Just when you thought things could not get dumber, or more racist.

Assessment of NIH Research on Women's Health This study aims to fill gaps in our understanding of women's health research across all NIH Institutes and Centers. It will analyze how much funding is allocated to research on conditions that affect ...

Only 6% of the NIH budget for 2024 went to women’s health, hence the scathing National Academies report (linked below). What you see in that figure is a steep drop off from what was already relatively little funding.

Truth

Hospital Nurse Work Conditions Worsened Post-COVID A new study finds that nurse dissatisfaction has worsened, including job satisfaction and perceptions of quality and management responsiveness.

A survey of hospital nurses by LDI Fellows @matthewmchugh.bsky.social, Linda Aiken, and Karen Lasater indicates that their work environments have not recovered from the pandemic, and on some measures they are even worse.

A new LDI chart highlights their findings. https://bit.ly/42kqL7Q

On an hourly basis, employers contribute towards health care more than three times on average for managerial and professional jobs what they do for service jobs.
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Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Ramen 😋

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As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:

$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks

and

$4,049 — weapons and war.

These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

She came to the ER asking for help.
What she needed wasn’t medical care, it was safety.

That night revealed something bigger: access to support often depends on systems that were never designed for the people who need them most. It also sparked an idea that would grow into Vot-ER,

I just think I should be able to attend a World Cup game in the United States for less money than it would cost for me to fly to Europe and watch a Champions League match, airfare, hotel, and tickets included.

Also, important obligatory update from Vermont: Today — April 14, 2026 — is @benandjerrys.bsky.social Free Cone Day, if you find yourself close to a scoop shop: www.benjerry.com/scoop-shops/...

I wish there was a 😆 button because I always 😆 at your cartoons

Congratulations to Ava Trueworthy on her successful undergraduate thesis defense at the Patrick Leahy Honors College @uvmvermont.bsky.social using @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social data!

Enjoying watching my son at the Academic Quiz Bowl Individual Player National Championship Tournament #ipnct

Save the date! Registration for the VON Quality Congress opens on 5/1/2026! The conference takes place November 5-8 in Chicago! The agenda is live on our website, so go check it out now! To see the whole agenda, please visit bit.ly/QCAgenda #neosky #VONQC26

'Craven Cottage', Fulham (1953) by Michael Bernard Critchlow
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The result may not have gone our way, but we’re still—a week later—in awe of the heart and passion that was on display at Virtue Field. This is the Vermont way.

We’ll keep dreaming of the Cup, and nights like these together with our friends.

Can’t wait for summer. 💚

CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.

The leadership at HHS has an agenda, and that is to deprive the United States of vaccines, most especially COVID19 vaccines.

These people have no problem making claims about their belief that COVID19 vaccines are harmful without any data at all.

Now they are hiding data showing the benefits.

CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.

Temporary CDC “Director” Jay Bhattacharya is a non-practicing MD, economist, and whiny little shitbird with a persecution complex.

He has ZERO education, training or experience in epidemiological study design and has no business at deciding what methodology should be used to evaluate vaccines.

CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

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Measles Elimination Status: What It Is and How the U.S. Could Lose It | KFF The United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status. This post looks at what measles elimination means, how the current measles outbreak threatens this status, and what losing it mig...

In early 2025, a series of measles outbreaks began in the U.S. and by the end of March 2026, more than 3,800 cases have been reported.

Our experts break down what that could mean for the U.S., which had eliminated endemic measles: https://on.kff.org/4bYOxfy

Egor Akulov Named to U.S. Open Cup Team of Second Round - Vermont Green Football Club Vermont Green FC centerback Egor Akulov has been named to the 2026 U.S. Open Cup Team of the Second Round for his performance against Westchester SC.

Vermont Green centerback Egor Akulov has been named to the 2026 U.S. Open Cup Team of the Second Round for his performance against Westchester SC.

Akulov anchored a backline that conceded zero goals in 210 minutes against two pro teams.

Writing letters to support others’ promotions is a task academics face, often with dread. Rarely does one get to write a letter in support of someone as qualified as the person I reviewed today. That makes it all worthwhile.

Congress is completely useless at this point.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

@nytimes.com
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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: