According to NIH leadership, it is a disease that has now been cured, along with Equity and Inclusion. I am happy to be retiring soon.

How we cured DEI at the National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health will no longer fund research based on DEI that has diverted resources from advancing health

thespectator.com/topic/cured-...

Cured DEI? Curiously, the link to the "new formal priorities for the NIH" in the last paragraph goes to an NIH notice in April 2025 that was rescinded in June!

Curiously, the link at the end goes to an NIH notice from April t that was rescinded in June!

Does anyone even know if they have internal search committees for these positions? If so, do they include qualified scientists?

I have a strange feeling that fewer and fewer of my fellow scientists post anything critical on social media. I wonder why?

Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors The institute directors at NIH are top scientific leaders who in principle can redirect grant money as they please. The Trump NIH must not install new directors without a real hiring process.

Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors
open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

Job ads on FB for 12 Institute Directors do not inspire confidence in the hiring process!

This is a huge problem with consequences far into the future. ID used to be a popular specialty, despite its relatively low compensation compared to many others. Not anymore!

Opinion | I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress. Sidelining our field will inevitably leave us all unprepared for the next threat

I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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Only the top third will be discussed, but the middle third will still be considered for funding (even though it was not discussed! SIC!).
This seems to be the end of impactful peer review, at least for now!

New NIH Process To Choose Grant Awardees Will No Longer Use Paylines The National Institutes of Health has just announced that it will no longer rely on paylines to determine who gets NIH grant funding. Here's what this change might do.

www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

"Without the use of paylines or any other transparent metric that’s clearly available to the public, the risk is that funding decisions will get even more politicized and less scientific.""Will this allow NIH grants to be awarded more as political favors? "

Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy

The inside scoop on how RFK Jr. has maneuvered to dismantle America's longstanding vaccine system. It's a tangled tale including a government whistleblower, activists, a discredited researcher and CDC officials who fought back, then quit.
w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

New NIH Policies Make It Easier to End Grants, Ignore Peer Review Also, long-time AIDS leader was reassigned

"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Institute Directors have a huge amount of power at NIH. To maintain (what’s left of) the integrity of NIH, we need to make sure qualified scientists with topic-specific expertise and leadership experience remain at the helm.

She was a remarkable person.

The first mass shooting made very few headlines. Damaged by war?

I hope not!

They especially don't want to listen to mothers who are MDs or PhDs. (or both) and virologists.

Especially if you live in Denmark! Hoping to be able to land at Kastrup in a couple of weeks.

This does not seem to be true, but so much remains uncertain. Incompetent or cruel? Who knows?

This is good advice for now!

www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclo...
Does anyone remember reading this? I read it many decades ago, but I still remember that it made a great impression on me. It was written by Sartre in 1936—food for thought right now.

Sometimes AI can be used to counteract “amateur science” faster than you can!

A 2024 study of nearly 2.5 million children in Sweden found no causal link between prenatal acetaminophen (Tylenol) use and an increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

This was a Swedish study!!! Denmark is great, but...

On August 12, 2017, I staffed an aid station for the counter protest against the fascists who came to Cville. Nazis attacked the church we were using, and antifascists put their bodies between my patients and harm.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Sharing stories matters. If you’ve faced grant terminations, funding delays, loss of research jobs, etc., your voice is needed. Help show the real impact of NIH funding interference - tell your story so we don’t lose innovation, cures, and hope for the future. www.27unihted.org/biohealthbeats

The onset of SSPE is typically 6-10 years after infection, but symptoms can appear after 1 year or up to 24 years later. This means that we will not see these cases for a long time in areas with many recent infections due to reduced vaccination rates. Most physicians have never seen a case.

What Measles Did to My Family My mom always told me that measles was what made my sister sick. I was 8 when she finally explained the whole thing.

If you don't know, this is a secondhand account of what measles subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is like.

www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

Another SSPE story.

Incredibly sad, but predictable. SPPE is a horrible 100% fatal, slowly progressing disease that is rarely ever seen in vaccinated kids. The prevalence has been predicted to be about 1/600 cases after a natural infection. You do the math; we are likely to see many more cases in the coming years.