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Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.

In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU! There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!? abrcms.org/donate/stude...

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful. That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

Bit by bit RFKJr is undermining vaccine trust, science trust and potentially vaccine access in the States- this extended n updated version of an article by me and @chrischirp.bsky.social tries to summarise the multiple tactics he is using 🧪

Back from a wonderful FASEB meeting in Niagara Falls. Returned to at least 2 hours of administrative work in my inbox.

Totally wild (PI version) past 12 hours. 5 working hours to cut 7.5 pages down to 6. But this grant is now ready to be submitted.

🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels. They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B). If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

This reiterates the point I’ve made a few times on here: the US’s loss will be other countries’ gain, but overall it will be an enormous loss. There is no other country that can replicate the US research investment or environment, and the primary brain drain will be out of research, not overseas.

If you won't believe me, here's Paul musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...

Remember when private prison stocks soared immediately after the election? This is why. fortune.com/2024/11/07/p...

Future of NIH in the hands of five senators. Write to them if you are in PA -McCormick WV - Moore Capito ME - Collins AL - Britt LA - Cassidy

Online now: Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections

New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute... www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...

I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.

But universities are threatened with losing their tax exempt status if *students protesting the university* are too openly political. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Science doers, allies & stans in the House, literally: RIGHT NOW! Standup for #Science. Stand up for #NIH. Standup for #EPA. Standup for #NSF. Standup for #CDC. Standup to #Trump Standup to #RFK Standup to #Bhattacharya Standup to #Zeldin EVERYBODY UP! Resist here zurl.co/QdR9F #SUFS #EPA139

Relevant: bsky.app/profile/bria...

Scientists are telling me the damage is going to be generational.

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Struggling through writing blocks today. Starting another 30 minute block now if anyone wants to join me.

Why is faculty governance so important? The AAUP has understood for over a century that without it, and unless we are independent of outside influence, universities have no claim to the public trust. @aaup.org www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres...

Email from Brown admin: government stopped payment on existing NIH grants as of April 3; in three months since, the gov't has cumulatively withheld $45 million in NIH grant reimbursements. Whatever injunctions, court orders, etc. may exist, no resumption of payments... and no explanation either.

1. Trump's cuts to USAID and PEPFAR will far outweigh any benefit that accrues in eastern DRC. 2. The "peace" deal is really another minerals deal, with little regard for human security. (We have a piece lined up on this.) tl;dr: Trump & Vance don't care about Black lives, in the US or Africa.

We had a hummingbird friend visit while we at our pastries at the top of the garden. It was so hard to follow it from flower to flower.

Delayed post. Great visit to Red Butte Gardens on Saturday with BRIDGE UP and PISCES.

Pro tip: find a colleague that gives you honest feedback on your writing. @statfourwork.bsky.social will write me comments like "This is a terrible sentence" and they are very much appreciated.

The Trump administration made Jim Ryan's resignation one of the conditions of the DOJ's case against UVA's alleged DEI. The executive branch just taking over every institution in US society--quite authoritarian.

My prediction: more and earlier dementia is gonna be one of the legacies of LLMs “The analysis of the L.L.M. users showed fewer widespread connections between different parts of their brains…and less theta connectivity, which is associated with working memory.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

NIH director Jay Bhattacharya posted on X: "No clinical trial has been delayed, nor has any participant been dropped from clinical trial. These are the facts." Malaria, tuberculosis, cancer trials abroad have all been on the chopping block, leaving participants stranded, I reported in this story.

Many of us would describe Mamdani’s immigrant story as the American Dream, to Miller it’s a nightmare because, well, brown.

⏳ Registration for the 2025 AAI Advanced Immunology Course closes June 30th! Don't miss your chance to learn from Course Director Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama in Boston, MA, July 27 – August 1. Level up your immunology knowledge and register now: ow.ly/FeFg50WfpC7.

In Scotland, the HPV vaccine is given to all girls since 2008. Not one recipient of the vaccine has developed cervical cancer. Not one.

Great day on the river. My boat choose to race, we had a blast with our amazing guide Kallie. Every boat had the day they wanted :)

No pictures of the after hike donuts and coffee from Doughbird (a must visit resturant if you head to Moab)

Another beautiful Southern Utah sunrise

Great first day in Moab for the 2025 BRIDGE UP HBCU and PISCES cohorts!

I applied for this trial. This could EASILY have been me. Or someone else you know.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

My grant reviews are do in 4 days for study section. I just tried to log into ERA commons to get the app for a review and got a 503 error. This is not cool. I have limited times I can review.

‼️ Kulldorff is getting rich from anti-HPV vaccine litigation: “At a deposition in October, Kulldorff testified that the plaintiffs paid him $400 an hour & he had already billed for ~ $33,000 in legal work on the case through late September. He said he also received a $4,000 retainer in the NC case”

Proposal submitted. Now to finish LOSs for a trainee's application

I have this LOS half-way drafted. Taking a 5 minute break and then I'll try to finish it off if anyone wants to join me in writing.