@acscan.bsky.social is hosting Protect Cancer Cures on 8/26 in Philly🔬 Free to attend, just register & show up. Bring your neighbor, or a friend and make it clear lifesaving research isn’t up for debate. Scan the QR code to register or visit: www.fightcancer.org/fundpaprogress

"… we are witnessing what happens to a nation’s science and technology enterprise when democratic principles and the rule of law are ignored." write Gretchen Goldman and Erica Chenoweth in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4mNshru

“There are no guarantees in this career — the contest for federal funding is exceptionally competitive.”

Two authors of a study in Nature Communications explain the collaborative project on blood plasma RNA profiling, including how the team recognised every contributor’s role, highlighting that scientific progress thrives on openness, teamwork, and collective effort. #Academicsky #medsky 🧪

Chronic disease is part of why the US has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations - but so are guns, drugs, and cars https://go.nature.com/3I0hHON

Legal experts argue that Harvard is ultimately likely to prevail in its challenges to the Trump administration’s latest attacks, but how and when remains unclear https://go.nature.com/3I2R4bR

In an email to staff, NIH deputy director Matt Memoli says: "It has come to our attention that some staff are giving guidance... that the word 'diversity' may not be used in any context." "Obviously this is bad guidance... Please ask your staff to use common sense when implementing NIH priorities."

Nothing really new here but another account of the imposed demise of American science.

Few are telling this trainwreck's tale with as much rigor and passion as @anniewaldman.bsky.social‬ @ #ProPublica. "[Trump] ...has terminated more than 1,450 [#NIH] grants withholding more than $750 million in funds." Read the full piece zurl.co/fCpUU#ProPublica#NIH join us to fight back. #StandUpForScience

"I can only admire the courage and conviction of the people making it: there are a great many NIH people who are publicly willing to put their names to this, even though they know how it's likely to be received. Let's hope that courage is indeed contagious." zurl.co/5B0hB #BethesdaDeclaration

RFK Jr.'s unilateral decision to revise Covid booster guidance represents a bulldozing of safeguards buff.ly/xAj0Hvm

It's not surprising to see that cutting off funding disrupts science and impacts its novelty, but I think it's important that this is documented and shared 🧪 . For more see the news coverage in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn. I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

What will happen if childhood vaccination rates continue to decline in the US? A modeling study investigates potential long-term effects of declining or ceasing routine childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, diphtheria, and poliomyelitis. Read the full study: ja.ma/3SWwa05 #MedSky

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

The two pictures are 11 years apart. On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books. 2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944. #Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.

Omg this gets even wilder… Top spokespersons for NIH & HHS asked Nature journalist to hold on a story **for a week**… After which the NIH director called the story “rumors”, hours before the rumors were confirmed true. You can’t make this stuff up. Thank the heavens for great sci journalists.

A Perspective in Nature presents a transparent and reproducible scientific framework to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, which could inform climate liability claims. go.nature.com/4jOubX8 🧪

Can confirm: 60 Minutes will be worth watching tonight about #NIH.

Autistic people and experts voice alarm at RFK’s ‘terrible’ approach to condition - inexplicable, ill-informed and damaging www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The survival rate from cardiac arrest among #marathon and half-marathon runners has improved by almost 50% since 2010. Availability of both bystander CPR and AEDs have led to significant improvements in outcomes. ➡️ A JAMA study explains more: ja.ma/3GqT9xj #MedSky

Male PIs have an average of 1.44 awards in a given year with 68.6% having only a single award. Female PIs have an average of 1.35 awards with 73.8% having only a single award. Thus, 7% more female investigators are vulnerable to becoming unfunded through loss of a single grant. 13/n

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

If you want to understand how cells function, you have to work out what proteins interact with — and where https://go.nature.com/3RmUUy0

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities has had the greatest relative cuts of any NIH Institute (unclear if NIMHD still exists). HIV has had the highest proportion of research grants cut. Black and Latinx people comprise 70% new HIV diagnoses. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This 2025 Recommendation Statement from the USPSTF recommends providing interventions or referrals, during pregnancy and after birth, to support breastfeeding. https://ja.ma/4lsfzhI

Panels: 1) Diversifying healthcare innovation funding with @sindyea.bsky.social; 2) Debate! What ethical oversight is needed for healthcare innovation? with @kellieowens.bsky.social; 3) The role of AI in learning health systems. Generously funded by @dorisdukefdn.bsky.social and anonymous foundation

Awards intended to increase the diversity of the biomedical workforce are also substantially affected, but this is not as evident in the word cloud analysis. More later... /fin

Next up: Cornell and Northwestern... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Helpful insights to bridge the scientific communication gap with the public

What makes people healthy? Strong welfare systems. What kills people? Dismantling public care systems. New NEJM analysis: “Survival in the wealthiest U.S. quartile appeared to be similar to that in the poorest quartile in northern and western Europe.” www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

This Viewpoint discusses recommendations to rethink and redesign the use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and provides steps to facilitate the process. ja.ma/413ZDdB #MedSky #MedEd

More data on women's attrition from academic medicine. Women are likely contributing to other fields where there is no easy measurement of outputs like publications www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Automated detection of a form of heart failure from discharge notes, read more here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39453355/ @rohankhera.bsky.social please say more about what this means for patient care.