NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave. She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime. A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.

🚨Excited to share our new paper ✔️ #Yoga = ⬆️ health (e.g., Life’s Essential 8, diet, smoking, BMI, alcohol) ✔️ Religious attendance = ⬆️ ideal diet ✔️ Religious attendance = ⬇️ alcohol @bvkent.bsky.social @alka-kanaya.bsky.social @nilayshah.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/abm/...

If you’ve been meaning to take the Berkeley or SF South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, we just announced seven more tour dates for 2025: www.berkeleysouthasian.org We share stories of four generations of Bay Area feminists and freedom fighters, high school students and civil rights activists.

Full story here ⤵️ “Given the alternative, the Senate’s recommendation of a $400m increase for NIH is an indication the agency still has support on Capitol Hill,” says Jennifer Zeitzer of FASEB. “A 40% cut would have been devastating, so this is a good outcome in a tough year.”

Odds of winning #NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Bay Area friends, please help me amplify to your networks:

My quote of the day Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Mohandas Gandhi

Grateful for these brave NIH employees for speaking up “The Bethesda Declaration” 👍🏽💪🏽🙏🏽 apnews.com/article/nih-...

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

MAHA leaders seem intrigued by using blood sugar tracking to improve metabolic health--none more so than Surgeon General nominee Casey Means, who cofounded a co pushing CGMs. And yet...there's little evidence it offers lasting health benefits. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

Watch The Brown Heart docudrama here… www.thebrownheart.com

www.statnews.com/2025/04/25/r... Where’s the uproar from the Cardiology and public health community when NIH cuts major cohorts? Bad for communities, bad for public health, bad ROI. #Cardiosky

New @aspcardio.bsky.social Clinical Practice Statement🫀: Framework to improve cardiometabolic care for South Asians—individual to population level. ow.ly/glCT50VGq9Y @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social @drmarthagulati.bsky.social #CardioSky #MedSky #SouthAsianHealth #HeartHealth #ASPC

Special issue of the journals Diabetes Care and Diabetes celebrating the work of NIDDK for 75 years and with concern and trepidation for an uncertain future. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Our voices matter—public outcry helps! Support our NIH cohorts that have some of the richest longitudinal data www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...

Fabulous issues of Diabetes & Diabetes Care journals showing 75 years of diabetes excellence funded by NIDDK urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

Good trouble. As other social media appear to be attempting to silence the daily letters, it's important to subscribe to receive them daily via email. #goodtrouble

“I cannot think of any other time in modern history where grants that have gone through a very, very rigorous peer-review process have been canceled like this” 🎁

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

anyway, find your local independent bookstore, or any independent bookstore, and support them however you can. you don't need to spend money! book clubs and storytimes are free. author events are often free! asking for help is free. community is free ❤️ bookshop.org

Every part of this story is enraging and insane

Gift link: archive.ph/gQgno#select... New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists." This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased.

This is excellent

Our 2025 Desis Lead Spring Cohort application is now open! This 10-session intensive is crafted to empower South Asian Americans with the essential tools, knowledge, and network needed to run for public office and become effective community leaders. Apply today: bit.ly/desislead

Filming ICE? “Law enforcement may not search your cell phone or other device without a warrant…you may refuse a request from an officer to review or delete what you recorded. You also may refuse to unlock your phone”

Today is a notable date in US History: —Feb 19, 1923: SCOTUS denies Indian immigrants citizenship b/c they're brown —Feb 19, 1942: FDR issues EO 9066 forcing 120K Japanese Americans into Camps b/c they're brown —Feb 19, 2025: Trump ICE raids undocumented Latinos www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-februa...

No new NIH meetings (study sections, councils) scheduled since Jan 21st! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

📣New paper alert 🧵Our paper on substance use in homeless populations @jama.com : 🗝️points: 1) >1/3 ppl use drugs regularly--meth is most common 2) ~1/4 of all ppl experiencing homeless (PEH) started using regularly AFTER becoming homeless (42% before) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/x

It’s a long past time that unions, professional and civic organizations, religious institutions, and all people of goodwill descend on DC and march to the White House. The question is who will lead this? What is happening now is madness.

Don’t know who needs to hear this but there’s literally NO “pathway to DEI compliance” for HBCU’s — or women’s colleges for that matter!

It is an honor to discuss #hearthealth with #Austin on @kxan.com this February! I'm grateful for the opportunity to discuss ways to reduce heart disease risk and the Ascension Cardiovascular Prevention program! @americanheart.bsky.social @aspcardio.bsky.social #Heartmonth #Hearthealth

It’s time to #standupforscience2025 - We’re making our voice heard about the importance of the American science ecosystem, and want you to join us. More information at www.standupforscience2025.org #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

This makes us all less safe. And will echo through generations. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

The reason that Mike Lauer was pushed out of the NIH… Thank you for your service and voice over the last 3 decades, Mike popular.info/p/breaking-n...

In its totality what's happening at HHS & NIH is a Musk/Trump effort to shutdown almost all cancer cure research in the US. No more new cures. Cancer's brand is really in the dumps. It polls terribly. This is a political argument that is straightforward to make. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

I wrote about the clashes between the longtime MAGA base and the recent tech-bro Trump converts, how Indian immigrants have stood at the center of it all, and why we're going to see even more open anti-Indian racism as this coalition stabilizes itself: slate.com/technology/2...

If you’re feeling disheartened in these times, I hope this might be what you need to get re-inspired for the months and years ahead. www.berkeleysouthasian.org

Congratulations Alison Huang on being elected to ASCI! 🎉🎊 So well deserved with your valuable contributions to women’s healthy aging @alisonhuangmd.bsky.social

In today's climate, getting a grant is super hard. Yet I'm seeing more and more colleagues getting hammered for arbitrary and poor reasons when we review each others grants. Don't do this. Unless there is a fundamental issue, you should be supporting your colleagues, not ripping them down.

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

Why threats to public data harm ALL Americans — regardless of political ideology: aapidata.com/blog/threats... The harms include hurting: —American economic success —Global competitiveness —Public health —Government efficiency —Anti-discrimination —Freedom of speech