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The Eagles announced Tuesday Kevin Patullo had been removed as offensive coordinator two days after they were knocked from the NFL playoffs in a 23-19 home defeat to the San Francisco 49ers.

New research by authors from @weillcornell.bsky.social et al: Tuberculosis screening and care delivery in pregnant and postpartum persons living with HIV in Botswana journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

A quick collaboration with the wonderful Rachel Bender Ignacio, Jade Pagkas-Bather and Sara Gianella. "Why Americans are Dying Younger? NIH Is Not the Problem. Our Broken Healthcare Delivery Is." academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

"She said that lenacapavir has become a kind of diplomatic carrot — and stick. Friendly, compliant governments, like Eswatini, have received early shipments, whereas South Africa or Nigeria — countries that have fallen out of favor with Trump — seem to have received the short end of the stick."

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.

I know this is supposed to be some fear mongering threat … but personally I am super excited about this. Don’t change your mind now, you million worst-people-in-NYC! 👋🏽

RIFed: Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease. Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

FYI there are a ton of DHS vehicles in Old City right now, be careful out there Philly

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects. The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.

New NIH Notice about International Collaborations grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 1/3

Tomorrow I’ll be joined by @yalesph.bsky.social alum Alex Urry, MPH ’19, now Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for what I'm SURE will be a fascinating discussion. 🔗 Register here: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Public health is under siege in our country. This time it is not from fringe communities scattered across the nation but from our appointed leaders, who were nominated by our president and confirmed by our elected officials in the Senate." A must-read anonymous piece www.bmj.com/content/390/...

@drdemetre.bsky.social has resigned as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. His letter is a must-read.

Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Really disheartening to see African countries doing these trafficking deals with the West. We literally dump tons e-waste and secondhand clothing in Africa. Now these governments are basically striking trade deals for unwanted humans. Sick.

I finally made it through this @hubermanlab.com podcast with Jay Bhattacharya. It took a while because it’s 4(!!) hours long and I had to take multiple breaks for deep breathing. (Not gonna lie, I played it at 1.25 speed.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... Some reactions… 🧵 1/8

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic • He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’ • He’s not a communist

Update: After my story came out on Friday, the NIH told staff yesterday to stop renegotiating the scope of research projects to align with the agency's new priorities — but only at public institutions in the 16 plaintiff states, per an email I obtained.

NEWSFLASH for anyone submitting NIH grant applications: applications are being withdrawn from review if they contain foreign subawards, regardless of justification. This was NOT included in NOT-OD-25-104 that was published on May 1. This policy applies PROSPECTIVELY as of May 1. 🧐🧐 1/2

Not to mention *many* of the 600,000 South Asians living in NYC … where he is running for Mayor. So many people need to STFU.

At a recent hearing, Sen. Hassan asked Bhattacharya whether he'd follow the president's directives even if it meant breaking the law. Bhattacharya said, “I don't believe the president will ever ask me to break the law." Here, NIH is defying a court order — which ruled the agency broke the law

STAT story about NIH policy (at least temporary) to terminate no more grants. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/n... 1/n

NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.

There has not been much be excited about lately. It feels risky but … thank you NYC ❤️

Grants at Columbia unfrozen at 9:30 this morning... Refrozen at 2:30 this afternoon with instructions to undo all of the releases done earlier. It like the 7th graders in detention broke into the Principal's Office...

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

"The role of DOGE is key, because it suggests NIH is canceling grants because of external influence and not NIH priorities."

Thanks for following along! My story from the hearing below "He can talk about freedom, but his own staff are decrying his censorship," @gavinyamey.bsky.social told me. "How he’s actually acting and what he says are not one in the same." Stay tuned for more live posting about NIH in court and more

Here we go again. We looked at the health effects of the "Muslim ban" in Trump's first term: it increased missed primary care & ER visits in people from the targeted countries. This latest round of bans from Trump may turn out to have implications for health as well. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The termination of CDC’s HIV prevention program is part of a budget proposal that slashes the overall CDC budget by more than 50% and infectious diseases research at the National Institutes of Health by nearly 40%. Read HIVMA’s full statement here: bit.ly/4mLU0JJ

Saddened to receive the official notification that the program in which I was CDC HIV Clinical Ambassador for the past 4-5 years has been officially terminated. This program worked in collaboration with now eliminated CDC Prevention Communication branch.

I personally know 5 early career and trainee level academic scientists who have changed jobs/ career paths in the last month. They did not see a sustainable future with ongoing cuts and attacks. The scale of decimation of the pipeline that the scientific workforce in U.S. faces is staggering.

NIH just channeled $50M of this year's budget into an Autism Data Science Initiative. It does not allow clinical trials or interventions. Applications due June 27. Looks like only 10 awards-- they are $5M a piece and only for 2-3 years. dpcpsi.nih.gov/autism-data-...

Here is an example of a Schedule F comment. The same basic logic applies all the way up to institute directors in my view.

Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪

NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo. https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1

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...

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

For those of you who knew Victoria Brownworth on Twitter, she passed away from cancer yesterday. She was a fearless journalist who reported on AIDS in the 80s (when Reagan was ignoring it), lifted up the LGBTQ community, & rooted out corruption. Her wife, Maddy Gold, died of cancer in 2022.