There were more lab members who started bowling but not everyone survived to the end. They’re so competitive 🙄.

Torikul won again!

Kennedy’s comments on the Novavax covid vaccine approval delay aren’t scientifically accurate and don’t conform with FDA law, experts said.

Giants in neuroscience and leaders for the entire time I’ve been in science (Yuh-Nung interviewed me for a postdoctoral fellowship in 1995).

Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council of the United States: tariffs were not introduced for Russia because it's in the middle of peace negotiations. (By the way, Ukraine is subject to President Trump's tariffs).

A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80. What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people. Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one. Wake up.

Peter Marks from the FDA resigns "it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies." #medsky 🛟😷🧪

America will be less healthy & less safe as a result of Peter Marks' forced resignation from FDA. He & FDA protected us from people who enrich themselves selling snake oil: unproven stem cell therapies, vaccine alternatives, other fake treatments. Thank you for all you did for public health Peter.

Kymmenen pistettä ja papukaijamerkki!

Why waste time briefing Elon Musk, when you could just share America's most sensitive military secrets with the Chinese government directly?

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

Another outstanding story of the real-world impact of the short-sighted cuts to NIH and other federal support for the best scientific research infrastructure in the world. www.wsj.com/articles/bio...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Congratulations to Liming Du, now on the faculty @iShandong university, for discovering that increased interferon levels in aging bone marrow remodels the stromal microenvironment around arterioles and contributes to the decline in lymphopoiesis.

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (and what we stand to lose) @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

Scathing, and rightly so. www.thefp.com/p/trumps-cry...

House cuts to NIH (to fund billionaires) would cut the Cures Act (passed with bipartisan support) by ~$300 million or 70%. Scientific loss includes cancer research, adult stem cell research, brain/dementia research, and a critical data collection project to study rare diseases, among other topics.

Way to go Anna!!

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Measles outbreak in the U.S. continues to expand with 39 new cases in Texas (198 total) and 20 new cases in New Mexico (30 total) h/t BNO News

This is the Attorney General, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. She goes on Fox News every day. Every single day. Spewing MAGA talking points. I wonder how MAGA would feel if the next AG under a Democratic president went on MSNBC every day & spewed partisan Dem stuff.

I opened by saying how much better it was when "decline of the American empire" was the title of a Quebec sex comedy rather than the foreign policy goal of the president of the United States www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aD...

At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract. His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.

Apparently, program officers (POs) must evaluate each grant and confirm that it complies with the Exec Orders. The objectionable topics include workforce DEIA, gender identity, environ. justice, foreign sites, and Plans for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives) commonfund.nih.gov/humanvirome/... 3/n

NIH has been intentionally holding up grants including non-competitive renewals. This “pause” should be evident in Reporter data over the next week, but I posted about the beginning of it yesterday. This is now ending because “NIH” has put a process in place to evaluate grants. 2/n

Stopping cyber operations while the Russians aggressively pursue theirs is another unearned accommodation. Historically, Russia banks concessions and pushes harder. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.

AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Recognizing Rare Disease Awareness Day 2025 at UT Southwestern, with teams from the Genetic & Metabolic Disease Program @cri-utsw.bsky.social and the McDermott Center. We work to find causes & treatments for rare diseases. 25-30 million Americans have a "rare" disease - our mission is to help them.

9yrs ago, his presidential campaign colluded with Putin. 7yrs ago, he sided with Putin in Helsinki and gave his middle finger to our intelligence community. 6yrs ago, he was impeached for extorting Zelensky. None of this is surprising. Trump’s with Putin. He has always been.

Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for. They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."

Senator Cruz hopes tariffs don’t take effect because it could hobble the Texas economy. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Everything makes sense when you understand and accept that Trump is negotiating on behalf of Putin.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

There can no longer be any doubt that Trump and the GOP have betrayed the US and their allies.

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall. If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines. www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u... 🧵👇

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...

Important 🧵 about a Bill that would devastate researchers' ability to study viruses (and vaccines). Copying our congressmen @levin.house.gov @repscottpeters.bsky.social . Please amplify!

elon still working the bugs out of grok 3…

Who benefits from US funding uncertainty? Hours after posting this, I got an email inviting me to China with a “package to support my research for 20 years.” Apparently, generous offers are available to all good scientists!🧪🧠

What do Americans need more: better treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, infectious diseases and other major public health problems or a way to send Musk to Mars?