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Thrilled & honored to be a finalist for @nihcm.bsky.social 's 2026 trade journalism awards. My @science.org endometriosis feature stars heroic U of Cincinnati researcher Katie Burns, who has the disease.The outstanding Science reporter @cohenjon.bsky.social is also a finalist. bit.ly/NIHCM2026TJA...

What causes endometriosis? Scientists are closer to finding out : Short Wave Since the age of nine or ten, Katie Burns has had debilitating pain from endometriosis, a condition where tissue resembling the uterine lining grows outside the uterus. For years, Katie was in the dar...

Thrilled that NPR's Shortwave podcast today featured Katie Burns and her important endometriosis research, along with the Science article that tells Katie's story @Science.org : www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

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I am hearing of a possible active shooter situation on CDC campus in Atlanta. Please reach out with any information. Note this is from one source on the campus and is not verified.

In Guinea, the United States helped beat back malaria. Now, the disease is set to soar Foreign aid cuts are expected to cause a rise in malaria cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa

"The small children, they die!” From @science.org 's @martinenserink.bsky.social Don't look away. www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

Don't look now but: Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds. Brought to you by @science.org 's excellent @cathleenogrady.bsky.social | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Job opportunities at Retraction Watch Here are our current open positions: Editor, Medical Evidence Project Staff reporter, Retraction Watch Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database Learn more about the Center for Scientific Int…

Hey @sciencewriters.org , job opportunities at Retraction Watch: retractionwatch.com/job-opportun...

Thanks so much Brendan. I feel just the same way about you!

How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research After 11 deaths, Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean became a center for shark attack science

A fascinating summer read from the redoubtable @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social‬ for @science.org ! How a string of deadly shark attacks made a remote island a hub of lifesaving research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Thank you Helen!!!

Well, this makes it real: I'm retiring in September and this is the just-posted job listing for my replacement. @Science.org is a fabulous place to work, so @sciencewriters.org, apply here! recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

@michaelhoffman.bsky.social could you reach out? mwadman@aaas.org

The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers

How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones?

@meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...

RFK Jr. says federal vaccine advisers are beholden to industry. The evidence does not support him A Science investigation finds no sign that members of a key CDC vaccine committee are compromised

Pace RFK Jr, a @science.org investigation found that doctors on CDC's now-fired Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made less from industry than their specialist peers; five of 13 made nothing at all. @mariashriver.bsky.social Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump budget proposes killing nursing research institute A tiny sliver of NIH, it has provided an evidence base for bedside care, shrinking mortality and saving dollars

Trump budget proposes killing nursing research institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial Drug combination targeting lax airways is nearing an FDA submission

"Promising" is overused when it comes to potential medicines, but here I think it's justified. 10s of millions of Americans have sleep apnea; many reject CPAP. @science.org.bsky.social : Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

The backstory is here: NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Now, the study leader has written to her colleagues: "We are so pleased to inform you that the decision to restore WHI funding has been officially communicated to WHI leadership. We learned last night from our NIH acquisitions officer “that the previous decision to not renew has been rescinded."

The administration had said as much, under pressure, after Science broke the news that the longstanding study was being targeted. But the scientists themselves then heard nothing.

The Trump administration has made it official, letting Women's Health Initiative investigators know that their money won't dry up in September after all.

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

CDC firings gut research on traumatic brain injuries Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions

The #TraumaticBrainInjury unit at the Centers for Disease Control was wiped out in last week's firings. @science.org looks at what was lost. www.science.org/content/arti...

@altcdc.altgov.info Contact me today if you were impacted by, or know someone impacted by, the elimination of the team focused on traumatic brain injury at CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention. I'm on Signal: meredithwadman.13

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

@taaltree.bsky.social could you reach out to me about EEID program? mwadman@aaas.org or Signal meredithwadman.13

‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit Rodent and monkey facilities imperiled by Trump plan to cut overhead payments

Exclusively from @science.org : ‘Death by ax.’ Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

icymi, @science.org has a new tracker to keep you up to the minute: Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend

From @science.org : Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC

‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...