ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

OMB is Waging a Disinformation Campaign. They are Lying About the Reasons for Changing OMB’s Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Read all about it in my latest essay on substack. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/omb-is-wag...

This is scientifically illiterate "journalism", promoting snake oil, completely disconnected from the medical and scientific reality of long COVID. The science community isn't "baffled" by LC. It's an incredibly complicated range of conditions, under studied, and *under funded*.

Some political person from HHS who clearly doesn’t know which way is up, is reviewing NIH grants and making absurd suggested changes. This is on top of a set of discriminatory changes required by NIH. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

New study: Long COVID may affect 1️⃣ in 6 infected patients. That number is far higher than official estimates. Read more on the findings: ow.ly/ZctI50Z6gMH

I said to some NIH colleagues yesterday they're trying to do what they they did at USAID. The field of international aid largely doesn't exist anymore bc USAID is gone. People can't get jobs because orgs that would hire them depended (directly or indirectly) on the agency for funding.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

I don’t want to scare anyone, but basically every time I talk to a current or former government lawyer they tell me we are going to need a new Constitution. Because this one is inoperative.

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

Nature Human Behavior just published an article by a SPLC affiliated hate group author who explicitly lists it in the article less than a year after submission. It's a deeply flawed analysis that tries to erase the harms of anti-trans laws by overemphasizing data limitations.

The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Spencer and MJ’s project is now out! Let me say something about the study, why it is important to me personally, and why I think it is important given what is happening right now at NIH and how science there is being disrupted or suppressed. 1/N (N = 19) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

The stakes in this referendum are too high to sit it out. We need to build a solid case, not just for staying put, but for a stronger Alberta within a better Canada. That's why I'm joining other prominent conservatives in making the case for Alberta to lead, not leave. www.leadnotleave.ca

in ONE HOUR we close out #VSS2026 with the 6th iteration of #phiVis! Ft. talks and commentaries by @matthiasmichel.bsky.social Wilma Bainbridge, Will Davies, @vivianpaulun.bsky.social, Frédérique de Vignemont, and Bill Warren! 1pm-3pm in the Banyan/Citrus Room

NEW: Alberta separatist group’s controversial voter ID app has links to US Ambassador, MAGA influencers and wealthy Michigan Republicans US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told @pressprogress.ca he was ‘not aware’ an American-made app he previously promoted was used to help an Alberta separatist group

This perfectly describes the doctors and other officials appointed to/elevated at agencies under the umbrella of HHS. Memoli at NIH jumped at the opportunity to screw over his colleagues. "Frustrated and mediocre" is ever covid contrarian like Bhattacarya.

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

Recently I left a Zoom talk after about 5 min because literally every single slide was ugly AI generated slop and the presenter was trying to argue AI is great for science. I can handle bad visuals, but not when they are so bloody tacky.

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

I think it's incredibly important to confront these failures rather than ignore them, even during the present moment. I know I'm not the only one who was working in the fed gov at the time who saw how Biden's policies were diverging from what was best for public health.

I’m afraid that too many people don’t understand just how terrible the Biden pandemic response was—and how it contributed to Trump’s return. I also fear that given how much this administration has dismantled public health, the appetite for looking back and identifying points of failure is low.

"So: pretty f*cked. Not finished. The difference between those two things is you."

Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!

Leading airborne transmission scientists who warned the world about airborne COVID are now sounding the alarm on Andes hantavirus. In a BMJ warning, scientists urge WHO to treat Andes hantavirus as airborne by default, warning delays could repeat COVID mistakes. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Bhattacharya: "I don't see a bottleneck now.... My job is to make sure every single dollar goes out, and it will go out by the end of the year on excellent science. A lot of the concerns, it just seems like political noise to me. It's not reality." Reality... 🧵1/6 www.27unihted.org/jay-fact-che...

🩵On #MEAwarenessDay we are sending an open letter to @rcpsych.bsky.social calling for alignment with current evidence. Supported by 20 organisations. +35 advocates, clinicians & academics! In democratic spirit we are offering a public sign-on opportunity 🔗👇️ #RCPsychIC #Garner

I guess I'm glad this is out there, but also I am infuriated that people have to spend their time doing this. OF COURSE synthetic text extruding machines are going to output something that *looks like* but is not an analysis. >>

ME/CFS is a seriously disabling condition. Medical education is lacking in most countries. Patients are denied the care they deserve. Consequences are significant. Share the World ME Alliance's Medical Education Hub https://ow.ly/7vHP50YXJOi #EducateME https://ow.ly/7vHP50YXJOi

Seven people died from poisoned Tylenol in 1982, and for more than 4 decades every pill in America has been sold in tamper proof bottles.

Thanks to Ryan Turner & the Lethbridge Herald for publishing this op-ed re: the integrated EMS debate. Enjoy. #Lethbridge #yql (p.s. - It's paginated for page print. I know it looks a little odd online) "We pay …or we pay! Let’s pay for the right thing."

“Canada’s cognitive sovereignty — the ability of Canadians to make political decisions freely, without foreign coercion or manipulation — is not simply under threat; it is being actively contested by foreign actors seeking to shape Canada’s democratic future.” disinfowatch.org/wp-content/u...

I was thinking yesterday about this exact analogy.

1/ The myth: cutting integrated EMS saves #Lethbridge taxpayers money. The reality: we pay for it anyway. Here's how, #yql! 🧵

Vigil to be held on Parliament Hill today for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Misinformation From AI Putting Patients’ Health at Risk www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... "97% of physicians reported having had to intervene to prevent harm or address consequences after a patient followed false or misleading health information found online..."

Last year I looked at NIH grants for which the the titles had changed in the course of administrative renewal. These title changes were part of the negotiations required between program officers and applicants (a process referred to as "remediation" by Deputy Director Jon Lorsch). 1/5

New deep dive from me into the anti-science movement, it's structure, tactics, and impact on science and society. Some data analysis, unique testimonies, new infographics and also a first attempt at outlining broadly-agreed upon actions how to fight back. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

This was fitting news to receive on May 1, international workers day. I will be returning to work on Monday after being kept on retaliatory administrative leave for 5 months and 3 weeks. I return along with the brave Katrina Declaration signers from FEMA, also reinstated this week. 🧵1/?

Outstanding submission by the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, representing 27,000+ members, to the Auditor General - no head-in-the-sand here; this union is clear that COVID-19 remains a threat to employees (w & w-out disability) & they want action! www.acep-cape.ca/en/news/subm...

Neuromatch has been denied our Office of Foreign Assets Control "Iran license" renewal. We had renewed successfully before, but now our request is “inconsistent with current U.S. foreign policy.” I am absolutely gutted by this denial.

The scope of these terminations is unprecedented. At RFK Jr's HHS alone, 77 advisory boards were disbanded in 2025 — more than a quarter of all the panels. For context: in 2024, HHS terminated just two. Among the casualties: panels on organ transplantation, dietary guidelines, and long COVID.

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...