We are recruiting both adult and pediatric transplant hepatologists--adult posting is below. I just joined in January; feel free to DM if you want to know more about our program. @urochester.bsky.social @aasldnews.bsky.social @astinfo.bsky.social @naspghan.bsky.social jobs.myast.org/job/transpla...

For those in Chicago, attend if you can to hear what’s really happening inside NIH. The presenters have recent experience inside NIH and are closely connected to many still inside.

At every stage in your hepatology career, you deserve a chance to: ✅ Attend The Liver Meeting® and other world-class meetings ✅ Nominate for leadership opportunities ✅ Advance your career with AASLD's Career Center Renew your membership today and maintain unbeatable benefits. https://bit.ly/4sMOw3e

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

We’re pleased to spread the word about the #ILTSCongress2026 in Geneva, May 6-9. Join the global #livertransplantation community for cutting-edge science, hands-on workshops, and multidisciplinary exchange. Learn more: ilts.org/2026-congress

Congrats to everyone who found out they matched into their desired specialty today! I have three mentees who are celebrating (pediatrics and general surgery x 2).

MALRD1 Deficiency Aggravates Hepatic Fibrosis in Diet-Induced MASH - Gastro Hep Advances www.ghadvances.org/article/S277... @dremamaullee.bsky.social @markfrey2000.bsky.social

Nobel prize for Tregs!

They don't. It's not free at the ER for anyone, (unless you have Medicaid and the undocumented can't get Medicaid.) Government funded hospitals are not allowed to turn anyone away, regardless of ability to pay, but they still get a bill. What an absolute failure of a human he is. Waste of oxygen.

@dremamaullee.bsky.social creates magic! Super-liver-man?? #liver #science #research

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well bloody hell.....

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."

Important note from inside NIH New grants policy terms may lead to terminations after October 1st. Don't panic, but do realize that this is a possibility.

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

Our daughter Nusayba has officially graduated to long-term follow-up care, marking 5.5 years cancer-free. Georgetown Health Magazine recently featured her story, which captures some of the challenges and hope that defined these years for us. today.advancement.georgetown.edu/health-magaz...

🚀 Powerful insights from today’s Social Media session at #WTC2025! About the future of transplant communication. 💬🧬📱 #TransplantTwitter @ttsorg.bsky.social @astinfo.bsky.social

Incredibly well reported deep dive on NIH and health disparities research in STAT. 🧵 www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n... 1/31

NEW: Their NIH grants are back, but nothing is back to normal. In June, a judge ordered the restoration of 900+ terminated grants. So how's that going? Scientists say they're happy, but also it's been a bumpy road—and they're afraid their funds will get cut again. www.chronicle.com/article/thei...

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Good grief, the US National Cancer Institute projects it will fund only one in 25 RO1 grant applications in 2026. This is massively defunding cancer research. Despicable vandalism. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌 We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

Science 🧪 fair of knowledge lost due to grant terminations. Why isn’t this being live-streamed? How do we - the people - get to watch? nasawatch.com/congress/con...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

NYC 🚨 IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED, GO NOW FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE HERE: vote.nyc/page/find-yo... RANK ZOHRAN 1, LANDER 2, MYRIE, ADAMS, BLAKE 3-5. DO NOT RANK CUOMO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. LET’S FUCKING GO.

I finally decided to be more active here after missing the science side of twitter. Please check out my paper, "IRE1α promotes phagosomal calcium flux to enhance macrophage fungicidal activity" with @drbadbug.bsky.social and @teresaomeara.bsky.social! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Two good follows for this evening @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Two of the leaders at NIH who wrote the #BethedaDeclaration and are standing up and speaking out for all of us. @standupforscience.bsky.social

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

Patient distrust of the healthcare system can lead to adverse events and emotional damage in patients and their families. In a viewpoint article, authors discuss how providers can and should work to “mend the wounds of mistrust.”

BREAKING: Over 300 NIH workers have signed The Bethesda Declaration and delivered it to Director Bhattacharya accusing him and the admin of putting “political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources” and demanding changes. www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-worker...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

To put these top-line budget numbers in context, cuts of this magnitude would effectively mean no new grants in FY2026. The entire extramural budget would go to existing, continuing grants. An abject failure of American ambition. And a betrayal of our global leadership in health science innovation.

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...

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

A 72-page complaint w/ 30+ exhibits filed less than 18 hours after the attack was announced. They were ready. ✊

#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers. Story by @virginiagewin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump Dark Ages. Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Good cover @economist.com

Everything seems awful sometimes, but I've met the absolute best folks in the midst of all this chaos. Case in point: a brilliant new colleague (who asked to remain anonymous) sketched one of Judge Young's more incredulous statements about NIH's anti-DEI policy today:

⚖️🍿 Alright, let’s do it. Live-tweeting oral arguments on a motion for preliminary injunction in APHA v NIH. Hearing starts at 11a EDT today This is scheduled to be an argument about whether the Court should reinstate terminated NIH grants on topics like DEI, trans health, HIV prevention. But...

grrreat, just great www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Baldwin to RFK Jr: "Is funding for Alzheimer's research centers DEI? Because you're holding up $65m for 14 of those centers in 9 states, including UW Madison. Is funding for cancer centers DEI? Because you're holding up $47m in cancer center support grants at 9 cancer centers in 8 states."

Elect a bigoted, mysogenistic, white nationalist goverment and this is what happens. Shame on them all.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Grant freezes versus terminations feel different, but they have the same practical effect. We should start treating freezes as terminations, both of which can be undone by HHS / NIH whenever they want—or by court order if they refuse. They’re all illegal.