365 Pharma Girl
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Scientist, pop culture enthusiast, amateur jewelry designer, mistress of snark
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It is interesting that Russell Vought kept Walter the NINDS IC director around for so long.
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It is interesting that Russell Vought kept Walter the NINDS IC director around for so long.
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
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NIH has for decades used a rigorous recruitment process to hire its top scientists, the institute directors.
The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance.
This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.
The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance.
This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.
Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors
The institute directors at NIH are top scientific leaders who in principle can redirect grant money as they please. The Trump NIH must not install new directors without a real hiring process.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NIH has for decades used a rigorous recruitment process to hire its top scientists, the institute directors.
The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance.
This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.
The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance.
This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.
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Starting my Monday morning with an email to Director Bhattacharya...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Starting my Monday morning with an email to Director Bhattacharya...
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Bless the Epstein survivors for speaking out!
Justice! NOW!
Justice! NOW!
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Bless the Epstein survivors for speaking out!
Justice! NOW!
Justice! NOW!
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NIDDK Program Officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , Bethesda Declaration signer and outspoken advocate for science in the interests of the public not the politicians, was placed on administrative leave today. No reason was given. 1/4 www.instagram.com/reel/DRA3e8-...
Jenna Norton on Instagram: "I guess I hit a nerve because they just put me on “non disciplinary” admin leave. But let me be clear: this is retaliation for asserting my right to free speech guaranteed ...
Asserting your right to free speech in the workplace can be a daunting task, but one man's determination has put him in the spotlight. Hear his story and learn how to stand up for your rights in the f...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
NIDDK Program Officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , Bethesda Declaration signer and outspoken advocate for science in the interests of the public not the politicians, was placed on administrative leave today. No reason was given. 1/4 www.instagram.com/reel/DRA3e8-...
Thune is a fucking idiot. This was their way of showing the voting public that the Senate Republicans are willfully obstructing any reasonable deal that will lead to reopening of the government. It’s their fault it’s shut and they are standing in the way of it reopening.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune rejected a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year. Thune said he thinks the offer is an indication that Democrats are “feeling the heat.”
He must have been out of the country on Tuesday.
He must have been out of the country on Tuesday.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Thune is a fucking idiot. This was their way of showing the voting public that the Senate Republicans are willfully obstructing any reasonable deal that will lead to reopening of the government. It’s their fault it’s shut and they are standing in the way of it reopening.
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Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators"
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators"
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
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Jeffries: "Thune is divorced from reality. It's a clown show over in the Senate. 15 times you bring the same partisan Republican spending bill to the Senate floor expecting a different result? That's the classic definition of legislative insanity. Has no ability to actually negotiate in good faith."
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Jeffries: "Thune is divorced from reality. It's a clown show over in the Senate. 15 times you bring the same partisan Republican spending bill to the Senate floor expecting a different result? That's the classic definition of legislative insanity. Has no ability to actually negotiate in good faith."
“Doctor” LaDumbfuck is at it again it seems. Why has my home state turned out to be so fucking embarrassing?
LADAPO: I'm not alone. It just so happens that most of the people who have largely microphones tend to align with the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics
TAPPER: I'm kinda shocked you have not done any projection or data analysis of what this is going to mean for kids
TAPPER: I'm kinda shocked you have not done any projection or data analysis of what this is going to mean for kids
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Doctor” LaDumbfuck is at it again it seems. Why has my home state turned out to be so fucking embarrassing?
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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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“The Death of Public Health”
Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.
Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.
The Death of Public Health
Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“The Death of Public Health”
Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.
Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.
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Hard to know if they intended to fire these folks and then “taco-ed” or if they just truly have no idea what they are doing.
Maybe both?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Maybe both?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Hard to know if they intended to fire these folks and then “taco-ed” or if they just truly have no idea what they are doing.
Maybe both?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Maybe both?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
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My quote of the day
If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
John McCain
If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
John McCain
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My quote of the day
If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
John McCain
If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
John McCain
I’ve been saying this for a while though. She’s Gen Z Katy Perry with a splash of Ariana Grande and a better singing voice.
Sabrina Carpenter is Gen Z's Katy Perry...you know before she got weird.
August 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I’ve been saying this for a while though. She’s Gen Z Katy Perry with a splash of Ariana Grande and a better singing voice.
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A second Bhattacharya email for today.
