Did you know 1 in 35 U.S. children has autism? This Autism Awareness Month, the Child Neurology Society celebrates the unique strengths of individuals with autism and calls for awareness, inclusion, and high-quality care for every child. #AutismAwarenessMonth
To be fair, my doctor also heals me by placing his hand on my forehead while holding a glowing orb in his other hand. I can tell the healing is working when my forehead also glows.
He is also usually accompanied by angels, eagles and usually a fighter jet
I can totally see how he’d confuse the two
Exciting new work from the team @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social on a multi-respiratory pathogen vaccine
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Just watched the NIH Strategic Planning input session...
Some observations:
(1) I am glad that NIH is doing this (although I do remain skeptical about how seriously they will take input which challenges their existing intentions).
PEOPLE SHOULD STILL COMMENT!
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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They should have called it Straight of Schrödinger: it is both open and closed depending on whom you talk to and when.
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Cancelling continuous submission for reviewers seems like just about the worst possible idea. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Unless of course breaking the system is the point.
Many PIs are already quietly boycotting review. Some not wanting to lend credibility to an increasingly corrupted NIH…
This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...
😭😭😭😭
Mariya Sweetwyne, an assistant professor at the University of Washington
Mariya Sweetwyne, an assistant prof at the University of Washington, is down to just 1 lab member after NIH rescinded a grant program through which she'd sought funding. She's reduced her mouse colony by half. Each morning, her daughter hands her a few coins and asks, “Is this going to be enough?”
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find.
Now? 🤷🏾♂️
We are recruiting to a Research Tech II position in the lab:
careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/10...
Please consider sharing the link. This is a great position for someone interested in working for a few years prior to applying to M.D., Ph.D., or M.D./Ph.D. programs, or transitioning to industry.
Stand Up for Science at Philadelphia, the original American city of science. #standupforscience # Philadelphia
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Stand Up for Science rally poster March 7th, 1:00 PM at Allegheny Landing in Pittsburgh.
Very excited to be speaking at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
I am speaking just prior to Dr. Rachel Levine
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The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
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Screenshot from an NIH website reading: "Table 1 shows the number of principal investigators (PIs) applying for or receiving an R01-equivalent grant in FYs 2021 to 2025, disaggregated by career stage. NIH supported 1,423 and 1,144 ESIs in FYs 2024 and 2025, respectively. The decrease seen in FY 2025 may likely be due in part to NIH implementing a requirement to use 50% of its remaining competing Research Project Grant (RPG) funds (starting in June 2025) for full-year funded competing RPGs, which was expected to lead to fewer awards and support fewer researchers overall."
Check this out straight from the NIH website, acknowledging that multiyear funding was likely responsible for a 20% decrease in early stage investigators.
And that it was expected.
A strange approach for someone so committed to the next generation of scientists.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
There’s a seven year old boy hospitalized in Greenville, South Carolina with measles encephalitis.
He can’t walk or talk or feed himself.
This didn’t have to happen. Please vaccinate.
In a country with a bad president, be a Bad Bunny. [Cartoon by Matt Davies]
Any resemblance with academia is pure coincidence
As pediatricians, we’re speaking out on the harms of aggressive immigration enforcement and detention on children. Our kids deserve safety and protection.
See our piece in USA Today:
Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Yeee!! Congrats
Because of technical issues with the SciENcv website, NIH is extending a period of leniency accepting old format biosketches through May 2026 (see FAQ #5):
grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
