This Russell Vought, trying to usurp the power of the purse. Congress and the people have made it abundantly clear that they want to fund science. But Vought keeps trying to steal those funds. www.science.org/content/arti...

@ezralevin.bsky.social is onto something. I am less charitable: political leaders ask so little because they think so little of us. We are partners in democracy yet they poll-test, hire PR firms to message us rather than meaningfully engage. Mamdani’s appeal: he organized people in common purpose.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Bad-faith actors have employed a well-worn playbook to advance their commercial, political, and personal agendas. Analyses that do not account for the underlying political economy of these scientifically irrational but commercially logical policy decisions are incomplete. bsky.app/profile/char...

In 1933 a plurality of Germans voted for the NSDAP -- winning an election doesn't make your actions moral.

1/The newspapers of the day are complicit in the erosion of public health in the US. In their quest for “diverse” views and ”both sides”, what they have failed to ask is whether said opinion writers (in this case Emily Oster) actually have the foundational expertise to comment on public health.

@gregggonsalves.bsky.social details the ouster of Dr. Bassett from HSPH’s FXB Center for Human Rights as it should be told. Leaders in academia using DEI & language of justice when it brings funding but abandoning these when inconvenient is even more glaring now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I just finished a stretch of hospital clinical service and anecdotally was struck by how many children who were in for other reasons had yet to receive the flu vaccine. It is not too late to get a flu vaccine this year. The flu kills the healthy, including children.

@gavinyamey.bsky.social and @jonshaffer.bsky.social write reminding physicians of the commitment to doing no harm..."Trump and RFK Jr are dismantling the core institutions of public health—doctors should be resisting their damaging health policies, not supporting them."

You cannot simultaneously care about maintaining measles elimination status while actively campaigning against the vaccine that allowed this elimination status to be achieved in the first place. That's not how any of this works 🤷🏽‍♀️ www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Yesterday, I had an exchange w a scholar who defended Bhattacharya & Makary as reasonable thinkers after the vaccine schedule change announcement, arguing for the need for civility. I argue here that we shouldn't prioritize civility over sound health policy mirandayaver.substack.com/p/bless-thei...

Thx for the kind words—& for amplifying While some physicians have pursued power by collaborating with Trump & RFK Jr to dismantle public health, many physicians, nurses, & public health workers are FIGHTING BACK @defendpublichealth.bsky.social & @standupforscience.bsky.social are DOING THE WORK💪

“The present administration will continue to destroy evidence based public health programmes and policies unless clinicians, public health workers, and citizens fight back”. Excellent article by @jonshaffer.bsky.social and @gavinyamey.bsky.social on the phenomenon of doctors who broke bad.

I discussed that essay here... sciencebasedmedicine.org/science-base...

🧵This needs to be said. There were many in ID who during Covid agreed along with the current leaders of NIH & FDA in their naysaying, and collaborated with them (remember urgency of normal?) who are now being quoted in the press saying, “By golly we don’t agree now!” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Good to see Trump chain Makary, Oz, and Bhattacharya to this policy. Leaves no doubt moving forward that every sick child moving forward is on their hands too.

Pediatric ID Physician here. I‘ll never forget the young adult who lost her limbs to disseminated meningococcal ds, I‘ll never forget the healthy children who did not get the flu vaccine and were well one day, and dead the next. The HHS is the biggest threat to children’s health.

Today’s announcement that HHS is drastically altering the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule without a transparent process or clear scientific justification represents the latest reckless step in Secretary Kennedy’s assault on the national vaccine infrastructure. Our statement: https://bit.ly/497Tj8V

1). The US is in the middle of the worst flu season in a decade. 2). Pertussis cases are the highest they have been in 20 years. 3). Measles has rebounded and elimination status has been lost. RFK.Jr. has not recommended vaccination, instead he is aggressively rolling back vaccine policy.

What direction will we take the future of our field of public health? We are at a crossroads Dr. Mary Bassett represents the best of us, and I hope will continue to be supported in leading the way forward Heartened to see much support for her on this petition docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Incredibly depressing capitulation by an organization that could do a hell of a lot better

It's difficult to convey the magnitude of appreciation I have for Dr. Mary Bassett's principled leadership and contributions to public health, but This video from her last day as the New York City Department of Health Commissioner comes close fb.watch/DVGL9J9Ew1/?...

A dark day for human rights on Human Rights Day

Dr. Mary T. Bassett is one of the bravest people I have met in my lifetime - her moral compass and commitment to justice are unmatched. Shame, shame, shame on Harvard. Her ouster is shocking yet unsurprising and on brand for the University. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Shame on you, Harvard for terminating Dr. Bassett’s leadership at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

"We don't have to have all the answers to call for change...We just need courage." Dr. Mary Bassett, "Why your doctor should care about social justice," TEDMED 2015. www.ted.com/talks/mary_b...

The US is close to an institutional collapse across multiple public health agencies. Trump/RFK have purged anyone with expertise, many have fled and they’ve been replaced w functionaries who are either incompetent or malicious. I don’t think many understand how close to the edge we are right now.

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠. Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death. None of this is pro-life.

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

Hey, we #NIH folks have gotten new followers. Want to keep up with NIH news on funding, conference appearances, research publications, or grant review? Follow #NIH (current and alumni) on Bsky! These are our opinions and not the opinions of the NIH, HHS, or the federal government.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Demetre Daskalakis' resignation letter. One for the history books. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-resign...

Follow the #NIH on Bluesky!

Today, ACOG released updated clinical guidance on vaccination during pregnancy against COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. These guidance documents reflect a large and growing body of research and data regarding the safety and benefits of maternal immunization. Learn more: https://bit.ly/45w9LOD

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

david rose grew up in our community. his mom was an icu nurse at emory. his wife is pregnant and he had two kids. please share this & help if you can.

AG Sulzberger insists that @nytimes.com has no politics. In his Reuters lecture at @ox.ac.uk he stressed the independence of his newspaper. The idea is that they are non-partisan, above the fray. It’s simply not true. That’s the most damning part: pretending your paper no viewpoint. 1/

So pleased and proud that my former PhD student, Dr Srinath Satyanarayana, is the new Director of National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, India’s premier research institute! 👏🏽👏🏽

Support the brave staffers at @NIH! #BethesdaDeclaration actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

📰 The Journal of the International AIDS Society's co-Editor-in-Chief Kenneth H. Mayer has penned a new viewpoint, “The lavender purge”, warning of the impacts of US policy decisions to halt HIV research & programmes supporting sexual- & gender-minority communities. 📣 Read it, share it & speak up!

Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues. "I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

If you had a grant cancelled by the administration, please share your story: democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

A not very happy Friday. CERI had 6 NIH grants canceled, which will impact operations, surveillance and response to epidemics. We are working to try to minimize disturbance but not easy with 6 grants terminated at the same moment. A crisis is unfolding in SA www.news24.com/southafrica/...