Hoifung Poon
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Hoifung Poon
@hoifungpoon.bsky.social
· Dec 9
I am honored and humbled to be named "Technology Champion" by the Puget Sound Business Journal in the annual Health Care Leadership Awards. Thanks PSBJ and the health community in the Greater Seattle Area for this great recognition! lnkd.in/gdhx8bEa
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)
If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.
There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.
There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
media.tenor.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)
If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.
There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.
There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
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New in PN: The AP provides a model of effective press resistance
"The dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico seems trivial, especially compared to the others horrors Trump is currently perpetrating. But tyrants are tyrants in part bc they insist on asserting control over even trivial matters."
"The dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico seems trivial, especially compared to the others horrors Trump is currently perpetrating. But tyrants are tyrants in part bc they insist on asserting control over even trivial matters."
The AP provides a model of effective press resistance
Credibility is more important than access.
www.publicnotice.co
February 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New in PN: The AP provides a model of effective press resistance
"The dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico seems trivial, especially compared to the others horrors Trump is currently perpetrating. But tyrants are tyrants in part bc they insist on asserting control over even trivial matters."
"The dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico seems trivial, especially compared to the others horrors Trump is currently perpetrating. But tyrants are tyrants in part bc they insist on asserting control over even trivial matters."
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I wrote a book The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2013, title adopted after Schumpeter).
This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.
This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.
February 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I wrote a book The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2013, title adopted after Schumpeter).
This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.
This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.
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I can't believe they've just cancelled the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC.
This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...
This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...
February 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I can't believe they've just cancelled the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC.
This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...
This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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Another example of what cutting science funding is doing to our leading university research programs in the U.S.: dismantling things like the Soybean Innovation Lab at UIUC, which have made US crop yields dramatically higher.
February 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Another example of what cutting science funding is doing to our leading university research programs in the U.S.: dismantling things like the Soybean Innovation Lab at UIUC, which have made US crop yields dramatically higher.
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I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.
Humor me?
Humor me?
February 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.
Humor me?
Humor me?
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We should not be allowing non-government employees to waltz in to government offices, and illegally get access to sensitive government and personal data, and get read and write access to critical software systems in multiple government agencies.
www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...
www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...
February 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We should not be allowing non-government employees to waltz in to government offices, and illegally get access to sensitive government and personal data, and get read and write access to critical software systems in multiple government agencies.
www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...
www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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If hostile foreign nations made a plan to destroy US influence and power, it would probably involve shutting down NIH and NSF
January 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If hostile foreign nations made a plan to destroy US influence and power, it would probably involve shutting down NIH and NSF
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To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
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This week's cover and editorial @thelancet.bsky.social on mis- and disinformation's impact on public health
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
January 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This week's cover and editorial @thelancet.bsky.social on mis- and disinformation's impact on public health
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Excited to share that our PubMedBERT paper pioneering exploration of biomedical LLMs has been retrospectively awarded as the Best Paper of the Year by ACM Health: dl.acm.org/journal/heal....
January 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Excited to share that our PubMedBERT paper pioneering exploration of biomedical LLMs has been retrospectively awarded as the Best Paper of the Year by ACM Health: dl.acm.org/journal/heal....
Excited to head to JPM and WEF in following weeks, both first time. Survival tips welcome :)
January 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Excited to head to JPM and WEF in following weeks, both first time. Survival tips welcome :)
Happy to conclude 2024 by sharing that BiomedCLIP has been published in NEJM AI (right before Christmas no less :-): ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A Multimodal Biomedical Foundation Model Trained from Fifteen Million Image–Text Pairs
Biomedical data are inherently multimodal, comprising physical measurements and natural-language narratives. A generalist biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) model needs to simultaneously proce...
ai.nejm.org
January 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy to conclude 2024 by sharing that BiomedCLIP has been published in NEJM AI (right before Christmas no less :-): ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
I am honored and humbled to be named "Technology Champion" by the Puget Sound Business Journal in the annual Health Care Leadership Awards. Thanks PSBJ and the health community in the Greater Seattle Area for this great recognition! lnkd.in/gdhx8bEa
December 9, 2024 at 4:43 AM
I am honored and humbled to be named "Technology Champion" by the Puget Sound Business Journal in the annual Health Care Leadership Awards. Thanks PSBJ and the health community in the Greater Seattle Area for this great recognition! lnkd.in/gdhx8bEa
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CANADIAN Version of this series would have been boring. Man gets cancer... Man goes to Dr. because they have universal healthcare. The End.
December 8, 2024 at 9:13 AM
CANADIAN Version of this series would have been boring. Man gets cancer... Man goes to Dr. because they have universal healthcare. The End.
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Not every day a leading US academic health system partners with @costplusdrugs.com, bypassing PBMs, to save drug costs for their patients
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
Penn Medicine partners with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs
Penn Medicine has partnered with Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company through its innovative Cost Plus Marketplace in a strategic alliance that will allow Penn Medicine to secure the top 100 most frequ...
www.pennmedicine.org
December 7, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Not every day a leading US academic health system partners with @costplusdrugs.com, bypassing PBMs, to save drug costs for their patients
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
@pennmedicine.bsky.social + @mcuban.bsky.social
www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... a 1st-of-its-kind deal
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I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
Approaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease.
www.nature.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:52 PM
I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What should we eat? Or avoid?
The new Ground Truths podcast is with @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, a leader in nutrition science and metabolism
erictopol.substack.com/p/kevin-hall... Full transcript with links to multiple publications
The new Ground Truths podcast is with @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, a leader in nutrition science and metabolism
erictopol.substack.com/p/kevin-hall... Full transcript with links to multiple publications
Kevin Hall: What Should We Eat?
Insights from the research by a leading scientist in nutrition and metabolism
open.substack.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:13 PM
What should we eat? Or avoid?
The new Ground Truths podcast is with @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, a leader in nutrition science and metabolism
erictopol.substack.com/p/kevin-hall... Full transcript with links to multiple publications
The new Ground Truths podcast is with @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, a leader in nutrition science and metabolism
erictopol.substack.com/p/kevin-hall... Full transcript with links to multiple publications
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!