Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

As a doctor, I recommend against taking health care advice from Mike Tyson.

Greatest Bears regular season win of my life, I’m pretty sure! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO TO SLEEP!?!?!

folks, I've never lived through years of mass political violence but I do study it for a living: you don't want to live through years of political violence.

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.

As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.

See this:

MAHA gold-standard science.

By @glaucomflecken.bsky.social

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-...

This is the message we have to keep trying to send. NIH is good on its merits and good on the economics. Regular people have NO IDEA. Keep communicating with the normal folks in your circle about the economic impacts of these cuts. It’s not on TV or in the paper.

‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science (Gift Article) Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

“If you are taking an F.D.A.-approved drug that is improving the quality or length of your life, there is a 99 percent chance N.I.H. was involved in the pathway to its discovery.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

You seem stressed.

Here's some footage of the double-decker trolley bus, a transport world rara avis.

Trackless trolleys in West London (Twickenham, Isleworth, Chiswick) the early 1960s.

Don't you feel better now?

This level of toxicity and disorganization at NIH is heartbreaking and terrifying.

This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.

Get Rekt

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH website and all of its subsites are down.

NSF and CDC remain up.

Inside the Collapse at the NIH Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

The Department of Health and Human Services has pressed the NIH to ignore court orders, dismissing NIH lawyers' advice to resume business as usual, @katherinejwu.com reports. As of this week, some institutes and centers are still not issuing any new grants: theatln.tc/MVl9uWmj

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots

The FDA cancelled an upcoming meeting of experts scheduled to discuss next year’s flu shots, stoking fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

Many politicians & CEOs are ignorant about / indifferent to science, but with Trump–Musk and their stooges, it's more. They outright hate science. Presumably this is another manifestation of their insecurity, a deep resentment because scientists get credit for their hard work and good brains.

I chatted with a program director at NIH for a half hour just now

It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment

They deserve our respect and gratitude

Ohio GOP Rep. Balderson says Trump's executive orders 'getting out of control' U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson said he respects Trump and the need for executive orders, but that Congress should be allowed to work as intended.

NEW

Republican Congressman Troy Balderson, who reps an R+18 district in Ohio, says President Trump’s executive orders are “getting out of control.”

“Congress has to decide whether or not the Departmnet of Education goes away. Not the president. Not Elon Musk. Congress decides,” Balderson said.

Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶

Non-smoking lung cancer patient: “NIH funding cuts could cost me my life, and that of millions of others” thehill.com/opinion/heal...

US bird flu response disrupted in early weeks of Trump administration, sources say​ The Trump administration has disrupted the U.S. response to bird flu as the outbreak worsens, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, state officials, veterinarians and health experts, 11 sources told Reuters.

The Trump admin has "disrupted the response" to bird flu by withholding reports and canceling meetings with both Congress and state health officials, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, states, veterinarians and health experts.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

This is the message for your “normal” friends. The administration is the best ally of cancer in the US currently.

Viewpoint: The US faces a crisis in child and adolescent health and well-being, necessitating a transformation of the health care system.

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#MedSky

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.