Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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Three RFK Jr. hearings last week not enough for you???

WELL HAPPY MONDAY! We have FOUR (4) more this week!!!!

BUCKLE UP.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Bhattacharya, Letai & other politicals at NIH keep trying to to say all at NIH is fine, because they spent the full budget last year. This well researched article from @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social explains exactly why many scientists are still struggling. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin and ibogaine The president is directing federal agencies to boost research into the drugs and support clinical trials, moves championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump & RFK are making psychedelics (like LSD & MDMA) "available in controlled therapeutic settings."

I have no opinion on their medical potential b/c they haven't been studied enough. But I think it strange that an admin. so insistent on new clinical

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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

From the outside it looked horrific and this confirms that. I did not know about the email from Jay standardizing signatures what an f-ing joke. How anyone made it thru this is a miracle.

Screenshot of Science commentary articleL Scientists stunned by ‘fundamentally new way’ life produces DNA. Newly discovered bacterial defense system challenges genetic code’s central dogma. Image: In a newly discovered bacterial defense system, paired strands of DNA (orange and cyan) are synthesized by two enzymes: One (yellow) uses an RNA template (beige) to guide the assembly of the nucleotide bases that make up DNA, while a second, highly unusual enzyme (light blue) uses its own amino acids as a template."

As a scientist, I am here to report that this headline is indeed accurate as I am in fact STUNNED!!

Wow. This is incredible. 🧪

"Newly discovered bacterial defense system challenges genetic code’s central dogma.":
www.science.org/content/arti...

This is what happens at concentration camps

CALL YOUR HOUSE REP AND TELL THEM TO CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES. NOW!

Here's a fun thread

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

Dot com bubble flash-backs exhibit #146

The theme of the table is “crypt keeper”

These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

seems like no big thing for POTUS to make enough fishes and loaves of bread to feed every service member

Senators press NIH director on killed grants and proposal to slash agency’s funding Jay Bhattacharya says NIH’s final budget will be a “collaboration”

Yesterday, Senators asked NIH director Jay Bhattacharya how Trump can justify a 40% cut to NIH's budget. He declined to say. www.science.org/content/arti... by @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full
For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️

Vought is a crook and he should be treated like one

DOGGETT: Doesn't your budget propose another 12% cut for NIH?

VOUGHT: Most of what you said is untrue. NIH was not cut at all--

D: My Q is don't you propose another 12% cut?

VOUGHT: We propose a cut

D: Is it your feeling that we just can't afford to invest more in doing something about cancer?

Dear Member of Congress: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants. Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH: • Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities • Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants • Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one • Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects • Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year.

For example👇

1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year).
2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants.

🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

Yes, I have started tracking AHRQ a while ago and got "0". I wanted to check to make sure I wasn't making some sort of error.

It turns out I was not the one making the mistakes...

Divorced from reality .. lol

cancer sucks but science is amazing if only we could make treatments accessible to all and not the few

We have a pretty good idea, JD

Charlie Kirk Goes Full 'Great Replacement Theory' In Rant Against Anti-ICE Protesters In Los Angeles Charlie Kirk goes full "Great Replacement Theory" in latest rant about Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles.

And yeah, the guy who spread a racist conspiracy theory was very much "all about the truth" sure, sure

Yeah, the college dropout who created the Professor Watchlist and encouraged his followers to harass scholars was all about loving and respecting one another.