Had a similar experience with this obit for biochemist and longtime NSF employee Elvira Doman. Got the lady's email on Christmas Eve -- almost a year after publication!
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This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
Washington Post story about the Katrina Declaration
[Gift link]
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i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Celgene kept the drug’s price low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients.
But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/43jfFQF
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“Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.” The Lancet calls for Kennedy’s resignation. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Excellent read…
I know there’s a lot going on here in the States, and most of it is overwhelming and awful. But this is important reporting:
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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Excellent & disturbing Jill Lepore piece about the family origins of Musk’s ideas: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Read my first post on Substack where I express my opinion on the Trump administration's cuts to biomedical research.
open.substack.com/pub/madamesc...
Genuinely important for faculty at every university to read things like this in some depth, not just out of admiration but as an exercise in learning how to write the same sort of memo in whatever (even limited!) position of power you hold within your own university, when the moment comes
I wrote a piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen... With the fate of NIH-funded research uncertain, it is extra important that the work we do now is most likely to benefit everyone. Adhering to SABV in the lab and in grant & paper review is the right thing to do.
As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Gene Hackman, died from the effects of hantavirus, a rare disease often caused by contact with droppings from infected rodents.
“Essentially, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent.“ 😳
#MedSky
You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.
I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
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NIH + NSF scientists affected by today's layoffs: C&EN is working on understanding what expertise the government lost today. Give me a ring? (Signal: Laurel_Oldach.07)
EXCLUSIVE: Rice University’s famed horn professor William VerMeulen abruptly retired last spring amid a swirl of sexual misconduct allegations. But dozens of students and industry insiders say “the administration has known for 30 years” — and failed to act.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/05/h...
The February issue of JMD is now live!
Full issue: www.jmdjournal.org/issue/S1525-...
#JMDSilver #NSCLC #Leukemia #colorectalcancer
Yes. Also, I recommend signing up for the newsletter by the Center for Institutional Courage:
www.institutionalcourage.org/the-courage-...
Hello—I am looking for first person essays by scientists and doctors that are relevant to the news to run in Slate. Pitches and submissions: shannon.palus@slate.com
Graphic shows Laurie Menser, CEO of the Association for Molecular Pathology, and an excerpt from the interview.
Our CEO, Laurie Menser, did an interview with Integrated DNA Technologies. Read what she has to say about the rapid advancements in molecular diagnostics — and the opportunities and challenges they present.
www.idtdna.com/pages/commun...
‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
Graphic shows the title of the paper and the logo for the journal.
Short thread of the three top papers in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, our official journal, in 2024:
1. DPYD Genotyping Recommendations: www.jmdjournal.org/article/S152...
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