With passage of the Big Bill, it is worth noting that this is the largest rollback in health coverage in history. To date since WWII, and since the passsge of Medicare, Medicaid and ACA generally all legislation EXPANDED coverage, but this is the largest RETRACTION in health insurance coverage ever

Today, 139 EPA employees were placed on administrative leave for signing an email sent to their boss about concerns at their federal agency. This is America, now. I have always said that @standupforscience.bsky.social is about science AND DEMOCRACY. Here it is, in action. WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🧵

Until now, NIH Loan Repayment Program awards have seemed to escape scrutiny, possibly because they're small and relatively obscure, even if they make a huge positive impact on PIs. But then I got this just now. I have 9 days to re-write my application. I'm out on holiday for 7 of them cool cool

Paylines of 3rd percentile at NIA if current budget passes, plus non-renewals of multiyear grants! www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...

Great David Brooks commentary today: “Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.” I see public health and science as part of the “highest aspirations” that Trump is destroying.

Women's Health Initiative defunded after 30 years and 5,000 publications www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...

“Medication records from pharmacy chains, lab testing and genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers will all be linked together”

Across the health-and-science apparatus of the federal government, STAT reporters are hearing similar stories: Key processes required to accomplish basic tasks are not getting done because of cuts or new barriers to spending. www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/f...

NYT page one: @nytimes.com

🚨TUESDAY, APRIL 8TH🚨 In partnership @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social (and others) we say: KILL THE CUTS Find and register for an event near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-... #savescience #killthecuts

The NIDDK conference on Real-World Evidence for GLP-1RAs that was to be hosted in May now no longer exists, apparently www.niddk.nih.gov/news/meeting...

With all of the government websites down recently, here's a great tracker of government webpage status: stats.uptimerobot.com/Zrqh8AhvKn

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

So, if your study section hasn’t been posted to the federal register (you can search by the study section name on www.federalregister.gov , then sort by ‘newest’), then your study section isn’t happening at least for another 35 days www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New from me: Here it is, everything I know about every change I've been monitoring on data.cdc.gov plus an archive of every file that's been removed or altered. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

This is insane, to immediately stop all scientific collaborations between CDC and WHO, including on ongoing infectious disease outbreaks: www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/c...

I strongly support the NIH Diversity Supplement Program. Addressing the severe lack of diversity among biomedical researchers improves the quality of research. It's not a level playing field. This program helps restore equity through mentored training. Rescinding this program is a big mistake

Welp! NIH diversity supplement grants now have newly updated expiration dates dates of January 2025 revised from May 2026. 🤷‍♀️ grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Cancellation of all study sections and NIH related activities. Devastating for science, universities, and researchers. I was expecting the worst and yet this exceeded my expectations www.science.org/content/arti...

Lauren Hunt demonstrated that slow inexorable functional decline in people with dementia can be punctuated by disruptive events such as hip fracture and hospitalization for pneumonia, leading to big drops in function. #geriatrics #hapc agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great presentation from Ellie Matthay at NYU showing how heterogeneous treatment effects are common in social policy evaluations, but studies do not often look for them. Challenges include small data sets and p-hacking. But policy implications are significant, to better target interventions. #IAPHS