Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Just 2 weeks left to apply: Tenure-track faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh for someone studying the mechanisms of pain. Looking for interactive colleagues. Please spread the word! Info here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Tonight at 7pm ET/4pm PT, I’ll face off with 8 opponents in the Democratic primary for NJ-12. Livestream: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/X. I'll talk about using my science and Capitol Hill experience to save health, stop authoritarianism, & tame the Supreme Court! newjerseyglobe.com/fl/nj-12-dem...

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We can choose never to shop there. Amazed at how many people still support this evil company.

We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Salt Lake City says no kings!

We will be there!!

For folks who don't know, @samwang.bsky.social runs the Princeton Election Consortium, which calculates various things about US presidential elections. I've followed his writings for more than a decade now. We could really use a thoughtful person who values data in congress. Please support Sam!

Yes!

From Pete Buttigieg, who sums Trump up perfectly. “It’s a cornered-animal problem,” he said. “He’s getting weaker and getting more dangerous at the same time. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is very disturbing. It certainly feels like the rumors that the Trump Administration is trying to destroy the NIH from within—partly by having all funding decisions made by Trump appointees—are true. This is a 5-alarm fire for biomedical science in this country.

I’ve never met anyone that would be better for this job. We need more scientists in congress!

The Trump Administration is gutting America’s science engine, wiping out thousands of grants in cancer, aging, engineering and more. Our district’s world-class researchers feel these cuts every single day.

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

Oct 18!

If we prosecute no one else—and to be clear we should prosecute so many people—we have absolutely got to go after this guy as hard as humanly possible

Why aren’t more people saying this? It’s murder.

We don’t need to shop there!

Trump shared a riveting story about his uncle teaching Ted Kaczynski, which never happened

NOW: The judiciary committee is set to vote on whether to send Emil Bove's nomination to the full Senate. Bove pressured me to sign a motion to dismiss NYC Mayor Adams' bribery case. I chose to resign. I urge them to show the courage and character that Bova lacks. Vote NO.

100% — forcing translation before the fundamentals are worked out is putting the cart ahead of the horse and throwing money down the drain.

Check out our new, interactive website for preclinical and clinical pain researchers! Webinars, podcasts, interviews, job listings, meeting announcements, funding opportunities, Papers of the Week and more! painresearchforum.org

Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals. First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals. 1/n

The BEST!! Yes, FOTUS is a Jag-off!

That’s my alma mater! Reverse brain drain is happening as US loses its reputation as leader in science.

"The Trump NIH animal research move is not about organoids, or animals. It's about politics." New contributed post on our blog today, about political wedge issues. 1/ 🧪

As the Senate considers voting to approve Trump's devastating funding cuts to public broadcasting, listen to the words of LeVar Burton. The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Contact your senators today and urge them to oppose these cuts.

Democrat Janelle Stelson, a one-time local TV anchor and personality who lost to Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry by barely a percentage point in 2024, will run again in the right-leaning congressional district in Pennsylvania.

thanks to my study section colleagues who provided helpful feedback and shared their own opinions.

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

Tapping the sign that says “NSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovation”

Stand up, Pittsburgh!

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

🚨Comment by JULY 14th!!!!!🚨

Yesterday, one of our union leaders was arrested during an ICE raid in Camarillo, CA, while he was lawfully observing immigration enforcement activities. www.calfac.org/statement-condemning-the-abduction-and-disappearance-of-cfa-members-in-camarillo/

ICE has been terrorizing our communities, kidnapping our family members and neighbors, abusing power against protesters, and trafficking people to inhumane concentration camps. We are done with this regime, so on July 17, we’re making good trouble across the nation. Find a protest near you:

Trump is attacking the universities that have revitalized Pittsburgh. After the No Kings rallies on June 14, during Trump's military parade, come join us on the Mellon Institute steps to learn more and to fight back.

Silence and misinformation endangers science, democracy, and all of us: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... @pgh-health-science.bsky.social @codeblue4democracy.bsky.social

We highlight a fact that at least a lot of economists I talked to didn't really understand well enough, which was that in 1965, 2% of the entire US economy was public science. One in every $50 was public science. That's now about half a percent of GDP. 3/n

You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.

We've got new distributional data on the Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" from @natasharsarin.bsky.social and team at @budgetlab.bsky.social. The results are **stark.** Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources. Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.

Our second billboard is up! On I-95, outside Philly near exit 6. Also will be up in Western PA soon.

Yay!

Public land selloff is OUT of the Big Beautiful Bill, as the parliamentarian rules it not compliant with the Byrd rule. Several other sections also killed:

Again - this is *YOUR* land. They are stealing it from you to sell off to corporate interests and I'd be shocked if there isn't a bunch of sleazy quid pro quo involved