What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

New in PN: The AP provides a model of effective press resistance "The dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico seems trivial, especially compared to the others horrors Trump is currently perpetrating. But tyrants are tyrants in part bc they insist on asserting control over even trivial matters."

I wrote a book The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2013, title adopted after Schumpeter). This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.

I can't believe they've just cancelled the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC. This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...

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

This energy.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Another example of what cutting science funding is doing to our leading university research programs in the U.S.: dismantling things like the Soybean Innovation Lab at UIUC, which have made US crop yields dramatically higher.

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

We should not be allowing non-government employees to waltz in to government offices, and illegally get access to sensitive government and personal data, and get read and write access to critical software systems in multiple government agencies. www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...

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...

If hostile foreign nations made a plan to destroy US influence and power, it would probably involve shutting down NIH and NSF

To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms). I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.

This week's cover and editorial @thelancet.bsky.social on mis- and disinformation's impact on public health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Excited to share that our PubMedBERT paper pioneering exploration of biomedical LLMs has been retrospectively awarded as the Best Paper of the Year by ACM Health: dl.acm.org/journal/heal....

Excited to head to JPM and WEF in following weeks, both first time. Survival tips welcome :)

Happy to conclude 2024 by sharing that BiomedCLIP has been published in NEJM AI (right before Christmas no less :-): ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I am honored and humbled to be named "Technology Champion" by the Puget Sound Business Journal in the annual Health Care Leadership Awards. Thanks PSBJ and the health community in the Greater Seattle Area for this great recognition! lnkd.in/gdhx8bEa

CANADIAN Version of this series would have been boring. Man gets cancer... Man goes to Dr. because they have universal healthcare. The End.

Not every day a leading US academic health system partners with @costplusdrugs.com, bypassing PBMs, to save drug costs for their patients @pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal

I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What should we eat? Or avoid? The new Ground Truths podcast is with @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, a leader in nutrition science and metabolism erictopol.substack.com/p/kevin-hall... Full transcript with links to multiple publications

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

The journal Nature asked 6 biomedical scientists to briefly comment on what should be a U.S. priority going forward. Here's mine. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Super exciting time for deciphering life using GenAI!

—Please give me an A.I. that automatically detects, interprets all types of medical. images (scans, retina, endoscopy, skin) that I can interact with, can integrate data from other sources, saves a lot of time, and improves accuracy —Sure, here it is www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A big day of output for the Human Cell Atlas, a global collaborative project with 100 countries to understand our ~37 trillion cells A Wikipedia of our cells, a "remarkable achievement" nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/immersive/d4...

Excited to see this review of BiomedParse in Nature Methods News: nature.com/articles/s41.... We're super psyched that the authors tried BiomedParse on their own images and were impressed. The authors are also spot on re the research frontiers. So much remains to be done!

New in Nature Methods from Wei, Poon, and Wang: BiomedParse, a biomedical foundation model that can jointly conduct segmentation, detection and recognition across nine imaging modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to use my first post to share that BiomedParse is now published on Nature Methods: www.nature.com/articles/s41... BiomedParse is a single foundation model that attains state-of-the-art performance for holistic image analysis across 64 major object types in nine imaging modalities.