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

substack.com/@nbhrn2/note... this from @nbhrn.bsky.social is brilliant and a must-read

Effects of E-cigarettes on Combustible Cigarette Smoking Among Adults With Opioid Use Disorder on Buprenorphine: Single Arm ERASER Pilot Trial By Irene Pericot-Valverde Editor’s choice, May 2025 issue academic.oup.com/ntr/article/...

Person A: This isn't who we are! Me: Yes, it is. This is who we've always been. Person B: How did we get here??? Me: We've been here all along.

Going to avoid reposting the WH’s stmt for Child Abuse Prevention Month instead say: Every child deserves to grow up safe, supported, and free to be themselves. Affirming care helps trans youth thrive. Let’s lead with compassion, facts, and a shared commitment to every kid’s well-being.

CDC’s tobacco program wasn’t eliminated to save money. Federal employee salaries are only about 4% of the Federal budget. The Office on Smoking & Health was eliminated BECAUSE our work is highly efficient and cost effective. Make no mistake that tobacco companies won today.

The CDC's Office of Smoking and Health funds local and state tobacco prevention and treatment programs. 490,000 people *still* die of tobacco-related illness in the US annually. This will have enormous health consequences.

This is a great piece on how acting NIH Director Matthew Memoli and his MAGA cronies at HHS are twisting the story on indirect costs. @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

TAG strongly opposes the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for director of the NIH. Get the full details in our statement here: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/tr...

PubMed is a VITAL public health tool. This is not a niche nerdy thing. It’s how your doctor knows what chemotherapy combinations work, at what doses, for whom. It’s how biomedical researchers learn from what came before to prioritize new research directions.

This is chilling. To claim that trans health is not human health is eugenics, and has no place in scientific research

One of the important ways NIH funding is being gutted: eliminating a pathway for diversifying the research workforce

We are happy to launch Workshops4sudan to raise funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan. Our debut series features the writer and abolitionist @williamcson.bsky.social and the organizer, artist and social justice educator @raniawrites.bsky.social. To sign up go to: sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...

👩‍⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼 Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.

Don’t stop doing the things you love, loving the people you love and showing that love in acts of communal care because you’re afraid. Fear is how they thrive. Community. Care. Joy and Love is how we rebel. 🌈 💙✊🏽#communityasrebellion

Did you know that the CDC's work goes way beyond responding to outbreaks? They're also vital for tracking long-term health issues like tobacco use, which has devastating, chronic consequences. #publichealth #CDC #tobacco #quitthenic #chronicdisease

Tomorrow, I'm doing a webinar for clinicians who want to advocate for Medicaid with their federal elected leaders, as Medicaid faces existential threats. Clinicians are some of the best possible advocates for Medicaid, and I am really, really good at this. We won't waste your time. 🧵

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #PCCM 🧪🛟 The purged 2024 Surgeon General's Report: Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities remains available on Archivedotorg. Please download and archive : archive.org/details/2024...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #PCCM 🧪🛟 The 2024 Surgeon General's Report: Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities has been purged from the CDC's website: www.cdc.gov/tobacco-surg...

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

If we want to reduce the burden of disease and keep people alive, this list centers exactly where our efforts must focus.

Staff at CDC are being asked to scrub data on trans and non-binary folks from datasets. Public health ethics hold us to the highest ethical, professional, and scientific standards. Deleting data about Americans is unethical. OPM has ZERO authority over CDC practices. Obey the law. 🇺🇸🏛️⚖️

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

As we organise with one another to begin the impossible but necessary task of atoning for the violence with which our nation and its medical field have been – and continue to be – complicit, we must own our ethical responsibility. aje.io/00ptk7

Watching in real time how the policy of complying in advance actually reduces scientific productivity

CDC staff have been forced to remove dozens of chronic health applications and to change open data sets that contain gender. These are YOUR data and YOUR tools. Be angry. Be LOUD.

It’s started: ICE raided a Chicago-area hospital emergency department today and showed up at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan last week. Share this with any health workers you know. We must know how to respond when ICE comes for our patients and coworkers. jacobin.com/2025/01/hosp...

As we fight to preserve mostly performative DEI initiatives, let’s remember: DEI is not the goal, it's not the finish line —it’s the bare minimum. Real transformation happens when we move beyond DEI to dismantle inequitable systems and build life-affirming, just institutions and structures.

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going. It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Israel's UNRWA ban is coming into effect next week, just as the ceasefire agreement's provision to let more aid in will be ramping up. The logistical framework to distribute said aid throughout Gaza will suddenly disappear.

This exec order directly targets #highered To receive federal grants, orgs must certify they don't operate "illegal" DEI programs. Private sector will be "encouraged" to end DEI via "civil compliance investigations". Targets include higher ed institutions with >1bn endowment. #edusky #academicsky

The White House and Trump have ordered a halt to all external Health communications from CDC, FDA, NIH, NSF and a shut down of websites and social media. No info on drug recalls, health alerts, disease tracking, safety alerts, epidemic info etc. Trump is trying to muzzle science communication

I'm reading news of an imminent ceasefire deal. I'm praying that the violence truly stops, that we don't see drawn-out death by another name. I pray that we all stay alert and awake regardless of what comes next. None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.

That the majority of US methadone treatment is private/for profit is a huge impediment to flexible, person-centered care.

I am struck by all of the schadenfreude, prior authorization jokes, and stories of denials and delays of care, and how universally poor USians’ experience with healthcare access is. (1/2)

From Nicotine & Tobacco Research: Implementing an e-cigarette protocol in outpatient maintenance treatment programs is feasible and acceptable. Prelim results suggest that ECs may facilitate reductions in CPD, CO levels, and nicotine dependence Cc: @shadinahvi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ntr/...

Silvia Federici on Speaking Out of Place.