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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
I signed this and urge others to consider:
A broad group of National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants have taken action with the "Bethesda Declaration" that targets the NIH and HHS Leadership. Join these courageous professionals by adding your name now. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised.
A gift from the content gods.
Exclusive: Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show. By @propublica.org's @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...
An image of all agency and program eliminations proposed for HHS. Reach out to altCDC for an accessible version or filterable PDF. The alt-text box does not fit all the text contained.
🏥HHS ELIMINATIONS💀
We have created a list of all agency and program eliminations proposed in the HHS 2026 Budget.
Feds: Please let us know if you have any clarity to share.
The cuts are massive. Reach out if you would like a PDF or xlsx
@alt-hhs.altgov.info
@altfda.altgov.info
When I'm not working with patients with type 1 diabetes, I work with kids who are injured in car accidents. This is absolutely ridiculous and proof that, yet again, this administration threatens the health and well being of children.
A serious medical scene shows a healthcare worker in surgical scrubs standing in a hospital corridor. Bold white text overlays the image, reading: “Curing cancer. Preventing pandemics. What’s it worth?”
A dark blue graphic with white text centered over a soft-focus medical background. The message reads: “Just $105 per year from the average taxpayer funds the national institute of health. That’s all it takes to help save lives improve care, and fight disease”
A clean, square infographic with a dark blue background and light blue accents. The header reads, “What does that money actually do? Your $105 helps fund:” followed by six icons and descriptions: 1. Mental Health Research – Depression, PTSD, addiction 2. Cancer & Rare Disease Studies – From early detection to lifesaving treatments 3. Pandemic Preparedness – Vaccines, virus tracking, prediction and prevention 4. Children’s Health – Brain development, neonatal and pediatric care 5. Medical Innovation – Imaging, prosthetics, diagnostics 6. Basic Biomedical Science – Foundational research for future cures
Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬
🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund:
• Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs
• Pandemic preparedness
• Children’s health
• Medical tech innovation
• Mental health science & more
NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
Prez' order eliminating US Dept of Ed doesn't eliminate the Education for Homeless Children & Youth program that supports 46,000 children in PA. Read SchoolHouse Connection's report bit.ly/4kQLpVp
Welp. FAFO.
Anyway. Going to Costco. Anyone need anything?
Commentary Outcomes That Matter to Patients: ICHOM as a Catalyst for Value-Based Care A map showing the country of origin of the working group members developing ICHOM measure sets New in the April 2025 issue of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery
Improving and sustaining health is a global priority, yet most #HealthCare organizations do not systematically track the outcomes that matter most to patients, resulting in disparities in care, inefficient resource use, and an overburdened health workforce. Learn more: nej.md/4bxrKpb
#MedSky
On This Day in 2023 Bivalent Prefusion F Vaccine in Pregnancy to Prevent RSV Illness in Infants A pregnant woman with a baby in her arms stands next to a box about the prevention of RV-associated respiratory infections in infants.
On this day 2 years ago, the MATISSE study showed the safety and efficacy of the RSV vaccine during pregnancy. This and a similar newborn vaccine can prevent infant RSV disease. Revisit the study: nej.md/3Mc1hmg 1/3
#MedSky #IDSky #OBGYN
Please pass along the word to anyone looking for an research coordinator position! This is a perfect post-bac position for someone interested in adolescent eating behaviors and/or acceptance-based interventions! epyz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Sometimes I absolutely LOVE the internet. Case in point: someone on Reddit did the math and figured out the alleged "tariffs" against the U.S. are simply trade balances.
www.reddit.com/r/economy/s/...
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
Happy TESLA TAKEDOWN Day everybody!!!
Let your feelings be known about the chain-saw wielding goofball & absentee father no one voted for currently bribing people for their votes while decimating our federal workforce.
Go to: teslatakedown.com to plan your protest of ugly cars.
Then eat pie. 🥧😋
NEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
When following the headlines fills me with despair, it's comforting to cuddle with a family member who remains blissfully unconcerned about fascism.
That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).
Grateful to @katherinejwu.com of @theatlantic.com for being responsive, thorough, and reflective when I asked if she'd tackle this story!
In the hours since publication, however, our work has entirely changed...
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So disappointed. See you in the primaries.
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
MYTH: Trump has imposed 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada. FACT: Actually this is true, no wait it’s a myth now, and, fuck, no wait.
Trump’s North American Tariffs: Myth Vs. Fact
theonion.com/trumps-...
Scientists: This is worth knowing about:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky #EduSky #DevSci
Sharing for visibility www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/n...
Thank you @statnews.com
I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful).
Let’s call it a Orwellial.
Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
TheRiseRegistry.org
Graph of the percent-of-students identified as experiencing homelessness for each state.
DYK: @usedgov.bsky.social helps when #students are #homeless across U.S. to make sure they get an education and other services they need; over 1.3 million students in 2022-23. This is another important function of schools and education systems. How many students are educators in your state helping?
