#SCCM2026 attendees: Join us Tuesday in W181 for the Adult Aging Track! Sessions cover deprescribing, surgery, the Age-Friendly ICU, future of #GeriCritCare research, presentation of the new SCCM guideline on Caring for Older Adults in the ICU, & includes geriatrician & patient speakers. Join us!

Check out our new guideline on Caring for Older Adults in the ICU - now out in #CritCareMed! Recommendations address geriatric models of care, post-ICU follow-up, MAP targets, & antipsychotics for delirium prevention & treatment. journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/f... Also to be presented at #SCCM2026

Older adults have accounted for more than half of ICU patient-days for the past 25 years. Frailty, disability in functional activities and multimorbidity are more strongly associated with ICU and post-ICU outcomes than chronological age. zurl.co/uDvbi

Happy to share our new narrative review on the state of the science for the care of older adults in the #ICU, just out in Intensive Care Medicine! The field has come a long way in the past decade, and in it we discuss current challenges & strategies as well as future directions. Link below!

Intensive Care Medicine Journal@intenscaremed.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Older adults have accounted for more than half of ICU patient-days for the past 25 years. Frailty, disability in functional activities and multimorbidity are more strongly associated with ICU and post-ICU outcomes than chronological age. zurl.co/uDvbi

Huge thanks to our entire interprofessional ICU team for all of their hard work making the STEPS-ICU mobility program a success over the past 10 years! It takes a team to sustain a culture of ICU mobility! @yalepccsm.bsky.social @icurehab.bsky.social #medsky #ICUsky #CriticalCareSky #Rehabsky

@snigdhajain.bsky.social · last yr.

Celebrating 10 years of our STEPPS-ICU mobility program led by @lferrantemd.bsky.social Everybody 🏃🏽‍♀️ @yalepccsm.bsky.social @icurehab.bsky.social

Just learned the names of some of the phenomenal NIH scientists and leaders who were abruptly fired or put on leave today and I am in shock.

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

Staffers began receiving termination notices this morning as part of a major restructuring at HHS. Some senior leadership are on their way out too.

We were thrilled to host @carolhodgson.bsky.social at @yalepccsm.bsky.social this week! Great discussions about science, a fun dinner, & we even made time for a Yale walking tour #critcaresky #academicsky

This is horrific - and heartbreaking for all of the trainees on these grants.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

Packed house at our ICU delirium session on the last afternoon of #SCCM2025 - happening now in W315. Join us! #critcaresky @johndevlinpharmd.bsky.social @snigdhajain.bsky.social

Kicking off the GeriCC track at #SCCM2025 with an amazing plenary by Terry Fulmer from the John A. Hartford Foundation on Age-Friendly Health Systems! SCCM attendees: Join us for a great day of programming today in W315 (& later on Congress Digital) #medsky #icusky @amergeriatrics.bsky.social

"These common values must now propel everyone in the scientific community to work together as never before to stand up for science. Although the individual messages ... might seem inadequate on their own, it is their collective power that matters" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Come together, right now

The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...

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Attending #SCCM2025? Join us for an entire track of fantastic #GeriCC programming on Tuesday Feb 25, beginning with a Thought Leader plenary by Terry Fulmer from the John A. Hartford Foundation! #medsky #academicsky #critcaresky #ICM #ICU @amergeriatrics.bsky.social

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article)

Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.

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Many of you may not be familiar with #NIH grants. Here are some facts to help you understand the magnitude of this disaster. 1) NIH grants are extremely difficult to get & not "free money". Researchers must have preliminary data & write detailed proposals. Mine was >200pages & took years to put

The funding freeze is NOT over. Biomedical grants can't get reviewed or funded because of a "loophole" the current administration is exploiting. The NIH timeline for reviewing and funding was already LONG, now this process is frozen indefinitely. 1/

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

Nature Story "Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order" (with non-paywalled link) archive.ph/7h6Im

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

Thanks for the info from reviewers... All 8 CSR study section meeting scheduled today have been cancelled (due to the Federal Register announcement issue). Some reviewers are finding out that their meetings are cancelled when they are notified by the travel agency that their tickets are cancelled.

a man is playing basketball in a gym with a sign that says `` you just got shut down '' .

ALT: a man is playing basketball in a gym with a sign that says `` you just got shut down '' .

media.tenor.com

This. My study section (at CSR, not institute-specific) meeting, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, was abruptly cancelled (“postponed”) yesterday afternoon.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last yr.

New fuckery from #RFKJr., #Trump, #Musk, #Vought and their minions. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/

Nothing surprising. Cutting indirect rates to 15% was mentioned in project 2025. But mentioning specific institutions in the announcement, is very telling. And if you had any doubt - biomedical research in the US is under attack, as is the health of American waiting for new drugs and therapies

Unbelievable speed of ATTEMPTS to dismantle science. They tried this 💩 in the first admin, proposing cuts to 10%, and it was resisted by Congress Call your congresspeople, and remind them they have defended health research before, and they can do so again

Matt Warner 🩸@bloodhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

OMG. Unbelievable speed of dismantling science and discrediting scientists…

Massive NIH cuts to research infrastructure threaten the foundation of U.S. research—putting our future at risk. We need innovation in funding, not dismantling our research engine. My take in @statnews: www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n...

The NIH’s drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to U.S. research infrastructure

The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as global leader in medical research.

statnews.com

The attacks on the NIH, and this cut on NIH indirect costs to support research at academic institutions, will gut U.S. biomedical research as we know it. We will lose a whole generation of early career scientists & the U.S. will lose its position as the world leader in biomedical research.

NIH caps "indirect research costs" at 15%, potentially surrendering decades of US dominance in medical research.

Dr. Harlan Krumholz: "We cannot afford to sacrifice the core infrastructure that enables all the discoveries."

open.substack.com

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

Our country is hailed worldwide for our technical and scientific ingenuity But it is federal grants that serve as the engine of innovation. Pausing scientific grantmaking — by NSF, NIH, and more — is NOT a recipe for American greatness. Consider reminding your senators & reps of this fact.

Jonathan Lambert@jonlambert.bsky.social · 2y ago

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I’m still plugging away at grant reviews for an in-person NIH study section next month, with only a shred of hope that it will actually happen. This disruption to science has already been devastating for so many and it’s only been a few days. #MedSky #AcademicSky

Esther Choo@choo.bsky.social · 2y ago

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her)@liebschutz.bsky.social · 2y ago

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Never imagined I’d have to say this, but if you want to have a look at NIH RePORTER to see how much NIH funding your state receives so you can write to your elected representatives, you’d better do it now, and get a screenshot.

Finally joined @bsky.app (long overdue after avoiding social media for a few months)! Hoping to find my communities in Critical Care, Pulmonary, Aging, science. Happy to be here!

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