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Powerful new article in NYT Magazine on cancer research [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

This point has gotten lost despite my efforts, so lets home in on it directly. A shutdown fight where Dems ignore Trump's abuses of power to take a stand on safe but extraneous issues is like every other shutdown fight we've seen. Taking a stand to rein in Trump makes it something entirely new.

Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:

Agree with this. Make them fight for every inch. Worth reading this thread.

Happy Dog Day to those who celebrate!

If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today. Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now. Civil duty to see it. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Agreed, but... I wish this sort of coverage had been more timely. We need preventative care or early treatment, not documentation of an autopsy.

“It’s people who will get cancer in 10, 20 or 30 years who will really pay the price for these cuts”

Amid lots of uncertainty, anger, and exhaustion I am excited to share this work from my incredibly talented MSTP and @nuincomm.bsky.social student Haley Province. In it we explore the fascinating and powerful anti-aversive properties of GIPR agonists

Semaglutide drives weight loss through cAMP-dependent mechanisms in GLP1R-expressing hindbrain neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.668772v1

Best 6 min of my week was watching this 4 times

“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”

At a family reunion this year a cousin told me that she's employed full-time as a dogsitter and I've never been so jealous.

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years. At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

Hell yes!

legends only. @elienyc.bsky.social @ashdashlee.bsky.social @alexaronson.bsky.social @brianbeutler.bsky.social

I spoke to The Guardian about the devastating impacts of the Trump adminstration's war on the NIH and science www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There is so much damage being done to our country right now but surely turning HHS over to a gang of malignant and scientifically illiterate goons is among the worst of it

This lying monster. NIH created and funded therapies his own daughter with cystic fibrosis benefits from.

If I hear one more reporter say these attacks on universities and science are about "antisemitism," I am going to lose it. This is about destroying higher education full stop and it doesn't help to parrot the White House's talking points. www.science.org/content/arti...

Doesn’t this sound cool? Come join us at the Biosphere for the Gastronauts global symposium Oct 26-29! thinkgastronauts.com/biosphere2/

This is absurd. @nytimes.com needs to find a better way to convey to readers what it knows to be true: These "findings" are not actual "findings" in any sense that most people would understand the word. The casual reader comes away with zero sense of the deep rot of bad faith at play here.

Here’s the video from CBS today. Many thanks to Dr. Rosenberg and the patients in this video like the Callahans and Natalie Phelps. It’s not easy to speak out. Best of luck to them in their fight against cancer.

By pure dumb luck we stumbled onto a Brian Wilson show at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen in 2017. It was a surreal and totally cool end to a whirlwind, jet lagged trip. RIP to a great one.

Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis. Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.

Bleak is correct. And angry.

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?

Agreed. This is the best compilation of info on the funding crisis and what’s in the works to combat it 🙌🏼. Sign up for @lizneeley.bsky.social’s newsletter to get weekly updates

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

truly must read piece >>> The Price of Remission talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-pri...

Relationship milestone: after almost a year, Shiloh let Fredo use her as a pillow while sunbathing.

They want to stop future advances in childhood cancer treatment AND ensure that life for childhood cancer survivors is as difficult and fraught with complications as possible

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

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...

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

I just did this, thanks to @napaaqtuk.bsky.social. My comment wasn't particularly eloquent or long, nor did it need to be. Just write that you oppose the proposed rule and particularly its application to research program officers. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I don’t understand why it’s not bigger news either. Lives of patients are at stake, groundbreaking discoveries won’t be made, best scientific talent in the world will go elsewhere or stay home.

Thank you. Not sustainable, for any university

More than the freezing of individual grants at Northwestern, I hope it breaks through that all NIH money to Northwestern is stopped even for grants that have not been frozen or terminated. The university has received $0 from NIH since March.

Trump/Musk and the entire GOP has spent the last four months systematically liquidating disease cure research in the United States. Lots of critical cure studies shuttered mid-way through. Research shutdown everywhere. It's all hands on deck to prevent new treatments for cancer, ahlzeimers etc.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

This is a follow up to my post about how to save biomedical research. It responds to one of the most common questions I've gotten about that post. And get into why it's the communities rather than the organizations that are key to focus on. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-fol...

I've pitched versions of this idea to a number of NIH scientists, as well as university researchers over the last six weeks or so. So I decided to put it together into a post.

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...