Science Homecoming

🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly

We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!

RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed?

Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!

Published authors by career stage: Pre-doc 42%, Post-doc 18%, Faculty 39%

Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here:

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Researchers: Pennsylvania out nearly $40 million in NIH scientific grants after federal cuts • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Around 112 scientific grants in Pennsylvania from the National Institutes of Health have been impacted by cuts or freezes instituted by the Trump administration, according to a group of researchers an...

Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠

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Scientists studying how to improve human life

“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠

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ScienceSavedMe Testimonials - YouTube

Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare

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For his hometown in Montana, Nick Weber, PhD reminds his hometown that science once cured “black measles” and Rocky Mountain spotted fever—proof that investment in research saves lives, then and now. 🧪🏠

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.

How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health The mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is based on a striking alignment of some of their views.

The two exchanges crystallized the mutually beneficial nature of the relationship between the two men, an alliance driven by political calculation and a striking alignment of some of their views. Their ties have empowered Mr. Kennedy to push the boundaries of public health and science with the support of the president, who in turn benefits from Mr. Kennedy’s coalition of followers opposed to vaccines and health mandates.

You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com.

“Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

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Pie chart — Biology 30%, Neuro 23%, Medicine 12%, Environmental Science 13%…

Where the Science Homecoming authors are from…so far 🧪🏠

Scientists looking for signs of cancer in MRI images

Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
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Scientists looking for signs of cancer in MRI images

Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

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One reason scientists should WRITE ✍🏻 to small towns and suburbs is that people FORGOT what all science does for them. Interview with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

As see in the few examples in this thread, the #SCIMaP team has released an interactive bluesky bot. You can ask for scorecards in a variety of ways:

Just send a zip (98105)

or

state (South Carolina)

or

district (MD-04)

A clear message about the value of science for Pennsylvania 🧪🏠

Find me in Colorado Medicine talking about the importance of ALL of us standing up for science and innovation!

Read here 👉 issuu.com/colomedsoc/d...

Big thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, @thebalelab.bsky.social and Dr. Steven Lowenstein!

Important work by @asinclair.bsky.social‬ and colleagues showing that communicating the impact of NIH cuts markedly changes beliefs across the political spectrum.
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Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.

It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.

We must speak up now.
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Protect research, SC corruption | Letters Letters to the editor: Protect federal funding for scientific research, corruption in South Carolina government.

Neuroscientist Chris Camp writes home to Charleston, SC: “World-changing scientific discoveries are the products of decades of risky research.” From SC to Yale, his career was built by public science funding, now threatened by cuts.
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Biologist John Benning writes home to North Carolina: “The fruits of science are so widespread, they sometimes escape notice.” Decades of taxpayer-funded research made miracle gene therapies possible, saving countless children’s lives. 🧪🏠

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Cell biologist Steve DiNardo writes to The Swarthmorean in Pennsylvania to honor Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock, and warn of the dangerous cost of “forfeiting prospective knowledge” by cutting science funding 🧪🏠
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Math professor Johanna Franklin writes home to Waterloo, IL, where a 4th grade teacher sparked her math career. Cutting the NSF, “means not only fewer scientists and less scientific progress in general, but also fewer chances for anyone but the rich to do science.” 🧪 🏠
@johannamath.bsky.social

C-I graduate learns value of federal funding for research Jim Magnuson has come a long way from his days as a student at Cambridge-Isanti High School.

To read more about Jim’s @jimmagnuson.bsky.social journey from a Minnesota farm visit:
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Frontline nurses Teri Mills and Donna Gaffney write to Oregon: OHSU is Portland’s largest employer. NIH funding brought $388M to Oregon, thousands of jobs and better healthcare care that extended Oregonians’ lives. 🧪🏠
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CHEN: I am standing up for science because science saves lives - Sentinel Colorado 'Funding scientific and medical research is a nonpartisan issue. We all benefit from its progress, and we all suffer if it stalls'

Neuroscientist Michelle Chen writes home to Colorado: Inspired by the loss of a Broncos legend and the support of her public school teachers, she’s training to become a doctor-scientist to fight brain disorders and help serve her community. 🧪🏠

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