Laurel Hind
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News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings.
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations
A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.
www.statnews.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings.
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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I'd just like to briefly and plainly walk through each lie Bhattacharya told in this interview.
1. "I arrived the day that the RIF [reduction in force] happened. … I had nothing to do with it"
It is odd then that he told us it's exactly what he wanted to do, before he got the job.
1. "I arrived the day that the RIF [reduction in force] happened. … I had nothing to do with it"
It is odd then that he told us it's exactly what he wanted to do, before he got the job.
May 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I'd just like to briefly and plainly walk through each lie Bhattacharya told in this interview.
1. "I arrived the day that the RIF [reduction in force] happened. … I had nothing to do with it"
It is odd then that he told us it's exactly what he wanted to do, before he got the job.
1. "I arrived the day that the RIF [reduction in force] happened. … I had nothing to do with it"
It is odd then that he told us it's exactly what he wanted to do, before he got the job.
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
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The importance of science and research
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 12:09 PM
The importance of science and research
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Great thread. Conducting placebo-controlled trials of items known to be relatively safe and effective is unethical.
Which FDA-approved vaccines had randomized, placebo-controlled trials?
ALL OF THEM.
Polio?
Measles, mumps, rubella?
Haemophilus influenzae B?
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis?
Meningococcus?
Varicella?
Pneumococcus?
Rotavirus?
RSV?
Hepatitis B?
Influenza?
HPV?
COVID-19?
Shingles?
YEP.
A thread🧵
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ALL OF THEM.
Polio?
Measles, mumps, rubella?
Haemophilus influenzae B?
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis?
Meningococcus?
Varicella?
Pneumococcus?
Rotavirus?
RSV?
Hepatitis B?
Influenza?
HPV?
COVID-19?
Shingles?
YEP.
A thread🧵
1/
May 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Great thread. Conducting placebo-controlled trials of items known to be relatively safe and effective is unethical.
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🧪 Though a doubling of NSF's budget might seem far-fetched, that's exactly what Congress said what's needed to maintain national competitiveness in science & tech.
From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:
From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:
May 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
🧪 Though a doubling of NSF's budget might seem far-fetched, that's exactly what Congress said what's needed to maintain national competitiveness in science & tech.
From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:
From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:
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New, from me: I am dorky enough to actually read (ok, skim) budgets, and have never seen anything like Trump’s, which has converted a formal and professional document into a propagandistic screed to justify draconian cuts.
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
Budgets as Propaganda
Trump's budget proposal formalizes the paranoid style as government policy
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New, from me: I am dorky enough to actually read (ok, skim) budgets, and have never seen anything like Trump’s, which has converted a formal and professional document into a propagandistic screed to justify draconian cuts.
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...
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“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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🧵 Thread on the highlights of the Senate Appropriations Committee on biomedical research.
"I would not have dared to dream that metastatic melanoma would become a treatable disease in my lifetime. Yet here we are today, with 43% of people diagnosed with metastatic melanoma living 10 years or more, due to treatments that we broadly refer to as cancer immunotherapy." Barry P. Sleckman, UAB
The Senate Committee on Appropriations is holding a hearing on Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation on April 30 at 10:30am ET, chaired by Senator Susan Collins 🧪
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...
April 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🧵 Thread on the highlights of the Senate Appropriations Committee on biomedical research.
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BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.
April 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.
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This is a great 60 Minutes piece on the impact of NIH cuts on patients including those with Alzheimer’s. Great job by Kristin Weinstein from University of Washington highlighting the impacts on students (9:00). @uwmedicine.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...
Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations
Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.
www.cbsnews.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is a great 60 Minutes piece on the impact of NIH cuts on patients including those with Alzheimer’s. Great job by Kristin Weinstein from University of Washington highlighting the impacts on students (9:00). @uwmedicine.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...
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This is definitely worth a read... This is what conscience and courage look like...
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...
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www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...
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With Sadness and Resolve: Why I Resigned as Chief Medical Officer of an NIH Institute and What Comes Next | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | Articles in Press
www.atsjournals.org
April 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is definitely worth a read... This is what conscience and courage look like...
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...
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www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...
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It’s easier to tell the story of canceled grants, but the impact of the grants that will never be awarded is going to be far more damaging, especially for junior researchers and sustaining research pipelines.
April 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It’s easier to tell the story of canceled grants, but the impact of the grants that will never be awarded is going to be far more damaging, especially for junior researchers and sustaining research pipelines.
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The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
April 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
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“Look how many people are women; look at how many people are non-White. Is there any way to attribute this to something other than race and gender? And then when you look at the numbers and the chances it could be any reason other than race and gender?”
super grateful that this is being reported
super grateful that this is being reported
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“Look how many people are women; look at how many people are non-White. Is there any way to attribute this to something other than race and gender? And then when you look at the numbers and the chances it could be any reason other than race and gender?”
super grateful that this is being reported
super grateful that this is being reported
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This is actually incredible. Good on Harvard for doing this.
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This is actually incredible. Good on Harvard for doing this.
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“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
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There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
www.forbes.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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This is why all NIH-funded scientists simultaneously trying to diversify their science funding portfolios is not a real solution.
March 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is why all NIH-funded scientists simultaneously trying to diversify their science funding portfolios is not a real solution.
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Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership
What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.
What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership
What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.
What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.
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I think about this headline all of the time.
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think about this headline all of the time.
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Time to get to know how we know about sodium channels, a very helpful tool to control pain. Hint: It was a massive, diverse, collective endeavor supported by federal investment in research institutions. And scorpions and spiders whose venoms do all sorts of weird shit to those channels. 🧪
Bluetorial: The path to a new pain medication with little potential for addiction
Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.
Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Time to get to know how we know about sodium channels, a very helpful tool to control pain. Hint: It was a massive, diverse, collective endeavor supported by federal investment in research institutions. And scorpions and spiders whose venoms do all sorts of weird shit to those channels. 🧪