Booster Shots Help Prevent Severe COVID-19 in People With Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Just finished #flux2025 in Dublin and it it good to be back! What a great conference.

Excellent analysis of poor science that should not have made it through peer review. Probably should be retracted now by the journal. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ending the summer having submitted five first-author manuscripts and a response to a published paper. This K01 and the protected time are the best! Thank you #NIH #NICHD Thank you @rcgd-isr.bsky.social #ISR #psychology @umich.edu

Don’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.

Hey #neuroscience #neuroskyence we are hiring a Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina (uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/190...) We have a vibrant neuroscience community with extensive university support for research. I am extremely happy here. Come join us!

Our brain-immune system axis has recently has some fascinating new reports Here is one summarized www.nature.com/articles/s41... More here erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...

This looks really interesting

Finally received the notice of award for my K01! Thanks #nih #nichd @rcgd-isr.bsky.social

Excited that my JAMA Pediatrics article with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @bhrenton.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social and others is now published. It turns out that permissive firearm laws aren’t great if you want to reduce pediatric firearm deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

As someone who studies child maltreatment it sickens me that this will be ignored. These are often homicides that we could prevent.

The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

This is a big reason why the tech oligarch/DOGE world thinks they can blow up NSF and NIH. We cannot overstate this: It is so full of shit. This is not real science or research, which is a creative endeavor. “AI scientists” would not have built CAR-T therapies and will not treat Alzheimer’s.

Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here... Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process? Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...

Astrocytes make up a large proportion of brain cells. They propagate electrical influences without spiking. Brain communication involves more than just spikes and synapses. bcs.mit.edu/news/overloo... #neuroscience

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

RFK Jr. plans to bar NIH scientists from top journals like NEJM & JAMA, replacing them with government-run outlets. This would delegitimize taxpayer-funded research, warns Dr. Adam Gaffney of Harvard Medical School. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

A fine freaking time to destroy NIH. www.axios.com/2025/05/29/c...

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

Legacy media is failing this moment in such a colossal way. There is a difference between opinion and fact—and between right and wrong. Soft-peddling AIDS deniers as heterodox thinkers is fucking disgraceful. Of course, this is what comes after soft-peddling COVID deniers. Despicable.

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...

This is important for science, medicine, and universities: Is the Trump admin complying with court orders? No. And it’s legalistically obfuscating what it’s doing, so the press has trouble saying it is defying court orders. Good piece from @dtdeacon.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social 🧪 #medsky

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

The Big Gov't Burglary Bill — reconciliation — is a disaster. We don't say that lightly: it's end-of-the-US-Republic stuff. It will put into law many Trump actions to shred the gov't that are now illegal. We need four R's scared off enough to stop it. Call and get into the media. Let's go.

The NIH plans to block new grants that sub-award to foreign collaborators—threatening thousands of potentially life saving studies on HIV, cancer, dementia, and more. Millions in research funding could go to waste. This isn’t protecting science. It’s sabotaging it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

⛔️ Big NIH update: We just learned of 726 more NIH grants that were terminated sometime over the past 2 months. A huge number of diversity supps, diversity F31s, and diversity training grants. See below ⤵️ View them here: grant-watch.us/nih-data.html h/t to @noamross.net for processing them.

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Thoughtful and thorough analysis. 1/n

It does feel orchestrated to bring down American innovation and discovery.

NIH-funded basic research allowed me to discover two molecules (COX-2 and S1PR1) that became drug targets - COX-2 inhibitors and S1PR modulators - more than 7 million prescriptions for Celebrex taken for pain; >350k people have taken Fingolimod/Ozanimod for MS and IBD/UC-basic research is essential!

As a part of our #SummerFightforScience we are pleased to announce merch! We are partnered with @worxprinting.bsky.social--a union run, worker-owned, eco-friendly screen printing shop...ALL MADE IN THE USA. Yep, more 'merica than MAGA! #StandUpForScience shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/...

New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because "We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

More context: Our tracker (grant-watch.us) currently lists 877 terminated NIH grants. We have 820 rows in the tracker, but some rows list multiple grants. As of yesterday, NIH RePORTER listed 807 NIH grants specifically at Harvard. So we're looking at over 1600 formally terminated NIH grants now.

Excellent video. @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov should be helping.

Of late I've tried to remain circumspect in my social media posts, but looking in detail at these arts funding cuts I am officially ENRAGED. They are relatively tiny amounts that would make a huge impact to individual organizations. I am disgusted by those making the cuts; a pox on all their houses

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

I hope he gets a good grilling about gutting grants.

To my colleagues at Harvard with recently terminated NIH and NSF grants, please, please report them below. We’re told of at least 200 NSF grants and widespread NIH terminations. NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... And please spread the word 🙏

Everyone in this picture is complicit

Excited to see my alma mater on bluesky.

🏠📉 New research in @jama.com (JAMA Network Open) highlights the impact of housing instability on children's mental health. We explored how stress about eviction or housing loss affects child depression, anxiety, ADHD, & behavioral problems. #HousingInstability jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... /1

Rümeysa Öztürk has been detained at a federal facility in Louisiana after being arrested on the street in Sommerville, Massachusetts on March 25 by six plainclothes agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

It was a privilege to help tell the stories of U.S. scientists whose lives have been upended during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration in this recent piece for @science.org

That was funny.

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.