1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
Kristi Noem must resign.
And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
Remember, if someone has the unmitigated gall to claim that spending the entire weekend reading Agatha Christie, drinking multiple cups of tea, and consuming a copious amount of pastries “doesn’t sound exciting", then your well-being is simply not important to them.
Please keep writing (and sharing) these emails if only because after reading, we will all learn about things we didn't catch happening during these chaotic months.
Cover of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'" with emails from Jeremy M. Berg to NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya.
All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available...
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
“It’s great when HBCUs and [tribal colleges] receive more funding,” ... “But it is simultaneously really terrible to take funding from minority-serving institutions over all, which do so much work, not only for people of color, but so many other groups as well.”
www.chronicle.com/article/ed-d...
Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...
#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom
💥RECAP: RFK Jr.’s MAHA report on children’s health. A thread of highlights (nightmares):
Full report here, for the brave:
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"Everyone pays for health inequities; we can do better." - Dr. Clyde Yancy
doi.org/10.1161/CIRC...
US funding freeze threatens biomedical research | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷♀️
"On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...
Breaking News: The Trump administration announced that the U.S. will take a relaxed approach to regulating the A.I. industry, and said that a federal framework should remove mentions of DEI and climate change.
Then this:
"Led by the Department of Commerce (DOC) through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change."
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
This article is about a library catalog (in beta) that returned zero results for searches on “Gaza war” or “Tulsa Race Massacre.” b/c it uses a 3rd party AI search assist (possibly Azure OpenAI) with safety/moderation filters that silently rewrote or blocked the queries behind the scenes.
"Uncritically adopting AI tools in discovery systems will perpetuate, if not exacerbate, existing biases and suppression of minoritized people."
#FSCI2025 #FORCE2025 #FORCE25 #medlibs #scholcom
acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...
Great explanation by Bella Ratmelia (@bellaratmelia.bsky.social) and Aaron Tay (@aarontay.bsky.social) of transformers and LLMS - they shared this resource: poloclub.github.io/transformer-... #FSCI2025 #scholcom #FORCE2025
Joining for Day 1 of the Force2025 Scholarly Communication Institute #FSCI2025 learning about #semanticClimate and the rapid scoping literature review. force11.org/fsci/post/fs... #scholcom #force2025 #medlibs
When you are getting your work done, but then you glimpse a news headline (really any headline, it seems) and then you feel depressed about the state of the world....so you sit there trying to collect your thoughts and get back into the work, but it's hard, you know?
Image of a Kristi Holmes speaking with a slide she's shared there depicts Health Services Research as a large circle that includes a smaller circle called Implementation Science. Within Implementation Science circle, there are two smaller circles that overlap for Dissemination Research and Implementation Research.
Tuning into the Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture today with @kristiholmes.bsky.social—loved the shoutout to Sara Becker and the incredible work happening at Northwestern’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (@nucatsinstitute.bsky.social)! #medlibs #implementationscience
In a special presentation on Thursday, July 10, at 1 p.m., Northwestern's Kristi Holmes, PhD, will examine communication as a powerful translational engine, connecting people, machines and systems across disciplines and communities. Registration is free — bit.ly/3ZUNCX4
I failed. I was walking home from the Chicago campus at 9 PM, blissfully unaware of the weather, only to be met by an absolute deluge. Completely soaked. Zero foresight. I had an umbrella but it was little use. I will not do well in this new system.
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
"Vaccines for influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 remain among the best tools to protect the public against these illnesses and their potentially serious complications—and physicians are among the most trusted voices to recommend them."
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
On a lighter note - every year I find that my capacity to ingest Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies is pretty much endless.
RFK Jr wants to Make America Healthy Again. But is America really that unhealthy?
I spoke with public health experts & data analysts to find out. My story for @nature.com and brief🧵
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.
Joined the peaceful #NoKings event in Chicago at Daley Plaza.
