Starting to have this awful, sinking feeling that the 24h+ of "planned maintenance" on PubMed is just going to turn into the US government shutting down the site completely in pursuit of their silencing of evidence-based medicine. Here's hoping we're wrong...🤞🏻 #pubmed #research #evidence

More than half of the UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies, including Nestlé, Unilever and Tate & Lyle, generating big conflicts of interest.

www.bmj.com/content/386/...

Via @bmj.com

#OA #openaccess #conflictofinterest #nutrition #food #publichealth

This critical work from @hsph.harvard.edu scientists continues to compile a list of the NIH & NSF grants that have been cut by the Trump administration in 2025.

Over 2,100 grants have gone, many with a focus on minorities - women, LGBTQ, others.

grant-watch.us

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Pregnancy’s true toll on the body: a huge birth study provides the most detailed picture yet using data from 300,000 births to reveal how essential biological processes could be permanently altered by carrying and delivering a baby.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Patient- and public-driven health research: a model of coleadership and partnership in research priority setting using a modified James Lind Alliance approach www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... H/T @jclinepi.bsky.social @sporalliance.bsky.social #coproduction #patients #coleadership #research #OA

Large language models for conducting systematic reviews: on the rise, but not yet ready for use—a scoping review. "Although LLMs show promise in supporting SR creation, fully established or validated applications are often lacking" www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... via @jclinepi.bsky.social #AI #LLM

The Methane Hotspot Explorer app is now live! Visualise the location & origins of #methane plumes in close to real-time: including coal mining, oil, gas, and urban areas encompassing landfills, as well as unexpected sources: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ghg-services... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Bats have a built-in anti-virus defence system! A new study of 20 bat genomes has revealed a broad range of immune adaptations that provide viral tolerance and resistance to infections: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #virus #infection #disease #immunity #bats #zoonosis #immunology #bat1k

Canada's Drug Agency has just released brand new guidance on the use of surrogate endpoints in HTAs. The recommendations cover definitions, justification, adoption, statistical validation, models, reporting, and quantifying & presenting uncertainty. Find out more at www.cda-amc.ca/methods-and-...

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The surprising history of abstracts.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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