Here is NIMHD. 26/n

Here is NICHD. They appear to have ended up in a very good place, despite challenges related to the subject areas they cover. 13/n

To all the fed employees potentially getting furloughed tonight, this sucks and I’m sorry even though I know a lot of you want the fight, so a tepid hell-yeah as well

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dr. Alice Hamilton—a pioneer in occupational medicine—helped the world recognize the hidden dangers of lead poisoning. Her fight reshaped public health and it offers important lessons for us today. Read an excerpt from my new book in @bigthink.com.

harvard chan lost half their research funding, but this is field-wide — most public health schools are being forced to dramatically downsize. many state/public schools are in even greater danger of closing, especially those under republican governance.

Who wants to work with Kate Bahn at the Institute for Women's Policy Research? #econ_ra iwpr.applytojob.com/apply/ACdbXf...

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

from worst to best versions (off the top of my head)

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

Please share! We're looking to recruit a dozen early-career researchers to build the field of violence research. Fabulous mentors and a global peer network.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Great article by @josheidelson.bsky.social on how Trump and RFK, Jr., have gutted NIOSH, an absolutely essential health agency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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🍻🍾🎉 Side note: Gotta hand it to the student reporters at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social. They’ve been all over this stuff for months.

Watch this video about how RFK Jr and Trump are destroying NIOSH, the nation's only occupational safety and health research organization. www.bloomberg.com/media-manife...

Look at the drastic cuts President Trump asked Congress to throw at the CDC. He wanted zeroing out of all funding for chronic diseases, birth defects/developmental disorders, and injury prevention, and occupational health and a 65% reduction for environmental health at CDC...

Experts are saying Americans "can't trust anything" out of the CDC. But employees tell me that's simply not true: lots of CDC workers are still at their desks doing good work, and implying they're not is both wrong and unhelpful. My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Question to academics and PhD students: Does your department have a protocol defence or proposal evaluation for early year PhD students? And if so, what do they look like?

Trying again: instead of awarding 5 grants that spend all of their year 1 money that year, they award only 1 grant which will only spend a 1/5th of its money that year. So the total overhead collected by universities is 1/5th. (Overhead is only collected when universities submit invoices).

I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence. Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”

Also, maybe we should provide support for working people whose bosses pay them too little, and give them too unpredictable schedules, for them to be able to have regular family meals.

this case was devised in a lab to reveal the hypocrisy of both the “free speech on campus” and the “cancel culture” grifters simultaneously

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

Updated update I downloaded the data from NIH Reporter too soon. The large end of the month update had not occurred. Here are the results as of this morning. NIH grants management staff have been busy making awards. 1/2

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

The official NIH social media account is now….

Proud of the work we have all done with @utsfmsu.bsky.social over the years. We made history. Michigan State has recognized our union. #academia #highered #msu

Every time I hear public health and medical folks say "People just need to exercise and eat better and manage their stress" I die inside. HOW? Even people who have the time to make a meal from scratch are often EXHAUSTED. Too many are expected to keep working or go to a second or third job.

Ignoring socioeconomic policy-and especially basic safety net protections-is what RFK Jr gets wrong too. He's not wrong that particular interests are blocking the ability to improve people's health. But he's wrong about how: it's blocking social policy, not vaccine or food additives.

Leg braces - $20-$30k, I’ve had at LEAST 6 leg braces. Wheelchairs - $5k for manual with no bells and whistles, I’ve had 2 Medications - anywhere between $100-$2000 /month pending health issues Surgeries - 19 surgeries $40k to - $1m inc. hospital stays I had polio. This is the cost.

3 former Surgeon Generals issue a warning: "The CDC is more than just an agency. It is the cornerstone of public health... The recent turbulence at the CDC threatens to undermine this legacy, and we feel this is not just a bureaucratic or political issue. It’s truly a matter of life and death."

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

gift link to dr. susan monarez’s piece in the wall street journal this morning.

It's always about the money. I have been surprised how enthusiastically Memoli played his part in ongoing cineration of biomedical research in this country, especially given his professional history. But it's obvious now that he was promised $500 million dollars if he did as he was told.

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

They're right. RFK Jr. is a serious threat to public health and our lives. He is undermining vaccines, boosting dangerous conspiracy theories, and decimating lifesaving research. Resign or be fired. He needs to go.

Harvard wins lawsuit regarding withheld grant funding [Gift Link] wapo.st/47tdz4A

Take it from over 1,000 health care professionals: RFK Jr. is a threat to your health, your family's health, and the health of our country.  Innocent people will die at the hands of his incompetence. He must resign. www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...

I really appreciate this guide to talking to journalists, particularly the part explaining why journalists want to hear from you even if you need to be anonymous or off the record. It's true, we really do! www.your-rif-story.com/resources/sa...

Missouri is the first state to fully repeal a voter-approved paid sick leave law, flouting the needs of families and communities. “It’s just sickening and insulting to every worker in our state." missouriindependent.com/2025/08/29/m...

Bullies bully. It’s what they do. Leaders lead. It’s what they do. You tell me who is the leader and who is the bully. Don’t let anything distract from the fact that what is at risk is health not the fragile egos of men. Fight for health not for clout.

So, kudos to both #Democrats & #Republicans in the House for their draft mark-up for next year's #budget, which maintains funding for #NIH (just like the Senate). This is rare, true #bipartisanship and should be praised. But #RussellVought will not be stopped by an appropriations bill. Why? 1/

I don't know the guy, but I'm still baffled by Sander Greenland's role in all of this. He's editor of their fake journal and president of their fake society. After all of his contributions to making epidemiology what it is today, he seems happy to help the worst people destroy it all.