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The new controversial health funding aid packages which are replacing USAID to align with America first agenda of the current administration are reportedly linked to granting US greater access to mineral resources and harvesting sensitive health data of Africans w little reciprocity or protections

More changes at #NIH. Any foreign (even a non-HS) component needs a PF5. US-based institutions who gave sub-awards in olden times should now use the PF5. It looks to be structured like a P01.

🚨If you are committed to advancing implementation science, we'd love to hear from you! Implementation Science Communications is recruiting additional Editors to join our Editorial Board. Apply here 👉 link.springer.com/journal/4305... #ImpSci #ImpSciComms

Bhattacharya testified that he's taking this issue seriously, but I just spoke with a researcher who had completed all the screening and was disinvited from NIAID's council *today*. NIAID's council is set to run out of voting members in October. No grants can be funded without Council.

Still digging through this thorough report from @sanders.senate.gov. I want to flag this screenshot of what program staff receive when studies include "terms potentially associated with misalignment with agency priorities" (Newspeak for 'banned words')

Because I had to... Another email to Director Bhattacharya [about his retweeting misinformation about the response to AIDS] 1/5

I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.

So #HIV/AIDS date change notice just went up on #NIH grants site...

Our continuing resolution is in its final week. Stay tuned and stay connected with the #NIH. We are here in our personal capacities. Our posts aren't necessarily the views held by NIH, HHS, or the Federal Government.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

OMFG, what utterly grotesque racism from RFK Jr’s HSS

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

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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