Elizabeth

Taylor Swift announces ‘The Release Party of A Showgirl’ coming to theatres, featuring the premiere of “The Fate of Ophelia” music video.

4 things to know about the vaccine ingredient thimerosal Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?

Climate change's projected changes to the environment will impact microbes that affect food safety and security.

Feeding 8+ billion people is challenging, especially with climate change threatening food security. Microbes offer powerful solutions like biofertilizers & biochar to boost sustainable agriculture. Explore their potential in the latest issue of Microcosm: asm.social/2u5

Bayer moves to block lawsuits that claim glyphosate causes cancer After paying billions, company seeks state laws and US Supreme Court ruling barring such cases

Bayer is asking state legislatures and the US Supreme Court to block lawsuits claiming that exposure to a federally approved pesticide caused a person to get cancer. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

💥 🏛️ 🧪 NIH Grant Awards are Reportedly Resuming Along with Notices of Funding Opportunities

As a swiftie, I just purchased a shirt for the 4th that says “mad as hell because I loved this place”

Media cannot keep both-siding miasma vs germ theory—or decades of data on life-saving vaccines.

If Hegseth said the military can’t deploy abroad because the earth is flat and troops might fall off, we’d treat it as absurd.

It should be the same when RFK Jr. does it.

Who did this? 😂

Former NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless” Francis Collins, MD, PhD, lauds lifesaving research supported by the National Institutes of Health, explains why he left, and warns of scientific brain drain.

Former NIH director Francis Collins speaks out about why he left NIH:

“I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.”

#medsky

www.aamc.org/news/former-...

The world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV could stop transmission -- if people can get it The Food and Drug Administration has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV. In two groundbreaking studies, Gilead Sciences’ shot, a drug named lenacapavir, nearly eliminated new i...

Twice-yearly lenacapavir just won FDA approval for PrEP - closest thing we have to an HIV vaccine.

Trials showed ≥99.9% protection

But approval doesn’t equal access.

The science delivered. Now policy has to. apnews.com/article/hiv-...

Do you hear the people sing?

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.

When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

Whatever it is, this is my favourite sport.

The collapse in American science did not occur overnight. As our book #scienceundersiege highlights: it evolved over years @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
and was organized/deliberate. Science/scientists were targeted for political/autocratic control/personal financial gain

A photo of Taylor Swift on stage. Text reads: "Taylor Swift Buys Back Rights to Her First 6 Albums."

Taylor Swift announced on Friday that she had bought back the rights to her first six albums. Swift said that her record-breaking Eras Tour helped make her acquisition of the masters. She did not disclose the price. nyti.ms/3FgfXzZ

This is what happens when you underfund and haphazardly cut public health initiatives and research. New World Screwworm unlocked a new type of horror for me since I learned about it.
#publichealth

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

"This is what we were voting for!"

From a friend in academia:

>>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<<

Great work.

Congress established NIOSH in 1970 under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to “assure as far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources.”

Over 90% of NIOSH employees have received “reduction-in-force” letters, placing them on administrative leave ahead of permanent layoffs.

The American Society for Microbiology is committed to ensuring that scientific research is conducted adhering to strict standards for biosafety and biosecurity, but pausing research is not the path forward. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Trump restricts funding for 'gain of function' research — calling it dangerous President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. Here's what it means.

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. Here's what it means.

RFK Jr and Statistics:

A screenshot from the CDC website showing that the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer is closed

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr.

NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

Nearly all of remaining staff at CDC's NIOSH received lay off notices today, we're told

This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date

Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries

www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

The Future Of Researchers In The U.S. Is In Jeopardy Funding cuts are having a devastating toll on researchers' careers and threatening future innovation in the U.S. Their request: bring science-based decisions back.

“Researchers have had to fire staff and, without their grants, are likely to lose their positions with the university”.

The incredible @drjudystone.bsky.social has another piece out about the destruction of scientific infrastructure and its effects on scientists.

www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

After the RIF notices from tonight here is an Updated NIOSH Org chart for your convenience.

Attacks on Judges Undermine Democracy, Warns Ketanji Brown Jackson Speaking to a judicial conference, the Supreme Court justice said attacks were designed to intimidate and influence.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."