Took my frustration with current OMB/OSTP proposals and turned it into an op-ed for my hometown newspaper! Here's my better-late-than-never contribution to the #McClintockLetters: herald-zeitung.com/opinion/morr...

MORRISON: Federal funding brought me from Canyon H.S. to cancer research – cuts threaten the next generation

Cuts to federal funding for American science are disrupting research, halting clinical trials, and imperiling the next generation of scientists. As a scientist and a proud graduate of Texas schools,

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The Fauci diaries should be a reminder that Trump could see he was on track to lose the election due to his mismanagement of the pandemic & when Dr. Fauci refused to lie on his behalf, shut him out & found people who would say what Trump wanted us to hear

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 3d ago

People ask me why the COVID contrarians were needed. Why did the first Trump White House align with rightwing billionaires and orgs to find credentialed ppl who looked good on TV that would deny COVID severity and yell about lockdowns? This is why

People ask me why the COVID contrarians were needed. Why did the first Trump White House align with rightwing billionaires and orgs to find credentialed ppl who looked good on TV that would deny COVID severity and yell about lockdowns? This is why

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Happy birthday to Jay Bhattacharya claiming Florida was protected right before Delta ripped through

A grand jury in Florida was tasked with uncovering evidence of criminal activity surrounding Covid vaccines. They found none in their newly released final report (of course). Ron DeSantis has not acknowledged this. floridaphoenix.com/2025/01/07/s...

Statewide grand jury investigating COVID-19 vaccines finds no evidence of crimes • Florida Phoenix

A statewide grand jury didn’t find evidence that COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers broke federal or state laws when making and distributing the shots, according to a report published Tuesday. The publica...

floridaphoenix.com

The focus on Fauci was always designed to help the GOP and Trump avoid taking the blame from the human and economic impacts of the pandemic. Blame China. Blame the scientists. Blame anyone but the President of the U.S.

Just vile.

🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Although Jay claims it was censored by government, the meeting that led to the Great Barrington Declaration (1 month before the 2020 election) was organized with assistance from Scott Atlas from his official role in White House. At time, Trump hadn't met with Fauci for months.

Gallup polls found RFK Jr's favorability has decline since beginning of the year. Last December, Ipsos/Axios found every Trump health official was trusted less on medical information than Fauci. But they're restoring trust... bsky.app/profile/axio...

Axios@axios.com · 2y ago

The public trusts Anthony Fauci more than Trump and his incoming health team as a source of medical information, according to the latest Axios-Ipsos American Health Index. trib.al/8jiiWJU

3 years ago, Musk tweeted that it was time to "move on" from the Fauci Files a full week before his hand-picked journalist released a story he flew internationally twice to write, revealing...Fauci had comms staffers tweeting on his behalf. But conspiracy theories can keep running on fumes forever

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · last mo.

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

In case it's helpful, I snipped this exchange where Dr. Manly asks Dr. Bhattacharya to explain how cutting NIH grants that mention health disparities squares with his claims to be interested in improving life expectancy for all Americans. youtu.be/QL2xvh8Zbm0?...

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS@tyk314.net · 2w ago

Scroll to about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Dr. Manly comes in with a great question. Our director gaslights her and the entire #NIH community. Pass this around. It is public. Don't let this continue. Hold Dr. Bhattacharya accountable.

IMO they need to gameify the MiniVAN app more. Tell me my lifetime doors, steps, etc. Reward me with a stupid little animation every hundred "not home"s. I want badges.

If you want an example of why having political appointees deeply involved in grantmaking... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

nytimes.com

🚨Breaking🚨: NIH is terminating health disparities research grants again. This time, they may successfully avoid legal challenges by giving specific reasons for their decisions. One grant so far, more to come. Exclusive @science.org by me and @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikes

With cancellation of health disparities project, agency may be testing new way to legally kill politically sensitive grants

science.org

ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.

BTW, this is the persn currently directing* CDC * sort of, legally speaking

Mallory Harris, PhD@malar0ne.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It's such a crazy coincidence that RFK Jr put the same guy in charge of the Autism Data Science Initiative & the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines (a man who said a few months ago he isn't familiar with the literature on whether the polio vaccine causes autism & he shouldn't comment)

Life comes at you fast

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.

EXCLUSIVE: Internal CDC emails + meeting notes reveal how Dr. Jay Bhattacharya ordered 1AM Friday detention of over a dozen U.S. citizens returning from DRC + considered low Ebola risk, sparking chaos and concern at CDC. My latest for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A 'Wild Misuse' of Power

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is needlessly detaining Americans as part of a chaotic Ebola response led by Jay Bhattacharya.

rollingstone.com

Joined the boys on Posting Through It to discuss conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk’s assassination and within 10 minutes had spilled a story about Jack Posobiec that I thought I'd take to my grave! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6LIt...

124: Can Anything Stop the Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theories? feat. Brandy Zadrozny

Posting Through It · Episode

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1.5 years ago @danvergano.bsky.social wrote about how HHS's current leadership is all hotdogs guys trying to find the guy who imploded public trust in science and this has only become more relevant www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists

“Propaganda works” is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering postpandemic distrust of science

scientificamerican.com

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2w ago

An EXCELLENT point by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Great advice here and I particularly like: "People often heavily weigh the risks of taking action while forgetting the risks of inaction."

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2w ago

9 lessons from Bethesda Declaration organizers on how to rescue US science: www.ovid.com/jnls/dartmou... 1. Scientists can no longer safely claim the privilege of being outside of, or above, politics 2. Inaction can be riskier than action. 3. Progress requires work. 4. Do not wait for someone else.

How about we talk less about low T and more about low TSH 🤔

The (initial) results are in: most of the publicly available comments on OMB's proposal to overhaul federal grantmaking are negative 95% of the 50k available comments were opposed, just 1% were in support Political control, peer review, and terminations were most common topics mentioned

New Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (#SCIMaP) analysis on the impact of the WH plan to eliminate NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. @malar0ne.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social scienceimpacts.org/insights/SBE...

Using an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

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Excellent post from @noupside.bsky.social on how bogus claims of government censorship under Biden didn't hold up to scrutiny in court. Yet, these false claims created substantial harm to Renee and to science. agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/happy-july...

Happy July 4! We beat Stephen Miller in court.

A federal court dismissed Hines v. Stamos in full — America First Legal's "censorship" suit against the Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project. No standing, no jurisdiction, no evidence.

agentsofinfluence.substack.com

This administration routinely justifies its attacks on vaccines with the idea that some large share of Americans does not trust vaccines anymore and that is not true.

Drew Altman@drewaltman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Social media makes the anti science, anti vax crowd seem much larger than it is. Surveys show it’s actually a very small share of the public greatly outnumbered by science believers. My new column: on.kff.org/4wthpni

Incredible piece, including new insights into federal interference with ACIP.

Katherine Eban@katherineeban.bsky.social · last mo.

EXCLUSIVE: As the White House embraces talc + tobacco, chaos reigns at @hhsofficial.bsky.social, agency lawyers warn of legal peril - and Sec Kennedy talks UFOs w/ a billionaire. Inside the MAGA-MAHA crack-up based on 35+ sources, dozens of internal HHS docs www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Excellent reflection on the CDC's recent vaccine effectiveness webinar via @b-lopman.bsky.social

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last mo.

“Kulldorff, Bhattacharya, & other appointees in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS have raised persistent doubts about Covid vaccines and about vaccine science more generally. What happened at the Grand Rounds appeared to be an attempt to manufacture a scientific debate where, in reality, there isn’t one”