Terrible news for pediatric brain tumor research and incredible amount of hard work wasted. This very likely will result in some active trials prematurely closing without sufficient accrual to answer their aims.

Important update about local impacts of funding cuts. Depressing but compelling... Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together. scienceimpacts.org

Don't really have a question, just came across this the other day and it sounded about right. I can't even believe this is America right now. We're not well.

Learning from the Luddites. The critical challenge of the age of AI: designing an economic system which incentivises the augmentation of human expertise rather than the automation that replaces it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Pediatric research. When grants are pulled, the infrastructure suffers www.wcvb.com/article/bost...

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

www.sensible-med.com/p/the-nih-is... #medsky #cansky

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The US gained its international leadership in science (& economic benefits of that leadership) starting in the 1930s when Nazi germany drove away its leading scientists. The US can lose that leadership in much the same way, which will take many years to recover from. Oppose RFK Save NIH/NSF/CDC

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

Great tip sheet for journalists reporting on RFK Jr., by @tarahaelle.bsky.social 🧪 science communication 🛟 medsky