Opinion | GLP-1 Experimentation Is Everywhere, and Science Can’t Keep Up (Gift Article) Millions of Americans are experimenting with the drugs. Science can’t keep up.

Nice piece in NY Times today about the myriad of potential uses for GLP-1 agonists. A few quotes from me and @danieljdrucker.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The whole thing with the Gordie Howe is ridiculous! I can't wait for the bridge to open actually (although the main bottleneck for cars with the Ambassador bridge has always been the customs, not so much the bridge itself, but the new bridge might spread the load)

Congratulations!

Are you surprised?

Really thorough blog article on the analysis of the erratic and aberrent patterns of the Dexcom G7 CGM (with an open source algorithm to analyze them).
It illustrates the shortcomings of the G7 and the severe consequences for T1Ds:
danheller.substack.com/p/the-cgm-pa...
#T1D #DexcomG7

…and on that note: just today, Apple started rejecting Vibe Coding apps from its App Store…

There are other approaches to address these issues though. Going back to the topic of RSS, I simply use two separate clients. A nice looking one for news, casual blogs and tech (and I ignore its unread count), and a separate one with smart folders (or filters) for everything work/science related.

The articles are quite good. I like the idea behind the RSS reader he's developing too, although I'm not sure it would suit my needs. Interestingly, I was using the very one he mentioned in his article since the very first day! (but switched later when some features I relied on were dropped).

A 42% loss in mental health research and a 52% loss in Alzheimer's and aging. This government wants us stupid, sad, and afraid.

Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays

NIH/NSF funding is, for all intents and purposes, frozen again. This somehow almost feels worse than last year. They are running out the clock on biomedical science and all PIs can do is scramble to finish projects before our resources dry up. www.science.org/content/arti...

An utterly bleak picture of the future of academic science in America

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Congratulations!! Well deserved!

I would have been surprised if it hadn't been the case. You can add the deportation and visa cancellations in the equation as well for the domestic prices: fewer people out there to harvest crops, milk cows, etc.

Listening to a great talk on PanKbase. I’ll have to explore it more but it looks like a great resource for islet biologists. pankbase.org

Uh hi this seems bad

(essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)

I wonder if there is any recent, similar study for the US.

”Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature.
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We use the #SugarPixel. That thing is brilliant. It’s not just the look, but the random beep generator as an alert really does work and wake you up despite “beep fatigue”. I couldn’t recommend it enough.

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"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct"

This should terrify every single scientist in America.

HbA1c can be misleading even without that: I’ve seen some people trying to remain borderline hypoglycemic as often as they could to compensate from the highs they were experiencing and keep the HbA1c at bay. For people with CGMs nowadays, GMI sounds like a much better alternative to me.

Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs? Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.

The perils of HbA1c for diabetes detection www.wired.com/story/diabet...

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Today’s xkcd cartoon…
xkcd.com/3081

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NIH Grant termination in 2025 since the new administration took office. You can sort by title, institution, etc.
airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...

Just pushed an update to Healthicons.org with great new icons from our volunteer illustrators. New icons include:
- Dry eyes
- Autoimmune disease
- CPAP
- Social determinants of health
- Tumor
- Cell tissue
- FHIR2
- IV drip
and lots more!

WashU is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowship in Diabetes & Related Metabolic Diseases (T32 DK007120). If you are eligible for T32 support (need to be a US citizen or permanent resident) and are interested in working with stem cell-derived islets, please contact me!

Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.

Interesting article on the US Administration campaign against Universities in the NYT today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Je suis chercheur aux États-Unis, et c’est exactement la situation dans laquelle on se trouve. Pas de quoi en rire ou le prendre à la légère. L’ensemble du domaine biomédical (et la recherche dans bien d’autres domaines aussi) est menacé et en suspens. C’est dramatique.

Ce qu’on voit aux Etats-Unis, c’est l’installation d’un régime autour de la crainte, de la terreur qui me fait penser aux débuts de Vladimir Poutine.

@franceinfo.fr