Carol
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
time.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
things are looking pretty bad…at what point do we call in Mr. beast…
February 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
things are looking pretty bad…at what point do we call in Mr. beast…
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We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government.
This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.
This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access systems at the agency, multiple sources familiar told CNN
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government.
This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.
This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.
Noting the shift from “fake news” (“don’t trust the data”) to “common sense” (“don’t even consider the data that proves how inaccurate this is”).
This provides the basis to circumvent any scientific evidence, no matter how well supported.
This provides the basis to circumvent any scientific evidence, no matter how well supported.
REPORTER: How can you be sure this was crash was the result of diversity?
TRUMP: Because I have common sense.
TRUMP: Because I have common sense.
January 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Noting the shift from “fake news” (“don’t trust the data”) to “common sense” (“don’t even consider the data that proves how inaccurate this is”).
This provides the basis to circumvent any scientific evidence, no matter how well supported.
This provides the basis to circumvent any scientific evidence, no matter how well supported.
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Since the USA pulled support from WHO, they have started a drive. Without WHO tracking & tracing for Zoonotic global infections will go dark. On top of so much more.
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
1 Dollar, 1 World
I have been at WHO for over 10 years. Like my colleagues, I have worked my butt off day and night to fight Covid and work towards universal access to health care. This place frustrates me every day.
whofoundation.donorsupport.co
January 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Since the USA pulled support from WHO, they have started a drive. Without WHO tracking & tracing for Zoonotic global infections will go dark. On top of so much more.
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...
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BTW, I published a paper in American Journal of Epidemiology outlining some of the most common fallacies that cause people to misunderstand observational data, or use observational data to mislead others with false claims.
It is now open access/freely available
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
It is now open access/freely available
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
Tracking vaccine effectiveness in an evolving pandemic, countering misleading hot takes and epidemiological fallacies
Abstract. With the emergence of Omicron and establishment of antibody waning over time, vaccine effectiveness, especially against infection, declined sharp
academic.oup.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
BTW, I published a paper in American Journal of Epidemiology outlining some of the most common fallacies that cause people to misunderstand observational data, or use observational data to mislead others with false claims.
It is now open access/freely available
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
It is now open access/freely available
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
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Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “DEIAtruth@opm.gov”
January 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “DEIAtruth@opm.gov”
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He was half asleep through the sermon. People told him it was about mercy and compassion, and now he's mad about it.
January 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
He was half asleep through the sermon. People told him it was about mercy and compassion, and now he's mad about it.
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Today, the CDC did not post a weekly update to its figures tracking how many Americans have gotten this season's COVID-19 and influenza vaccines
Under the previous administration, these figures were published virtually every Wednesday by 1 p.m.
www.cdc.gov/covidvaxview...
Under the previous administration, these figures were published virtually every Wednesday by 1 p.m.
www.cdc.gov/covidvaxview...
January 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Today, the CDC did not post a weekly update to its figures tracking how many Americans have gotten this season's COVID-19 and influenza vaccines
Under the previous administration, these figures were published virtually every Wednesday by 1 p.m.
www.cdc.gov/covidvaxview...
Under the previous administration, these figures were published virtually every Wednesday by 1 p.m.
www.cdc.gov/covidvaxview...