Tracy C

1/ This is a long 🧵, so buckle up & I hope you read till the end.
The HHS Secretary, is planning to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF the expert panel that decides which preventive services (cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds) must be covered by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.

Poster with darkened image of the columns of Mellon Institute and the text Vigil for Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence June 14th, 6-8PM Steps of Mellon Institute STAND UP SCIENCE Share stories of the Trump regime's impacts on our science, our jobs, our universities, nivers and our futures @standupforscience @savesciencepgh

Vigil for #Science next week
#Pittsburgh #StandUpForScience

And lots of cars driving by and honking in support!

An assortment of people gathered, many with protest signs (and umbrellas), at the corner of Shady Ave and Fifth Ave in Pittsburgh.

People standing along Fifth Ave in Pittsburgh on a wet, rainy evening with protest signs and umbrellas as cars drive by.

An assortment of people gathered, many with protest signs (and umbrellas, as it was a rainy evening), at the corner of Shady Ave and Fifth Ave in Pittsburgh.

There were 3 #HandsOff protests in #Pittsburgh today, with the smallest one held later in the day in Shadyside. Still had a few hundred people show up - despite the rainy weather!

#ACA15 Happy anniversary to the legislation that made it possible for me to have a healthy, productive, creative, complicated, wonderfully life-filled life for the past 15 years. Forever grateful 🌼 💜

Congressional District Enrollment: Pennsylvania NOTE: THIS IS AN ONGOING PROJECT; IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL DAYS TO ADD EVERY STATE. CHECK BACK SOON. Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans ...

📣 New State Added: I've completed pie charts breaking out total population enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare & ACA exchange plans for every Congressional District in #PENNSYLVANIA:

acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...

#StandUpForScience2025 in #Pittsburgh yesterday. Wonderful speakers & so many great signs!
#ScienceNotSilence

A fact sheet for Pittsburgh that is in a somewhat similar layout and with similar sections to the state-focused NIH fact sheets available from United for Medical Research. There is text in the top left noting the amount awarded by NIH to Pittsburgh institutions in FY2024 ($745,466,969). There are also 3 bulleted sections that: show a breakdown for Pitt, Carnegie-Mellon, and Duquesne; list a few research areas where Pittsburgh ranks in the top 10 for funding (internal medicine, cancer, neurosciences), and a section that includes annual mortality rates for select diseases in Allegheny County.

If you are so inclined, you can use the BRIMR rankings along with info from your state or local health department to create a city-specific fact sheet similar to what UMR has available for each state. Here's one I put together for #Pittsburgh:

brimr.org/brimr-rankin...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Potential resources for talking points at #StandUpForScience events:

- Fact sheets for every state re: NIH funding in 2024
- Spreadsheets w/rankings by state, city, institution re: 2024 NIH funding

(Links below. Feel free to suggest others!)
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#ScienceNotSilence

#Pittsburgh #SchenleyPlaza
#ScienceNotSilence

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On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone.

Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️

Close-up of dark a grey t-shirt with the multicolored symbol & white text from the March for Science, April 22, 2017. There are 2 buttons on the shirt in the upper left corner stating "Science Not Silence" and "Science: Because the Answer Never Turned Out To Be Magic. Ever."

I'm no longer in DC but will happily be taking part in the rally in #Pittsburgh. I'll be the one in an original #MarchForScience t-shirt and some combination of STEM buttons 😷😀

Screenshot of the US map on the Stand Up for Science website showing the locations of places across the country where local rallies will be held on March 7.

There are almost 50 locations in the US where you can #StandUpForScience next Friday, 7March! Check out the website for more info on official rallies and companion events.
#StandUpforScience2025 #ScienceNotSilence #ScienceForAll

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#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025

Blue image that says Pittsburgh in red.

🚨 Looking for more volunteers to help us Stand Up for Science in Pittsburgh!

Know someone interested? Send them to our Airtable! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

The SIFT method - STOP, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims, quotes & media

Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.

I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.

Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.

Start with SIFT method:

My own flow is always:

CLARIFY - do I understand this?

CONFIRM - is it correct & still current?

CONDENSE - strip out excess

CONVEY - get it into the right hands, make sure they know priority

None of these steps are easy right now.

Thank you so much for doing your part.

(with things like the Adult Vaccine Assessment Tool & Childhood Vaccine Quiz no longer available) and it is likely that much of what is currently accessible will disappear soon (or be replaced with non-scientific-based content/outright disinformation).

Lots of good info in this thread. At a minimum, I highly recommend downloading the PDFs in the first post and then talking to your health care provider about getting up-to-date on all your vaccines in the near future. Note that most interactive tools on CDC sites had already been removed 1/

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Main slide from the video, shows how the proposed cuts would lead a standard cancer study to go underfunded by about 1/4 of a million dollars. Universities would have to run deficits and eventually stop permitting applications to NIH.

"Proposed Budget Cuts to NIH: Recipe for a U.S. Medical Research Death Spiral"

External video link: vimeo.com/1054731411

A report on NIH funding in 2024 will be available in the next few weeks: brimr.org

Note that the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh ranked #3 and #6, respectively, in terms of all the institutions across the US that received funding from the NIH in 2023.

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

Pennsylvania will be significantly impacted by any changes to grants from the NIH.

NIH Awards Funding in PA: $2.23 B
Jobs Supported: 21,784
Economic Activity Supported: $5.23 B

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

For those curious about the purpose of “indirects,” I suggest this FAQ from AAU (thread to follow).

In the lingo of Musk et al - BLOF = this hurts economies, employment, science, & health. 🧵

www.aau.edu/key-issues/f...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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