AliciaDWright
@aliciadwright.bsky.social
Program Manager ID/TB/HIV/Cancer/Rare Diseases, US & International Research Projects 💃🏽🐶🐈⬛📸🌳🌹🌅☕️🍷📖✍🏼💻🩻🇲🇽🇺🇸
🥵Temporary Win🎉… let’s celebrate Today, but this is not over. 🆘☎️💻📱Next Step: Contact your Representatives:
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 22h agoBREAKING NEWS! The Senate has paused the OMB rule that would put Trump appointees in charge of federal spending. Next step - Contact your MoC and tell them to permanently REVOKE THE RULE: zurl.co/1SXEN Article: zurl.co/23mF8
👟🐶🐾📸🌳☀️ “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows".- Helen Keller
💛🦆🦅🦜🐥🦢🦉🪿🐦⬛🩵 “He wants to study biology and learn about different plants and animals. This precocious 1st grader really wants to be a conservation scientist,”because I care for the Earth”…”I think all of us that love birds want to protect them and keep them safe from various things that can harm them”
NPR@npr.org · 3d agoNPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
Animals never forget those who are kind and loving to them. Original post
🙏🏼read👇🏻this🧵 My mother lost her memory 2yrs ago😔Witnessing your love ones deleting their past is heartbreaking💔 Now, watching part of the US🇺🇸society intentionally deleting the uncomfortable memories to create an alternative “reality” to support a radical dangerous & ignorant agenda is BS🤬 & criminal
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 3d ago
‼️ “It was kind of frustrating because we had to put all this ‘America First’ language… We were learning from African colleagues about genetic sources of disease resistance that we could bring over that are useful for our varieties potentially, or globally. It was a two-way street.”
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 4d agoRecommended read: Grist reported on how the Trump administration’s “makeover” of a global hunger programme meant abandoning agricultural and climate research.
‼️ #tuberculosis Health care in Pakistan & treatment adherence study: “The findings reinforce a global public-health priority: young patients need reliable access to medicines, understandable counseling and sustained caregiver support throughout treatment.”
@imedichealth.bsky.social · last wk.A welcoming clinic can matter as much as family encouragement when a child faces months of TB treatment. Research highlights how accessible, child-friendly care can support completion.
🧐Quantitative assessment of circulating blood ESAT-6 for non-sputum identification of pulmonary #tuberculosis ADLM ePoster Library; Jul 28 2026;
Quantitative assessment of circulating blood ESAT-6 for non-sputum... by Dr. Sheng-Wei Pan
ADLM ePoster Library; Pan S. Jul 28 2026; 4215994;
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🤦🏻♀️unbelievable👇🏼 “Online gambling website Kalshi has already accepted more than $100,000 worth of bets in a new suite of prediction markets launched Thursday that allows people to gamble on the outcome of pharmaceutical clinical trials and when—or if—a drug will be approved by the federal FDA”.
Kalshi Is Letting People Bet On Clinical Trials And FDA Drug Decisions
Gamblers can now bet on how experimental drugs will perform in clinical trials—and if they’ll get FDA approval.
forbes.com
🆘🚨 “What's the true cost of the AI revolution and who should be paying for it? We went to Georgia to find out… We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective, and we attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions…”
I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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🧐”these spaces do much more than help cities cope with heat and flooding. They bring people together, strengthen community ties and provide places for support programmes that help vulnerable residents, like unhoused people…also helps build a stronger sense of belonging and shared responsibility.”
Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · last wk.Lessons from South Africa on how parks and community gardens can help cities adapt to climate change share.google/0N9DxdqB4Vyd...
Agree. This link is not impressed with the Science Advisor's answers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
nytimes.com
🔎✍🏼”Amid the rubble, he managed two pathologies: #tuberculosis and the cruelty of a regime that decided who should and should not be treated... Open tuberculosis became a political as much as a medical liability.”
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago"Open tuberculosis became a political as much as a medical liability." Christoph Grundner reflects on his grandfather's time as a thoracic surgeon treating TB patients in Nazi Germany: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tuberculosis-sanatorium-berlin-grandfather-christoph-grundner-thoracic-surgery/
Panzi staff shared with us that consistent deliveries of nourishing meals have helped stabilize patients—especially ones with tuberculosis—giving them the energy they need to follow their treatment plans and supporting their recovery. (3/4)
🆘⏰💣”There was another apparent Tuberculosis outbreak in April last year,according to a lawsuit…seeking greater transparency from the Trump administration over deaths and disease in federal detention facilities…For-profit prisons have perpetuated ICE’s lawlessness and endangered our communities”😔😣😠😡🤬
Maxima@maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 3w ago. Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the federal immigration jail in Aurora www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
'Rigorous human checking of AI-generated research papers is creating bottlenecks as publishers strive to maintain the integrity of the scientific record. The challenge is requiring even more human effort, making the whole endeavor slower and more expensive.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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⏰🧨”scientists and others are waiting to see how the administration responds to the outpouring of nearly 497,000 comments on the 412-page proposal that were submitted by the 13 July deadline. The administration has said it wants to finalize the new guidelines by 1 October”
U.S. researchers outraged at proposed changes to federal grants
White House receives 497,000 comments on rules many fear would politicize science
science.org
🧏🏻♀️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Madame 🫡 Pressley to Vought: You are as incompetent as you are cruel and callous”.
'I Will Not Yield!': Ayanna Pressley Lights Into Russell Vought—Then Snaps When French Hill Steps In
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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If you are interested the future of basic science research in America, you have to read this article: Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science
Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.
sciencenews.org
🤦🏻♀️”The US NSF is planning to expropriate money from its core science programmes to fund an initiative from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)…The move would strain budgets that are already tight and force the agency to rescind funding for research proposals…”
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4w agoNew: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
🚨🧏🏻♀️‼️Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) “(are) not only a #publichealth challenge, but also a significant #humanrights concern… lack of access to safe #water, sanitation, adequate housing, education and information… #climatechange, displacement due to natural disasters and conflicts.”👇🏼🔎
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 4w ago🆘🚨⏰🫵🏼✍🏻💻 “the comments could still slow implementation of the changes because the OMB must reply to them. And a monsoon could persuade Congress… Comments also put into the public record objections that, if the government doesn’t address them, could be raised again in lawsuits to stop the changes.”
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 4w agoKeep those comments on the OMB proposed rule coming! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
The prevalence of TB in this active case finding study was 0.4%. Supporting my 'discharge threshold' of 0.5%. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Community-based tuberculosis screening with computer-aided detection technology alone and in combination with point-of-care C-reactive protein testing: a paired screen-positive trial
In active tuberculosis case-finding in our community setting, the combination of CAD followed by CRP testing offered no advantage over CAD alone owing to its inferior case yield and higher cost. CAD a...
thelancet.com
😌💚🤍❤️⚽️🇲🇽👋🏼 Ay, ay, ay, ay, Canta y no llores, Porque cantando se alegran, Cielito lindo, los corazones. Ay, ay, ay, ay, Sing and don’t cry, Because singing brings joy, Pretty darling, to the hearts.
Cielito Lindo Huasteco - Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán (Edición Especial)
YouTube video by Viva Music Group Oficial
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