thespectator.com/topic/cured-... Cured DEI? Curiously, the link to the "new formal priorities for the NIH" in the last paragraph goes to an NIH notice in April 2025 that was rescinded in June!

I have a strange feeling that fewer and fewer of my fellow scientists post anything critical on social media. I wonder why?

Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors open.substack.com/pub/sciencea... Job ads on FB for 12 Institute Directors do not inspire confidence in the hiring process!

I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

grants.nih.gov/news-events/... Only the top third will be discussed, but the middle third will still be considered for funding (even though it was not discussed! SIC!). This seems to be the end of impactful peer review, at least for now!

www.forbes.com/sites/brucel... "Without the use of paylines or any other transparent metric that’s clearly available to the public, the risk is that funding decisions will get even more politicized and less scientific.""Will this allow NIH grants to be awarded more as political favors? "

The inside scoop on how RFK Jr. has maneuvered to dismantle America's longstanding vaccine system. It's a tangled tale including a government whistleblower, activists, a discredited researcher and CDC officials who fought back, then quit. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Institute Directors have a huge amount of power at NIH. To maintain (what’s left of) the integrity of NIH, we need to make sure qualified scientists with topic-specific expertise and leadership experience remain at the helm.

She was a remarkable person.

The first mass shooting made very few headlines. Damaged by war?

I hope not!

This is good advice for now!

www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclo... Does anyone remember reading this? I read it many decades ago, but I still remember that it made a great impression on me. It was written by Sartre in 1936—food for thought right now.

Sometimes AI can be used to counteract “amateur science” faster than you can! A 2024 study of nearly 2.5 million children in Sweden found no causal link between prenatal acetaminophen (Tylenol) use and an increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

On August 12, 2017, I staffed an aid station for the counter protest against the fascists who came to Cville. Nazis attacked the church we were using, and antifascists put their bodies between my patients and harm.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Sharing stories matters. If you’ve faced grant terminations, funding delays, loss of research jobs, etc., your voice is needed. Help show the real impact of NIH funding interference - tell your story so we don’t lose innovation, cures, and hope for the future. www.27unihted.org/biohealthbeats

If you don't know, this is a secondhand account of what measles subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is like. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

Another SSPE story.

Incredibly sad, but predictable. SPPE is a horrible 100% fatal, slowly progressing disease that is rarely ever seen in vaccinated kids. The prevalence has been predicted to be about 1/600 cases after a natural infection. You do the math; we are likely to see many more cases in the coming years.

Big Event September 16th saveaidsresearch.org

Answer to one of my questions. Statistics like this are not bad when it comes to diseases, but.....

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... Student newspapers are an important source of information and opinions right now. This is an opinion piece from The Cavalier Daily, our UVA student-run newspaper.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Thank God for student newspapers! Seems to be one of the few ways in which we can get real information about the ongoing government/university battle. In most places, the universities are hiding all information behind attorney/client privileges.

My quote of the day Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. Frederick Buechner

Comment on the Fallows post

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

.. and then there is this. When I was a graduate student in Sweden, we still had several cases of SSPE, a slow, deadly encephalitis. It is a horrible disease and only one of the complications after a natural infection. As we experienced this year, kids can also die quickly from this disease.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

This graph speaks for itself.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s... A giant in science who meant a lot to me and so many other scientists. Such sad news, he will be sorely missed. May his memory be a blessing.

I am old enough to have experienced several women suffering and dying from this disease. The vaccine changed this in a much more dramatic way than I could dream of (even as a virologist).

Brown-nosing at the highest? level! Obviously, criticizing Russia for Putin for his relationship with oligarchs is like throwing stones in a glasshouse.

Supposedly confirmed. Very unclear what this will mean for ranking based on peer review, but clearly not good!

Questions I have right now: 1) How much of the NIH budget for this fiscal year remains as of now. 2) How mucn is likely to not be spent by September 30? 3) What will happen to the unspent money after that date?

www.facebook.com/share/v/1JoF... Complete exchange, still unbelievable

Look at their faces!

Unbelievable!

HHS staff are coming together to demand the resignation of RFKjr. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...

Whatever RFK Jr. is, he is not a powerhouse.

Feeling mitochondrially challenged lately? Here are two classic reviews on #mitochondria that should help. www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...

A win for Harvard ( at least a temporary one)!

This is certainly not good news.

God help us!

Looks convincing to me, but I guess RFK Jr. et al. never saw this?😉

You do not have to be a historian to realize this!

Incredible that so many people still seem to believe this! Alternatively, they may simply not care or be informed and educated enough to understand the consequences. However, it is hard to know how to break through to them and make them understand.

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