PSA - if you cook Turkey for your Thanksgiving meal, despite its unfortunate name, spatchcocking a Turkey is one of the most thermodynamically favorable ways to cook it. 🧪 🧵

Hearing a @jeremymberg.bsky.social rant is almost always a good time. A close second is a @cdelawalla.bsky.social rant. Sounds like fun. I'll be there @standupforscience.bsky.social . Who else wants to join me?

A great opinion piece on the damage being done to early career researchers and why we need to do a better job supporting them from Sophia Greene, an undergraduate at Vassar College, and Dr. Claudia Fernandes, an assistant clinical professor at Yale.

Thanks for the reminder, @dmgreene.bsky.social. Terps, I've got a challenge for you. From now until #GivingTuesday, I will match every signature with one dollar donated to the @univofmaryland.bsky.social. @mboudreaux.bsky.social claims he'll match me. @publichealthumd.bsky.social, what about you?

“If this administration thinks that summarily ousting NIH employees whose only offense is calling on the agency to respect science and academic freedom will go unnoticed, they can think again.” www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Thanks for continuing to speak out @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social. We will not be silenced.

Yesterday, hundreds of scientists, physicians, health workers, patients, leaders, and advocates spoke together with one voice, RFK Jr. is not fit to lead HHS and has got to go. Thanks to @apha.org @standupforscience.bsky.social, and others for organizing.

🧵1/7. More blows to science. Dr. Rachel Riley, a 33 year-old DOGE staffer and former McKinsey consultant, replaced a Rear Admiral as the head of the Office of Naval Research. The ONR, with a budget over $2B, oversees Navy and Marine Corps research programs in science and technology.

@savehealthresearch.bsky.social writes, "99% of recent treatments are #NIH supported. Erica wants everyone to have the same opportunity she had to benefit from this new medicine. What treatments are we about to discover that could be lost, and who may have been given years more of life?"

One of the more in-depth pieces I've seen on how the abrupt switch to multi year funding is harming biomedical research. Luckily, the proposed FY26 Senate appropriations bill has protections against this. Just another reason why we can't have a CR that's a blank check.

Maternal deaths have more than halved in the last forty years

I just learned about this amazing program that matches high schoolers interested in STEM with mentors, including many past and present NIH trainees. These types of programs are even more important in this day and age. If you're able to help support it, they have a gofundme.

Thinking of my many, many neighbors not getting their pay today

A nicely laid out piece on what is being lost by attacks on DEI. Definitely worth a read. Thanks to the authors for taking the time to write it. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

If you care about running (like me), you should care about climate change. 🧪

By keeping the House out of session and refusing to come to the negotiating table, this administration is continuing to undercut US scientific leadership.

A cool side-effect of COVID vaccines (and likely other mRNA vaccines) is that they can help fight cancer by boosting the immune system. Neat!

🧵People like to characterize MAHA as "stupid," but the people running it aren't stupid - they're talented, successful pitchmen; folks working for "food brands, investment banks, supplement sellers and other companies." 🔹️"Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling apnews.com/article/maha...

I never tire of reading about @danieljdrucker.bsky.social. He has always been very kind to me, and I'm endlessly inspired by his dedication to diabetes research. 🧪https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/setback-lizard-and-decades-work-impact-daniel-druckers-research-extends-far-beyond-ozempic

I was disappointed to see a bill in #Maryland to allow the sale of raw milk for human consumption. Raw milk is dangerous and has been shown to have no positive health benefits.

This is how I think peer review should work. Peer review is about evaluating the rigor of the experiments and analysis. So long as the conclusion is supported by the data and appropriately considers the literature, it shouldn't matter whether it agrees with your interpretation. 🧪

Big shout outs to University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, M.I.T., the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the University of Virginia. I salute them all for standing up for academic freedom.

A thoughtful take on novel alternative methods (NAMs) and animal models. "Instead of asking whether ‘to NAM or not to NAM?’ when considering the use of anything as a research model, the question should be: ‘Does the model I am using faithfully represent the biological system I am studying?’"

