Noon on Thursday May 22 outside HHS. Be there or be square.

🚨It's👏not👏just👏federal👏level👏impacts🚨

Help us save NIOSH and protect our workforce! Take action today - call your legislators and help us spread awareness on social media.

On April 1, the NIOSH workforce was fired, ending 50 years of infrastructure and programs that reduced and prevented workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths. Help save NIOSH! Take action today - call your legislators and spread awareness on social media. Learn more at mcohs.umn.edu/save-niosh/

Until earlier this morning, I worked for NIOSH. The whole Institute was gutted. 873 employees. All of Occupational Safety and Health research cut. Devastating.

Concerning NIOSH: I worked in miner safety & hygiene for years. Every piece of respiratory protection equipment that we put into service required NIOSH approval as a starting point. I’m talking about silicosis & mesothelioma prevention - serious stuff. NIOSH approval is the gold standard.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Trump's Medicaid cuts would leave millions without health care The human cost will be brutal—unless a few Republicans develop spines.

At Trump’s behest, Republicans are fielding Medicaid cuts in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars. The change in income limits that determine eligibility, which already vary by state, could place millions at risk of losing health care.

From a crude markets perspective, this is a catastrophe for the pharmaceuticals industry (combined market cap: $1.88trn) and biotech industry (combined market cap: $1.32trn). Five alarm fire, "everything we depend on to create value is being dumped down a sewer", catastrophe.

“It’s important to see the big picture...
[The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.”

This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪

NIH eases freeze on grant reviews imposed after Trump communications pause Meetings of study sections and closed portion of councils back on track as agency also deals with diversity-related executive orders

At least some good news! Grantmaking at the NIH has begun to move again after a 2-week standstill. Peer-review meetings and grant reviews have resume, but restrictions on public speaking & travel remain. Some relief, but "normal" is still distant. 🔬🧪🧬 #NIH #ResearchFunding #SciComm

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Horrifying!

The Trump administration blamed the dismantling of USAID on its workers’ high levels of “insubordination.” Nothing like gaslighting America.

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
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