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UNMC MD-PhD Student 🩺 🔬| Duke alum | JHU alum | BME + Global Health | Cameron Crazie | #ForeverDuke |#blacklivesmatter | 🧠🫶🏻🏀🎾
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Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Definitely worth a read!

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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers
Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.
www.the-scientist.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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science.org
Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.
NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown
In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes
scim.ag
June 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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theatlantic.com
"When you mix politics and science, you just get politics."

The former NIH director Francis Collins talks about the effects of polarization and misinformation on public health:
bit.ly/4iFKe8K
April 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
ashindhelm.bsky.social
Highly recommend watching this interview with physician and former NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins.
youtu.be/u6BKliG33fA?...
The Future of America’s Health Care | The Atlantic Festival 2025
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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May 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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This week it’s hard not to despair as we see everything we’ve lost. But public health has always been an act of faith. Faith that incremental changes can make vast differences in the future. So keep speaking up. Keep doing the work. We are the keepers of the seeds. And we will grow again. 💚
Picture of a large green oak tree with spreading branches. Caption reads "In public health we plant the seeds of trees under whose shade we will never rest."
April 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Reposted by Alexis Shindhelm
joshuasweitz.bsky.social
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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statnews.com
Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.

www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
Nearly 2,000 top researchers call on Trump administration to halt ‘assault’ on science
Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.
www.statnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
ashindhelm.bsky.social
NIH Cuts Will Devastate Disease Research, Say Senators and Scientists www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
NIH Cuts Will Devastate Disease Research, Say Senators and Scientists
'Without the NIH, there would be no cancer immunotherapy ... and no cutting-edge treatments'
www.medpagetoday.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Today is #PurpleDay, an international grassroots effort to spread #epilepsyawareness. Today and every day, we are grateful for the researchers, healthcare providers, support staff, caregivers + others who work tirelessly toward a world without #epilepsy.
March 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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who.int
Today is World #EpilepsyDay

#Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders.

Anyone can develop it at any age.
It’s not contagious & it's treatable.

Know the facts so you can help tackle the myths & misconceptions that lead to stigma & discrimination bit.ly/WHO-Epilepsy
Key facts: Epilepsy is a chronic noncommunicable disease of the brain that affects people of all ages. Around 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases globally. Nearly 80% of people with epilepsy live in low- and middle-income countries. It is estimated that up to 70% of people living with epilepsy could live seizure-free if properly diagnosed and treated. The risk of premature death in people with epilepsy is up to three times higher than for the general population. Three quarters of people with epilepsy living in low-income countries do not get the treatment they need. In many parts of the world, people with epilepsy and their families suffer from stigma and discrimination.
February 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM