really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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I’m not so cheerful, because I believe strongly that pathogen research should be based on public health need & evidence-based risk-benefit assessments. Experimental research can’t be replaced with AI & it needs to continue safely & securely. But this EO isn’t about that.

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/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.

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

Had a conversation with a MAGA supporter who didn't know when the news reports Trump is freezing federal grants to Universities, they mean scientific research. Grants = Scientific Research! Can we please make that more clear to people! #biosky #sciencesky #RNAsky

People don't want factory jobs; They want the LABOR UNION protections, salary, benefits, insurance, safety, and shared profits that we unknowingly yet nostalgically & exclusively associate with manufacturing. No reason that service and information economy jobs can't be unionized at 1960s levels.

Someone needs to invent a laser pointer that works on an led screen

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

NIH slashes overheads, fires directors and staff, freezes funds, halts trials, interrupts research, stalls grant review, and terminates 100s of grants on infectious disease, vaccines, mRNA, DEI, LGBTQ health. NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.

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Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

When you’re a reporter who’s been included in a Cabinet group chat about bombing Yemen

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

xkcd.com/3056 #RNAsky

Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late. Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

Markets react to black woman winning country Grammy.

"Polls have shown that principal investigator biologists now spend up to 40 percent of their time—it’s a shocking number, 40 percent of their time—writing grants." www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

Everything’s ok. The drones just spelled out the message “TO SERVE MAN”

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Health insurance claim denied? See what insurers said behind the scenes. Published May 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social

Leaked documents show UnitedHealth cutting costs by reducing treatment for thousands of kids with autism. The company is limiting children’s access to applied behavior analysis, which they internally call the "gold standard treatment." From @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/unit....

Can we not call them "skeets"? Let's come up with something else. I can only think of Lil Jon's "Get Low" 😖

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