For years I had been saying that the collapse of the university was a much greater threat to scholarly publishing than AI. I just hadn’t expected it to happen so quickly.

NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.

How to destroy a 30 year research study... They are gutting our leadership in science and destroying our public health system.
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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.

Read that back.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

Brian- no one is sure…

One of the only things to make me smile and be happy since the election...

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠

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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

More tragic news about NIH and NIH science. Grant system is frozen and intramural program is being slashed. All will claw back on treatments and cures for cancer and other human diseases. This can’t be what the public wants. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US vaccine policy FDA panel meeting to select flu vaccine strains canceled; Paul Offit confirms

This is really bad, the strains for the influenza vaccine need to be chosen by the experts in the spring so the manufacturers have time to make the vaccine.

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Get ready for more headlines like this, courtesy of Trump and RFK Jr.

A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. The child had not been vaccinated against measles, according to the city of Lubbock's health department.

The first measles death in the US in 10 years - the blood of this child is on the hands of Robert F. Kennedy and all of the vaccine science deniers...
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He nails it.

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

This is a criminal level conflict of interest...

Exclusive-FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say

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The only comprehensible way to understand what’s happening is these miscreants are abusing their power to dismantle our democratic govt, destroy our democratic alliances to further enrich themselves and ally with dictatorships around the world. Pain, suffering, stability, security—they don’t care.

Yesterday it was revealed that the Trump administration is expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles.

After the story broke, the State Department's procurement document removed mention of Tesla.

"Transparency."

Senate Confirms Kennedy, a Prominent Vaccine Skeptic, as Health Secretary The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.

This is going to be a disaster. America's public health system needs improvement, but it is still the best in the world and this lunatic is going to destroy it from the inside...

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Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

Community health centers are closing amid funding confusion Community health centers are facing a potential federal freeze on their grants and funding following orders from Trump.

Some federally funded community health centers — which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care — are still unable to access grant funding and are shutting down because of Trump's spending freeze.

We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

This is monstrous...

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A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

US CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a...

This is truly F%$#d up
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NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

How to destroy America's position of leadership in science...

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills -
NSF payment system remained offline despite the lifting of Trump administration funding freeze

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You can read the letter for yourself 👉

Jim Acosta just powerfully announced on air he is leaving CNN with the words: "It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant." He added, "Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope." Amen. Jim will be missed.

Map of Pennsylvania showing 4993 NIH projects with total funding $2,801,912,496

If they stop all NIH research, here's what PA will lose: $2.8 billion in research funding. Researchers use NIH funding to try to cure cancer and develop medications for many diseases