North Carolina Science Coalition

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

HHS cuts millions in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics The move is an escalation in the agency’s clash with the medical group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.

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DHS has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Grants aimed at reducing sudden infant deaths, improving young adult health, preventing birth defects, such as fetal alcohol syndrome, and identifying autism early.

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

NEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake.

By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social

Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You. The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...

One of the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. is the generic version of Lipitor.

FDA inspectors have found safety and quality violations at about half of the plants approved to produce it, records show.

Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!

Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push? Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are benefitting – financially and otherwise – from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.

Big crowd

Diversity

Crowd

Science

The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious.

Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy.

1/ 🧪#NoKings

In this case, there was no such search for the NIEHS director position. Indeed, the position was not even open (although 13 other IC director positions are with two active searches underway as far as I know). The incumbent in this position had just been reappointed. Instead, Dr. Walsh was identified because he was a buddy of the Vice President since their time together at Yale. His background and interests do not match the mission of NIEHS particularly well. As I understand it, there were even discussions to name him director of another institute, but NIEHS was selected because of its location in North Carolina where Dr. Walsh resides.

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Dear Director Bhattacharya: I saw your announcement about the appointment of Dr. Kyle Walsh as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. It is hard for me to express how disappointed and saddened that I am with this turn of events. This has little to do with Dr. Walsh or his qualifications. Instead, my concerns are based on the damage that this appointment, with the complete lack of any reasonable process, does to the NIH and the ability of this agency. which matters so much to the American people. to recruit and retain the best people for the 13 institute and center director positions that are now vacant.

Happy "No Kings" Day!

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.

On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org

Shutdown Resources 2025 Federal Government Shutdown As of 12 AM ET on October 1, 2025, the federal government has shut down due to lack of an agreement for funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. Some federal services and fu...

👇NAMI is maintaining a list government health services impacted by the shutdown.

The NAMI HelpLine is available M-F, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ET. Call 800-950-6264, text “NAMI” to 62640, or email helpline@nami.org. If you are in a crisis, call or text 988 or chat online at 988Lifeline.org.

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

Alarming report on FDA political interference. Scientists are being asked to find data supporting predetermined conclusions on autism treatments, vaccines, SSRIs - the opposite of how science works.

We need evidence-based regulation, not regulation-based evidence.
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History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

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More than 2.5 million North Carolina residents are getting over $6.5 billion in medical debt eliminated through a state government effort that offered hospitals extra Medicaid funds from Washington if they gave low- and middle-income patients the financial relief.

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.

Powerful story from Olivia Lutz about the cutting of F31 diversity fellowships. NIH leadership is failing young scientists, so it's up to all of us to find ways to support them.

More of what has been lost and will be lost if the admin and supporters abandon America's commitment to science, research, and discovery.

"You’re destroying something with these draconian cuts that took years to build,” [Dr. Erbelding] said. “It can’t be rebuilt as fast as it was taken down.”

America’s brain drain

No words

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Shutdown hostage taking Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment

Re-upping this piece on news that Vought is firing federal employees:
*Vought lying that shutdowns compel layoffs, never have before.
*Layoffs are a choice, the shutdown is an excuse.
*Comes on top of existing RIFs, will make restoring govt services harder post-shutdown.
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Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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