Dharanidharan Ramamurthy
@dharanidharan.bsky.social
Usually found hiking around Table Mountain. More often than not, I’m in the confines of my lab where I moonlight as an infectious disease scientist studying tuberculosis 😊
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I'd like to hear what suppliers and science adjacent industries like journals, are doing to support science in the US.
Waive pub fees?
Consumables on credit?
Proudly celebrating DEI?
@natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com @aaas.org @jcb.org @jcellsci.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org
Waive pub fees?
Consumables on credit?
Proudly celebrating DEI?
@natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com @aaas.org @jcb.org @jcellsci.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org
@thermofishersci.bsky.social
@merckgroup.bsky.social
@elilillyandcompany.bsky.social
@sigmaaldrich.bsky.social
@glaxosmithkline.bsky.social
@johnsonandjohnson.bsky.social
@novonordisk.bsky.social
Without federal science funding today, you won't have customers nor qualified staff in 5 years.
@merckgroup.bsky.social
@elilillyandcompany.bsky.social
@sigmaaldrich.bsky.social
@glaxosmithkline.bsky.social
@johnsonandjohnson.bsky.social
@novonordisk.bsky.social
Without federal science funding today, you won't have customers nor qualified staff in 5 years.
I hope that everyone in the private sector who depends on federal grants to train their researchers and staff, pay for their services and products, or benefits in any other way from federal funding will come out to #standupforscience!
February 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I'd like to hear what suppliers and science adjacent industries like journals, are doing to support science in the US.
Waive pub fees?
Consumables on credit?
Proudly celebrating DEI?
@natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com @aaas.org @jcb.org @jcellsci.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org
Waive pub fees?
Consumables on credit?
Proudly celebrating DEI?
@natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com @aaas.org @jcb.org @jcellsci.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org
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Health research is one of those functions that if you stop it, people will not notice the impact tomorrow, or next month. This makes it hard to communicate its value, unlike, closed national parks during a shutdown. But it generates big public goods. Once that community is eroded, hard to recover.
January 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Health research is one of those functions that if you stop it, people will not notice the impact tomorrow, or next month. This makes it hard to communicate its value, unlike, closed national parks during a shutdown. But it generates big public goods. Once that community is eroded, hard to recover.
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Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous.
Why care? 🧵
Why care? 🧵
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
January 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous.
Why care? 🧵
Why care? 🧵
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Also, the thousands of small businesses that are funded by the sbir program. Most people don't realize that the NIH gives grants to small tech businesses that are awesome at getting advances in health and medicine.
January 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Also, the thousands of small businesses that are funded by the sbir program. Most people don't realize that the NIH gives grants to small tech businesses that are awesome at getting advances in health and medicine.
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And the list goes on and on. If you don’t think this affects you, think again. End.
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
And the list goes on and on. If you don’t think this affects you, think again. End.
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Injury prevention, cardiac stents and transplants, immunosuppressive drugs, lifestyle changing, effects of social media on mental health, dental care, nursing research…(4/)
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Injury prevention, cardiac stents and transplants, immunosuppressive drugs, lifestyle changing, effects of social media on mental health, dental care, nursing research…(4/)
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-NIH research cures rare disease that arise from pesticides used on Wisconsin farms
-NIH research helps understand the health effects of floods, fires, and hurricanes
-not to mention the vaccine preventable diseases that are prevented due to NIH funding, cancer cures, genetic diseases, (3/)
-NIH research helps understand the health effects of floods, fires, and hurricanes
-not to mention the vaccine preventable diseases that are prevented due to NIH funding, cancer cures, genetic diseases, (3/)
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
-NIH research cures rare disease that arise from pesticides used on Wisconsin farms
-NIH research helps understand the health effects of floods, fires, and hurricanes
-not to mention the vaccine preventable diseases that are prevented due to NIH funding, cancer cures, genetic diseases, (3/)
-NIH research helps understand the health effects of floods, fires, and hurricanes
-not to mention the vaccine preventable diseases that are prevented due to NIH funding, cancer cures, genetic diseases, (3/)
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-A $1 million NIH grant brings in an additional $300-500 to your state for jobs
-NIH funded research brought us weight loss drugs that now most of the Midwest and South (Trump states) get to use
-NIH funded research bring us closer to ending Alzheimer’s, which affects rural folks (2/)
-NIH funded research brought us weight loss drugs that now most of the Midwest and South (Trump states) get to use
-NIH funded research bring us closer to ending Alzheimer’s, which affects rural folks (2/)
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
-A $1 million NIH grant brings in an additional $300-500 to your state for jobs
-NIH funded research brought us weight loss drugs that now most of the Midwest and South (Trump states) get to use
-NIH funded research bring us closer to ending Alzheimer’s, which affects rural folks (2/)
-NIH funded research brought us weight loss drugs that now most of the Midwest and South (Trump states) get to use
-NIH funded research bring us closer to ending Alzheimer’s, which affects rural folks (2/)
Reposted by Dharanidharan Ramamurthy
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)