Email spam from a “scientific” journal this morning: “I really need a warm support from an ideal person like you.” 😂 😂 😂

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

DON'T MISS AT #SER2025: 'Find your public voice: leaning into advocacy and engagement' with @britshmit.bsky.social, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, & @zinzinator.bsky.social! I am thrilled to be chairing this exciting professional development session at #SER2025 on the Friday at 12pm! #EpiSky

As 100 days in office comes up, let’s focus on the next few months: Trump is trying to stop spending at NIH to justify cutting the NIH budget. Every US scientist should be in contact with their Congressional reps about this. Get grants and money out the door soon or the money goes away.

WTF?! What on earth is happening right now?

A VA colleague just told me about this today….I don’t even know what to say. Some scary, scary times we are living in.

“No study is a better example of the enormous scientific impact of research on the prevention of chronic disease in the population, one of the stated priorities of the HHS leadership” 💔💔💔

“The funding cuts to the landmark nationwide Women’s Health Initiative will deal a devastating blow to the health of all older adults in the U.S. and throughout the world." www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 More of this please.

Great masters level epi job here!!!

Thrilled to see Macy Corley present on our NCI-Kaiser Permanente Breast Cancer Survivors cohort at #aspo2025 But bummed that NCI colleagues had to pre-record talks instead of being here in person.

Great cancer survivorship session this morning at #aspo2025 focused on personal experience, disparities, and sleep. And this gem: “If you’re using an alarm to wake up in the morning, you’re not getting enough sleep.” Ouch.

An attention-grabbing thing R1 presidents could do is to announce that should NIH (etc) cuts happen, they will reappropriate all athletics allocations into research to protect the core of their academic enterprise. If presidents had the chutzpah, this could stop the administration in its tracks.

Dang. Just learned ASPO (Amer soc for preventive oncology) didn’t receive their R13 conference grant from NCI for the first time ever, due to the EOs and delays. Still managed to hold a meeting this year. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #aspo2025

Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

It gives me so much hope to see this! If I hadn’t been on a plane all day, I would have been at the protest in Seattle!

This is great but also NIH grants are never funded at the original, full amounts? I don’t remember the last time I didn’t have a 17% cut right off the top.

I want to point out two things about yesterday's HHS cuts 1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves 2- state & local health depts will be harmed

200 people fired locally today. Never did I ever think it would get this bad. And I’m afraid it’s still going to get worse.

Am honestly sick over what is happening.

The first randomized trial comparing fecal occult blood testing (every other year) testing and (one-time) colonoscopy. No significant difference in colon cancer mortality among >56,000 participants www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.bsky.social

I have no words.

Not me accidentally saving over the final tracked changes version of a manuscript with the clean version when both are required for resubmission 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Come on NCI!

Seattle Public Schools just cancelled all after school activities and meetings today…gonna be a wild one!

I keep seeing ads for yoga with puppies on my IG feed and I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something. Is it do yoga? Is it get a puppy? These are very different things.

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

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Brilliant scientists are getting their grants terminated for committing the sin of studying people other than white, straight men who don’t live with a disability. These grants were selected for funding via a thorough review done by experts, only to be cut via a hatchet job done by idiots.

March for science in Seattle today. Thanks for your support WA state governor! @governorferguson.bsky.social

My dad lived 26 years longer than any doctor predicted thanks to cancer research. See you tomorrow, Seattle.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Great thread here

Oh wow.

PSA Seattleites: it is 60 degrees and sunny. Go outside! Your mind and body will thank you later.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

What a huge loss for the future of science 😢

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Attacks on cancer research, which is what is going on, resonate with everyone. Everyone in America, rural or urban, knows someone with cancer or worries about it themselves. Explain it to people who don’t care about science by talking about the outcomes, the cures for disease.

The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.

Brilliant

The West Wing

1. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love

Some good news. FINALLY

ATTENTION: If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date. I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter. DM me if you wish or just reply

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NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)