Ana Baumann

Here are the nearly 2,500 medical research grants canceled or delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

Astounding and devastating visualization of N.I.H. grants that have been terminated

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How do you decide which theory, model, or framework (TMF) should guide your next implementation project? Our team has just published SELECT-IT in @implementsci.bsky.social — a four-step meta-framework that turns that question into a replicable process: doi.org/10.1186/s130... @jgrimshaw.bsky.social

NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest.

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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice - Ivers, N - 2025 | Cochrane Library Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

🎉Fantastic to see our update to the Cochrane review on Audit and Feedback in healthcare published!
So much work went into this huge project by a worldwide team, expertly led by Noah Ivers 👏
A must read for anyone wanting to improve the quality of healthcare 👇
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

According to DisabilityJustice.org, 83% of disabled women will be sexually abused in their lifetime. You must include disabled women in your conversations about choice and reproductive rights. I’m included in that percentage. Please think about us.

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research Saying that "research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific," the agency wrote to scientists to cancel current grants.

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research
www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/n... via @statnews.com

Agreed with Gillian here.

If you called your Senator (or didn't) to tell them to vote against a trans sports ban, it's important that you also call them and thank them for their vote.

NO Democrat broke on this.

myreps.datamade.us

MEDICAID Basics
Over 50% of the spending for Medicaid goes to cover those with DISABILITIES and the AGED

38% of those on Medicaid are CHILDREN. /1

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Follow us, share our stuff, add stuff we should know about. What I know now is THERE IS A LOT GOING ON, and we want you to know it. There's strength in seeing that we're not alone, not all passive in the face of this.... bsky.app/profile/resi...

Resist List They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation against Trump’s coup. Jump to databases of noncooperation or trackers of ligitation and impact. Follow our social media accounts to stay updated.

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE.

Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council February 2024 Meeting Summary The 306th meeting of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council (NHLBAC) convened virtually on Tuesday, February 6, 2024. The Council meeting began with a closed session that started at 10:...

Feb 4 meeting of National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council CANCELLED. On Feb 6 2024 they approved 8 billion dollars of medical research in those areas. An equivalent sum now missing in 2025. www.nhlbi.nih.gov/events/2024/...

Thank you for submitting your Letter of Intent (LOI) to CZI. We appreciate your interest in our work. CZI has decided not to continue with the second round of its Science Diversity Leadership Awards. We are committed to supporting groundbreaking research that advances the frontiers of scientific knowledge in pursuit of our mission to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century. We will provide information on future funding opportunities. We look forward to staying in touch. Bil Clemons, Program Officer, CZI

Pretty sad. Just got the email that CZI is canceling the second round of Diversity Leadership Awards. Private industry will definitely not fill the hole that NIH and NSF are leaving. 😢💔

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

Meanwhile...

We have been hard at work this weekend getting organized!

🚨IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE THE CHOPS TO LEAD A PROTEST SITE FILL OUT THE FORM🚨

Our goal is to solidify protest locations by FRIDAY 2/21! So, let’s get cracking, everyone!

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@standupforscience.bsky.social #scienceforall

2024-2025 flu season is becoming more intense The 2024-2025 flu season in the USA has led to increased hospitalizations and deaths, surpassing COVID rates.

New data from the #CDC shows that the 2024-2025 #flu season is becoming more intense. Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is showing up as a complication in children and MRSA pneumonia in adults. Get the flu #vaccine. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children.

Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old.

And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks...

Guess who that removes from the workforce.

(Women.)

How to close America’s life expectancy gap The U.S. ranks 29th in life expectancy at birth among peer nations in the OECD. Changing that goes well beyond the health care system.

Important from @meganranney.bsky.social and @atulgrovermd.bsky.social on solvable problems with US Health Care. "If we could eliminate deaths from just 3 external causes...alcohol, drugs, and firearms...we would nearly close the life expectancy gap between the US and other developed countries."

- There is a “Stand up for Science” event happening on March 7, 2025 in DC (standupforscience.org).
- Federal workers: Watch for changes in your work processes and not any changes you’re asked to make. Document everything.

Communicating About Public Health Common gaps in understanding, research-tested messaging to address them, examples to make it tangible, and practical tips for real-world communication scenarios

Great new resource from @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social on public health comms - with both well-tested language, and actionable tips.

This is FABULOUS.

debeaumont.org/resources/co...

Instead of Google search try DuckDuckGo
Instead of Chrome try Firefox
Instead of Gmail try ProtonMail
Instead of Google Docs etc try LibreOffice
Instead of Google Photos try Ente

For every Google product there are multiple replacements you can try. The above suggestions are just examples to try

Seems we need to get the word out: NIH cuts impact our ability to get the care we need AND cost our states billions of dollars. Here's my attempt - just don't tell my kids I was lighting things on fire while they were at school :)

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

In case it doesn't exist yet: Here is a starter pack for health justice. Please let me know if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Qe1JSoD

TOTE ASTRICT COLOR DOCTORS FOR AMERICA, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB) OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al., Defendants. ORDER Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8] Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that 1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1]; 2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall, by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science

But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities

With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed