Who ever is involved in this mess on the administration side need to answer for their actions. Otherwise we are lost
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Who ever is involved in this mess on the administration side need to answer for their actions. Otherwise we are lost
3 people. 2 of them were kids!
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
Bonus if you remember to actually use it :-)
Someone tell this to Chuck as he can understand đ at a gym setting or somethingâŚ
What bipartisan? Wake up Senator. Smh
I got separate work glasses for laptop. Non-progressive reading.
I switched in 2010 and never looked back. I especially like the linux under as a computational scientist
Macbook air
Get an airbook
An authoritarian government is consolidating power. People are stirring, but no adequate response is being wagedâyet.
Picking a book for my book club and thorn between: The Code Breakers by Walter Isaacson, The Body by Bill Brysson, myth America by Kevin Kruse and Terry Prattchett A life with footnotes by Rob Wilkins. Help!!
Terry Pratchett Tom Holt Bill Brysson Walter Isaacson Patrick OâBrian Tom Clancy Robert Ludlum Stephen King Clive Cussler J.R.R. Tolkien
Great book. Most of his books are amazing.
I know someone who deserves to be promoted to colonel and probably will not because of all this shit. Brilliant person who has served for 20 years and could have left any moment.
Most do. And most question these things and most probably will not re-enlist.
Stay safe and protect yourself!
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of âemergency.â There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO âINVASIONâ to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO âEMERGENCYâ that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
Today, Bhattacharya sent a document entitled "NIH Priorities and Internal Review of Intramural and Extramural Programs" to Institute and Center Directors and other leaders. I am trying to get a clean copy. These "Priorities" will likely be "Agency Priorities" for grant funding and termination.
These people seem to have no idea what free speech is
Legacy? You serious?
And dogs
Agreed.
And so it begins... NIAID has issued 20 R01s with 4 year budgets (i.e. Multi-year funded) since 7/7/25. These are almost unheard of in the past.
Happy birthday!
Brainwashed by propaganda
Chatgpt geez
If you ask chat got to clarify this, it will break
Control-F Fascism
I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.
What kind of out of context headline is that?
The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.
yes itâs a big mystery why people who think empathy is evil donât become therapists
Because people with ill intentions always look for loopholes. Honest people generally donât because they want to convince other and/ or reach consensus or want to be fair and open. It is an idealistic stance. I was going to say fallacy but that is also not how we think.
Goes to show again you need supporting cast. 2 future hofers not enough. Panthers did deserve it.
Someone on here suggested a MN state law requiring all law enforcement to wear badge, nametag & no masks. I would support that for any & every state. Call it the Hortman Act.
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
I am so sorry to hear this. Pets are family. Lulu had an amazing life with you guys. đ
DOGES'R US
âMedicine doesnât treat the root cause, it just treats the symptoms.â âEvery wellness grifter ever Should someone tell them that we LITERALLY eradicated smallpox from humanity because we identified the root cause? The root cause is the Variola virus. 1/
He might have been the best jazz clarinetist ever. Love his style over Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw
Because most maga think this is the only way to make real vaccine. I have personally tried to talk to them regarding mRNA vaccines and they refuse to believe they can be vaccines. Completely brainwashed.
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
Hereâs a post I did partly in tribute to the NIH Clinical Center back in 2023 when, once again, they saved my diseased ass. The idea of purposefully weakening this glorious American institution is stupid and shameful. edroso.substack.com/p/post-op-ii
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
We have a rotating dinner where one of three cooks. My turn is coming up soon.
What a waste of time and resources!
The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
She knows exactly what she is doing
And they still think they are on the right side with the capabilities of the navy comment.
I collaborate with investigators from the midwest center on other cancer projects. This was a lot of money. Sad. Lots of good science as well. Was just listening to a talk this morning where they tested m-pro inhibitors against resistance mutations
Hhmi announced this end of dei about a month ago. Not just for this school but for all. Terrible.
Change red to yellow for color blind people :-)
Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanshipâas opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians. ...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.
What Republicans are pushing here is not a continuing resolution. In this case, C-R stands for Complete Resignation. Republicans are ceding more discretion to two billionaires to decide what does and does not, get funded in their states. It is a power grab CR. I will vote NO.
Ivet and Angela are some of the most successful and productive scientists in their fields, they both earned their right to be elected.
