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When it rains it fucking pours

Dear Director Bhattacharya: I have an important question for you: Do you hope to be taken seriously by the scientific community as someone who is making good faith efforts to understand issues with a scientific component who critically examines any data used as evidence in scientific arguments? I ask because it is not at all obvious from many of your public comments including your recent opinion piece published with the NIH Deputy Director “Time to trash our pandemic playbook — making people healthy again may be the best medicine”.

Starting my Monday morning with an email to Director Bhattacharya...

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Bless the Epstein survivors for speaking out!

Justice! NOW!

Jenna Norton on Instagram: "I guess I hit a nerve because they just put me on “non disciplinary” admin leave. But let me be clear: this is retaliation for asserting my right to free speech guaranteed ... Asserting your right to free speech in the workplace can be a daunting task, but one man's determination has put him in the spotlight. Hear his story and learn how to stand up for your rights in the f...

NIDDK Program Officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , Bethesda Declaration signer and outspoken advocate for science in the interests of the public not the politicians, was placed on administrative leave today. No reason was given. 1/4 www.instagram.com/reel/DRA3e8-...

Thune is a fucking idiot. This was their way of showing the voting public that the Senate Republicans are willfully obstructing any reasonable deal that will lead to reopening of the government. It’s their fault it’s shut and they are standing in the way of it reopening.

Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators"

Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?

(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)

Jeffries: "Thune is divorced from reality. It's a clown show over in the Senate. 15 times you bring the same partisan Republican spending bill to the Senate floor expecting a different result? That's the classic definition of legislative insanity. Has no ability to actually negotiate in good faith."

“Doctor” LaDumbfuck is at it again it seems. Why has my home state turned out to be so fucking embarrassing?

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Vought is a fucking psychopath. He makes Ted Bundy look like a model citizen.

The Death of Public Health Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

“The Death of Public Health”

Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

Hard to know if they intended to fire these folks and then “taco-ed” or if they just truly have no idea what they are doing.

Maybe both?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

My quote of the day

If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

I’ve been saying this for a while though. She’s Gen Z Katy Perry with a splash of Ariana Grande and a better singing voice.

Dear Dr. Bhattacharya: As a follow-up to my earlier email, I am having trouble reconciling your statement in the cover letter sent to NIH staff. You said: “I have advocated for academic freedom throughout my career, with a particular public focus in the last five years. My position has not changed; scientists must be allowed to pursue their ideas free of censorship or control by others. They must be able to express their scientific opinions and challenge scientific dogma. This does not mean everything scientists want to do can or will be funded, but rather that they will be free to propose and discuss these ideas freely in public scientific debate.”

A second Bhattacharya email for today.

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Excerpt from Love in a Dark Time by Colm Tóibín

The time to fight fascism was yesterday. I'm tired of people's silence. I'm angry at the complicity. I want our directors to fight back for us. Why are we doing the emotional labor of SES and GS-15s? Why are we in secret groups? Why do people let these losers get by without consequence? #FEDstrong

It is my job to support PIs with their research plans, to help them find the right study section for their aims, and to tell them about the #ADRD milestones. It is not my job to obfuscate award paylines and funding priorities.

Dear Vinay Prasad, don’t let the door hit you on the way out, you disgrace.

May your shame last forever.

Mark my words, we are going to see fewer therapeutics and devices approved because of this nonsense. Private investors HEAVILY rely on non-dilutive government funding to de-risk early stage technologies. People who claim they can step in for the government know nothing about biotech investing.

We lost the King of the Bunnies 😭

I finally and unfortunately heard what appears to be the biggest song of the year, “Ordinary” by Alex Warren, and it represents the absolute and long-coming nadir of radio pop music: pop indistinguishable from worship. This is megachurch pop. Says nothing, means nothing, sounds like nothing. Bleak

Drawing of three scientists - from the NIH, EPA and NASA - standing together

This morning, NASA released the #VoyagerDeclaration. This afternoon, NIH #BethesdaDeclaration signers met w/ Jay Bhattacharya. Earlier, EPA staff were terminated for their act of resistance.

I made this in solidarity. @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnasa.bsky.social @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social

I know elephants are pregnant for an eternity but boy howdy the babies are so cute 😍

Imagine how weak and afraid you must be to put the #EPA139 on admin leave for calling you out… to push for the end a classic comedy show just because it is critical of you. Who’s the snowflake?

They think this kind of thing will silence us.

But it won’t.

Keep your eye on the stars Jayanta, you’ll never be one

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Can we just talk about how Collins and Fauci continue to live rent free in his mind?