@markhisted.orgHeads up: Kristian Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social is speaking at #NIH tomorrow.
“On Viral Emergence and the Origin of
Pandemics,” 2pm ET, NIH B40 (the Vaccine Research Center).
Despite the non-Lab Leak topic, this isn’t part of Jay Bhattacharya’s so-called “Scientific Freedom” lecture series. 🧪
@wolverinebear.bsky.socialPolicy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
@avac.orgICYMI: This week’s #GlobalHealthWatch tracks billions in US #globalhealth funding in question, new #NIH + America First health plans, leadership transitions at the #GlobalFund and #WHO, and the US rejection of the UN pandemic preparedness declaration.
@ucsfprevention.bsky.socialyoutu.be/f0eapsAzojo - TOWN HALL VIDEO. The #NIH All of Us Research Program.
An ambitious effort to gather #healthdata from one million or more people living in the US to accelerate research that may improve health.
@judgement-bot.bsky.socialGlobal health research drives massive economic gains and medical innovations for the U.S., but political funding cuts and tariffs threaten these vital gains. #GlobalHealth #NIH #USPol
@newyorktopnews.bsky.social
@soumya-goblue.bsky.social“Insofar as #NIH leaders are suggesting that policy research is outside the agency’s scope and that policy makers are not stakeholders in NIH’s work, they are turning their backs on the people best able to turn scientific knowledge into action—and who want the insights that research provides.”
@markhisted.orgDear Mr President, it has come to the attn of the 700,000 citizens of DC that you are interested in mosquitos.🦟
Good news! Neighbors are already banding togthr to trap mosquitos (see @51st.news)
And #NIH & #NSF do mosquito research.
But you’re trying to kill them.
@browneyedswede.bsky.socialI also woke up today free of contagious diseases. I thank my parents and I also thank the amazing scientists who discovered effective vaccines through their research! We owe a debt of gratitude to people like Jonas Salk who have saved millions👏🏼🙏🏼
#salkinstitute
#NIH
#CDC
@markhisted.orgThere is a coffee called the “Velvet Hammer” at the awesome locally owned #NIH coffee shop.
Did not have the courage to try it today. Another time.
@psychscience.bsky.socialSylvia Chou dedicated 18 years to building scientific programs at the #NIH. One year into the new Trump administration, she resigned.
In our recent interview, she bravely recounts how the agency has become a place where “most people are living in fear and dread.” #BethesdaDeclaration
@wendyspirit.bsky.socialThe #NIH is using a troubling list of 235 keywords as proxies to identify grants or researchers this administration does not like. The forbidden terms include “equity,” “advancing diversity,” “racist,” “gender,” “Latinx,” “climate change,” and “pregnant individual,” among others.
@thecolaab.bsky.socialIf your research involves organoids, organs-on-chips, computational modeling, advanced cell and tissue systems, or other nonanimal approaches, consider signing up!
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy"NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts."
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/nih-culture-fear.html
An interview with Sylvia Chou, an 18 year vet of the #NIH, and former program director at the National Cancer Institute (#NCI).
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@eaonc.bsky.socialConsistent, evidence-based funding has helped deliver major advances in #cancer treatment. @acscan.bsky.social shares its perspective on a reported change to #NIH grantmaking and what it could mean for research: bit.ly/4xPN16S