The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.

Happy Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month! The ATS is highlighting some of its Latinx and Hispanic members to spotlight their stories & successes. Here's @juancceledonmd.bsky.social, MD, DrPH, ATSF, of UPMC, and past president of the ATS, talking about being a leader in field of pulmonary medicine.

📣Calling all assembly members!📷 Help shape the future of the ATS by nominating a colleague for a leadership position within your assembly. We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions! Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

VIPRA is an interactive virtual course designed for international pediatric pulmonology fellows and early career researchers. It focuses on pediatric lung health and teaches scientific research methods. Apply here: thoracic.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Ok, #pediatricpulmonology @ats-peds.bsky.social - we have some folks graduating soon from fellowship - let's make sure they are all added to the family tree: academictree.org/bronchopulmo... (I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“We are alarmed by the proposed elimination of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program…[putting] the ability of our children’s hospitals to train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at risk” www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...

The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health. apnews.com/article/kenn...

🚨The NIH has rescinded its April 21, 2025 which had mandated by that by accepting an NIH award recipients had to “certify” that they would not “operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws;”…

If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May. 4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May. The total funded was 99! Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments. 1/2

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget… jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I just want to come back to this post and say I called this a week ago…. smh ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Blocking J1 visas is going to be a healthcare crisis come July 4,000 J1 visa holders in July will be blocked 1 doctor cares for 5,000 patients/yr Up to 20 million Americans will be impacted

This was an awesome experience! Deadline June 16th! www.nationaljewish.org/getmedia/dbb...

Hey everyone attending #ats2025 speak out to save science and protect the NIH! @atscommunity.bsky.social

⬇️ #ATS2025 ⬇️ Diversity Forum Featuring Dr Terri Laguna @terrilaguna.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social

Headed to #ATS2025 & want to advocate against the systemic attacks on science & public health? Join us on Tuesday May 20th @ 530pm at the Vigil for Lost Science.

So excited to attend #ATS2025! 🩺🫁🩻🔬🧬 Among all the chaos and challenges, let’s take time to learn from, catch up with, and celebrate each other!! @ats-assemblies.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social #Medsky #Pulmsky #PedsPulmSky

important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...

If you are attending #ATS2025 See below for #MOC credits!!

The Trump administration has cut a whopping 694 NIH grants, totaling $1.81 billion, across nearly all of the agency's institutes and centers, an analysis of NIH grant terminations published in JAMA found. (h/t @medpagetoday.bsky.social) Learn more: www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

⏰There's still time to vote! ⏰The ATS Leadership Election is closing soon. Be sure to check out the candidates and submit your vote before May 10, 2025! Vote now: site.thoracic.org/about-us/lea...

#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis 🗃️

The AJRCCM 2025 ATS International Conference Abstract Issue is out! With nearly 7,000 abstracts, organized into 36 pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine categories, this issue is full of innovative research that will be presented at #ATS2025 Read now: www.atsjournals.org/toc/ajrccm/2...

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

"The proposal would reduce the more than $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40 percent cut. It would consolidate NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into just eight."

The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

APRIL 30th Senate session to discuss NIH funding cuts and biomedical research in America. Mark your calendars and call your senetors!!! www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...

Direct Economic Contributions of National Institutes of Health (NIH). #NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation. See report at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/statements/u... and article at news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP - the legit one) has started a web page to fact check some claims relevant to pediatric health, meant for pediatricians, parents and media seeking the best information. #PedSky #PedsID www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Check out the new #factcheck web page brought to you by the American Academy of Pediatrics: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

Moving Away from Segregated Lung Function Equations: Effects of Transitioning to Race-Neutral References in Children @atscommunity.bsky.social #medsky 🔓 Open Access 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n7x4evd

I'm proud of the ATS Executive Committee for writing this editorial, "Protecting the Future of Medical Innovation," published today in all 4 ATS research journals. www.atsjournals.org/doi/epdf/10.... @atsblueeditor.bsky.social

Vaccines do NOT cause autism. They. save. lives. If you meet anybody that claims otherwise - know the answer. 25 studies showed NO CONNECTION between Measles vaccine & autism. Since 1974 vaccines prevented 154 million deaths #VaccinesSaveLives yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/vaccines-d...

Bare bones dashboard is up... (Including the first Advisory Council meeting posted in the Federal Register) jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

Join us March 31 at 4pm ET for webinar hosted by @ats-peds.bsky.social Supporting International Medical Graduates in the Workforce: Tools for Recruitment and Retention! topics include work authorization, visa sponsorship, advocacy, career development Register here: thoracic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Pediatric meet the Expert session at the upcoming ATS conference: MTE31: How to Diagnose BOS in Pediatric HSCT Patients Date: May 20th | Time: 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM Speakers: Samuel Goldfarb, MD & Pi-Chun (Jenny) Cheng, MD, MS