RFK jr overrode the NIH recommendation for NIAID Director to appoint his own preferred candidate (who applied, but NIH declined to interview), per @politico.com. Institute directors have final say on funding decisions and are critical to the integrity of NIH. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
A lab-leak proponent is in line for Fauci’s old job
Steven Quay is in final vetting to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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here we go with the fake cig products. combustible non-tobacco materials to which 6-methyl nicotine has been applied. The authors of the paper point to legal documents on the company website for verification their "novara" is 6-MN. www.signaturebrandsusa.com/compliance
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Introducing Choice™ – The Smarter Alternative to Smoking
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky@sejordt.bsky.social · yesterday#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence @atscommunity.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social🛟🫁 In our new paper in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social we describe a diabolical new product, a "tobacco-free" cigarette containing a nicotine analogue.
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
This Yenor guy needs to watch more #USWNT play soccer and the women’s hockey team beat the brakes offa Canada.
Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 3w ago6. As he clarifies, he believes that women, when compared to men, are naturally less ‘aggressive, assertive, and dominant’ and less interested in sports, and therefore, giving men more sporting opportunities isn’t discriminatory. Rather, in his view, the discrimination lies in giving women equality.
As a survivor of New Hampshire’s legendary direct democracy known as Town Meeting….this tracks SO hard. www.regulations.gov/comment/OMB-...
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New work from the Nguyen lab on the modulation of perineuronal nets caused by repeated fentanyl. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
Frontiers | Changes in perineuronal net and parvalbumin expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of male Wistar rats following repeated fentanyl administration
The misuse of opioid medications is a significant health issue in the United States. Very few studies have investigated the effect of opioids on perineuronal...
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@fda.gov @atscommunity.bsky.social #TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #Pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence 🛟 🫁💊🧪 🌍⚖️ @natmed.nature.com : "Compared with complete quitters, e-cigarette use after smoking cessation was associated with higher risks of lung cancer incidence"
Electronic cigarette use after smoking cessation and lung cancer risk - Nature Medicine
A nationwide retrospective analysis of 4.5 million Korean adults found that electronic cigarette use after smoking cessation was associated with higher lung cancer incidence and mortality compared wit...
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Pirro on the 350ft slit in Reflecting Pool: “We’re trying to find out who did it.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Q: Was this part of the pool already damaged? Hearn maintains the sealant was already partially moved and it looks the same as it did before he arrived. PIRRO: You know, I'm not going to get into the evidence. Come to the trial. Come to the grand jury and you can testify.
Did he throw a subway footlong into the pool?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Q: Was this part of the pool already damaged? Hearn maintains the sealant was already partially moved and it looks the same as it did before he arrived. PIRRO: You know, I'm not going to get into the evidence. Come to the trial. Come to the grand jury and you can testify.
A 43-day government shutdown and staff shortages have left the NIH rushing to spend its $47.2B budget before the September 30 deadline. The real squeeze for academic labs is a mandate to fund multiyear grants up front, meaning thousands fewer new awards and painfully low success rates. #AcademicSky
NIH likely to award fewer grants as it races to spend 2026 budget
Government shutdown, staff shortages have complicated effort to meet 30 September deadline to spend funds
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Don't forget to submit a public comment about those OMB changes! Here's what's at stake, as well as my comments if you want to crib from me: 🧪 buttondown.com/KateClancy/a...
Period 46: Political interference in academic research
If you’re at all plugged in to science, or academia, you likely know about the OMB proposed changes. If you don’t, let me share directly from the literature...
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the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!
David Nir@davidnir.com · last mo.If incumbents want to sneer at primary voters, they'll probably keep losing. Serious "No, it's the children who are wrong" energy here. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...
Interesting new paper on e-cig based cocaine vapor self-administration in mice. rdcu.be/fqFiD
Development of a nose-poke restricted vaporized cocaine self-administration model in mice
Neuropsychopharmacology - Development of a nose-poke restricted vaporized cocaine self-administration model in mice
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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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Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪
Overdue Grant Renewals at NIH and AHRQ – Grant Witness
The government’s delays renewing in-progress research are leaving researchers in limbo.
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Weaksauce. "They will not, however, generally eat plants or algae." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danionin
Danionin - Wikipedia
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Mark Histed@markhisted.org · last mo.“[HHMI] can just change their mind at any moment,” says a scientist [there]. Yep. It’s great Janelia is making a big, risky bet on one project: transparent fish. That kind of risk used to be hedged by the US govt’s long-term, “let 1000 flowers bloom” basic science approach. But now that’s dying.1/
Maybe they could hire the company that refurbished this to fix the Reflecting Pool in DC.
I'm sitting in a CPDD symposium right now Please do not use AI to make your talk. It's pretty obvious and it does not weigh in your favor
Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2mo agoI just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵
1. Does real actual ticker tape still exist? 2. Do the windows above Wall Street open far enough to throw a roll?
Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
This fall, the journey continues on my own terms! 🌊⚓️ I'm thrilled to share that I am joining the Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Hampton University.
Congrats to all the UCLA Bruins graduating this weekend! And especially the math majors.
The U.S. military said it carried out another strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing three in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205. n.pr/3QeAgmC
U.S. strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in Pacific Ocean, in fourth attack this week
The U.S. military said it carried out another strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing three in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205.
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This piece by @jtimmer.bsky.social does an outstanding job of contextualizing OMB's latest attack on American science. Current OMB policy is already choking American science, as this WSJ op-ed points out. The status quo is moribund. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...
Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...