The expansion of the Mexico City policy means that many of the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized people, particularly mothers and young children, will continue to suffer disproportionately from the consequences of cuts.

I am officially unemployed as of today, thanks to my position being eliminated due to funding constraints. I have mixed feelings. Sad about the loss. Stressed about finding a new job in a terrible global public health job market. Very mad it is somehow still dry January.

Watching the general strike in Minnesota and want to show solidarity? Here is a real thing you can do—just *share this post NOW* and you’ll raise funds for the MN Immigrant Law Center #ICEOUT

Elon Musk is getting a $1 TRILLION pay package from Tesla. If he worked 40 hr/week, he'd be making $50 million PER HOUR. That is a truly unfathomable amount of money -- it could end hunger, fund life-changing research, & save countless lives. Instead, it's going to Elon Musk.

Come cross the finish line with us this morning in our quest to save AIDS research. We have some terrific speakers to end our marathon! Go to saveaidsresearch.org or join the livestream now on You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3wx....

24 Hours to Save AIDS Research is happening! Tune in NOW to learn why we should all care about HIV research with Greg Millett, Moses Supercharger, and Shashika Bandara. bit.ly/45Qftts #saveAIDSresearch #HIV #HIVresearch

TODAY TODAY TODAY! Stay up all day and all night with us (or, you know, drop by for a few minutes) as researchers and advocates talk about recent developments in HIV research and what we stand to lose. We won't stop fighting to #SaveAIDSResearch! @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social

ALMOST GO TIME!! A lot of folks have spent a lot of time pulling together a killer lineup for this and we really want a good crowd to be there to appreciate it! Join us on YouTube from 11am Sept 16-11am Sept 17 to join the fight to #saveAIDSresearch.

Donald Trump thinks he has found a diabolical loophole through which he can rescind billions in foreign aid without congressional approval, and the chief justice gave us an ominous signal that the Supreme Court will agree. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Share your story! The @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social team is collecting video testimonials from researchers, advocates, patients, and community members about why #HIV research is crucial. Submit yours ASAP so we can use them in the livestream on Sept. 16-17! saveaidsresearch.org/share-your-s...

"We are gravely concerned that American people will needlessly suffer and die as a result of policies that turn away from sound interventions. After careful consideration, we insist on Kennedy’s resignation to restore the integrity, credibility and science-driven mission of HHS and all its agencies"

Announcing 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research! Join us September 16 starting at 11am ET as we come together in community, share insights, answer questions, and inspire action! Register bit.ly/45U1keO and join us on YouTube bit.ly/45Qftts #saveAIDSresearch

A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

"The AIDS epidemic taught us that until we are personally touched by the truth, we’re not likely to care; and until we care, we’ll stand by, hands in pockets, looking the other way." time.com/7310516/aids...

A must-read, must-share piece - clearly deconstructing the shoddy science of the Geiers (who are inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS). Consider this an early warning for what lies ahead. 🛟🩺🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

⁉️How can someone build a solid professional network within the HIV research community? ⁉️ Share your advice - help out your colleagues! ⚡️ Comment your answer, or email us: admin at midwestdcfar.org.

On Friday, my phone lit up with urgent texts. First: gunshots, lockdown. Then the photos—bullet holes punched through windows, shell casings scattered across the floor, videos echoing with “pop pop pop.” The CDC campus was under attack. Dozens of my friends and colleagues were inside.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/

Too often, science is presented as if it offers one clear answer. But evidence rarely speaks in absolutes. In my latest piece, I explore how we can communicate science more effectively by being honest, humble, and respectful of complexity. Trust in science depends on it: wapo.st/4orhd4Y

I saw this ad in today’s NYT and had to share it. The U.S. is spending more to destroy taxpayer-funded contraceptives than it would to deliver them. The result? More unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and preventable deaths. This is cruelty, not savings.

This is really good!

"Institutional science writers are in a unique position to characterize and respond to policies that threaten the public’s interest as it relates to science." must-read from @shiplives.bsky.social and Abigail Eisenstadt. scicomm.plos.org/2025/07/21/r...

