The FY27 Budget Request makes three things clear: 1. Trump et al., are using the budget as ONE TOOL in a broader plan to destroy independent centers of thought, particularly the sciences. 2. Vought designed this budget to allow Republicans to look like they “support science” when they “fight”…

NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration "It's an extinction-level event for science". This would decimate the world's leading scientific system, from NASA to NIH, and eliminate social, economic and behavioral science at NSF www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This deprives these doctors of their livelihoods and undermines delivery of health care (disproportionately in understaffed rural settings). This is violence through administrative practice and it may not have the performative shock of the ICE/CBP raids, but it’s violence nonetheless.

🚨 Congress held NIH and NSF budgets roughly flat. Scientists celebrated. Here is what actually happened. NIH awarded 4,641 fewer grants in FY2025 than the 4-year avg. New awards dropped 14%. Over $1.3B never reached investigators. NSF awards fell 22%. The money was there.

This weather is gross

Post often, interact with people, share stuff you like. We can all be our own algorithms like the good old days.

Also, AI can't pass medical exams.

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

Daily reminder that the shingles vaccine kinda sucks for a day or so, but actual shingles is way worse and can leave you sleepless and in chronic pain for months to years

BOOP

Two things can be true: * Bluesky works well for many people in many communities (e.g. Academics) * It's a shame (and a surprise) that so many people and organisations still persist with X, as that stops Bluesky from reaching its full potential.

I’m incensed that immigration policies are removing foreign doctors from their hospitals and jobs. We face a critical physician shortage. Many of these doctors treat the poor and underserved. This decision will cost lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

Saw Hayley Williams perform live this evening. My middle schooler, Paramore loving heart loved every second of it. #music

SOUP DU JOUR | CATURDAY He wild today

The combination of vaccines plus concert wasn’t the best idea

oh you want discourse YOU WANT DISCOURSE? everything fell apart after apple discontinued the headphone jack and made us buy those damn dongles

I’m no Columbo, but I think I’ve cracked the case.

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Not only is the Trump admin continuing to cut science funding in general, they're specifically targeting STEM education. Case in point: NSF estimates Trump's proposed FY27 budget would support 69% fewer K-12 students than in FY25. Tell me again how we'll train the next gen workforce in AI?

Here's a big one from NIH. It remains Trump admin policy to - Cap indirects at 15% (repeatedly rebuffed by courts and Congress) - Multi-year fund *all* grants. As a reminder, this has the effect of dramatically decreasing the total number of labs and projects supported by the government.

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more.

My ideas-to-time ratio is through the roof lately.

it’s true that overall likes are way down on bluesky over the past year. however, if you look closely at the data, that’s mostly an anomaly resulting from the fact that your posts specifically have gotten worse and are dragging the vibe down.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

An example of the perils of presidential control over science agencies. This Budget Request is dictated by the White House, Vought, and the P2025 OMB, not NSF. We have an imperial presidency, the dream of John Roberts and Charles Koch since the 80s. And it is incompatible with successful science.

We don't settle for depression on a Friday night.

One medical event into the opener for Hayley Williams

The AACR called on Congress to stand up in bipartisan opposition to the Administration's proposed cut of nearly $6 billion to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget. Americans overwhelmingly support increased federal investment in biomedical research: buff.ly/9L622rz #FundNIH

Americans have bleak views on Iran war, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows: 56% think the Iran War will have a negative impact on their personal financial situation. 86% are concerned about risk to the lives of US military personnel. (www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...)

Grateful for excellent colleagues and the warmer weather

I LOVE MY IMPACT

ASM urges Congress to reject proposed cuts to science, research and public health in the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request and instead build on the investments made in FY2026. Read our statement: asm.org/Articles/Pol...

In addition to NIMHD, FIC, and NCCIH, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) appears to be zeroed out. NIDA and NIAAA are eliminated and replaced with a new National Institute for Substance Use and Addiction Research. 3/3

Have you served on an NIH study section (or thought about serving)? Did you know that that the small perk of being able to submit your own applications after the deadline has largely been revoked? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

If you're angry because you've reviewed for #NIH, then do this.

Russell Vought, Jay Bhattacharya, Matthew Memoli and Jon Lorsch are the 4 horsemen of the biomedical apocalypse. They are hell-bent on the destruction of NIH. Never ever forget what they have done, are doing.

Annual pic of my 🇬🇷 mom's 🇨🇭 traditional Easter eggs, dyed with onion peel and herbs. #SwissAbroad #HomeAwayFromHome #PILife

I've listened to the Peach PRC album x2 today @gwsbeth.swifties.social

I think the most vaccines I’ve gotten at once as an adult was just 3: varicella, Tdap, hepatitis B Requirements for med school, 7/2010

They won’t let me get shingrix without a prescription but it was worth a try 🤷🏻‍♀️ 💉 hep B booster 💉 prevnar

And everyone peed, and went about their day, and that was that, as it should be….

Programs are either universal or they aren’t

They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡 The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it

Look at this little king. ❤️

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

In the words of Henny Youngman, “take his HHS secretary…please.” #DumpRFK www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Excited to get some vaccines today. Hopefully my self-report of qualifying conditions is adequate to receive some of them.

This is a man who claims that his focus is on preventing chronic disease. Yet he hamstrings the body that allows for some of the most effective strategies to not only be updated with the most recent science, but makes them accessible to hundreds of millions of people.

Why do I say this? Because the USPSTF hasn’t met for more than a year due to RFK Jr.’s malfeasance. They have been unable to update things like cancer screening guidelines. An A or B recommendation from USPSTF means that all flavors of insurance must cover the procedure.

Life Boat. by RAYE To all my fellow struggling people out there ❣️❣️❣️ #music