73% of Australians are worried about the future of democracy in the USA (ABC reporting). The impact of the disastrous Trump administration is being noticed around the world. How long before Americans rise up and take back their democracy?

After Trump fired the last director because the numbers were terrible for him. Nothing to see here.

I can't believe the President of the USA posted this for the world to see. So wrong on so many levels, it illuminates just how cruel, ignorant and corrupt he is. This alone is proof he is deranged, dangerous and not fit for office.

Great suggestions. Additional ideas welcome!

Excellent, well-informed and thoughtful article on the NEJM on the vaccine approval landscape in the US and what needs to happen next: The Path Forward for Vaccine Policy in the United States | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

In my life I've seen the introduction of: Television Space flight Mobile phones Satellites/GPS Electronic music Computers/PCs Internet Email Social media Smart phones Online banking Electric cars Drones Solar power Bitcoin Generative AI What on earth is the next 70 years going to bring???

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

Excellent and illuminating article on Harvard's woes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

🧪NIH staff have released the Bethesda Declaration, a public statement signed by over 340 scientists and staff, urging their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse significant cuts and freezes to external grants. It comes in response to a proposed 40% budget cut to NIH for 2026. #MedSky

Please read the excellent letter in the NEJM regarding the gutting of women's health research under Trump. About $2.5 billion in NIH research funding has been rescinded, much in areas that affect women and families. Thousands of government websites have been stifled. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Today we celebrate bioinnovation and entrepreneurship in the School of Biomedical Sciences at @UWA. www.uwa.edu.au/seek-wisdom/...

Korean study: 38.8M doses of vax, 687 serious adverse events reported = 1:58K Of 358 in study cohort, 160 deaths <42 days (0.0004% by dose) Median age 69y, multiple comorbidities, causality undetermined. Antivaxxer: Nearly HALF of Patients with Serious COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries DIE Within 6 Weeks!

Powerful new tool against Malaria (𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦) Instead of killing mosquitoes, bed nets coated with ELQs (endochin-like quinolones) KILL THE MALARIA PARASITES INSIDE THE INSECTS. Infected mosquitoes land, absorb the drug through their legs, and are rendered parasite-free www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting paper just published in PNAS: researchers identified metallic oxide nanoparticles (~25-1000 nm) in the majority of breast milk samples; they studied biological uptake, dissemination and transfer mechanisms in a mouse model: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪 Here is a resource that tracks federal grants that have been terminated. grant-watch.us

Academic friends, if your NSF grants have been terminated by the administration, FABBS is hosting a webinar Friday about appealing the decisions. It's important that as many people appeal as possible to show we're not accepting this targeting of science. Link to the webinar registration is below.

Of 400 phase 2/3 vaccine trials, only 22 included pregnant women. We need to do better and change the clinical trial culture. Great infographic presented at the 2025 SRI meeting earlier this year.

105 controlled vaccine trials. 110 yrs. 1.8 M participants. All in one live, crowd-sourced sheet. Built by contributors worldwide to counter the myth that vaccines weren’t tested with controls. Quiet work still breaks through the noise. www.bradspellberg.com/vaccine-rcts @bradspellberg.bsky.social

𝐓𝐁 𝐎𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐁 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 Study from Kiessling Lab MIT in PNAS exploits a rare sugar—methylthioxylofuranose (MTX)—to tag TB’s virulence glycans with oxaziridine probes Method distinguishes TB from nonpathogenic relatives and enables live-cell imaging, great promise toward diagnostics

Insane is exactly the phrase I would have used! ‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage www.science.org/content/arti...

Excellent article detailing the devastating consequences of the Trump administration's war on health research funding: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recently, a new class of therapeutics that disable the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn), which protects IgG from degradation, has emerged to treat IgG-mediated autoimmune disease. Learn more in a new review: nej.md/42gEZYk #MedSky #GastroSky

Well, it's official. We just received notice that all authors on the Sixth National Climate Assessment have just been released from their roles. The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.

Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election

New hope for LYME DISEASE, right under our eyes? Unbiased screen surprisingly shows PIPERACILLIN can wipe out 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 in mice at tiny doses — 100 times lower than doxycycline — while leaving gut bacteria intact Jutras Lab Northwestern Sci Transl Med www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it. Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!

Published today after 2years of work behind the scenes by us at WHN/DELPHI Executive team : Our Global Expert DELPHI Consensus document on Long Covid. 179 Experts from 28 countries around the Globe Participated. Please share. Happy Easter! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is an EXCELLENT article. I teach statistics to public policy students & tell them that data are essential for making the world a better place. We need good data to assess the state of things, see how things have changed over time, & evaluate if policies work. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Excited to share our invited review in AJOG: The maternal-fetal interface at single-cell resolution. Big kudos to our PhD student Dustyn Levenson for leading this effort! Free access on ScienceDirect until June 7, 2025—no sign-up needed! lnkd.in/gqt3MYPM

Devastating, as expected. But numbers help us talk about the harm. 🙁 (NB: this article primarily quantifies DEATHS, & some pregnancy-associated outcomes. It doesn’t count disability, illness, emotional injury, malnutrition, etc. The full effect of these cuts will be so much larger 🛟)

Omega-3s have potential to counteract THC effects on fetal development "The best way to prevent the adverse cardiac health outcomes in offspring is to stop using cannabis, but this study raises the exciting possibility that an Omega-3 diet could be beneficial to those…exposed to cannabis in utero."

👏👏👏 what BMJ said 👏👏👏

SRI stands in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and CDC. To our colleagues at NIH and CDC: You are not alone. The scientific and reproductive health communities stand with you.

Exciting News! ISIR is now officially a member of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) @iuis-online.bsky.social! This milestone opens new doors for collaboration, research, and advancing reproductive immunology