We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

I’m Not the Person You’d Expect to Oppose a Ban on Transgender Troops www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

📢 Day rates for #ISPP2025 are now live! Join us in Glasgow (17–20 June) for just one or two days of cutting-edge sessions on paediatric pain. 🗓 View the programme: inconference.eventsair.com/ispp-2025/ 🎟 Register now: ispp2025.com/registration/ Don’t miss it! #PaediatricPain #PainResearch

IASP congratulates Jennifer Stinson, RN-EC, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, on receiving the 2025 Gairdner Momentum Award. Her work in digital health has advanced pain assessment and management for young people worldwide. bit.ly/4ivXJI0

‪#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁 "The NIH has sharply curbed grant funding, disrupting small companies and upending a pillar of biomedical innovation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

#handsoff Hartford

Thanks to my community for a better day in Wisconsin today.

Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

This is a direct attack on the career prospects of the young adults in our country. These grants are only open to citizens/permanent residents.

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Good week for CB1 in #PainResearch Virtual library docking for cannabinoid-1 receptor agonists with reduced side effects www.nature.com/articles/s41... A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PainResearch

Adolescent predictors of young adult pain & health outcomes included the usual culprits: pain intensity, more pain locations, anxiety, poor sleep quality & family dysfunction. Follow-up study of adolescents with chronic pain journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...

Ashamed www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

“I’m taking DOGE to the next level with DOUCHE,” Musk said.

This guy is cool. He supports all the right causes (children's health, vaccines, etc.) and he loves Legos.

Wonderful editorial regarding diversity equity and inclusion. by Karen Davis. #painresearch journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Tell the truth about pain www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

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Mr Kennedy this is in your hands. Delayed CDC report shows increased evidence of bird flu spread to people - The Washington Post

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

Indirects explained deliprao.substack.com/p/understand...

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

All IDCs capped at 15% as of today. If this stands we’re done. Every research institute immediately goes out of business and nearly every university will end large scale research. Back to the age of the aristocrat tinkerer. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Further interpretation: the Trump administration wants to cede the world’s scientific future to China and, secondarily, to Europe and the rest of Asia.

"The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. "This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments" - Dr. Lucky Tran

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

This pauses all federally sponsored research for children. If you don’t support this let your congressperson. Know www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...