I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
As a doctor, I recommend against taking health care advice from Mike Tyson.
Greatest Bears regular season win of my life, I’m pretty sure! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO TO SLEEP!?!?!
folks, I've never lived through years of mass political violence but I do study it for a living: you don't want to live through years of political violence.
It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
MAHA gold-standard science.
By @glaucomflecken.bsky.social
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
This is the message we have to keep trying to send. NIH is good on its merits and good on the economics. Regular people have NO IDEA. Keep communicating with the normal folks in your circle about the economic impacts of these cuts. It’s not on TV or in the paper.
“If you are taking an F.D.A.-approved drug that is improving the quality or length of your life, there is a 99 percent chance N.I.H. was involved in the pathway to its discovery.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
You seem stressed.
Here's some footage of the double-decker trolley bus, a transport world rara avis.
Trackless trolleys in West London (Twickenham, Isleworth, Chiswick) the early 1960s.
Don't you feel better now?
This level of toxicity and disorganization at NIH is heartbreaking and terrifying.
This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.
Get Rekt
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH website and all of its subsites are down.
NSF and CDC remain up.
The Department of Health and Human Services has pressed the NIH to ignore court orders, dismissing NIH lawyers' advice to resume business as usual, @katherinejwu.com reports. As of this week, some institutes and centers are still not issuing any new grants: theatln.tc/MVl9uWmj
The FDA cancelled an upcoming meeting of experts scheduled to discuss next year’s flu shots, stoking fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
Many politicians & CEOs are ignorant about / indifferent to science, but with Trump–Musk and their stooges, it's more. They outright hate science. Presumably this is another manifestation of their insecurity, a deep resentment because scientists get credit for their hard work and good brains.
I chatted with a program director at NIH for a half hour just now
It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment
They deserve our respect and gratitude
NEW
Republican Congressman Troy Balderson, who reps an R+18 district in Ohio, says President Trump’s executive orders are “getting out of control.”
“Congress has to decide whether or not the Departmnet of Education goes away. Not the president. Not Elon Musk. Congress decides,” Balderson said.
Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶
Non-smoking lung cancer patient: “NIH funding cuts could cost me my life, and that of millions of others” thehill.com/opinion/heal...
The Trump admin has "disrupted the response" to bird flu by withholding reports and canceling meetings with both Congress and state health officials, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, states, veterinarians and health experts.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
This is the message for your “normal” friends. The administration is the best ally of cancer in the US currently.
Viewpoint: The US faces a crisis in child and adolescent health and well-being, necessitating a transformation of the health care system.
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#MedSky
Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.
A vibrant illustration of diverse women and girls in science, including various ethnicities and abilities. They collaborate in a modern lab, using microscopes, beakers, and computers. Some discuss ideas, others conduct experiments. Symbols like a globe, equations, and DNA strands.
Today is International Day for Women and Girls in Science. Given the massive onslaught on DEI initiatives in the US right now, this day feels incredibly important to make a note of.
Science is improved by diversity, and diversity does not happen on its own.
#idwgs
