Jonathan Rosenblum
@jsrosenblum.bsky.social
|| Challah baker | Cocktail maker | Photo taker ||
Pinned
Maybe another useful entry point for this recent article about why several very successful academics have left Harvard to more efficiently bring their science to patients.
NIH is amazing, but it's not intended for making medicine.
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...
#medsky
1/3
NIH is amazing, but it's not intended for making medicine.
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...
#medsky
1/3
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I read Tbe Double Helix when I was in graduate school.
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
Great thread from Jeremy. But 16/41 leapt out and reminded me again of learning about base pairing in high school. That was _the_ moment I knew I wanted to study biochemistry.
Now I really must go read Heraclitean Fire...
Now I really must go read Heraclitean Fire...
He may not have fully understood this, but Crick did because of his work on helical diffraction. The question of where the bases were remained. According to The Double Helix, Watson was focused on this and eventually figured out the A-T and G-C pairing that proved so important.
16/41
16/41
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I read Tbe Double Helix when I was in graduate school.
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
And here's a YouTube link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
YouTube video by The New Yorker
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
And here's a YouTube link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
Could this be true?
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Could this be true?
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
The plaintiffs have experienced violence for exercising their First Amendment rights under the constitution, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The plaintiffs have experienced violence for exercising their First Amendment rights under the constitution, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
Thinking a lot about this thread tonight.
A thread about keeping one’s head above water under the current conditions and not being incapacitated by rage, fear, despair or some mixture of those (1/11)
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Thinking a lot about this thread tonight.
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
🚨🚨 Today is the day 🚨🚨
Help us help the type 1 diabetic community
Thanks
Help us help the type 1 diabetic community
Thanks
Join our Breakthrough T1D Walk team and help create a world without type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Our team is walking and raising funds to support the most promising, cutting-edge science to create a world without T1D. Join us!
www2.breakthrought1d.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🚨🚨 Today is the day 🚨🚨
Help us help the type 1 diabetic community
Thanks
Help us help the type 1 diabetic community
Thanks
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
This is pathetic on two counts. First, the “Dear Leader” worship from Trump’s Cabinet is mind-boggling. Second, it’s dishonest — Trump’s been defunding science, driving talent overseas, and creating a brain drain.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is pathetic on two counts. First, the “Dear Leader” worship from Trump’s Cabinet is mind-boggling. Second, it’s dishonest — Trump’s been defunding science, driving talent overseas, and creating a brain drain.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
Halloween foliage
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Halloween foliage
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...
www.cnn.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
There should be an Olympics for most confusing graphical abstract.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There should be an Olympics for most confusing graphical abstract.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
As someone who was on THAT ROAD on THAT DAY this is infuriating.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Marines at Camp Pendleton fired 30 155mm rounds over Interstate 5 on Oct. 17 in a test run for an Oct. 18 celebration, while cars drove past. trib.al/EARzH4Z
Marines fired artillery over freeway without warning during rehearsal
Marines at Camp Pendleton fired 30 155mm rounds over Interstate 5 on Oct. 17 in a test run for an Oct. 18 celebration, while cars drove past.
trib.al
October 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
As someone who was on THAT ROAD on THAT DAY this is infuriating.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Seeing lots of fall foliage pix. We don't have so much of that in SoCal, but we do have...
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Seeing lots of fall foliage pix. We don't have so much of that in SoCal, but we do have...
The US has been a super magnet for Nobel-worthy scientists.
Data below are for Nobelists from 2000 to 2025, so don't include many people who were displaced by (lead up to) WW2.
I wonder how current disruptions will compare to WW2 for scattering scientists.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Data below are for Nobelists from 2000 to 2025, so don't include many people who were displaced by (lead up to) WW2.
I wonder how current disruptions will compare to WW2 for scattering scientists.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The US has been a super magnet for Nobel-worthy scientists.
Data below are for Nobelists from 2000 to 2025, so don't include many people who were displaced by (lead up to) WW2.
I wonder how current disruptions will compare to WW2 for scattering scientists.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Data below are for Nobelists from 2000 to 2025, so don't include many people who were displaced by (lead up to) WW2.
I wonder how current disruptions will compare to WW2 for scattering scientists.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
"Giving it to charity" -- but not the Trump Foundation charity, which was dissolved under court order after he “repeatedly used Foundation money for his own personal, business, and political interests.”
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
Q: How comfortable are you w/Trump seeking $230m from the DOJ?
MIKE JOHNSON: Uh, I don't know the details. I just read it. I know he believes he's owed that reimbursement. What I heard is that if receives it, he's gonna consider giving it to charity. They attack him for everything. *changes topic*
MIKE JOHNSON: Uh, I don't know the details. I just read it. I know he believes he's owed that reimbursement. What I heard is that if receives it, he's gonna consider giving it to charity. They attack him for everything. *changes topic*
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Giving it to charity" -- but not the Trump Foundation charity, which was dissolved under court order after he “repeatedly used Foundation money for his own personal, business, and political interests.”
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
"We are deeply concerned with anti-Semitism. As for The Jews, they are on an express train to hell with all the other Non-Believers"
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"We are deeply concerned with anti-Semitism. As for The Jews, they are on an express train to hell with all the other Non-Believers"
This passage hit home today.
Science is hard! Mixing science and capitalism is super hard!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...
Science is hard! Mixing science and capitalism is super hard!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This passage hit home today.
Science is hard! Mixing science and capitalism is super hard!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...
Science is hard! Mixing science and capitalism is super hard!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...
There is nothing like a great farmer's market
October 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There is nothing like a great farmer's market
October 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
October 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
The WH budget for FY26 includes a proposed $18B cut to NIH, a $5B cut to NASA, a $5B cut to NSF, a $5B cut to CDC, and a $5B cut to EPA. You don't need a math/econ PhD to see that a $40B bailout to Argentina covers this and more right here in the USA.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Bessent says US considers doubling aid to Argentina to $40B
The assistance is aimed at bolstering the country's collapsing currency and calming economic unrest before Oct. 26 midterm elections.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The WH budget for FY26 includes a proposed $18B cut to NIH, a $5B cut to NASA, a $5B cut to NSF, a $5B cut to CDC, and a $5B cut to EPA. You don't need a math/econ PhD to see that a $40B bailout to Argentina covers this and more right here in the USA.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
"What's at stake?"
More successes like KJ.
More successes like KJ.
Baby KJ, in a tiny tuxedo, shows up at the #STATSummit. His parents Kyle and Nicole Muldoon give an update on how he’s doing after his life-saving CRISPR treatment for a rare liver disease earlier this year.
Read their story: www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...
Read their story: www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...
October 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"What's at stake?"
More successes like KJ.
More successes like KJ.