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If the first 100 days’ attacks on health felt too overwhelming to keep track of, there’s a reason. As @scottlgreer.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social & I show in Lancet, sweeping cuts to funding, insurance, data, etc will have a dire impact. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If the first 100 days’ attacks on health felt too overwhelming to keep track of, there’s a reason. As @scottlgreer.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social & I show in Lancet, sweeping cuts to funding, insurance, data, etc will have a dire impact. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it.
They did it for PEPFAR.
Now Ebola.
I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵
They did it for PEPFAR.
Now Ebola.
I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it.
They did it for PEPFAR.
Now Ebola.
I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵
They did it for PEPFAR.
Now Ebola.
I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵
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Cuts to NIH funding don't just threaten life-saving research, they also threaten opportunities for students and Pittsburgh’s economy. We must protect the investments that drive innovation and keep our City at the forefront of discovery.
Pitt, CMU face 'significant uncertainty' as NIH slashes funding for indirect research costs
Statements from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University suggest internal worries about the impact of slashed federal funding for research overhead costs.
www.wesa.fm
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Cuts to NIH funding don't just threaten life-saving research, they also threaten opportunities for students and Pittsburgh’s economy. We must protect the investments that drive innovation and keep our City at the forefront of discovery.