This could be a game changer!!
Diarrhea is global health's least sexy challenge, but it remains a top killer of children.
E.coli is present in 98% of water sources in Guatemala, for example, and systematic water purification is incredibly challenging for low-resourced contexts.
OMB has posted the full-year apportionments for NIH.
openomb.org/file/11511545
I believe this means that NIH now has the spending authority to fund grants!
There may be nuances and I will be tracking these as best I can.
As ProPublica journalists, we share a common purpose with inspectors general: to hold our government accountable by identifying waste, fraud and abuse.
If you work in or have recently left the office of an inspector general, we want to hear from you.
(unless you work on climate change or racial disparities or LGBTQ health or…)
“The leftover money from those terminations went to the US Treasury, not back to NIH.”
I don't have any insight into what the actual story is with the change to NIH data management plan requirements, but this clarification sounds like "We asked for lots of details, turns out we don't care" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I was just talking about this the other day, 404 Media has been doing an incredible job laying out the threats posed by data brokers www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
Quick paper highlights a fun twist on methods transparency and reporting—even thorough descriptions may be interpretable only to humans. Interesting to consider using standardized syntax ("n=") for LLMs rather than older "semantic web" techniques www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
Screenshot of a banner ad at the top of a website. It's been replaced by a dark box labeled "This ad used too many resources for your device, so chrome removed it."
Google's browser is now cutting off its own ads for eating up too many resources
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
New research from @uchicagobsd.bsky.social shows that microbes in breast milk actually populate the infant gut, laying the foundation for a healthy microbiome.
biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/microbe...
#ScienceNews #Microbiome #GutHealth
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation).
Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.
Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females."
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
Hey I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it yet but this whole thread makes you look like a huge fucking loser
This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical
“When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”
I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
