Thank you for the warm welcome, @socpedresearch.bsky.social! Honored to be part of SPR.

Maternal undernutrition exacerbates microbiota-driven growth stunting through pre and postnatal effects Linear growth stunting due to undernutrition affects 20% of children under the age of five with far-reaching consequences, including increased susceptibility to infection and altered cognitive develop...

Excited to share my lab's latest preprint and very proud of the whole team for their hard work. Check it out if you're interested in the #microbiome #maternalhealth or #undernutrition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Clinical lactation studies. Acting on key recommendations over the last decade - npj Women's Health npj Women's Health - Clinical lactation studies. Acting on key recommendations over the last decade

Progress. But more action needed: lactation is one of the most common exclusion criteria in drug trials.

"Including lactating women in clinical trials is imperative to generate relevant drug exposure and safety data... [for] this understudied population."

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.

Massively understated :: "Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk" newrepublic.com/article/1919... via @newrepublic.com

Never heard of Matthew Memoli?

Until recently, I hadn't either.

But he's the acting director behind the ongoing illegal shutdown at NIH. This Atlantic story gets into the weeds to explain why everything is still jammed up.

Understanding the Real Costs of Research YouTube video by AAMCtoday

Institutions already subsidize IDCs at a high rate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNc...

And in a lot more depth:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

“A sane government would never do this.” — the former dean of Harvard Medical School

Universities are reeling. Elon Musk’s allies are celebrating.

Looking at the major cut to federal research funding — which many scientists predict will be devastating

With @lenasun.bsky.social and Carolyn Johnson

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.

This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

I get that this is an inside baseball technical thing, so a lay translation: On a biomedical researcher's "holy shit" scale of 1-10, this is a solid 10