The ocean absorbs 90% of excess heat from climate change. Yet until recently, nearly 60% of those waters have been left unprotected. The High Seas Treaty changes that: https://nature.ly/4arksDX
Marc Bingham, MD | Clinical Informatics & AI
@bing-informatics.bsky.social
Translating between clinicians, computers, & patients for a living. CMIO + Family Med physician exploring how AI & tech can make healthcare better. Teaching about the future of clinical tech. Connecticut-based 🏥
You thought Elon Musk and DOGE were bad? Russell Vought now wants to codify political control over ALL federal grant-funding, killing grants at will on anything from road repair to rural hospitals, cancer research and schools. Write to Congress! Share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
actionnetwork.org
AND everyone can submit comments on the rule until 13 July. Read this on how to submit. Federal grants affect us all. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
elizabethginexi.substack.com
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe @nejm.org comes out swinging against OMB's new proposed rule putting all federal grant making including science under political control. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@standupforscience just launched the SUFS Foundation — a growing hub for science policy analysis and public health publications. Bookmark it. We need more evidence in the room. standupforscience.net #HealthPolicy #ClinicalInformatics #SciencePolicy
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Science activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization.
standupforscience.net
OMB’s proposed rule would hand political appointees final say over every NIH grant. Comment period closes July 13. This is the most direct threat to publicly funded medicine I’ve seen in my career. fight2win.standupforscience.net #Science #PublicHealth #MedTwitter
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
fight2win.standupforscience.net
It’s the Bethesda Declaration’s birthday — to mark the occasion, 73 NIHers have a report outlining ongoing concerns, which have become “more insidious and systematized, but no less harmful” as @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put it www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/n...
NIH staffers published a letter of dissent a year ago. They feel it’s been ignored
In a report published on the first anniversary of the Bethesda Declaration, 71 staffers write that they feel NIH leadership “largely ignored" their concerns
statnews.com
One year since the Bethesda Declaration, 300+ NIH dissenters are still fighting. Today @27unihted dropped a new report on political interference in NIH peer review. Read it. Share it. This is what courage looks like. 27unihted.org #StandUpForScience #NIH
🔬 The OMB just proposed rules that would let political appointees override peer-reviewed science funding decisions. As physicians & informaticists, this hits home. Comment period closes July 13. → fight2win.standupforscience.net #StandUpForScience #Medicine #PublicHealth
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
fight2win.standupforscience.net
A bridge that's turning harvests into wealth, a street that swapped parking for planting, a bonobo's imaginative tea party. Just three of the delightful inspirations that await you in this week's Fix the News. fixthenews.com/p/328-sea-of...
Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte
As a family physician and long time member of AAFP - THANK YOU for recognizing and following the science!
@swamphag54.bsky.social · 11mo agoPhysicians Group Recommends All Adults Get a COVID Booster www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect. According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.
Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban
New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.
motherjones.com
dan balz upon retiring his column after 47 years at the washington post: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Opinion | RFK Jr. says cancer screenings are too 'woke' now. As an actual doctor, I disagree. | Opinion - USA TODAY
Since Dobbs, 35% of obstetricians have left the state of Idaho That is a lot jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Change in OB/GYN Physicians Practicing Obstetrics After the Dobbs Decision
This cohort study evaluates changes in the number of obstetrics and gynecology physicians practicing in Idaho after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.
jamanetwork.com
1/ Last week, RFK Jr’s FDA convened a panel to review the safety of #SSRIs (a class of antidepressants) during pregnancy. Of the 10 panelists, 9 were known critics of antidepressants, many with conflicts of interest. The conversation focused almost entirely on risks—ignoring critical context. 🧵
Why we should all care about RFK Jr.’s dismantling of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
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.
This 4th of July, I'm struggling to feel patriotic after the passage of federal legislation that harms many of the people and policies I work hard to care for through healthcare and informatics. Today, I'm reading fixthenews.com as a reminder that wonderful things are happening in the world.
Fix The News
We report stories of progress
fixthenews.com
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
1/ The first #ACIP meeting with RFK Jr.’s handpicked members wrapped up yesterday. Over 4,000 tuned in—a level of attention we haven’t seen since the pandemic. And for good reason: these meetings shape vaccine policy, coverage, timing, access and availability. Here's what happened 👇
Why don’t EHRs do a better job flagging social determinants of health? We track every drug interaction but miss food insecurity and housing instability. Our data priorities reveal our values—not always aligned with what drives health.
Every healthcare IT decision is a moral decision. Systems that prioritize billing over workflow say profit matters more than providers. AI that works better for insured patients codes inequality into care. Clinical informatics either advances equity or undermines it. #ClinicalInformatics
This NSF photo captures something essential about healthcare research/informatics: real change happens when dedicated professionals persist despite institutional obstacles. Like these scientists, we show up. The future of equitable healthcare depends on it. www.science.org/content/arti...
Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait
Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency
science.org