DrEmamaullee

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

A better journey - Georgetown Today Photo: Lisa Helfert Cancer survivorship research initiative studies life after diagnosis and treatment When Georgetown family medicine physician Sarah Kureshi felt a strange mass in her toddler daught...

Our daughter Nusayba has officially graduated to long-term follow-up care, marking 5.5 years cancer-free.

Georgetown Health Magazine recently featured her story, which captures some of the challenges and hope that defined these years for us.

today.advancement.georgetown.edu/health-magaz...

🚀 Powerful insights from today’s Social Media session at #WTC2025! About the future of transplant communication. 💬🧬📱 #TransplantTwitter @ttsorg.bsky.social @astinfo.bsky.social

Jay Bhattacharya once studied health disparities. As NIH director, he’s allowed such research to wither Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

Incredibly well reported deep dive on NIH and health disparities research in STAT. 🧵

www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n...

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Their NIH Grants Are Back. But Nothing Is Back to Normal. Researchers say that picking up where they left off is complicated — scientifically, financially, and logistically.

NEW: Their NIH grants are back, but nothing is back to normal.

In June, a judge ordered the restoration of 900+ terminated grants. So how's that going? Scientists say they're happy, but also it's been a bumpy road—and they're afraid their funds will get cut again. www.chronicle.com/article/thei...

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National Cancer Institute projection of a 4% pay line in FY2026.

Good grief, the US National Cancer Institute projects it will fund only one in 25 RO1 grant applications in 2026. This is massively defunding cancer research. Despicable vandalism. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

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We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌

We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

What is the timeline for Phase 2? I can't seem to find reference to that in any of the articles or court documents. Thanks for this reporting. @scott-delaney.bsky.social

Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

Science 🧪 fair of knowledge lost due to grant terminations. Why isn’t this being live-streamed? How do we - the people - get to watch?

nasawatch.com/congress/con...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

NYC 🚨

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FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE HERE: vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

RANK ZOHRAN 1, LANDER 2, MYRIE, ADAMS, BLAKE 3-5.

DO NOT RANK CUOMO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

LET’S FUCKING GO.

Xenotransplantation using NHP preclinical model is 'unvetted woke 'research''? How about unvetted politicians overseeing NIH instead of physicians and scientists....

IRE1α promotes phagosomal calcium flux to enhance macrophage fungicidal activity McFadden et al. find the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress sensor inositol-requiring enzyme 1α (IRE1α) is activated by C-type lectin receptor signaling during Candida albicans infection without protei...

I finally decided to be more active here after missing the science side of twitter. Please check out my paper, "IRE1α promotes phagosomal calcium flux to enhance macrophage fungicidal activity" with @drbadbug.bsky.social and @teresaomeara.bsky.social!

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Two good follows for this evening

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
@ianlmorgan.bsky.social

Two of the leaders at NIH who wrote the #BethedaDeclaration and are standing up and speaking out for all of us.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3

apnews.com/article/nih-...

Surgeons Should Build Relationships, Engender Trust with Patients to Improve Outcomes Patient distrust of the healthcare system can lead to adverse events and emotional damage in patients and their families.

Patient distrust of the healthcare system can lead to adverse events and emotional damage in patients and their families.

In a viewpoint article, authors discuss how providers can and should work to “mend the wounds of mistrust.”

NIH Workers Demand Changes In New ‘Bethesda Declaration’ The public letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya was signed by hundreds of agency personnel.

BREAKING: Over 300 NIH workers have signed The Bethesda Declaration and delivered it to Director Bhattacharya accusing him and the admin of putting “political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources” and demanding changes.

www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-worker...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

To put these top-line budget numbers in context, cuts of this magnitude would effectively mean no new grants in FY2026. The entire extramural budget would go to existing, continuing grants.

An abject failure of American ambition. And a betrayal of our global leadership in health science innovation.

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Is anyone capturing the fully approved (through council, 'award prepared'), pending NOA grants that are being held hostage at NIH?

A 72-page complaint w/ 30+ exhibits filed less than 18 hours after the attack was announced. They were ready. ✊

#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers. Story by @virginiagewin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

The Trump Dark Ages.
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Good cover @economist.com

Everything seems awful sometimes, but I've met the absolute best folks in the midst of all this chaos.

Case in point: a brilliant new colleague (who asked to remain anonymous) sketched one of Judge Young's more incredulous statements about NIH's anti-DEI policy today: