Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU! There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!? abrcms.org/donate/stude...
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Chrystal Starbird@drstarbird.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis makes me so happy! Let’s keep this momentum going and donate using the link below! CompBio is still rocking the lead! 🙌🏾 t.co/2pYnlaY7fz
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social · 12mo agoA thing I really need people to keep in mind: 15% tariffs are high, historically speaking. 10% tariffs are high. The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!
TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful. That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12mo agoSplitting 5-4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants *partial* stay to Trump administration in NIH funding case; holds that challenges to grant terminations (but *not* the underlying guidance) need to be filed in the Court of Federal Claims:
Bit by bit RFKJr is undermining vaccine trust, science trust and potentially vaccine access in the States- this extended n updated version of an article by me and @chrischirp.bsky.social tries to summarise the multiple tactics he is using 🧪
RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines in the US causing impacts for vaccine trust around the world.
Vaccine access and equity is being undermined
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Back from a wonderful FASEB meeting in Niagara Falls. Returned to at least 2 hours of administrative work in my inbox.
Totally wild (PI version) past 12 hours. 5 working hours to cut 7.5 pages down to 6. But this grant is now ready to be submitted.
🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels. They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B). If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...
Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
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This reiterates the point I’ve made a few times on here: the US’s loss will be other countries’ gain, but overall it will be an enormous loss. There is no other country that can replicate the US research investment or environment, and the primary brain drain will be out of research, not overseas.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last yr.If you won't believe me, here's Paul musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...
Remember when private prison stocks soared immediately after the election? This is why. fortune.com/2024/11/07/p...
Trump’s election win sends private prisons stocks soaring as investors anticipate hard crackdown on migration
President-elect Trump has vowed to launch the biggest deportation in American history—this could translate to big bucks for companies like CoreCivic and Geo Group.
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Adam Isacson@adamisacson.com · last yr.At $600 million per year for 5,000 detainees, the Everglades detention facility would cost a whopping $328.77 per bed per day. ICE's 2025 budget request read: "Average adult bed cost per day is $187.48 for FY 2023." reason.com/2025/07/09/l...
Future of NIH in the hands of five senators. Write to them if you are in PA -McCormick WV - Moore Capito ME - Collins AL - Britt LA - Cassidy
Online now: Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections
Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections
Upon pathogen detection, phagocytes trigger immunity. This process induces tissue stress and the formation of host-derived molecules that further tune immune responses. We show that host-derived oxidized phospholipids accumulate upon microbial encounter, epigenetically suppress IL-10, and exacerbate harmful inflammation. Thus, targeting oxPLs represents a therapeutic strategy to treat deranged inflammation after infection.
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New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute... www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...
World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...
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I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.
But universities are threatened with losing their tax exempt status if *students protesting the university* are too openly political. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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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.
Science doers, allies & stans in the House, literally: RIGHT NOW! Standup for #Science. Stand up for #NIH. Standup for #EPA. Standup for #NSF. Standup for #CDC. Standup to #Trump Standup to #RFK Standup to #Bhattacharya Standup to #Zeldin EVERYBODY UP! Resist here zurl.co/QdR9F #SUFS #EPA139
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.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.
Relevant: bsky.app/profile/bria...
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · last yr.An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
Scientists are telling me the damage is going to be generational.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last yr."Students are being forced to delay their graduate studies, continue them abroad, or forgo them entirely. The collective impact of those individual decisions is nearly impossible to measure, says Joanne Padrón Carney… “You don’t know who is the Nobel laureate we’re losing today”
I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · last yr.Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Struggling through writing blocks today. Starting another 30 minute block now if anyone wants to join me.
Why is faculty governance so important? The AAUP has understood for over a century that without it, and unless we are independent of outside influence, universities have no claim to the public trust. @aaup.org www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres...
Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · last yr.The despicable ouster of the University of Virginia's president @universityofva.bsky.social has some precedent, in the ouster of sister school William and Mary's president years ago. Let's start with the article by ACTA, a PROJECT 2025 sponsor. www.goacta.org/news-item/wi...
Email from Brown admin: government stopped payment on existing NIH grants as of April 3; in three months since, the gov't has cumulatively withheld $45 million in NIH grant reimbursements. Whatever injunctions, court orders, etc. may exist, no resumption of payments... and no explanation either.
1. Trump's cuts to USAID and PEPFAR will far outweigh any benefit that accrues in eastern DRC. 2. The "peace" deal is really another minerals deal, with little regard for human security. (We have a piece lined up on this.) tl;dr: Trump & Vance don't care about Black lives, in the US or Africa.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last yr.Tagging Jamelle Bouie in these trolling posts from the literal Vice President of the United States is such scummy, racist behavior. These really are the worst people in the world. This guy isn't even trying to be a statesman; he's a gutter troll.
We had a hummingbird friend visit while we at our pastries at the top of the garden. It was so hard to follow it from flower to flower.