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August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A second Bhattacharya email for today.
1/7
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The time to fight fascism was yesterday. I'm tired of people's silence. I'm angry at the complicity. I want our directors to fight back for us. Why are we doing the emotional labor of SES and GS-15s? Why are we in secret groups? Why do people let these losers get by without consequence? #FEDstrong
August 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The time to fight fascism was yesterday. I'm tired of people's silence. I'm angry at the complicity. I want our directors to fight back for us. Why are we doing the emotional labor of SES and GS-15s? Why are we in secret groups? Why do people let these losers get by without consequence? #FEDstrong
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It is my job to support PIs with their research plans, to help them find the right study section for their aims, and to tell them about the #ADRD milestones. It is not my job to obfuscate award paylines and funding priorities.
I’m hearing chatter that senior NIH leadership received an email from Memoli Friday morning castigating NCI for posting their payline with attribution to MYF.
I hear the email said something about how we don’t need to inform the community.
So much for transparency!
I hear the email said something about how we don’t need to inform the community.
So much for transparency!
August 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It is my job to support PIs with their research plans, to help them find the right study section for their aims, and to tell them about the #ADRD milestones. It is not my job to obfuscate award paylines and funding priorities.
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Dear Vinay Prasad, don’t let the door hit you on the way out, you disgrace.
May your shame last forever.
May your shame last forever.
Lol. He grifted so hard, even the grifters wanted nothing to do with him.
“Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told STAT.
“Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told STAT.
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dear Vinay Prasad, don’t let the door hit you on the way out, you disgrace.
May your shame last forever.
May your shame last forever.
Mark my words, we are going to see fewer therapeutics and devices approved because of this nonsense. Private investors HEAVILY rely on non-dilutive government funding to de-risk early stage technologies. People who claim they can step in for the government know nothing about biotech investing.
So this happened... Useful if you want to make economic (and health) arguments about the importance of NIH.
July 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Mark my words, we are going to see fewer therapeutics and devices approved because of this nonsense. Private investors HEAVILY rely on non-dilutive government funding to de-risk early stage technologies. People who claim they can step in for the government know nothing about biotech investing.
We lost the King of the Bunnies 😭
RIP to a true SF legend: Alex the Great, a 28-pound therapy rabbit that frequented Outside Lands, Giants games, and SFO, has died at age 4 after a battle with cancer.
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We lost the King of the Bunnies 😭
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I finally and unfortunately heard what appears to be the biggest song of the year, “Ordinary” by Alex Warren, and it represents the absolute and long-coming nadir of radio pop music: pop indistinguishable from worship. This is megachurch pop. Says nothing, means nothing, sounds like nothing. Bleak
July 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I finally and unfortunately heard what appears to be the biggest song of the year, “Ordinary” by Alex Warren, and it represents the absolute and long-coming nadir of radio pop music: pop indistinguishable from worship. This is megachurch pop. Says nothing, means nothing, sounds like nothing. Bleak
The #BethesdaDeclaration signers killed it today during the roundtable with Jay.
Some of my favorite highlights shared from my colleagues:
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Some of my favorite highlights shared from my colleagues:
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July 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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This morning, NASA released the #VoyagerDeclaration. This afternoon, NIH #BethesdaDeclaration signers met w/ Jay Bhattacharya. Earlier, EPA staff were terminated for their act of resistance.
I made this in solidarity. @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnasa.bsky.social @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social
I made this in solidarity. @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnasa.bsky.social @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This morning, NASA released the #VoyagerDeclaration. This afternoon, NIH #BethesdaDeclaration signers met w/ Jay Bhattacharya. Earlier, EPA staff were terminated for their act of resistance.
I made this in solidarity. @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnasa.bsky.social @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social
I made this in solidarity. @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnasa.bsky.social @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social
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Imagine how weak and afraid you must be to put the #EPA139 on admin leave for calling you out… to push for the end a classic comedy show just because it is critical of you. Who’s the snowflake?
They think this kind of thing will silence us.
But it won’t.
They think this kind of thing will silence us.
But it won’t.
"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
www.motherjones.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Imagine how weak and afraid you must be to put the #EPA139 on admin leave for calling you out… to push for the end a classic comedy show just because it is critical of you. Who’s the snowflake?
They think this kind of thing will silence us.
But it won’t.
They think this kind of thing will silence us.
But it won’t.