State Rep. @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social wins the Democratic primary in the vacant #GA13, @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social projects. Clark is now poised to become the first Black woman PhD scientist to serve in Congress. My interview with her here: 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor...

A summary of today’s revelations of treachery by RFK Jr.’s handpicked minions. In 11/2025, three doctors (Makary, Prasad, Hoeg) employed by the United States government told the world, with confidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children. We now have ironclad evidence that they lied.

This post is not about average Americans being at risk from the Andes Hantavirus. It’s about how ideology from current CDC leadership has finally become acquainted with reality. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Sen Cassidy says he is supporting RFK Jr for HHS Sec bc RFK promised Cassidy could do more oversight as chair of Senate Health Committee. Taking everyone at their words, what happens if Cassidy loses his primary in 2026 & GOP maintains Senate Maj? Rand Paul is 2nd highest ranking Republican on cmte.

There is so much more to science funding than top line budget fights. If orgs and Congress want to engage in what is really happening, they need to look into their own communities where people and projects are being abandoned. This cannot wait until 2029.

The acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug center, Tracey Beth Hoeg, is expected to leave the agency just days after Commissioner Marty Makary resigned, according to three people familiar with internal planning.

NEW: One interesting thing about the "missing scientists" claims is how similar they are to another theory that's been circulating in the "natural health" world for years. I wrote about why some of these claims reach the mainstream and others don't. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Such a great, highly readable piece on test negative designs from @jdrakephd.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

I've been waiting for this since Kulldorff's HHS position was announced. He's leading the effort which also involves NIH, led by Kulldorff's close ally Jay Bhattacharya. Anyone optimistic about this should familiarize themselves w Kulldorff's recent activities & how the anti-vaccine movement works.

Two examples of political leaders publicly embracing Jay Bhattachary's preferred approach to the Covid pandemic: President Trump's HHS Sec in October 2020 (right before the deadlist Covid wave in the US) and Governor Ron DeSantis in August 2021 (before the deadliest Covid wave in Florida).

"We’re likely going to get out of this situation. But it won’t be because we’re flush with prepared leaders with adequate bandwidth, let me assure you."

Disregarding facts and evidence is not just a political move, it comes with real reputational harm that will linger beyond this year. Why should scientists turn to NASEM for advice and counsel if we cannot trust it to look at the state of science honestly in this moment?

Tennessee Rep. Justin J. Pearson: Memphis is the place that raised me. Republicans are eviscerating the only Black majority congressional district in our state. This is about attacking, targeting, and cracking District 9 into pieces for more political and racial dominance

Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.

In new letter to RFK Jr, ranking members of House Cmte on Energy & Commerce have Qs abt the suppressed CDC vax study, which "appears to be a deliberate effort to suppress evidence of vaccine effectiveness by your hand-selected ideological ally." democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I just repeated the analysis for grants in fiscal year 2026. I found 98 grants with title changes upon administrative (non-competitive) renewal. Here is the removed word cloud for fiscal year 2026. 4/5

Bhattacharya revealed what he modestly refers to as“the second scientific revolution”. What is this momentous event,equivalent of the advances of Vesalius & Copernicus?It’s a button on articles to say when they have been replicated. @314action.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-...

Remembering these examples from Acting CDC Director Bhattacharya for valid vaccine uncertainties. I hope the CDC Director knows we don't give HPV vax to babies, it has benefits to men beyond preventing cervical cancer, & you can get Hep B pre-adulthood... www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-...

The US Senate exhibiting greater discernment than Stanford School of Medicine here. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

The HHS hiring pool is almost entirely this list www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/dis...

Happening now... essential discussion on an ongoing crisis.

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

BREAKING: HHS is appealing the ruling in the case filed by AAP, which stalled RFK Jr.'s changes to ACIP and the childhood vaccine schedule www.statnews.com/2026/04/29/h...

Looking forward to sharing more on our analysis of the economic impacts of scientific funding cuts, including the proposed FY27 budget for NIH and NSF!

I'm delighted that 225 people have registered to join our webinar tomorrow, 12-1pm ET, on ICE detention centers, which I think speaks to a desire to take action to end this health & policy crisis It's open to all It's not too late to register: childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/t... Join us

NIH Director's stump speech lists stats on how it's hard to be early career & proposes no solution past "elevate new ideas" while he slashes our opportunities. If you're a scientific org inviting him & don't point this out, I'll assume you don't care about us. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that...

