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Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:

-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040

How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.

You will note USA is not on this list.

In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU!

There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!?

abrcms.org/donate/stude...

What Danielle said.

According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%

Let me put that another way.

President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful.

That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines in the US causing impacts for vaccine trust around the world. Vaccine access and equity is being undermined

Bit by bit RFKJr is undermining vaccine trust, science trust and potentially vaccine access in the States- this extended n updated version of an article by me and @chrischirp.bsky.social tries to summarise the multiple tactics he is using 🧪

Back from a wonderful FASEB meeting in Niagara Falls. Returned to at least 2 hours of administrative work in my inbox.

Totally wild (PI version) past 12 hours. 5 working hours to cut 7.5 pages down to 6. But this grant is now ready to be submitted.

🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels.

They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B).

If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

This reiterates the point I’ve made a few times on here: the US’s loss will be other countries’ gain, but overall it will be an enormous loss. There is no other country that can replicate the US research investment or environment, and the primary brain drain will be out of research, not overseas.

Screenshot from blog post that reads: Nor, especially, can they be addressed by American researchers moving abroad. When someone suggests that researchers just move abroad, I smile wanly, because I know that whoever is suggesting it has no idea of the scale of U.S. higher education relative to other markets nor of the difficulties other countries are facing. (What, just move to the many financially secure institutions of the United Kingdom? If you don’t keep up with UK higher ed news, then you may not recognize that’s a darkly bitter joke.) Some folks will find moving abroad attractive but it is simply not possible for the 1.4 million U.S. post-secondary instructors to just move to Canada.

If you won't believe me, here's Paul

musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...

This is such a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Remember when private prison stocks soared immediately after the election? This is why.

fortune.com/2024/11/07/p...

Future of NIH in the hands of five senators.

Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy

Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections Upon pathogen detection, phagocytes trigger immunity. This process induces tissue stress and the formation of host-derived molecules that further tune immune responses. We show that host-derived oxidized phospholipids accumulate upon microbial encounter, epigenetically suppress IL-10, and exacerbate harmful inflammation. Thus, targeting oxPLs represents a therapeutic strategy to treat deranged inflammation after infection.

Online now: Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections

World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...

New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute...

www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...

I'm just seeing this. So so sorry that your place was flooded. I hope you all are able to find a hotel. Message me if you need hotel help and can get to the hyatt place. I can use points to help you with a few nights.

I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.

Yup

So worried about a resubmission I'm putting in with my continuing deadline. The original reviews were positive, no way to add NAMS to it as nothing exists that would work, all possible human samples would require a foreign component.

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit

But universities are threatened with losing their tax exempt status if *students protesting the university* are too openly political.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Science doers, allies & stans in the House, literally: RIGHT NOW!

Standup for #Science. Stand up for #NIH. Standup for #EPA. Standup for #NSF. Standup for #CDC.

Standup to #Trump
Standup to #RFK
Standup to #Bhattacharya
Standup to #Zeldin

EVERYBODY UP!

Resist here zurl.co/QdR9F
#SUFS
#EPA139

Relevant: bsky.app/profile/bria...

Scientists are telling me the damage is going to be generational.

Ann Coulter commenting that "We (meaning the U.S., presumably) did not kill enough Indians."

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Struggling through writing blocks today. Starting another 30 minute block now if anyone wants to join me.