In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers.
This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen.
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Our latest in Lancet Microbe: as #ART coverage and HIV suppression rose, pre-treatment NNRTI-resistant viremia fell—showing strong ART programs can keep transmitted drug resistance in check. Food for thought amid growing uncertainty about global #HIV funding this #WorldAIDSDay
tinyurl.com/3ux5uj98
Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., Director of the Division of AIDS National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (.gov) https://www.niaid.nih.gov › about › carl-w-dieffenbach-... Nov 15, 2018 — Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., serves as Director of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS). Dr. Dieffenbach oversees a global HIV/AIDS research portfolio of more than $1 ...
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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New preprint on #HIV suppression and resistance during DTG transition! Population-level analysis shows improving VL suppression w/minimal DTG resistance. However, we find emergence of S153Y, an integrase mutation linked to reduced DTG efficacy, w/evidence of transmission.
tinyurl.com/bu4n6erk
New paper: we argue that a promising approach for studying mpox vaccine effectiveness in Central Africa to incorporate mpox vaccination + testing data into existing cohort studies, especially those for HIV/STIs.
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
New NIH rules on the use of AI in development of research grant.
But what exactly defines "AI generated"? Without clearly outlined processes for detecting suspect applications, seems like this could be used arbitrarily.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
The BBB cuts to science, health, education and disaster response are impacting former and current WP residents today and certainly will in the future. The next flood is all but inevitable. What will happen when it hits? To our schools and future grads?
WP flood devastation in 2011
I will add that WP suffered a terrible flood in 2011, including my family's home. 8 feet of water on the first floor! #FEMA helped our beautiful community rebuild. But the ripple effects are still being felt with the impending closure of our beloved public school which is reeling from revenue loss.
Increased investment in the NIH and NSF would offer my young WP relatives the high paying jobs of today and the future. Personally, I’d love to raise my children in WP, in the community that made me. But that future requires us to build on tomorrow, not only by honoring our past.
Some of my younger family members, also from WP, bright and driven, are studying science in college. They have so much promise. Yet now they are struggling to find internships and other opportunities because of the recent devastation to NIH/NSF and health.
Yet, we can’t simply rebuild the past. Instead, we must ask: what kind of future can we create for today’s youth in WP? As honorable as my Nona's work was, I don't know many young people that strive to work long hard hours in a factory like her.
My journey, from WP to scientific research, was powered by investments in the #NIH and #education, which are now being drastically cut. I understand why Vance’s promise to restore factory jobs resonates in NEPA. My family faced job losses when NAFTA hit hard in the '90s.
I grew up with traditions: Catholic school, pizza on Fridays, and Sundays in church. Those values instilled a lifelong commitment to service that led me into #publichealth, where I now work to end the #HIV epidemic through #science and compassion.
My family immigrated to NEPA from Italy in the 1920s. My Nona worked in a garment factory making pennies on the dollar. Two generations later, and I'm a researcher at a top US university, a path I never could have dreamed but was possible because of US investments in small communities like WP.
Gates Foundation asked me to underscore that its commitment remains steadfast to collaborative effort to make lenacapavir PrEP available to 2 million people in next three years. Question is: Can the collaboration do this without PEPFAR support? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
A halt to foreign “subawards” disrupts ongoing global studies and has researchers scrambling to fulfill ethical obligations to trial volunteers. scim.ag/4dCzA1G
Difficult read.
❤️Thank you so much.
Really appreciate it! Just to note for everyone that all these funds will go directly to our team in Uganda to maintain clinical care and research capacity.
Thank you so much! Our collaborator Phil Kreniske set up a secure donation site through CUNY.
www.tfaforms.com/5173879
Very Hard times for our HIV team in Uganda. We’ve reduced incidence of new infections by over 90%. We know how to stop transmission and end AIDS. We were close to zero. What we need now is the will. @rhsp-ug.bsky.social #HIV #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Uganda #EndAIDS #PEPFAR
Please consider a comment today if you are in the US. See the advice (shared from an email I received) in the follow-up posts below this one. Tomorrow is the deadline. This is an important part of scientific freedom in this country.
Thanks Marc!
This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research.
In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.
This is an extinction-level event.
The NIH has dropped its research funding by $2.7 billion so far this year.
Cancer research funding has declined 31%.
And new NIH research grants fell to the lowest level in more than a decade.
Eye-opening findings in today's HELP committee minority report:
www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
Just imagine where Tesla stock would be right now if Elon Musk had used his wealth to end the threat of HIV rather than to elect Trump.
Defunding basic research in America may be politically expedient, but its bad for the economy. My thoughts at Forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
It's not only demoralizing but a huge waste of tax payer dollars and a national security threat.
