$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/n...

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

Introducing HOME: Honoring Origins of Mindfulness, a video series of culturally rooted mind-body practices from trusted Cantonese and Latine-American voices in San Francisco. All videos have subtitles and audio dubbing in multiple languages so that everyone can enjoy. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

“A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Trump administration order demanding colleges nationwide to submit data — including student grade-point averages and test scores — to prove they don’t illegally consider race in admissions” www.latimes.com/california/s...

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Sharing short videos of mind-body practices in Spanish and Cantonese, made by my fantastic colleagues @ucsfoshercenter.bsky.social. Highly recommend for these times we're in. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's Monday morning and Casey Means still doesn't have the votes to become Surgeon General. Let's keep it that way. Send a letter to your Senators now. If you have friends, famiy, colleagues who can do so, urge them on to act now. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Unions in health care & universities have many purposes--some are supporting their immigrant members in getting out of detention. higheredlaborunited.org/2026/02/25/s...

So well written. Thank you Elizabeth Ginexi for describing what’s going on inside the NIH. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #sociology

I love this quote.

Alex Pretti wasn't the first healthcare worker on the front lines against authoritarianism. We have a proud history in public health, from Brazil in the 70s and 80s, to Minneapolis now; we understand how fascists in more ways than one are hazardous to your health. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

BREAKING : DDF & @aclupa.org are intervening to block an EEOC demand that UPenn disclose Jewish students’ and faculty members’ identities, a move that violates the First Amendment. READ HERE:

"Our care will sound like a protest chant, feel like an embrace, and taste like a potluck" ~ @garrettbucks.bsky.social thewhitepages.net/p/heres-what...

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

Director Bhattacharya spending more time on podcasts, this time taking about not renewing grants NIH was forced to restore. Good reporting from @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n... 1/3

Proposed changes to US medical school curricula would remove requirements around structural competency (understanding & addressing social & structural determinants of health). Anyone can comment by Wednesday 1/7 to keep current curriculum standards: details at www.healthcarestories.org/take-action

Proud to be a very very tiny part of this big effort to keep University of California research funded

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

ICYMI: Did you know that Long COVID Justice and The Sick Times worked together to create a series of 30+ resource sheets about Long COVID and associated diseases (LCAC)? ‪ @longcovidjustice.org‬ x @thesicktimes.bsky.social Check out our Long COVID Essential series: www.tiny.cc/LCE

This is horrible news. This program is a huge success, identifies brilliant scholars and gives them a transitional landing place that can help them land a tenure track job in the system. It’s a win for students, their programs, and all the schools in the system. Why end it?

From coast to coast, we’re protecting immigrant communities through #SanctuaryHomes trainings and practical resources for domestic employers standing in solidarity with the workers they employ, and in their communities. 🧵 1/4 marvistavoice.org/how-employer...

Our message to Congress: We demand a world where everyone has the care and support they need to thrive and survive— healthcare, home care, reproductive care, childcare. It’s time for the government to invest in the care people need, and stop putting profits over people. #CareNotCuts #EndTheShutdown

free pep talks in Spanish or English!

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: A federal judge said today that she’s “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA grants, the bulk of the remaining grant suspensions at the Westwood campus: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

“It is so timely and it answers so many needs” On the good news front: New Mexico is making #UniversalChildcare a reality in November 👏 Let’s not stop there, let’s make that happen EVERYWHERE U.S. 💪 #CareCantWait From @msmagazine.com 👇 msmagazine.com/2025/09/12/n...

Bless the whistleblowers at NIH and everywhere. We have a lot to do www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

Excited to be doing research with midwives who are unionizing with @jessicamharrison.bsky.social and team. keep us informed about midwives doing labor organizing! osher.ucsf.edu/news/new-stu...

Courage. end/

To work as a health care worker and choose to actively enable and cause harm and violence to your patient—to whom you have a duty to care for—is despicable. For health care workers who care about your patients and want to resist criminalization and harm, connect with our Beyond Do No Harm network:

The ACLU is currently looking for terminated grants OR those that were submitted but will not be reviewed. You have to be an APHA or UAW member to be able to share your information, but participating may provide relief as part of ongoing litigation. Pls share! www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

Extermination by starvation is happening in our name. All of us must act right now. 🧵

CA leaders stand up for immigrant communities in many ways, but are also scheduled to Medi-Cal services for immigrants starting in January. This will have big negative effects on community health.

Cutting public health programs isn't “fiscal responsibility.” It's taking from the poor to line the pockets of the rich. 📉 Food aid snatched from the hungry 📉 Tens of millions dropped from Medicaid & the ACA 📉 Cleaner air and energy? Poof! Gone Tell Congress NO on budget cuts! bit.ly/4koZF6d

This is a beautiful talk about midwives, doulas, research and lineage by Melissa Cheyney at @upliftlab.bsky.social. Watch it for some hope media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_n7...

The Trump regime’s Executive Order about “Gold Standard Science” distorts & weaponizes the principles of open science to intimidate scientists and reshape scientific production to support the political goals of Trumpism. Stand Up for Science is asking scientists to sign an open letter pushing back.

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

The amount of money that @who.int is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, @drtedros.who.int says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. #globalhealth #IDsky

*Ring Ring* Hello. This is your constituent. I’m calling you because I HATE cancer but I LOVE innovation.

Alondra Nelson: "This is not to condemn those who remain. There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it."

In much better news: after our fury, HHS says “We are now working to fully restore funding to” the Women's Health Initiative. Sharing the gift article. Reminding us all that we're in 'announcements about announcements' territory, but let's keep close eye on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...

University of California staff, faculty, students, alums--sign to urge our leadership to speak up for immigrants in our UC communities. The silence is striking docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.

This team is doing a thorough job documenting the devastation of NIH funding--you can add your terminated grants if they aren't yet on the list, and see relevant Congress members to contact for each grant

Looking for courage in academia: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We (I) have no idea what the extent of the mass termination of grants for LGBT or DEI reasons is, but I know the impact is immediate and deep. A few examples highlighted here: abcnews.go.com/Health/scien... #academicsky