Reposting with all the tags… #anated #meded #vetmed #anatomy #dissection #infectiousdisease #riskmanagement #cadaver

Margaret A. McNulty@drmamcnulty.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m so proud of this scoping review article, as I feel it is desperately needed within our field. There are many misconceptions about the infection risk in cadavers, and this article provides hopefully one-stop shopping on the risks and mitigation factors to reduce those risks.

I’m so proud of this scoping review article, as I feel it is desperately needed within our field. There are many misconceptions about the infection risk in cadavers, and this article provides hopefully one-stop shopping on the risks and mitigation factors to reduce those risks.

Infection Risk From Humans and Animals in the Anatomy Laboratory: A Scoping Review

Whole-body dissection is a cornerstone of anatomy education. During and following the COVID-19 pandemic, exposure to infectious agents and other risks of dissection were highlighted. To identify pote...

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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.

Like us, horses can injure their tendons and ligaments & often don't recover full tendon or ligament strength. Diane Little, et al. explore preclinical tendon & ligament animal models for developing better treatment: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ORSxDerby #ORSSMC @jorthopres.bsky.social

Update on this one!!! They reversed this decision today www.npr.org/sections/sho...

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

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The Indiana General Assembly just passed HB 1515 and at the last minute slipped in a provision that all allied health professional schools must be on an A-F or similar merit system 93% of medical schools have left the A-F system because it does not improve learning This is really really bad

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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This might be a bit of a hot take, but can organizations that write press releases for new studies please include a link for the actual paper. Scientists love to read the original articles and sometimes it can be frustrating in tracking them down. 🌎🧪🦇🐦🦋🐟

2025. Horses, donkeys and zebras have adaptations that break normal genomic rules phys.org/news/2025-03...

Horses, donkeys and zebras have adaptations that break normal genomic rules

A genetic mutation in horses that would typically halt protein production has become a molecular asset. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Vanderbilt University have identified a rare instanc...

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Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked). Thank you, Senator.

The threat is so big that even Red-state GOP politicians are starting to crack. IN Sen Young wrote in WaPo that "basic research isn’t a federal handout to help sustain academia.... it is a vital ingredient in our innovation future, economic and geopolitical competitiveness, and national security."

Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · last yr.

Some of the stats in here are really striking. Per one paper, federal investments in R&D account for at least a fifth of all productivity gains in the U.S. economy since World War II. And the societal return for every $1 invested in the sciences is *conservatively* estimated at $5.

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

State Department spox Tammy Bruce just blatantly lies and says that students are getting visas revoked for "illegal activity" (Rumeysa Ozturk was not charged with a crime)

The majority of farmers supported the firing of scientists. That included scientists from the CDC and veterinarians. This is the trickle down. This is why people who do not have degrees in a field shouldn’t be in charge of anything. It is dangerous.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.

Yale can 💯 afford to defend academic freedom, and its educational and research mission www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump (Gift Article)

Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

nytimes.com

If anyone in Indiana’s 5th Congressional district has the time, please attend this town hall and ask Rep. Spartz why she supports the NIH cuts to IU… her district is chock full of IU employees who will be negatively affected! I desperately wish I could attend but will be in Portland for a meeting 😫

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Spring is springing so here’s your regular reminder LILIES WILL KILL YOUR CAT. Even the tiniest sniff of pollen or licking a tiny bit of it off of their coat can cause kidney failure *quickly*. If you have cats you should keep lilies out of your house.

Fresh data have bolstered the discovery that dark energy, the mysterious force that makes galaxies accelerate away from each other, has weakened over the past 4.5 billion years. https://go.nature.com/4hmYWB6

Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding

Physicists had long assumed that the elusive force has constant strength. But the latest results from a project to map the Universe’s expansion challenge this idea.

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Super-important point — HHS/NIH pay to train doctors. It’s not just research funding. The funding for residency programs is also being weaponized by Trump and Musk. Trump and Musk want your kid to not have a doctor.

Tom Wallach@mdwallach.bsky.social · last yr.

But basically, if they kill CMS residency training funding, without dramatically changing how things are reimbursed, ain’t none of you gonna have a pediatrician (or internal med doc or specialist) in 30 years.

Strong column from @nytimes.com editorial board. “The people who are attacking higher education are talking nonstop,” said Holden Thorp. “And the people leading higher education are not saying very much.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

Opinion | The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education

This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.

nytimes.com

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines

Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Public health is under attack in America. Maternal and child health is under attack in America. Health research is under attack in America. Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.

The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

I was unable to attend the Indy @standupforscience.bsky.social march today because I had already committed to a horse show in Ohio with my daughter. But my beloved Oliver 🦄 still helped me resist in our own way. #standupforscience (spoiler alert: we even won our class 💪🏻)

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century

Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

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In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”…. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

nature.com

Herding cats: It’s past time to include pets in disease surveillance www.statnews.com/2025/03/04/h... via @statnews.com

Herding cats: It’s past time to include pets in disease surveillance

These veterinarians, flu scientists, and biosecurity experts are watching with growing concern the rise in H5N1 avian influenza in cats.

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BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

I've been noodling a lot lately on academic freedom and the ability of faculty members to speak as individual faculty members I get the impression that many are self-muzzling due for self-preservation purposes This is a quick 🧵 on speaking out as an academic faculty member 1/

Those of you in science who are starting to noodle on how to organize: The Good Trouble Coalition in Indiana (@goodtroublein.bsky.social) did this in 2022 and have a blueprint for you here: jha.scholasticahq.com/article/125183