As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.

This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America. Congress must act now. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up

Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order

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It’s actually even worse: they show it as a gel, which is pure fluorescence units, but a BioAnalyzes records as the molecules pass a single point sensor and critically _fails to normalize for different molecule speeds_ This results in a near-logarithmic overcounting of large molecules!

Tami Lieberman@contaminatedsci.bsky.social · last yr.

This is your regular reminder that the BioAnalyzer/TapeStation reports fluorescence units, not # of molecules. Left is bioA trace, and right is fragment size calculated from either read output (blue) or transformation of BioA trace (black). Fig 3 from journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer.bsky.social · last yr.

NEWS: Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan." We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs. One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

The pact of the federal govt with universities was not a handout. It was a strategic decision to boost US leadership in technology, defense, and health. And it paid dividends. In tech, internet, in cancer drugs (for example), No other sector has invested in high risk high reward ideas like US govt.

An alternative to tSNE & UMAP for more accurate data visualization: Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data. The trees are constructed to accurately represent true distances between the objects in the high-dimensional space.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle

After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

news.cornell.edu

Due to the #trumptarrifs, Illumina announces that they’ll be adding surcharges all consumables (5%), instruments (2-9%) and services (3.5%). A big hit to labs that are already struggling to do genomics work in an environment with severely reduced federal funding prdt.illumina.com/webmail/5510...

This new guidance is yet another step closer towards an isolationist, diminished view of American science. Changing rules on the fly wastes time & effort and undermines the pipeline of discovery and innovation. Unacceptable & inexcusable (again): grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

nature.com

MS practices DEI for losers.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

If anyone had proposed this in an NIH application, they would be denied, flagged, barred from further applications, and likely be stripped of research means from their sponsor extramurral institution.

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

This bit is also fun

If I see a single school of public health invite this guy to a single panel when this is all over, I swear to god

EssenViews@essenviews.bsky.social · last yr.

Now it's your fault if you get sick? Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'

Keep in mind that this is just the beginning. I wouldn't be surprised to see an "official" NIH page saying that vaccines cause autism next. We're far from the bottom. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites

The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared.

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the reposting by CDC kills me

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

There is so much about this screenshot that incenses me

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

nytimes.com

All you need to know about Twitter

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Thrilled to team up with @appc.upenn.edu to host Dr. Peter Hotez at Penn this evening for a public lecture on vaccination in a time of rising anti-science rhetoric and policies

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing

Viji@vijisathy.bsky.social · last yr.

“The recalled product is packaged in two-pound plastic bags with ‘best if used by’ dates of May 21, 2026, and June 23, 2026. The company and Oregon authorities said that consumers who bought the recalled product should throw it away immediately and contact the place of purchase for a refund.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Northwest Naturals, a pet food company based in Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday it had voluntarily recalled one batch of its two-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after it tested positive for the virus.” apnews.com/article/cat-...

This is outrageous: “Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines.”

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

npr.org

Rwanda’s Marburg response is a masterclass in how to prevent pandemics www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Rwanda’s Marburg response is a masterclass in how to prevent pandemics

Today marks the official end of the outbreak. Swift action saved many lives and helped protect the rest of the world from potential disaster

telegraph.co.uk

Ever wondered how gut microbes control immune responses at extra-intestinal locations? Here #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria. @cellpress.bsky.social ⬇️(1/x) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

Hey #microbiomesky #microsky #IDsky, check out @centermicrobialmed.bsky.social! We are focused on leveraging the microbiome to improve the lives of sick children. We’re also using genomics to track pathogens and reduce infections in kids. We’re building, growing, hiring, and looking for partners!

The Center for Microbial Medicine at CHOP@centermicrobialmed.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re excited to bring the Center for Microbial Medicine to Bluesky! This center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is dedicated to finding cures and improving pediatric health through the lens of the microbiome. For more info check back here often! www.research.chop.edu/center-for-m...

This exciting new Center of Emphasis at CHOP is co-directed by myself, Paul Planet, Bob Baldassano, and @ahmedmicrobes.bsky.social. Reach out with any questions or if you’re interested/excited about this work! www.research.chop.edu/announcement...

Center for Microbial Medicine Opens to Support Personalized, Microbiome-based Medicine

The Center for Microbial Medicine was designated a Center of Emphasis beginning July 1, 2024.

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