$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

By cutting the electricity supply in Cuba the USA killed hundreds of severely ill patients in Cuban hospitals last night. Yet another of their many war crimes. Donald Trump is the 21st century Adolf Hitler.

This mimics Jim Crow legislation (e.g., passposrts can cost $165, is akin to a poll tax). It's blatantly unconstitutional, a gambit by the most lawless and corrupt regime in history (whose identity is rooted in election denial) to take over elections from the states open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

USPS cost us $9B last year, and the Pentagon just asked for $200B to restock for its war. I'd rather have the mail!

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

this would fully fund the CDC for over 20 years at the 2024 level

The measles outbreaks in the US are so bad and out of control that pediatricians are reaching out to colleagues in developing countries for input on how to manage severe complications of the disease that they have never seen before. Measles was eliminated in the US for 20 years then #RFKJr happened.

One week - and that's more than the entirety of the US public health budget up in, literal, smoke. *poof*

Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation. He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest. (1/2🧵)

BREAKING: A judge just blocked Kennedy's handpicked vaccine advisers, and all votes they've taken in the past year. They will not meet this week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

5/25

My weekly NIH update... The fiscal year 2026 curve still lies below the other curves but appears to be increasing at close to the normal pace. 1/4

Sen. Kim: A couple of years ago we created the Civilian Protection Center. Hegseth decided to gut this office last year. And now we find ourselves facing one of the worst losses of life for civilians at the hands of Americans in decades.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Good coverage of new "Scientific Freedom Lecture" series at NIH from @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/science/2026... 1/2

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

The invasion of the NIH by the wildly unqualified continues.

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

The first week of US's war with Iran cost $6 billion, almost the same as the entire annual budget funding all scientific research via NSF

WSJ: “.. U.S. military investigators think American forces likely were responsible for the strike, according to a U.S. official ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Trump: “war can be fought forever”

You still had 100 characters left to use after the text in this post. You could have included this sentence (69 characters). There is no evidence that ivermectin works as a treatment for cancer.

I really feel it’s irresponsible to not include the fact that it’s *totally ineffective* against cancer in the post text and headline here

He has an angry 17 year old's understanding of war and most other things in life. Unqualified beyond belief. The 50 Senators who voted to confirm should seriously contemplate falling on their swords in shame and I do not mean that metaphorically.

this has been a confusing issue with all the lawsuits and negotiating, but thankfully @maxkozlov.bsky.social breaks it down clearly. bottom line: the damage to US science is still ongoing and still immense. this is a war of attrition that requires continued vigilance

By itself, this should be considered utterly disqualifying for confirmation.

A second email, this with a more substantial insight about "The Replication Crisis"... 1/5

Sen Ossoff (D-GA) nails it‼️This administration is of, by and for the Epstein Class. The middle class is getting absolutely crushed by this economy. The #TrumpAffordabilityChaos is wreaking havoc on working citizens, everything costs more and prices will only continue to rise.

! and that Eye of Sauron look is thanks to the use of a coronagraph to block the light of the star. www.eso.org/public/image...

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Covid lab leak “theories” are my new litmus test to establish if a commentator/intellectual is worth being taken seriously in any capacity.

Nothing about our current moment is comprehensible without understanding that: 1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president. 2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner. 3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.

Right now, we have a tax code that forces firefighters and teachers to pay a higher share of their income than many billionaires and major corporations. We need to change that - because our economy requires it, and because it is simply the right thing to do.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

seems almost certain we’ll later find out they were coerced thehill.com/homenews/med...

Wise plan.

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

Moreover, the most critical advantage of the mRNA tech is the speed at which it can be produced. Under a properly functioning regulatory apparatus, when we got surprised with H3N2 subclade K, we could have had an updated vaccine within ~2 months.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Fuck every last one of you who voted for this evil. Remove these people from your lives. Nazi supporters.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

WTAF

Mistakes happen, but Metabiota claimed competencies they did not have. They did not work with other responders. They did not seek help when they should have. Fake it until you make it, but here with lives of very vulnerable people. apnews.com/article/db31... www.cbsnews.com/news/america...