This is a powerful line of questioning from Senator Hassan and an outrageous answer from Director Bhattacharya. "If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

"Today’s announcement by federal health officials to arbitrarily stop recommending numerous routine childhood immunizations is dangerous and unnecessary..." – @AmerAcadPeds president Without evidence, US overhauls childhood vaccine schedule: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... Soon: on 680 CJOB

More news (not good) from NIH The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied. I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.

A @statnews.com exclusive from me: Walter Koroshetz, director of NIH's neurological disorders institute, has been ousted. Yet another example of NIH leadership churn. His departure means that 13 of the agency's 27 divisions will have interim leaders. www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been an outspoken critic of RFKJ's vaccine disinformation and non evidence-based vaccine recommendations. Now they are losing millions in federal funding for mental health services, rural healthcare access, and more. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Breaking News: A U.S. vaccine panel voted to limit the use of a combination measles, mumps, rubella and varicella shot for children under 4.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Fierce Biotech story about the "priorities" memo www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih... 1/4

Here is the document. This is what is known. www.nih.gov/about-nih/ni...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

🚨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)

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

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

Making America poorer again: each US $1 million invested by the NIH in health research generates about $2.5 million in economic activity. NIH funding produced $94 billion in new economic activity and supported more than 400,000 jobs in 2024 alone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that will cut billions of dollars from Medicaid. Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of people across the country, including more than 15 million people with disabilities. The Senate must reject this dangerous bill.

⛔️ Big NIH update: We just learned of 726 more NIH grants that were terminated sometime over the past 2 months. A huge number of diversity supps, diversity F31s, and diversity training grants. See below ⤵️ View them here: grant-watch.us/nih-data.html h/t to @noamross.net for processing them.

Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

Check out our new publication examining long-term outcomes among people with Parkinson’s disease who experience minor phenomena (minor hallucinations)! Should we be screening for these symptoms in clinic? movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join the University of Rochester Huntington’s disease team on Saturday, May 17th for the Team Hope Walk at Roberts Wesleyan! Check it out here: northeast.hdsa.org/events/2025-...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

“The third time is not a charm; rather, it is disaster in the making for American science & technology and our nation’s continuing competitiveness. Thankfully, the courts have thus far prevented earlier attempts to implement such ill-advised policies.” www.science.org/content/arti...

After Trump’s first 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding.

Three international students at RIT have filed a federal complaint against the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, after their legal status was terminated with no notice. A total of eight students have had their status terminated. www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

The women’s health initiative has followed tens of thousands of women for more than 30 years and provided invaluable information on topics like hormone replacement and cancer. Jay Bhattacharya cutting this program will not only hurt women, it’s also just a colossal waste to lose such an investment.

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts. These cuts will impact Every Single American. Email [email protected] for PDF and xlsx.

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NEW: The entire NIH payment system is currently frozen for all grantees. This is tied to DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” caper, reported in today’s Post, which has already led to payment cutoffs to doctors and health workers at hospitals treating the poor.

The hits keep coming. This was shared on Reddit earlier today. Looks like they want to strip all HHS funding from ANY university that has a whiff of anything DEIA. www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/co...

After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities. scim.ag/4ikYp2T

"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.

Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science

It's worth reading the full list of Trump admin demands on Harvard. Some are ridiculous, e.g. reduce the power of jr. faculty! But most are chilling & antithetical to what a university is--basically they want to install commissar audit committees to oversee everything www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT

Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates arstechnica.com/science/2025...

🆕 Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030 without stable PEPFAR programmes, expert policy analysis estimates. bit.ly/4ltNtTB

#HandsOff Rochester, NY