Meredith Whitaker, PhD

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article) The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

Took a walk down memory lane for the PLOS ECR Community blog, sharing insights for entering medcomms from academia and how ISMPP can be a helpful resource. If you have a student or postdoc in your life considering medcomms, send it their way!

How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

"How do we know where to draw the line, and when it is time to resist?"

This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions taken so far during the first week of the administration. #MedSky https://ja.ma/3EeRo5K

John Green has written a new, already best-selling nonfiction book on tuberculosis that asks a pointed question: Why does a fully curable disease still kill more than a million people a year? Read or listen to our conversation with the author. nyti.ms/4l6WykQ

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

From Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What is the status of vaccines that have been developed for poultry to prevent the outbreak of H5N1?

Yoshihiro Kawaoka, PhD, addresses this question in the first episode of a new podcast, “NEJM Outbreaks Update.”

Listen to the full episode: nej.md/3XwnzEa

#MedSky #IDSky

*Screams into the void*

Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.

My first Bluesky post: sharing excitement about a new tuberculosis book! The forum is different but my interests are the same 🦠

Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.

One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.