‼️”…researchers submitting applications right now do not know… existing grants can be terminated if a political appointee decides they no longer align with “the President’s policy priorities.”They do not know that peer review scores, while still generated, are now advisory rather than determinative.”
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Yes, a new neighbor 🤗
and we are all curious💚
🔎✍🏼‼️”…federally supported research was often celebrated as creating an “endless frontier”…Today, the incentives often run in the opposite direction. When scientific findings threaten entrenched economic or political interests, science itself becomes the target.”
🩷😌🎧🎶🧏🏻♀️
“Ending #Tuberculosis is a biomedical challenge but it is also a political and social choice.
Do we continue with incrementalism?
Or do we build a people-led movement that refuses to accept preventable deaths?
This needs gamechangers. It needs disruptors. It needs all of us.”
#FreeTB 🥊
”Beautiful Deaths: How 'La Bohème' Transformed #Tuberculosis into Art
From Mimì's consumption to Rent's AIDS crisis, opera has long aestheticized illness—revealing both our deepest fears and our most troubling biases” 🧐✍🏻
Charlie, Charlinho… 🐶🤗🤎🧸
🪧🙋🏻♀️Let it be✌🏻
🚫Haircuts
🤦🏻♀️I can’t stop thinking about this⬇️
Where is Charlie?🐶
Even 🐈⬛Simon is confused with
his new look 😵💫
The Simpsons did it again 🤷🏻♀️
🙌🏼Friday👟📸🐶🐾
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” - Benjamin Franklin
🖌️UN MUNDO SIN TUBERCULOSIS - una historia Contada Por El Pueblo
A world without #Tuberculosis - A History Told by the people
A Bilingual graphic novel (English/Spanish)
Highlighted in red: "Political interference is inappropriately shaping or interfering in the conduct, management, communication, or use of science for political advantage or such that it undermines impartiality, nonpartisanship, or professional judgement"
"HHS works to promote a culture of scientific integrity by creating an empowering environment for innovation and protecting scientists and the process of science from inappropriate interference. Scientific findings and products must not be suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and must not be subjected to political interference or inappropriate influence. The responsible and ethical conduct of research and other scientific activities requires an environment that is safe and free from harassment and discrimination" Highlighted in red are "suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes", "subjected to political interference", and "inappropriate influence."
"HHS works to promote a culture of scientific integrity by creating an empowering environment for innovation and protecting scientists and the process of science from inappropriate interference. Scientific findings and products must not be subjected to interference or inappropriate influence and must not be inappropriately suppressed, delayed, or altered. The responsible and ethical conduct of research and other scientific activities requires an environment that is safe and free from harassment and discrimination." Highlighted in green are "subjected to interference or inappropriate influence" and "inappropriately suppressed, delayed, or altered."
Text, with "political" highlighted in red to indicate removal: I. Protecting Scientific Processes Scientific integrity fosters "honest scientific investigation, open discussion, refined understanding, and a firm commitment to evidence" (OSTP 2010). It also enables consideration and documentation of differing scientific opinions. Practices that support scientific integrity may include peer review and open science. Science, and public trust in science, thrives in an environment that prevents political interference and inappropriate influence from impacting scientific data and analyses and their use in decision making. It is the policy of HHS to: 1. Prohibit political interference or other inappropriate influence in the design, proposal, conduct, review, management, evaluation, communication about, and use of scientific activities and scientific information. Prohibit inappropriate restrictions on resources and capacity that limit and reduce the availability of science and scientific products (e.g., manuscripts for scientific journals, presentations for workshops, conferences, and symposia) outside of normal budgetary or priority-setting processes or without scientific, legal, or security justification. 3. Require that leadership and management ensure that covered individuals engaged in scientific activities can conduct their work objectively, free from political interference or other inappropriate influence, and free from retaliation.
HHS just published an update to its Scientific Integrity Policy. Notably, it has removed the concept of political interference, and no longer calls it out as something specifically to be prevented.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... (deletions in red, insertions in green)
🫥 Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices
🫠”Summary statements will be simplified… Instead, summaries will have a sentence describing the degree of consensus in the committee vote, plus bullets listing the main score driving points.”
🤦🏻♀️🚨🆘”The danger, he explained, was the delay. When fertilizers don’t arrive in time for key planting windows, yields can fall in the following harvest cycle. Disruptions in global trade can ripple into higher prices and lower output, hitting the poorest countries hardest.”
😡😣😔Painful but a must read.
“Thousands of enrolled patients are at risk…For an airborne infectious disease [ #Tuberculosis ]that is a serious national security risk…He recommended that we use the term “SuperTB” instead of “drug-resistant TB”…because it might be more likely to”catch their attention”
😌💜🎶🎹
Phil Collins 🙌🏼
🤷🏻♀️They are always watching…
Look Up 🙄🐈⬛
😳After a long trip, and found this:
Before Vs. After 🐶
🐾Where is Charlie??!! 😱🤷🏻♀️
😌🛫🇲🇽🛬🇺🇸🤍
Good night 🍷🎶
👟📸🇲🇽🔥sunsets🧡😌🫶🏻
📸🛫🌤️😍
Happy #Caturday 😻
Simon’s 🐈⬛ dramatic pole dance🤷🏻♀️
🙋🏻♀️💜😼
#adopt #petsarefamily #catsky #catlady #rescuecats #lovecats
🇦🇺Nurses' Experiences of Video Direct Observed Treatment at a Local #Tuberculosis Clinic in a High-Income Country: A Qualitative Study
👟📸🇲🇽Mexican nights ☺️💚🤍❤️
🧐 Immunotherapy targeting drug-tolerant Mycobacterium tuberculosis persisters accelerates #tuberculosis cure in preclinical models
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💚🤍❤️
From the annals of global health inequity:
Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, has the world’s highest HIV prevalence.
At the country’s central medical store, the shelf for lenacapavir is almost bare
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Bees are small, fragile, and easily overlooked. And yet, in their heavy pollen-laden wings, they hold something of the planet's balance. With every flight, with every touch of the petals, the bee gathers not only nectar—it gathers life, color, hope.
Even common birds are feeling the impacts of climate change. Read the latest from the #SFW_ANU project here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#birds #ecology #climatechange #superbfairywren #ornithology
🇪🇸”Open Research Europe… promueve prácticas de ciencia abierta como la gratuidad de la lectura y la publicación de resultados de investigación, la revisión abierta de la calidad de la publicación por expertos y la difusión temprana de todos los resultados de investigación.”
