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Dr. Lisa Briand
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Neuroscientist 🧠 Animal models of SUD. 🐭Glutamate is the most exciting neurotransmitter. 🤗 Bold & Bright 🌈 Nature photography enthusiast 📷
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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
May 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Super excited to celebrate the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Alyssa Kniffin!
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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As I have said repeatedly, the impacts of all this are simple: people will die.
altcdc.altgov.info Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Apr 21
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.

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A line graph of estimated AIDS-related deaths from 2025 through 2040 in 55 PEPFAR-supported countries. The Y axis is estimated number of deaths and ranges from 200,000 to 2 million. The X axis is years and ranges from 2010 to 2040. There is a black line labeled “historical trend” from 2010 to 2025 showing a decrease in deaths from 1.2 million to ~420,000. Then in 2025 the black line splits into three scenarios: 1) a dashed green line showing deaths if USAID were to increase, 2) a dashed blue line showing deaths if USAID remained at 2024 levels, and 3) a dashed red line showing deaths if USAID stopped and was not replaced. In scenario 1 (funding increased) deaths continue to decrease from ~420,000 to 200,000. In scenario 2 (funding stays the same) deaths stay the same at 420,000. In scenario 3 (funding cut and not replaced) deaths increase from ~420,000 to 1.7 million.
April 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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@ebi.embl.org:

Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.

Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!?
February 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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So disappointing.
daniellebeckman.bsky.social Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · Feb 5
Crazy to think HHMI has an endowment of $22.6 billion and over $25 billion in net assets. They could quickly expand DEI initiatives to cover the government shutting down. Instead, they chose exactly the opposite.
February 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US.

Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪

We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.
January 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM