Preach!

It's not over - why? why? why? Where is the humanity? How can we stop this? (Dropsite is a reliable source FYI)

Ever wonder why emerging adults living with HIV take medication, or why they don't? Or how they do that or what gets in the way? Or what they think about medication? We have some answers. And a lot of remaining questions. Humans are complex & mysterious. #HIV #adherence #immigrant rdcu.be/fkPW7

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

love a Rochester shout-out

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

The irony. It burns. And damn I am so sick of this guy

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

At last, a pill that can PREVENT COVID after exposure to infected people buff.ly/RxebpGI Ensitrelvir cut infection from 9% to 3% in household contacts. This is the first oral post-exposure prophylaxis for COVID ever proven to work. Game changer for the immunocompromised. #medsky 😷 #publichealth

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. In commemoration, we have translated and published 5 testimonies of Nakba survivors originally published in the Spring 1998 issue of Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya. Your weekend reading list below: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

There’s some lag time before the U.S. really starts falling behind in new preventive strategies, but we are rapidly approaching it. A Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine against Epstein-Barr Virus has just launched in Australia, and this vaccine could prevent multiple sclerosis, among other things.

A vaccine long framed as protection against cervical cancer in women is now showing clear benefits for men. https://cnn.it/4sMSqsR

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone. Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths. COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

A positive uplifting video to start the day, discussing the benefits and the stakes. @standupforscience.net

Update on Non-Competitive Renewal Timing In general, NIH had done a good job in catching up on making non-competitive renewals. 1/9

Here you go... You can always check yourself at grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Good analysis of the CDC response to COVID. We did a lot right but... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38770235/

TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS

🚨 TOMORROW — March 28th — we flood the streets and say it loud: NO KINGS. No crowns. No one above the law. No surrender to autocracy. We show up, stand together, and remind them who this country belongs to. Find your local event and bring your friends! #WeSayNoKings nokings.org

Well, this is a surprise... This is the landing page for NIH Reporter. Those curves are new and look vaguely familiar... I guess imitation is the greatest form of flattery (or NIH_leadership™ doesn't want reporters getting their data from a deranged activist).

This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH. It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

OMB has posted the full-year apportionments for NIH. openomb.org/file/11511545 I believe this means that NIH now has the spending authority to fund grants! There may be nuances and I will be tracking these as best I can.

Correction: Several POs have reached out to me and indicated that they were asked about recommending applications for multi-year funding. However, the criteria and goals were unclear and some had concerns about the downsides of multi-year funding. There recommendations were not always followed.

A chemist, physicist, and biologist walk into a bar go.nature.com/3PfmrDS

Another interesting NIH data set. NIH has posted the funding data by location (state, congressional district, organization) for fiscal year 2025. report.nih.gov/award/index.... 1/6

Robert Malone, co-chair of ACIP, is crashing out over the (unspecified) fallout from the leak of a document detailing how ACIP plans to focus on purported long-term side effects from Covid vaccination

NOFO are dead...and that is not the actual problem drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/n...

The vaccines worked

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

My weekly update on NIH funding This includes awards made through 2/27/26 Warning: This thread contains data compiled by a known deranged_activist™. Do not read while operating heavy machinery. 1/9

A more complete set of voices in a companion piece. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

A development such as this has been a goal for HIV researchers for decades. It is important because people who are faced with difficult treatment regimens are less likely to be compliant. Single Daily Tablet Shows Powerful Results for People With Drug-Resistant HIV share.google/RjULDFVtCYI9...

Bhattacharya promotes extremist antivaxx conspiracies, including during his confirmation hearing, when he refused to state vaccines do not cause autism, specifically singling out the MMR (repeating the canard that the individual components are safe while the combination is not) without being asked

After remaining silent for almost a year about the U.S. measles outbreak, NIH/CDC poseur Jay Bhattacharya is now recommending measles vaccines. And this is where he gets to see the impact of the destruction of trust in public health and vaccines, for which he is partially responsible.

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus. Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts. Subscribe to support our journalism.

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

Hey @markhamillofficial.bsky.social! Can you help us get the word out about our SECOND National Day of Action on March 7th?? (p.s. want to speak at our event in DC???) #standupforscience

This is a coin-operated president.

Trump and his goons pushed out (or didn't replace) more than 10,000 federal government STEM Ph.D.s since he took office, representing 106,636 years of federal work experience. www.science.org/content/arti...

The White House budget office reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect the Project 2025 guy.

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky 🛟 🫁 @ameracadpeds.bsky.social leaders in @usatoday.com "All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered."

Has China peaked emissions? We may not know for years to come, but new analysis from @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social shows CO2 emissions fell by 0.3% last year — the first time China has recorded a decline while energy demand growth remained strong. Free link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s Wastewater Wednesday! How are COVID levels? We’re using two sources to help us keep track of the country and our state of Oregon. Thank you to @michael-hoerger.bsky.social for the map and graph, and OHA for continuing to track data coming from our wastewater treatment centers!