Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong [🎁]

Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.

The EPA cancelled grants that would help us understand how children are affected by climate change. The agency response: Maybe Biden and Harris "shouldn’t have forced their radical agenda of wasteful DEI programs and ‘environmental justice.'" 19thnews.org/2025/09/epa-...

The assault on wind is very similar to the assault on vaccines - ginning up evidence to support a desired policy that harms public health. Offshore wind is good for climate, air quality, and overall grid reliability. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

@citizencohn.bsky.social shares some of my story and the work that I have done on public health with thousands of scientists and implementers. We ended outbreak after outbreak TOGETHER. Many of those outbreaks occurred because of RFK Jr’s rhetoric. www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...

The institutions that protect our health and safety - CDC, EPA, etc. - are being deliberately destroyed in a manner that will be hard to undo. Whether this is to boost favored industries, pandemic backlash, or because ideology trumps evidence, the outcome is the same. We will be less healthy.

Hey @nytimes.com, you got the title wrong. Here’s the correct version: How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Bulldozing the Foundations of Public Health

Curious what we are all about? Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

🚨 New PhD program in Community Health Sciences at @busph.bsky.social 🚨 Graduates will be trained to use social justice-focused, community-engaged approaches to address some of the most pressing public health issues facing us today. We are accepting applications this fall.

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

I don’t want political appointees from this administration deciding what is meritorious research. But I wouldn’t want political appointees from ANY administration deciding that. That would mark the end of basic research, research with long-term benefits, etc. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...

Network of PurpleAir monitors captures the widespread and substantial air quality impacts from Canadian wildfires extremely well (screenshot from map.purpleair.com, taken 5 minutes ago)

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose? We asked those affected by federal climate and environment cuts to reach out. Their stories illuminate how these losses are reverberating across the country. grist.org/climate/trum... #Jobs #Climate #Policy #Politics #DOGE

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Lead sentence in this article is key - EPA proposes "revoking a scientific finding" that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The thing about a scientific finding is that it is based on evidence. You can't revoke it just because it is inconvenient. apnews.com/article/trum...

Any time the Administration puts forward a policy to undermine renewable energy, they are increasing our energy bills, harming our health, and damaging our climate, all just to financially reward (and subsidize) a favored industry.

This isn't "gold standard science", it's crap standard science. Actually, it's not science at all. blog.ucs.org/julie-mcnama...

Remember more than 80% of US federal career employees work outside of the Washington DC area. EPA is shutting down its scientific research division, which helps keep our air & water safe. It’s overwhelmingly staffed in Cincinnati, Ohio, with ~1000 employees there. The OH & KY Senators don’t care?

I know so many dedicated and brilliant scientists who work (and I guess now worked) at EPA. The loss of expertise and ability to make science-informed decisions will have lasting damage for our health. Academics and advocates will have to try to fill the gap. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

In the aftermath of the horrific Texas flood and with a major Boston highway underwater today, our new paper is timely. We talk about connections between floods and health and how we can better characterize the extent, frequency, duration, and intensity of floods. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

300,000 air change measurements?! Classroom air change averaged 3.0/h (about required), but varied significantly: between schools, within each school and within each classroom throughout the year. Great work from @patriciafabian.bsky.social's group. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stay denied by Judge Young in APHA v NIH and State AGs v Kennedy cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1/n

It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea. All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs. Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?

As the country bakes in a heat wave, it’s #ShowYourStripes day. With my younger son just graduating from elementary school, it’s sobering to compare how much hotter his world is than when I was his age. Even more sobering to think of what his kids will experience. Time for action!

June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming. This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow. @edhawkins.org

After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech. I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵

What is so sad is that, even if this wonderful outcome somehow happens, it is just the tip of the iceberg. We had a center grant submission that was never reviewed. Other grants were not discussed at study section. And some studies and careers will still be destroyed by the time the money returns.

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

🚨 I'm tuning into the most substantial hearing to date of two lawsuits challenging NIH's termination of thousands of grants. I'll post some of the major updates here, so follow along.

Extensive Propublica story about grant terminations Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research… Definitely worth a read projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

New study: Trump’s #EPA will result in a “$1.1 trillion reduction in U.S. #GDP by 2035, a $160 billion cumulative income loss, and at least 22,800 additional #deaths of Americans.” cgs.umd.edu/research-imp... #PolicyRollback #Energy #PublicHealth #Pollution #Asthma #COPD

#DYK almost half of all schools in the US don’t have adequate ventilation, filtration, heating, and cooling systems for healthy learning? Support the #interdisciplinary CHESS project led by patriciafabian.bsky.social of busph.bsky.social: trusted.bu.edu/s/1759/22/fo...

🚨 NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya is testifying before the US Senate Appropriations Committee today. The hearing is bound to be spicy, after more than 300 agency staff wrote him a letter decrying his leadership and actions as director. 🔥 I'll be live-posting the hearing, so follow along here.

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

We are excited to announce the Agents of Change Fellows in Residence Program! Our reimagined fellowship is an effort to deepen our impact on decision-making and provide additional support to six senior fellows in their path towards creating more impactful research. www.ehn.org/agents-of-ch...

I spent time today talking with EPA staff. They were despondent about the destruction of the agency, with crucial labs shuttered, datasets destroyed, and people leaving en masse. So while we can have fun with the feud today, we should maintain focus on all that has been lost (likely permanently).

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Trump cuts hundreds of EPA grants, leaving cities on the hook for climate resiliency... grist.org/cities/trump...

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

If you had a grant cancelled by the administration, please share your story: democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

Next time someone declares that people in this administration are Free Speech Warriors: 1) Play this clip 2) Provide their list of banned books 3) Share their documents with the lists of banned phrases in research grants or publications 4) Show all of the databases they have taken down or censored

NEW: A majority of voters oppose House Republicans’ proposed “pay to play” NEPA reform, which would allow companies to pay to bypass parts of NEPA’s environmental review process.