BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

"Intentional attacks against educational institutions may be considered a war crime under international law." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

"Since artificial wombs don’t exist yet, brainless bodies can’t be grown in a lab. So he’s said the first batch of brainless clones would have to be carried by women paid to do the job. In the future, though, one brainless clone could give birth to another." www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...

"For all the uncertainties, one truth I feel deeply from having seen war up close: Old men should not fix their messes by dispatching young people to die in unnecessary wars." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/o...

Thirteen people have died in federal immigration custody in the first three months of this year, and 46 have died since President Trump took office last year and began his mass deportation campaign, according to death reports and news releases made public by ICE. trib.al/XITKbfd

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Pregnant women who have been swept up in President Trump’s immigration crackdown have been held in detention centers as late as eight months into their pregnancies without adequate food or medical care, a New York Times examination found. nyti.ms/40QJ7wD

“Demagoguery and scapegoating of minorities has always been a powerful force in politics. What’s new is that people in leadership roles don’t see it as their job to tamp it down.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

California lawmakers said they plan to rename Cesar Chavez Day, observed on March 31, to “Farmworkers Day,” following the devastating accusations of sexual abuse by Chavez, a labor leader who has been celebrated for decades in the state.

From the OIG report: “We found that nursing homes inappropriately diagnosed schizophrenia to mask their misuse of antipsychotic drugs, artificially inflate their star rating, and skirt established safeguards meant to protect residents." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

“The farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual. … I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.” Read Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez in full:

Having a deep-fried President & Secretary of Health & Human Services probably hasn't helped matters.

"Government data provided to CBC News reveals B.C. has hired 414 health-care workers since it launched a recruitment campaign in the U.S. exactly one year ago." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"In the end, the sports and books departments were folded, and the metro section was gutted. Most international correspondents and editors were laid off, including those in the Middle East, just weeks before the United States and Israel attacked Iran." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

"When intending to upload code, some researchers have also accidentally published partial or entire Biobank datasets to GitHub, a popular online code-sharing platform." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

"Over the last year, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his associates have questioned the safety of childhood vaccines, made false statements about their effectiveness and rescinded recommendations for routine vaccination against a half-dozen diseases." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h...

"The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in understanding of weather and climate." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

NEW: Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill, by @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

Come work with The Public's Science team @ the Institute for Advanced Study. Hiring a fellow to develop digital infrastructure for public engagement, and are seeking someone committed to reimagining the social contract for American research. Please share widely. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37962820...

"When these products [made from human cells or tissues] require but lack FDA approval, they may pose a danger to American consumers. FDA continues to receive complaints or reports of adverse events involving such products, including patient deaths following their use." www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

"One recent such report of a patient death stated the patient injected themself with a product called Laennec that appears to be an imported human placental tissue-derived product that FDA has not approved. FDA is conducting an investigation." www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... @mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social, @eugenie-reich.bsky.social

"Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

I have a new paper @pnas.org describing concerns with FDA underregulation of stem cell therapies and risks to patients & public health. Marketed for all sorts of diseases, stem cell therapies carry serious risks yet often lack evidence. Between Sec. Kennedy & Supreme Court, deregulation is coming.

"Each person plucked from their day-to-day existence left a whole life behind. There are shoes by the front door and an empty bed. There’s a car in the driveway and a job undone. There are pets that need feeding, bills that keep arriving and leases with months left to pay."

Maryland’s attorney general alleged that conditions at a federal immigration facility in Baltimore are dangerous and unsanitary, with dozens of people crammed into a single, cold cement room for days with no bedding, no showers and one toilet.

"The episode is emblematic of how much Mr. Trump and his advisers misjudged how Iran would respond to a conflict that the government in Tehran sees as an existential threat." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

"Two prominent doctors at Columbia University & NY-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down on Tuesday following the release of a report that found that the institutional culture discouraged reporting allegations of sexual abuse against a former physician who sexually assaulted hundreds of patients."

This is the most bizarre interaction I've ever had with an HHS spokesperson. From my story on CDC's pivot to "shared-decision making" for vaccines, with insight from @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social and @jakescottmd.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/why-rf...

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

The third part of my CytoSource series on the effect of Trump administration policies and funding cuts on #cancer research focuses on brain drain: not only the loss of existing talent but also a disruption of the entire talent pipeline. 🧪 1/4 acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“People in Silicon Valley are spooked. They know, by their own admissions, that they are toying with an extremely dangerous technology. It’s not a big surprise that conscientious people regularly leave sounding shaken.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Not-for-profit Mayo Clinic reports record profit last year" 🤔 www.startribune.com/mayo-clinic-...

"Martinez is believed to be the first of three US citizens who have been fatally shot by federal immigration agents during President Donald Trump's second term." www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Detainees struggle to obtain medication and health care, lose concerning amounts of weight because of a lack of food, and live in fear of private security guards known to use force to put down disturbances." apnews.com/article/suic...

The number of people employed at the NIH is at its lowest level in at least two decades. Hear from six scientists run out by Trump and the work they left behind on cancer research, tick-borne diseases, and more. Me + @k-hought.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org for @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

"Prasad is only the latest in a series of dramatic departures by top officials at the Trump administration’s FDA."

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

UC takes one for the team as Vinay Prasad leaves FDA and returns to UCSF. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/h...

"The official, who spoke on the condition that his name not be used, called it a 'failed therapy'.... Dr. Prasad is an oncologist on leave from U.C.S.F." 🤷 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/h...

"It was a small chemistry setup. I wouldn't describe it as anything more complex than a sixth-grade science lab." abc7.com/post/irvine-...

"The findings show that excited delirium often enters evidentiary proceedings as a contested medical concept. Yet, through the machinations of the law of evidence, these claims exit courtroom proceedings as legally relevant facts." harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

"Security officials in the Middle East and in Europe have raised concerns that the U.S. is unleashing forces that could spill across borders, disrupt global trade and lead to asymmetric terrorist attack reprisals..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Trujillo was diagnosed with ALS in 2017, and his family later discovered the Seattle clinic through its online marketing, which promoted stem cell treatments for a range of serious medical conditions, including ALS." www.king5.com/article/news...

During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

"Dozens of people, probably most of them children, were killed in a strike that hit a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran, according to Iranian health officials and state media." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

"US-Israeli air strikes killed at least 85 people at a girls’ school in southern Iran, Iran's judiciary said." www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...

"A King County jury on Thursday awarded $24 million to the family of a Colorado man who died after receiving a stem cell injection at a Seattle clinic in 2019." The same business was sued by the WA AG for deceptive marketing of unproven stem cell interventions. mynorthwest.com/local/colora...

“Once inside the apartment, it became clear they had misrepresented themselves. A public safety officer arrived, asked multiple times for a warrant, which was not produced, and asked for time to call his boss, which was not given. The agents took our student.” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

"It took a bit, but then the gasp of realization: They were looking at 'Gugusse and the Automaton,' a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company." blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...