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The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#AusPol 🧪
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RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.
My full statement.
My full statement.
Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray
Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...
www.murray.senate.gov
August 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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In a bit of good news, medical research grants on vaccine hesitancy, diversity, and other topics are being reinstated, following court rulings.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found
www.science.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In a bit of good news, medical research grants on vaccine hesitancy, diversity, and other topics are being reinstated, following court rulings.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH Director Bhattacharya indicated in his recent Town Hall that he had trouble imagining a scientifically legitimate study that includes gender as a variable.
This is the most anti-science, anti-health administration in the country's history. They are a clear and present danger.
This is the most anti-science, anti-health administration in the country's history. They are a clear and present danger.
May 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
NIH Director Bhattacharya indicated in his recent Town Hall that he had trouble imagining a scientifically legitimate study that includes gender as a variable.
This is the most anti-science, anti-health administration in the country's history. They are a clear and present danger.
This is the most anti-science, anti-health administration in the country's history. They are a clear and present danger.
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🧪⚛️ This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year relative to the last decade. Note: this FY, the actual agency budget has not been cut like this. They are just not spending appropriated agency funds! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...?
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🧪⚛️ This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year relative to the last decade. Note: this FY, the actual agency budget has not been cut like this. They are just not spending appropriated agency funds! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...?
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At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
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Among the thousands of firefly species in the world, only a handful blink in sync. While both male and female fireflies flash, only the males synchronize. 🧪
The Mathematical Mysteries of Fireflies
What blinking bugs reveal about synchrony in the universe
nautil.us
May 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Among the thousands of firefly species in the world, only a handful blink in sync. While both male and female fireflies flash, only the males synchronize. 🧪
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🧪Holy shit. The Covid.gov website directs to the WH website claiming that covid came from a lab leak. And they are blaming Anthony Fauci. And calling the NIH a failure. I am utterly speechless. Anti-science propaganda running its wheels in real time.
Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19
THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak
Covid.gov
April 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
🧪Holy shit. The Covid.gov website directs to the WH website claiming that covid came from a lab leak. And they are blaming Anthony Fauci. And calling the NIH a failure. I am utterly speechless. Anti-science propaganda running its wheels in real time.
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Wiping out the field of vaccine hesistancy is …. bad.
Just like Lysenkoism brought famine by rejecting science, Trumpism will bring sickness and death by rejecting science.
Just like Lysenkoism brought famine by rejecting science, Trumpism will bring sickness and death by rejecting science.
NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Wiping out the field of vaccine hesistancy is …. bad.
Just like Lysenkoism brought famine by rejecting science, Trumpism will bring sickness and death by rejecting science.
Just like Lysenkoism brought famine by rejecting science, Trumpism will bring sickness and death by rejecting science.
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Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.
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Remember the "mysterious" hepatitis outbreak in UK kids that baffled experts back in 2022? The one we were told was due to adenovirus (or even strawberries, allergies, and lockdowns)? The one that labeled ppl mentioning the C word as fearmongerers? Turns out it was #covid19 .
April 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Very illuminating details of the events preceding former FDA official Peter Marks' forced resignation...
🛟🧪medsky 😷 sociology health policy lawsky
🛟🧪medsky 😷 sociology health policy lawsky
Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.
A former top vaccine official says he was forced out of government after trying to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from accessing a sensitive vaccine safety database.
apnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Very illuminating details of the events preceding former FDA official Peter Marks' forced resignation...
🛟🧪medsky 😷 sociology health policy lawsky
🛟🧪medsky 😷 sociology health policy lawsky
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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy criticises ‘weak’ US reaction to deadly Russian strike on his hometown
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy criticises ‘weak’ US reaction to deadly Russian strike on his hometown
Ukrainian president says US embassy response ‘disappointing’ as he welcomes ‘tangible progress’ in talks with France and Britain. What we know on day 1,138
* See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy criticises ‘weak’ US reaction to deadly Russian strike on his hometown
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"Rather than attend the dignified transfer of the bodies of four U.S. Army soldiers who died on a training mission in Lithuania, Trump flew to Florida to watch a Saudi-funded LIV golf tournament at his own course."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
Trump Picks Golf Dinner Over Dignified Transfer of U.S. Troops’ Bodies
Trump flew to the Saudi-funded event in Florida on Friday.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"Rather than attend the dignified transfer of the bodies of four U.S. Army soldiers who died on a training mission in Lithuania, Trump flew to Florida to watch a Saudi-funded LIV golf tournament at his own course."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-picks-...
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It's 100% understandable and reasonable that the layoffs of scientists/researchers and the gutting of programs that directly helped prevent/treat diseases have gotten the most attention. Those cuts are going to have *enormous* impact. But I want to explain why the comms cuts are also important. 2/x
Kennedy Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public (Gift Article)
The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's 100% understandable and reasonable that the layoffs of scientists/researchers and the gutting of programs that directly helped prevent/treat diseases have gotten the most attention. Those cuts are going to have *enormous* impact. But I want to explain why the comms cuts are also important. 2/x
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It's nice to finally see some noise from pharma and biotech. As a friendly reminder, over 95% of the research that goes into new drug development is funded by the NIH. 🧪
The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr.
Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered.
www.politico.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It's nice to finally see some noise from pharma and biotech. As a friendly reminder, over 95% of the research that goes into new drug development is funded by the NIH. 🧪
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“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
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Exactly true.
NIH funding is key to pharma. And keeping quiet isn't working.
This administration did not get majority support from the American people. And their approval rating has fallen dramatically as Americans figure out what they are really doing.
Stop the coup: Trump and Musk hands off.
NIH funding is key to pharma. And keeping quiet isn't working.
This administration did not get majority support from the American people. And their approval rating has fallen dramatically as Americans figure out what they are really doing.
Stop the coup: Trump and Musk hands off.
Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines
The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.
www.bloomberg.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Exactly true.
NIH funding is key to pharma. And keeping quiet isn't working.
This administration did not get majority support from the American people. And their approval rating has fallen dramatically as Americans figure out what they are really doing.
Stop the coup: Trump and Musk hands off.
NIH funding is key to pharma. And keeping quiet isn't working.
This administration did not get majority support from the American people. And their approval rating has fallen dramatically as Americans figure out what they are really doing.
Stop the coup: Trump and Musk hands off.
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Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
March 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
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It does sort of seem like the "Trump is killing cancer research" thing is starting to catch on
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It does sort of seem like the "Trump is killing cancer research" thing is starting to catch on
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"Cancer researchers examining the use of A.I. to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia." Trump has cut them all. 🧪
Medical Research at Columbia Is Imperiled After Trump Terminates Funding (Gift Article)
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Cancer researchers examining the use of A.I. to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia." Trump has cut them all. 🧪
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Correct. Science is a long-term endeavor. It requires building talent and groups over time. And giving them space to think about hard questions and find answers.
The current chaos caused by Trump and Musk is setting America back by years.
The current chaos caused by Trump and Musk is setting America back by years.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Correct. Science is a long-term endeavor. It requires building talent and groups over time. And giving them space to think about hard questions and find answers.
The current chaos caused by Trump and Musk is setting America back by years.
The current chaos caused by Trump and Musk is setting America back by years.