Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪

Fact, and all scientific leaders should say this to his face.

Stop trying to butter up or compromise with Cassidy and Susan Collins. It will not work! Believing it will is a flawed theory of how US politics works in 2025.

Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

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

This is right and it’s important for people to get

This week the Trump CDC attacked science — and our health, and our kids’ health — by twisting the truth on the CDC website.

There’s things to say about the playbook they used, and that’s helped by a little explanation about scientific truth in practice.

New vid explainer from me:
🧪 part 1/

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths

2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

Goodbye to Focused Protection. Jay Bhattacharya’s Latest 1-Page Pandemic “Plan” is for Vulnerable People to Stop Being Vulnerable. Jay Bhattacharya's new "plan" is really an admission that if there's a new pandemic, he’s not competent enough to do any of the incredible things he “would have” done regarding COVID. He's not

Bhattacharya's newest 1-page pandemic plan forcefully rejects the GBD, his previous 1-page pandemic plan.

It's really just an admission that he's not competent enough to control a virus and not caring enough to even try.

My latest devastating takedown.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/bhattacharya...

Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.

@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.

They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪

An NIH memo from August 15th entitled "Achieving NIH's Mission: Leveraging Funding Policies"

In August, NIH institute and center directors received this document entitled "Achieving NIH Mission: Leveraging Funding Policies".

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@kylegriffin1.bsky.social the @ama-assn.org has caved to Trump. They invited known grifter Dr Mehmet Oz to give a speech, but, the AMA board/ John Whyte decided to censor all delegates in the following way.
1. Questions can be asked, but all must be vetted.

A failure of communication. The Society for Neuroscience has a responsibility to be clear about what is happening to research, knowledge, and people.

Who’s putting it at risk, @sfn.org ?

This passive voice stuff has got to stop. We have to name the people destroying US leadership in science.
(Hint: Trump. Vought. Bhattacharya. RFK. Say their names.)

I’m finally leaving Chicago and following Bovino to Charlotte on Thursday. If you’re in the area and have any leads on finding CBP/ICE/DHS, dm me for my number.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

Lyin’ Jay Bhattacharya standing next to a child sex trafficker

Noting that the NIH director and the 27 institute directors last year were NOT appointed by a sex predator who was involved in a child sex trafficking ring.

Cannot believe it’s 10 years after 2015, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested (twice?), let off the hook by a Trump I cabinet secretary, died in jail, Merrick Garland had access to all these docs and emails and… IT’S TAKEN TEN YEARS TO COME OUT.

We have a crisis of elite accountability.

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N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

🧪🔭🧬🔬🦠🌎😡👇

h/t @maxkozlov.bsky.social for the program

11:15 - 11:45 AM - TRANSFORMATION AT NIH (Fireside Chat) • Jay Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health c • Nicole Kleinstreuer, Deputy Director, NIH DPCPSI • Moderated by Calley Means, Former SGE at U.S. HHS 11:45 - 12:15 PM - MAKING AMERICAN BIOTECHNOLOGY ACC (Panel Discussion) • Alexis Borisy, Co-founder & Operating Chairman, Curie.Bio

lol when they mean “destroying all of American biomedical research and cancer cures by corrupting NIH” they say ”Transformation at NIH”

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?

Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

“I don’t view something… as a win, when it was already a law”

“no RIFs until the end of January… I find that to be such a low bar.”

@tyk314.net, speaking as a private citizen

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Hour live episode, Nov. 10, 2025

I make my statement in my personal capacity at 4:30. It frightens me that health policy and health systems are not priorities when we told our leaders we need a fighting CR to keep the ACA afloat. #hspr #hpsr #hpss #shutdown

'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said
😳

The problem with this is that it has no theory of power.

All of us want things. We want healthcare that works for everyone. We want Stephen Miller and Elon Musk in prison.

But what distinguishes “want” from reality is a plan to use power to get us there. If Shaheen is folding, she has no plan.

Love your work @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social. adding to the thread:

Yes on all