When you have tunnel vision it does not matter how smart/educated you are
or had to call someone they/them
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 âď¸âď¸âď¸ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Excellent in depth story from Ryan Levi and colleagues at Tradeoffs about the impacts of NIH cuts. tradeoffs.org/2025/03/13/c...
Great account. Art Levine also recruited Ivet Bahar from Turkiye, who in turn brought me over to start my doctorate at Pitt.
Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.
Fair. As a scientist, we use it as plural.
It is not just me. Oxford English dictionary says the same.
In English as well with datum as singular version
Data are plural
Senator please convince your colleagues to vote no on the CR. At will change of funding will destroy research in MN among other things.
You can vote no and negotiate. Why are allowing Trump to sequester and impound at will? How is this serving people Senator?
âGreencardsâ canât be revoked like a visa can. They can be terminated through legal process, however. 1 reason a GC can be terminated/revoked through court proceedings is for TRIG 1/
I didn't agree with the nature of the student protests, but I agreed they have a right to protest. This is the most important deportation attempt to date, because he has a Green Card. His free speech rights are guaranteed under the Constitution! Get loud! Or, you're next! Get very loud!
Trump doesnât have a plan. Not for the US economy, not for US society, not for the west, not for the world. He has whims and brain farts, and an army of sad & broken quislings who will indulge them as their one chance at proximity to establishments that only have value in the hands of other people.
Bluetorial: The announcement to move scientific review out of the institutes and centers into the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and its potential consequences
You can be educated and smart but can also easily sell your soul
A general update on this. I talk to a lot of people at NIH basically every day. Thereâs so many different things going on itâs hard to really convey the totality of it. There have been a few loosenings of the throttle. But overall itâs important for everyone to understand that medical âŚ
Must read from @crampell.bsky.social. How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
You and I will never agree on all but this we do. As a naturalized citizen who has grown up in Turkiye idealizing American dream and a dumb idealist scientist I am dbr (disappointed beyond recognition) I have no other words. I thought american dream was enabling dreamers. Not this.
Rincewind tho, he gets out of every situation. Oh, how I miss Sir Terry and his writing
Va leading the way again it seems
"officials at the Dept. of HHS... have pressed staff at the agency to ignore court orders, according to nearly a dozen former and current NIH officials I spoke with. Even advice from NIH lawyers to resume business as usual was dismissed by the agencyâs acting director, those officials said."
Tomorrow, February 28, letâs disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: đŤ No gas from corporate giants đŤ No fast food chains đŤ No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
Unforgiven might be available on prime
How many Americans know that the Trump administration is choking off funds for cancer research?
Saving money by doing nothing. đ¤Śđťââď¸đ
READER VOLUNTEERS WANTED I am drafting something for a general audience and would very much like to have some folks take a read and share their suggestions. I will likely have it ready sometime tomorrow morning (US Eastern time). Please DM me if you are interested. Non-scientists preferred
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside downâthe traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum." Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social. ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ #MedSky
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The question is can you work with Republicans in the middle of a constitutional crisis when democracy is on the line? And right now, I think that this crisis is serious and deepening in its seriousness, that our job #1, #2, and #3 is to save our democracy."
Itâs amazing that one person can run six companies, manage the entire federal bureaucracy, and be model parent to 13 children. Truly a triumph of time management.
A serial liar with a mighty propaganda machine working overtime for him has convinced half the country that up is down, that honor is venality, and that integrity is just a ruse for suckers who believe all that garbage from our schoolbooks.
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Hereâs our shareable guide âŹď¸: (pt. 1/2)
Lol. They unfollowed for this? People are so strange. There are a lot of versions of FAFO. For dems doing nothing now and being challenged in primaries is one.
Kristen Grind, my San Franciso-based NYT colleague, and I went through every federal investigation/lawsuit targeting Musk companies. What did we find? At least 11 federal agencies targeting Musk companies have seen leadership disruptions/changes that could undermine these efforts -- and benefit Musk
The simplest reason that Trump should not cut NIH overhead rates is that it is illegal. The reason it is illegal is that Congress passed a law to stop Trump from changing the rates the last time he tried to do so. The law is clear; the only real ambiguity is whether Trump still follows the law.
is it woke to want to end cancer?
@crampell.bsky.social @atrupar.com @jenrubin.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social
@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @ilhanmn.bsky.social UMN had 54% overhead cut down to 15.
Nothing is unbelievable anymore but this is not good. As cancer researcher heavily dependent on nih grants, this one will hurt.