I find it fascinating that folks like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are having 'Abundance' discussions about NIH while ignoring the pre-2025 state of play, self-critique of scientists, and the many ways in which American science is imperfect and yet (near) the best in the world (or was). 🧵

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

This Wed. 4/29, looking forward to a public dialogue on the Future of Science w/@samwang.bsky.social Princeton University @princeton.edu Frist Campus Center Rom 302, 4pm-5pm www.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

My thoughts on Director Bhattacharya's Fireside Chat at the NAM workshop (a long 🧵) Overall (1) He clarified what he said that NIH is doing with regard to improving replication. While these are concrete steps, they seem either naive or dependent of unproven technology. Time will tell. 1/30

In the #NASEM chat with Bhattacharya, he talks about how supporting innovation will support early career scientists. Meanwhile, under his leadership, early career scientists have disproportionately suffered. Early career scientists were disproportionately affected by terminations.

See you there!

I wonder what the pro-tobacco child labor advocate who orchestrated the Great Barrington Declaration is up to nowadays (when he is not lobbying against school-based vaccine requirements). Ah....

Select a region and click "View Full Scorecard" to get a shareable, downloadable fact sheet about how NIH and NSF funding cuts would impact your area. Share with your representatives! Here's my new home, Houston.

📣 MAJOR website update at scienceimpacts.org! New interactive maps show the local impacts of science funding cuts, including the White House FY2027 budget proposal, which would reduce NSF funding by 55% and NIH by 10%. We estimate $35B in economic losses and 150k lost jobs nationwide if enacted.

Today's #SCIMaP release includes an analysis of the negative impacts of proposed budgets cuts AND an analysis of how investment in science and medical research catalyzes economic activity and jobs (in addition to long-term boosts to health & discovery). scienceimpacts.org/maps

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

"Instead of canceling grants en masse, as the N.I.H. did in the first year of this Trump presidency, it is now vetting them before approval with a 'computational text analysis tool' that scans for terms including 'racism,' 'gender' and 'vaccination refusal'..." 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

Major update from #SCIMaP, including * Impact analysis of White House's FY 2027 proposed cuts to NIH and NSF. * Fact sheets showing impacts in Congressional districts. * New analysis on how baseline science funding benefits the economy and jobs in local communities. More via scienceimpacts.org

Big website update at SCIMaP today, including: 📉 maps & reports about projected impacts of White House's proposed FY27 budget 🧪 expansion to include estimates of loss due to NSF cuts 💰 maps detailing economic benefits of historical funding 🔎 search by zip code 🔗scienceimpacts.org #NSF #NIH #scisky

CDC Director is censoring CDC scientists on COVID vax effectiveness study. The stated reason is concerns about study methods. This is bogus--the test-neg design is valid and has been widely used for 15+ years. The real reason is the study results don't support RFK's anti-vax crusade. wapo.st/41JhAhb

Does anyone have recs for good (evidence-based) books about the science of autoimmunity?

Gift link: "If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later, and I gave it to her, but it was too late." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Belief in & support for vaccines is normal. “But that reality is not immune to the stories we tell about it… [Bad polls] change what clinicians say in the exam room, the decisions policymakers & leaders make, and ultimately become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Methods matter for talking points

HHS just published an update to its Scientific Integrity Policy. Notably, it has removed the concept of political interference, and no longer calls it out as something specifically to be prevented. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... (deletions in red, insertions in green)

How 'Bout Them Dawgs

I am putting together a linktr.ee of public resignation letters from NIH staff. tr.ee/7IpKJ_GBId Please let me know what I've missed!

For years, Jay Bhattacharya has been upset at the MMWR for publishing findings that run contrary to his predetermined conclusions (e.g., on immunity after covid vaccination) and his political agenda. Now he's in a position to prevent those findings from being published.

Decent coverage of the science, but how can you write this story not mentioning the name of the acting CDC director until the 6th paragraph and noting his COVID grievance fixation? Also, he is not legally the”acting CDC director” anymore.

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