"How is it possible to feel both unlucky&fortunate at the same time? How can suffering & compassion coexist in the same environment? This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too."

What a damn shame. And let's be clear: this rescissions package was merely a test. A start. 🧪 Science folks: Expect a similar bill coming soon for codifying cuts to this year's budget for NSF, NIH, etc. 🧵 Brief thread 1/3

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

This gap in biomedical research funding between FY24 and FY25, it's new therapies that won't see the light of day, researchers moving away from science, and the evisceration of American research universities, which were until recently the envy and a model for the world.

Trump destroyed 60 years of American generosity— aid that fed families, kept girls in school, saved 26 million from AIDS, and now puts 14 million lives at risk. He wants your tax dollars for raids, cages and terrorizing our communities. If you mean it, don’t just like it. Repost it!

"Attempts to teach my children anything about Donald Trump, including the unfortunate fact that he is president of the United States, place an unconstitutional burden on my First Amendment right to freely exercise my religion." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research.” scim.ag/3Gz4VWW

"More people need to find their place in the resistance and to foster what Hannah Arendt called “conditions of courage” to allow others to choose defection rather than compliance" @aliciay.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Before states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided: Doctors could offer a dilation and curettage procedure, which quickly empties the uterus and allows it to close, protecting against a life-threatening hemorrhage.

"The American public was never USAID's primary audience. Instead, a majority of our communication efforts were aimed entirely at Congress and other government insiders. This was our choice. Our flawed logic was that if lawmakers understood the agency’s impact, they’d protect its work." #devcomms

Kristof responds to readers who are "fed up" with him, one argument at a time. "I’ve followed the United States Agency for International Development for decades, and by far the worst dysfunction has been the chaos following U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling this year."

There are so many chilling lines in this piece but the one I can’t stop thinking about as a Black woman is, “Only after she was legally dead did doctors do everything in their power to keep her body alive”. Thank you @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social for speaking this painful truth.

"The decision to end #USAID brought deadly consequences. But the events leading to that moment can be traced in part to a particularly banal cause: a confusingly worded directive from Mr. Trump." Thanks @nytimes.com for this important story. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Important info, beautifully presented. @propublica.org knocks another one out of the park. "Now, studies can’t be completed. Papers can’t be published. Years of research may be lost and millions of dollars wasted." #sciencesky #savescience #saveNIH #scicomm projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Congress is weighing massive cuts to global health funding—including PEPFAR and UNICEF. These programs save millions of lives. Cutting them now would be catastrophic. Here’s what you need to know—and how to take action. 👇

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

The dean of the WashU School of Public Health interviewed Elvin Geng @elvingeng.bsky.social about a paper he co-authored, “HIV epidemiology, prevention, treatment, and implementation strategies for public health.” Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtM5... #HIV #implementationscience #impsci #idsky

#ForeignAid cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. Thanks @brookeenichols.bsky.social‬ for your role in measuring/documenting the impact of this cruelty! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

Science article with perspectives from NIH insiders www.science.org/content/arti... 1/n

Appreciate Science mag calling a spade a spade: "The spending slowdown has sown chaos across the scientific community, as researchers, universities, and private firms have been left wondering whether funding they assumed was coming will ever arrive." www.science.org/content/arti...

Sobering portraits of some of the people facing the dire consequences of disruptions to HIV treatment as a fall out in cuts to US foreign aid. It's easy to erase dehumanize human lives when framed as "DOGE cuts and reducing the size of government". www.npr.org/sections/goa...

For the next 2 weeks, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is asking for everyone to call their members of Congress about the cuts to and political interference at NIH by the Trump White House. 1/ 5calls.org/issue/nation...

I had so much fun supporting this event this week with the @iasociety.bsky.social team! Thanks to all the fellows for your passion, enthusiasm, and commitment to the fight against #HIV in southern US communities. I look forward to keeping in touch!