Reposting with all the tags… #anated #meded #vetmed #anatomy #dissection #infectiousdisease #riskmanagement #cadaver

I’m so proud of this scoping review article, as I feel it is desperately needed within our field. There are many misconceptions about the infection risk in cadavers, and this article provides hopefully one-stop shopping on the risks and mitigation factors to reduce those risks.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Like us, horses can injure their tendons and ligaments & often don't recover full tendon or ligament strength. Diane Little, et al. explore preclinical tendon & ligament animal models for developing better treatment: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ORSxDerby #ORSSMC @jorthopres.bsky.social

Update on this one!!! They reversed this decision today www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The Indiana General Assembly just passed HB 1515 and at the last minute slipped in a provision that all allied health professional schools must be on an A-F or similar merit system 93% of medical schools have left the A-F system because it does not improve learning This is really really bad

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

This might be a bit of a hot take, but can organizations that write press releases for new studies please include a link for the actual paper. Scientists love to read the original articles and sometimes it can be frustrating in tracking them down. 🌎🧪🦇🐦🦋🐟

2025. Horses, donkeys and zebras have adaptations that break normal genomic rules phys.org/news/2025-03...

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked). Thank you, Senator.

The threat is so big that even Red-state GOP politicians are starting to crack. IN Sen Young wrote in WaPo that "basic research isn’t a federal handout to help sustain academia.... it is a vital ingredient in our innovation future, economic and geopolitical competitiveness, and national security."

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

The majority of farmers supported the firing of scientists. That included scientists from the CDC and veterinarians. This is the trickle down. This is why people who do not have degrees in a field shouldn’t be in charge of anything. It is dangerous.

Yale can 💯 afford to defend academic freedom, and its educational and research mission www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

If anyone in Indiana’s 5th Congressional district has the time, please attend this town hall and ask Rep. Spartz why she supports the NIH cuts to IU… her district is chock full of IU employees who will be negatively affected! I desperately wish I could attend but will be in Portland for a meeting 😫

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Spring is springing so here’s your regular reminder LILIES WILL KILL YOUR CAT. Even the tiniest sniff of pollen or licking a tiny bit of it off of their coat can cause kidney failure *quickly*. If you have cats you should keep lilies out of your house.

Fresh data have bolstered the discovery that dark energy, the mysterious force that makes galaxies accelerate away from each other, has weakened over the past 4.5 billion years. https://go.nature.com/4hmYWB6

Super-important point — HHS/NIH pay to train doctors. It’s not just research funding. The funding for residency programs is also being weaponized by Trump and Musk. Trump and Musk want your kid to not have a doctor.

Strong column from @nytimes.com editorial board. “The people who are attacking higher education are talking nonstop,” said Holden Thorp. “And the people leading higher education are not saying very much.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

Public health is under attack in America. Maternal and child health is under attack in America. Health research is under attack in America. Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.

The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

I was unable to attend the Indy @standupforscience.bsky.social march today because I had already committed to a horse show in Ohio with my daughter. But my beloved Oliver 🦄 still helped me resist in our own way. #standupforscience (spoiler alert: we even won our class 💪🏻)

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”…. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Herding cats: It’s past time to include pets in disease surveillance www.statnews.com/2025/03/04/h... via @statnews.com

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

I've been noodling a lot lately on academic freedom and the ability of faculty members to speak as individual faculty members I get the impression that many are self-muzzling due for self-preservation purposes This is a quick 🧵 on speaking out as an academic faculty member 1/

Those of you in science who are starting to noodle on how to organize: The Good Trouble Coalition in Indiana (@goodtroublein.bsky.social) did this in 2022 and have a blueprint for you here: jha.scholasticahq.com/article/125183

This crossed my mind weeks ago but I stuffed it away under a “there’s no way” category. After all of the attacks on NIH, it’s clear I was wrong to dismiss it. We must link arms, stand up, support each other, and fight this hostile take down.

How did the US become a land of opportunity? In a new paper, we show that the country's pioneering role in mass education was key to its rise in intergenerational mobility from 1850 to 1950. "America's Rise in Human Capital Mobility" with Harriet Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichardt

Terrific piece by @wdownard.bsky.social for @indianacapitalchronicle.com on effects proposed federal cuts would have on Indiana They are huge- 44% of Indiana's budget is federal dollars (the 3rd most in the US) In Indiana we undertax and underspend indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/28/w...

Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky

As we can expect PubMed dysfunction more and more or to be swamped with fake journals I suggest you get acquainted to this nice alternative: europepmc.org

Oh, that's concerning. nih.gov

You know, kill young women to protect of the sanctity of human life. Republicans have lost their everloving minds.

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year. @altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH

It's official. The grant proposal I spent months writing and that includes thousands of dollars in experiments was not reviewed because the study section did not meet. This is happening to tons of labs; we're not unique, but it still hurts. This is illegal and society's response is weak at best.

Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

What do the best teachers have in common? They're good-natured. They're professional without being aloof. And they're demanding without being unkind. chroni.cl/4hOgJCi

In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Where are our institutional leaders? Why am I not seeing statements posted denouncing these cuts? Why is almost every major medical school, particularly in red states, my own included, absolutely silent on what is going on? If we won’t save ourselves, who will?

Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles A first-of-its-kind analysis reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots Read the full story here: https://go.nature.com/3CUmFKI

Across the country on Feb 19, workers impacted by cuts to federal funding are coming together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Join us in one of more than a dozen cities (& if there's not an action near you yet, sign up to be the first to know when there is): labor4highered.org

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...