As #TaxDay is behind us, I share that #NIH funding enabled me to contribute to the understanding of
#DCIS progression to invasive #breastcancer.
The NIH comprises 0.7% of the federal budget & yields $2.56 for every tax $ invested.
🧪 @savehealthresearch.bsky.social @rpublicservice on IG
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
The Arts and Sciences are peak human being. Without them, we are nothing.
Our SRO mentioned they would continue with the 1/3 this year (at a minimum).
This is an evergreen headline.
Trump did [crazy thing.] Now the US could face [the obvious consequence of the crazy thing]
Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲
“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”
www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
So, looks like no more continuous submission for study section members. Apparently it’s not a “substantial benefit to members”.
No feedback, just cut it. Super duper. #nih
💉 Where can you find accurate information on vaccines❓
✅ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
✅ Medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and...
✅ CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
Congressional Committees with Oversight of NIH
with midterms and 2027 budget percolating, now is the time to write✍️
www.congress.gov/committees
A Little Owl is bundled in a baby blue towel on a table with an expression of malcontent. His eyes are squinted and slightly crossed, and match his waxy yellow beak in colour. He appears chinless, recessing his head into his body; eyes at the same level as his shoulders and squashed as though someone had tried resizing him in a Word document and forgot to lock the aspect ratio.
A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
My quote of the day
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History.
NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN
Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊
#NO_KINGS
A mere $4million per shot. Roughly 1,100 five year NIH grants burned in five days.
Authoritarians want fear, isolation, or apathy. With bills like the SAVE Act, they try to silence our voices. We must fight together for our rights, with joy and light and in community, to stop this kind of darkness and oppression. I hope you'll join us next Saturday. www.mobilize.us/aft/?org_ids...
everyone loses in this game 😢
As someone in biotech, I’m stunned by the lack of more public response, especially given our academic collaborations, academic founders, academic Science Advisory Board members, and academic database/tool usage. Many colleagues are concerned and upset, but it doesn’t seem to translate to anything.
That would fund the NIH for 4 years.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed.
The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.
The vast majority of labs in the U.S. rely on federal funding to do their research - labs like my own.
We're already running on fumes and while top-line budgets have been maintained, for now, research isn't getting funded.
Once those fumes are out 👉 🪦.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-re...
He will continue to impede science and the mission of the NIH as long as he is at the OMB. It's time to demand Congress protect the American people from his harmful and lawless policies. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...
Good story from Vox on falling numbers of new and competitive renewal R01 grants.
[Gift Link]
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
1/5
A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.
😂 I needed this
