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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Employees of the NIH have signed on to the Bethesda Declaration, in protest of the authoritarian cuts to science funding. You can sign on in support of them here (including anonymously): https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration #standupforscience #uspol #science

Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives. 🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs

Why? This is crazy www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

"9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything. The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created" […]

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Proud to be an #ELAM graduate in this 2025 class! I learned so much. It was awesome to be surrounded by so many amazing, inspiring and powerful women in science and medicine!

This seems…shortsighted to say the least

#Breaking: GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’

The headline "could" be a lot stronger. The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.

🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊

So important to see!

A different kind of "overhead" IYKYK: My interview in PittMed magazine discussing our work on the dangers of the upside down: mirror life www.pittmed.pitt.edu/news/mirror-...

My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

No better person, friend, scientist and leader than Sabine! Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social !

2 weeks to the deadline for applications to this post.. take a look, get in touch if you want hear more, don't hold back😎

More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.

Proulx, Wiggins, Lauffenburger, Sassetti et al. @umasschan.bsky.social identify noncanonical immunity as an important feature of bacterial control during #tuberculosis disease when human-relevant genetic and phenotypic diversity is incorporated into model systems. rupress.org/jem/article/...

This is well written and makes me so sad for the future of science in America. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great article by @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate @ardemp.bskyverified.social outlining the health, economic and national security benefits of US biomedical research, and the devastation of government efforts to destroy our leading edge. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

Ugh.

What a shot! PITTSBURGH, PA!

Come on #congress. Wake up before it is too late!

Why is Trump going after US science? What's the endgame for these attacks? Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities. "It's bad, folks." New contributed post at our blog. Please share it w/ your 🧪 colleagues.

I too have been dismissed from NIAID Board of Scientific Counselors along with 3 other women and a non-white man

What a mess

Yep

Today is #WorldTBDay Infectious diseases do not go away. They wait for the opportunity and explode. #TB never went away in most countries. Recent events mean that the advances that have been made over the past decade will be and are being reversed. A very sobering #WorldTBDay indeed. 😢

U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Rose to Their Highest Levels in More Than a Dozen Years www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

How about lining up for a vaccine that is safe and effective?

Cutting funds for science and research will save you a penny on the dollar but may one day cost you a life that you love.

The gutting of USAID has crippled tuberculosis programs, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients without tests or drugs and at risk of spreading the disease.

This is just so backwards www.science.org/content/arti...

Pittsburgh researchers, doctors, and supporters filled Schenley Plaza Friday to speak out against government research funding cuts. Similar demonstrations were held across the country as part of a nationwide “Stand up for Science” movement.

Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest #tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries confirm that funding cuts from foreign aid, particularly from USAID, are already dismantling essential TB services. Without urgent action, these setbacks will reverse decades of progress to #EndTB 🔗 bit.ly/4kvsu2i

Pittsburgh is not a steel town, it is a medical research, education, and health care town. NIH cuts "would be as big as making cuts to U.S. Steel in its heyday". This is what Trump, Musk, and Republican enablers want to do to the regional economy www.axios.com/local/pittsb... @ryandeto.bsky.social

Free speech y'all!

I’ll be in Pittsburgh at the Stand Up For Science March at Schenley Park. 11AM Friday March 7! Come on people! Support the good people who do research to improve and save lives!!

Rubella is a major cause of birth abnormalities if a pregnant woman gets exposed. That’s why we vaccinate against it. What about all those worries for unborn babies now???

US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What could go wrong? More transmission, more drug resistance, more sick people and more people dying. Going backwards. And microbes don’t stay in one place. So expect more here too. This is a crime. These are real people including kids.

Thanks for speaking out @vscooper.micropopbio.org The damage to our community will be immense.

Read this.