Gholson Lyon
@gholsonlyon.bsky.social
physician-scientist; rare diseases; child, adolescent, adult psychiatry, Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, & professor at CUNY
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September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
so glad I visited there two years ago! amazing place. Sorry that this was lost.
Devastating……..https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-historic-grand-canyon-lodge-destroyed-wildfire-123720708
Historic Grand Canyon lodge destroyed by wildfire, official says
A historic lodge on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim has been destroyed by a wildfire
abcnews.go.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
so glad I visited there two years ago! amazing place. Sorry that this was lost.
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Devastating……..https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-historic-grand-canyon-lodge-destroyed-wildfire-123720708
Historic Grand Canyon lodge destroyed by wildfire, official says
A historic lodge on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim has been destroyed by a wildfire
abcnews.go.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Devastating……..https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-historic-grand-canyon-lodge-destroyed-wildfire-123720708
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I have spent my afternoon reading a book that argues that we still don't really have a convincing explanation on what caused the fall of the Roman Empire. It's reassuring to know that it is still possible to return to the absolute moral and cognitive certainties of social media.
June 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I have spent my afternoon reading a book that argues that we still don't really have a convincing explanation on what caused the fall of the Roman Empire. It's reassuring to know that it is still possible to return to the absolute moral and cognitive certainties of social media.
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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...
US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war
Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.
arstechnica.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Pepperidge Farms remembers an article about this movie being a long way from being profitable.
June 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Pepperidge Farms remembers an article about this movie being a long way from being profitable.
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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
June 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
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David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏
youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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May 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏
youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
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On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
May 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
Amazing move Sinners. This interview goes into some of the symbolism. Highly recommend watching it in theaters. I went to IMAX last weekend and loved it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mU_...
Ryan Coogler talks Sinners, vampires and capitalism (SPOILERS)
YouTube video by Hanna Flint
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May 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Amazing move Sinners. This interview goes into some of the symbolism. Highly recommend watching it in theaters. I went to IMAX last weekend and loved it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mU_...
I have basically given up on trusting any journal or any peer review process. You have to read the article for yourself, sadly, as peer review can be absolute garbage in many instances, as all of us are so busy with so many other tasks. Just sad that journals still are the major gatekeeper.
I reviewed a paper recently. It was flawed & rejected. It later appeared unchanged in another journal.
So how is peer review a “gold standard”?
You can’t have a gold standard if people can’t tell the difference between gold and bauxite..
So how is peer review a “gold standard”?
You can’t have a gold standard if people can’t tell the difference between gold and bauxite..
April 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have basically given up on trusting any journal or any peer review process. You have to read the article for yourself, sadly, as peer review can be absolute garbage in many instances, as all of us are so busy with so many other tasks. Just sad that journals still are the major gatekeeper.
just published finally.
The Cardiovascular Manifestations and ManagementRecommendations for Ogden Syndrome
rdcu.be/ejNYr
The Cardiovascular Manifestations and ManagementRecommendations for Ogden Syndrome
rdcu.be/ejNYr
The Cardiovascular Manifestations and Management Recommendations for Ogden Syndrome
rdcu.be
April 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
just published finally.
The Cardiovascular Manifestations and ManagementRecommendations for Ogden Syndrome
rdcu.be/ejNYr
The Cardiovascular Manifestations and ManagementRecommendations for Ogden Syndrome
rdcu.be/ejNYr
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The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
The Grand Egyptian Museum Is Finally Open. (Well, Mostly.)
The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
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aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
April 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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I was talking with my sister about how weird it was that people used the Four Humors theory even into the 20th century, isn’t it so stupid to reduce everything to these chemical systems?
And she said “Look at the way people talk about dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin on TikTok”
Huh.
And she said “Look at the way people talk about dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin on TikTok”
Huh.
February 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I was talking with my sister about how weird it was that people used the Four Humors theory even into the 20th century, isn’t it so stupid to reduce everything to these chemical systems?
And she said “Look at the way people talk about dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin on TikTok”
Huh.
And she said “Look at the way people talk about dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin on TikTok”
Huh.
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A source close to the situation confirmed that study sections are continuing to be cancelled. On the chopping block this week: developmental brain disorders, mechanisms of cancer therapy, and neurotoxicology of alcohol. For some labs, this was the last chance to get funding or they’ll shut down.
Trump officials are trying to sneak around federal judges’ orders.
They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social .
My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social .
My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order
Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A source close to the situation confirmed that study sections are continuing to be cancelled. On the chopping block this week: developmental brain disorders, mechanisms of cancer therapy, and neurotoxicology of alcohol. For some labs, this was the last chance to get funding or they’ll shut down.
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Don't be a useful idiot puppet for the regime drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/d...
Don’t be a useful idiot puppet for the regime
I say this to myself regularly in the past weeks, mostly when it comes to sitting on my hands about my regular NIH-related and academic science career-related hobby horse issues as they arise. We h…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Don't be a useful idiot puppet for the regime drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/d...
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We need to make sure that everyone understands how important science is for EVERYONE not just for scientists...
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We need to make sure that everyone understands how important science is for EVERYONE not just for scientists...
Bluebird bio to sell to investment funds after struggling to make money from gene therapies.
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Bluebird bio to sell to investment funds after struggling to make money from gene therapies
A pair of investors will acquire bluebird bio in a deal worth only $29 million upfront after the gene therapy maker ran out of time and options.
endpts.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Bluebird bio to sell to investment funds after struggling to make money from gene therapies.
endpts.com/bluebird-bio...
endpts.com/bluebird-bio...
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Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading
www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading
www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
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It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.