit of that is all the more disgraceful.

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Comprehensive post on what the New Yorker is getting wrong about Covid, HIV, and public policy:

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Great interview with Dr. Carl June, the UPenn pioneer of CAR T therapy. He speaks about the "real risk" that the current funding freeze will delay medical advances by years for treatments such as immunotherapy for cancer and other diseases. 🧪 english.elpais.com/health/2025-...

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'Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Any one else getting the sense that grant reviewers are reading less and less of what you write? Just got two summary statements listing a bunch of problems as not addressed when they had whole subsections devoted

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“ US policymakers will need to let go of the idea that factories will produce a cornucopia of jobs as they did in the last century. Rather, the priority should be on leveraging the country’s scientific and technological strengths.” apple.news/AI7F-HPLWSuy...

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This is almost 3.5 times what we spend on biomedical research in America. Where are American priorities?

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"“From time-to-time instances will arise in which the society, or segments of it, threaten the very mission of the university & its values... In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university as an institution to oppose such measures & actively to defend its interests and its values.”

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David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

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🧪The political attacks on Harvard and Columbia have dominated the news cycle for months. Smaller institutions are quietly feeling the assault. Read this snapshot of a post by one my former PhD committee members in MI. She, a breast cancer scientist herself, was diagnosed with breast cancer 3 y ago.

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85% of children diagnosed with cancer are alive at least 5 years later. Just a few years ago, childhood cancer had a horrible prognosis. These advance were made by universities. Yet, government has terminated terminating billions worth of competitive grants that will stop cold these advances.

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“As concern has grown that science is becoming harder, there’s been a flowering of initiatives, grants and institutions trying to find solutions.”

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