This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Every public health professional could have predicted this 👇🏾
Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted.
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Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Just saw a post by Nini Munoz on IG basically pointing out that there’s also massive cognitive pressure to retroactively justify your decision — because if you made the wrong decision and it led to a terrible outcome, that would be unbearable. www.instagram.com/p/DU9ty8hkbZ...
The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.
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I've seen quite a lot of these posted. I'm not really sure what the significance is, though have noticed the authors always seen disproportionately proud of their work. I've decided to join in, hope that's okay.
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Before the vaccine, 10% of measles infections resulted in deafness. Measles currently causes 100K children/yr to become blind. Even those who recover completely can later develop the fatal encephalitis. Every infection disrupts the immune system and can cause loss of all immunity to other infections
“Spending two to three times the cost to create what we already had access to makes absolutely no sense..."
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@leahlitman.bsky.social and @kateshaw.bsky.social put out a good theory on the bonus @strictscrutiny.bsky.social episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
I will never understand how the head of the government ignored and belittled public health recommendations to prevent a new disease from taking hold and then *public health* was blamed when they couldn’t prevent the fallout.
Been wondering for a while now if we all ended up in a Sartre play by accident…As they say, “L'enfer, c'est les autres” 🤷♀️
Black-and-white historical portrait of Constance Tipper, the pioneering English metallurgist and crystallographer. She is gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and composed expression. Tipper has short, neatly styled dark hair parted on the side with soft waves framing her face. She wears a patterned blouse or dress with a high collar, evoking early-to-mid-20th-century professional women's attire. The soft lighting highlights her determined features against a plain, neutral background, capturing her as a trailblazing scientist whose work on brittle fracture revolutionized materials engineering and saved lives during and after World War II.
Metallurgist Constance Tipper was born #OTD in 1894.
Her groundbreaking work on the brittle fracture of metals saved countless lives during #WWII & laid foundational principles for modern fracture mechanics. First female FT faculty member at Cambridge Dept of Engineering (1949). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)
Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
bill cassidy traded countless lives of babies and children and grandmas so trump wouldn’t burn him. and trump just burned him.
Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.
The Health Secretary of the United States instructed the US Food & Drug Administration to recommend AGAINST COVID vaccines for people who are or could be pregnant. That recommendation leads to severe illness and premature birth.
If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.
Any chance they’re in the market for a job? Pretty sure the group that insists on telling ID team which antibiotics to use for viral infections is hiring.
Infectious diseases before and after a vaccine became available Three stacked time-series charts comparing disease burden before and after vaccine introduction, showing steep declines after vaccines. Top chart — Deaths caused by smallpox as a share of all deaths in London, 1700 to 1900. Middle chart — Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths in the United States, 1910 to 2010 Bottom chart — Reported cases of measles in the United States, 1921 to 2015. Data sources and credits, as listed in the footer: - Smallpox: Our World in Data based on Guy (1882) and on publications of the Registrar General between 1848 and 1903. - Polio: Our World in Data based on U.S. Public Health Service (1900 to 1951) and U.S. CDC (1960 to 2010). - Measles: Our World in Data based on U.S. Public Health Reports, the Public Health Service, and the U.S. CDC - Chart licensed under CC-BY by Our World in Data
Humanity’s history is a continuous battle between us and the microbes. For most of our history, we were on the losing side. It wasn’t even close. We were losing very decisively.
So sorry for your loss! It’s devastating to lose a family member.
Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)
by Richard Horton
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Friend in college asked her host sister to please pass the fruit preserves at the family breakfast table: “s’il-te plaît, donnes-moi des préservatifs”
S’il-te plaît = please
Donnes-moi = give me
Des = the
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“Préservatif” also = “condom” in French 🤣
Made for an awkward start to the day.
Infographic on Acetaminophen and various health organizations who say it is safe to use in pregnancy quoted. ACOG, SMFM, AAP, AAFP, ACEP, Health Canada, EMA, AAN, APA and ACOFP.
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
And when one of the members with actual understanding of the situation tried to take a few minutes to clarify what his vote would mean, they said they didn’t have time for him and he would have to just abstain…
And also that kids recover from just fine, with no lasting effects
SSPE is a rare complication of getting measles as a young child, causing what is essentially progressive dementia in your middle school and teenage years ultimately ending in death in almost all cases. It is untreatable but it IS preventable with vaccines.
Vaccines save lives.
