Igor Brodsky
@brodskyigorlab.bsky.social
Innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions. Husband, father, former Soviet immigrant. Opinions my own.
This is an excellent essay. “Gold standard science” is a label designed to undermine science, by withholding the label from any science deemed inconvenient to the profit or power of monied interests.
Undark Magazine @undark.org · 4mo ago"There is no such thing as gold standard science. There is only science that is well matched to its questions, conducted transparently, and interpreted with care." — Jonathan P. Scaccia
TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Please click on the link below and send an email or make a call to SAVE SCIENCE from these morons. And grab a friend and get them to do it too! Thanks 🔬
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last mo.🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 13 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/VGfwO
Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
Public health research at world-class institutions like the NIH is an important public good. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Lori Trahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.
Raskin moves to stop ‘disastrous’ threat against medical research
Rep. Jamie Raskin seeks to stop the Trump administration from putting political appointees in charge of federal health grants.
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Gregg gets it correct here. “New OMB grant rule” sounds nerdy. But this is a huge and insane plan. This is the Trump admin writing down their goal of fundamentally changing the relationship between government and society. Funding for everything will be taken over. 1/
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last mo.My latest for @thenation.com. Russell Vought is on a mission. He wants to take over all federal grant making & re-make it in his image. He is a dangerous ideologue who wants to inflict trauma on the whole nation. He is cruel and he has a plan. Only we can stop him. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
In Opinion The system that turned Gila monster venom into GLP-1 drugs is being dismantled through research budget cuts, Jeff Coller writes in a guest essay. “Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase. Exploring those questions is how medicine advances.”
Opinion | We Need to Keep Funding Weird Science
Science turned a serendipitous finding about lizard venom into one of the most important drugs of the century, but that type of research is getting harder to do.
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OK, people. It takes 2 minutes to write a letter to Congress, a few extra if you personalize it. Russ Vought's attempt to take over ALL federal grant funding is anti-democratic and dangerous. We need MORE letters. Let's tip it over 2000 today. 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...
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If researchers can’t share their findings, are we really free? THIS is what I mean when I say science is a core pillar of democracy.
Larry Hunter@proflhunter.bsky.social · last mo.Heavy-handed censorship by the regime, banning particular talks at scientific conferences based on their topic. They are just getting started. Proposed OMB rules would push this kind of fine-grained political control into all aspects of US funded research. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Important thread about the impact of this administration on science in America…thanks @drdind.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
DrDinD.bsky.social@drdind.bsky.social · last mo.🧵 GLP-1 drugs are saving lives. They grew out of curiosity driven research on how Gila monsters can maintain blood sugar levels for months between meals. The Trump administration wants to kill this kind of science. And the cost is a minute fraction of the federal budget.
“Reevaluating every research grant w/ a political lens each time a new party is in power could end America’s scientific progress and leadership.” China now leads R&D investment. The EU courts US scientists w/ promises of stability that is lacking here. The threat is real. 🧪 archive.today/5T64n
I’ve spent 40 years in research. I have never seen a threat to science like the new grantmaking rule
“American science is too valuable to be turned into a political football,” writes David J. Skorton, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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By now, I think you get it. I'll keep posting until we get 10,000 letters to Congress on Russ Vought's mad power-grab to take over all federal grant making. Goodbye peer review & expert advice, welcome the commissars! Let's stop Russ together. 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
“Starving the basic research that feeds our biotechnology, while a rival sprints ahead, is an odd way to defend a country.”
“A single Tomahawk cruise missile runs about $3.6 million, roughly what it takes to fund one scientist’s multiyear grant. The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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OMB proposed rule could end 50% of currently active clinical trials, Stand up for Science analysis finds https://cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/20260618_5a/
OMB proposed rule could end 50% of currently active clinical trials, Stand up for Science analysis finds - The Cancer Letter
An analysis by Stand up for Science found that the White House Office of Management and Budget’s recently proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” if finalized, could result in termination of nearly 50% of active clinical research studies. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, […]
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“The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran. The National Institutes of Health,… accounts for a fraction of 1 percent of all federal spending” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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OK DORKS, I HAVE DATA FOR YOU. Here is the party split on emails to members of Congress about the OMB rule proposal. We really need more yelling at R's! They can say they don't know about the rule if we don't ✨ensure✨ they have heard about it. TAKE ACTION HERE: fight2win.standupforscience.net
Trump & RFK2’s need for ego gratification is so great that they are willing to throw our children under the bus to get it. It’s pathetic and our children (as well as starving children overseas) are the victims.
I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately | Robert B Shpiner
At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm
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“That’s the thing about generational shifts. There’s always a next generation after this one.” Here’s to building that next generation! With receipts at the ready. www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...
America’s compact between science and politics is broken, and we’re all going to pay
How did we get here?
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Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN! (Gift link) When we don’t capitulate, when we flood the zone, when we raise our voices together, when we say NO!, we win. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Great op-ed from my former colleagues and fellow Bethesda Declaration signers, Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg, on how censorship is becoming insidious at NIH and across the scientific community. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
The 3-Pronged Attack on Scientific Communication (opinion)
At the NIH, political appointees exercise extensive control over scientific communication, and research on health communication is under siege.
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My UNC colleague @toriekstrand.bsky.social has a powerful op-ed today in the N&O on the insidious nature of so-called "institutional neutrality" - and how in practice it means anything but. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
Professor: Here’s an alternative to UNC’s charade of ‘institutional neutrality’ | Opinion
The author is a professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
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A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...
NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
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“A deliberate crippling” is a very accurate description of what Russell Vought and Jay Bhattacharya are doing to NIH. cssh.northeastern.edu/a-deliberate...
‘A deliberate crippling’: NIH researchers, Mass. scientists sound alarm over new funding rules
One year after hundreds of National Institutes of Health employees publicly accused the Trump administration of politicizing biomedical research in what they called the “Bethesda Declaration,” staff m...
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