Consider a donation to your local food bank if you are US-based SNAP benefits are in jeopardy cc @londyloo.bsky.social #ACR25

Traveling to the annual nerd convention. In Chicago #ACR2025 #Rheum so excited

How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others? New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning rdcu.be/eL8mZ

They just killed NHANES. Every US public health student learns about this study. It’s given us all sorts of important knowledge about the health of Americans and they just ended it.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Friendly reminder if you are on MEDICARE or MEDICAID to please call your clinic if you have any upcoming VIRTUAL or telephone appointments and reschedule them in person or speak to clinic about if they will still see you virtually.

I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell. Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

….don’t worry there’s only 1207 days left 🫣 (sarcasm)

Breakthroughs come from past failures. Huntington disease affects 30,000 Americans. This treatment targets the HTT gene, responsible for neuronal health. It is also based on a similar drug that failed clinical trials. And guess what- this harnesses microRNAs. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Endorsed by Sam the rural health advoCATe. We need better. @codymullens.bsky.social @ruralhealth.bsky.social #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hi. So ummm…are they gonna extend the Medicare telehealth policy past 10/1/25???

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

These ACIP members literally don't even know what the current ACIP recommendations for the vaccines they are voting on are

"With 2 weeks left before the end of this fiscal year, USDA’s [NIFA] had awarded just 558 competitive grants ... 68% fewer than during the prior fiscal year—and $741 million less in competitively awarded research funds" Don't forget #PlantSci and ag research, folks. www.science.org/content/arti...

Most of the world recommends a universal birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine, because that's when it's most effective. Babies need to be vaccinated within hours of birth to avoid being infected during delivery. #ACIP

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Society has normalized school shootings in the U.S. The shooting at a Catholic School near my sister's house in Minneapolis is just another example of how little care is given to the children in our country. You don't really know the evil of the world until you are trying to protect kids from it.

Lots of options but I'm going to go for a category not listed: a MENTEE who inspires me. It's @londyloo.bsky.social, whose use of social media to shed light on rural inequities in healthcare access made me realize that this is something we can ALL do, in our areas of focus Stories = impactful

💫 REPEAT lab hiring a research coordinator💫 The Research on Excessive Persistent and Emotion-based Actions and Traits (REPEAT) Lab in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University is recruiting to fill a Clinical Research Coordinator position. Posting will close in 1 week!! 1/7🧵

People who think there is going to inevitably be a big pro-Dem backlash against Medicaid cuts should read this article. You have to remember there is an entire proganda apparatus that will blame the Dems for the effects of these Republican cuts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In case anyone is still wondering if air traffic controller staffing is a problem and has downstream impact… 1. The pilot just told us that they have to fly around NYC because they are short staffed for air traffic control 2. They had to calculate whether or not we had enough gas to do it

As someone who literally became a physician to study and improve rural health for rheumatic patients & whose entire family lives rural, I don’t have words.

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

"Those cuts not only threaten health care coverage for millions of vulnerable Americans but also would endanger many rural hospitals, which are more likely than urban hospitals to rely on government health care spending to stay in business." newrepublic.com/article/1955...

Every infectious disease doc I know read the 1st paper (from now-discredited Didier Raoult group) about hydroxychloroquine for COVID, realized it was poorly done, and stopped (or never started) using it. Subsequent well-done RCT’s showed it was useless. And this guy is now in position of trust…🤦🏻‍♂️🤡

Countering constant, widespread, anti-vaccine misinformation takes money, and the federal government under the Trump administration — a reliable partner to local health officials in the past — has taken a step back. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

"There is nothing wasteful or elitist about public investment in science. On the contrary, it is one of the most reliable drivers of shared prosperity—benefiting not just institutions or industries, but society as a whole. Now is the time to expand that commitment, not withdraw from it."

Growing up without cable enabled me to watch PBS Kids channel. Zoom show on PBS had special on the day after 9/11. Catered to helping kids process it. These shows enabled passion for STEM in this rural kid. Magic School Bus Sesame Street Zoom Bill Nye Science Guy PBS is public education.

Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.

The point of these cuts is to disincentivize physicians from wanting to care for underserved patients. It is profits over patients. The result will not be fewer physicians. In fact many will be paid more, fewer working at non profits. The result will be underserved patients getting worse care.

One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. (Published Dec. 2024)

The rate of NIH awards has been drastically reduced by pauses and other barriers, since 1/20 Due to the time it takes to release awards, a higher rate of funding needs to occur this summer, before the NIH fiscal year ends 9/30

Just got mine. Totally expected, but it still sucks. Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated postbac researchers interested in / with experience working with phages? We are hiring a junior specialist/research tech! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04863 (start date more flexible than stated in ad!)

From a Hands Off our Farms rally in southern WV today.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.

A friend at NIH received notice that the National Library of Medicine is terminating its bioinformatics program

Slew of NOAA websites set to go dark at midnight tonight due to a canceled cloud services contract. NOAA under pressure to cut its IT costs by 50%... www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...

As former center director at AHRQ, it is devastating to watch it be dismantled. With amazing staff, AHRQ catalyzed improvement in safety, quality, equity, etc. The US Preventive Services Task Force must be preserved. Thanks to @kffhealthnews.org for this excellent write-up. #StandwithAHRQ

BREAKING: In the massive HHS RIFs today, one program that is now in limbo is PRAMS — the gold standard dataset for infant and maternal health in the US 🧪 #medsky www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/p...

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

New publication with colleagues from @uwmedicine.bsky.social @alisonbays.bsky.social @dfeterman.bsky.social 💉Delays in Tocilizumab Therapy for Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) in the United States pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40089304/

there’s an entire generation of residents / fellows / attendings & scientists who already had their entire curriculum, experiments, labs decimated. It occurred during Covid. Just as things started to recover, these massive cuts happen. We just want to help humans y’all. 😔

PhD applicants: with 💙, navigate things carefully this year. Please read the 🧵 replies. Some schools are guaranteeing N years of support; others are doing so "contingent on funding"; others are offering provisional accepts (and sadly, some are rescinded). You are not alone. Get some good advice!

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

🚨🧪 Are you a researcher affected by the recent cancellation of federal grants and contracts at Columbia University? I'm working on a story for @Nature.com. If you want to chat, your identity will be kept private. Signal: humbertobasilio.24 Email: [email protected] Repost please!