What makes you laugh and then think? Parafilm is actually insanely useful in the lab.

new england journal of medicine published the results of our clinical trial! 🧪 www.bbc.com/news/article...

An interesting take on the problem of lab waste in science. I often worry about how much plastic waste I'm creating in lab. However, I think real change will take commitments from institutions and funding agencies, rather than individuals. What does #sciencesky 🧪 think?

Huge shoutout to all the people who donated food at the #nokings #nihvigil yesterday!

Por favor, compártalo ampliamente, especialmente si vive en Carolina del Sur, Texas , Nuevo México, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Míchigan, Illinois, Dakota del Norte, Arkansas, Montana, Arizona or Utah. Gracias a @savehealthresearch.bsky.social. #publichealthysky

"Since day one, they have been shutting down the government. You know why -- to benefit the billionaires." Powerful words from @alsobrooks.senate.gov at yesterday's #NIHVigils #NoKings event.

Some of my favorite science-themed 🧪 signs at yesterday's #NIHVigils #NoKings event! The creativity was incredible! Thanks to everyone who came out. The NIH Vigils happen every Saturday at 10 am at the NIH Visitor Center @nihvigils.bsky.social

The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious. Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy. 1/ 🧪#NoKings

Dartmouth says *No* to the Compact 1 - MIT 2 - Brown 3 - Penn 4 - U. of Southern California 5 - UVA 6 - Dartmouth UT-Austin, Vanderbilt & U of Arizona left... bsky.app/profile/roop...

The NIH community says yes to science, yes to democracy, and no to kings! Thank you to everyone who joined us today at the #nihvigils #nokings event! Join us every weekend on Saturdays at 10 am at the NIH Visitor Center.

VERY TROUBLING NEWS REGARDING NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTORS A new appointment for NIEHS 1/3

I was happy to stand in solidarity with the FEMA signers of the Katrina Declaration today! They have two asks for the public, tell your representatives to support the FEMA act and the Protect America's Workforce act.

If you're looking for a No Kings event in the DMV area, this should be a great one! It's co-hosted by @27unihted.bsky.social and @indivisible.org Bethesda, and the MD chapter of @standupforscience.bsky.social. Plus, it starts early at 10 am if you want to head down to DC afterwards.

A really important piece by @dmohottige.bsky.social and team about the real world effects of NIH grant terminations, and a great example of advocacy from researchers 👏

MIT, Brown, Penn, and now USC have all rejected the compact. As we like to say, courage is contagious.

YES!!! IT IS A FEATURE OF BOTH SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY!!!! Particularly a representative democracy…where we ELECT EXPERTS TO REPRESENT OUR BEST INTERESTS!!! This man has to go. #impeachthequack

With the extension of this federal hiring freeze, it now becomes one of the longest federal hiring freezes in history. This is going to harm the NIH, especially NIH early career researchers.

Great thread from @jeremymberg.bsky.social with the numbers on how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers.

Another reason why unions are so important for supporting science and public health.

If you’ve been affected by the government shutdown at NIH, CDC, or FDA — we’d still love for you to join us at the #STATSummit this week. Email [email protected] for a complimentary virtual pass. Explore the agenda: www.statnews.com/stat-summit-...

For the first time in over 30 years, there are actually some really good new antibacterial options coming through the pipeline. That's why we need to keep investing in publicly funded research to fight antibacterial resistance.

PSA for all my friends and colleagues who are Virginia residents. You no longer have to head over to Maryland to get your COVID shots.

If he brought the house back to negotiate on the CR, maybe federal scientists like me could go back to work fighting antibacterial resistance.

UPDATE from @jodiscohen.bsky.social + @jsmithrichards.bsky.social: Following public outcry, the Department of Ed. has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an org that will provide funding to these students.

Powerful story from Olivia Lutz about the cutting of F31 diversity fellowships. NIH leadership is failing young scientists, so it's up to all of us to find ways to support them.

Attracting new scientists is what makes America a global leader.