Karen Fowler

1/3⚛️WELCOME TO SCIENCE & HEALTH MONDAYS⚛️
👩‍⚕️We will be giving you short, vetted, science-based content every Monday
🤔Most people do not realize it, approximately one in 1,000 children in the US develop chronic arthritis (>6 weeks).
😟Arthritis (inflammation of a joint or joints) can occur at any age

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

'We've got to do something:' Thousands attend 'No Kings' protests in Alabama | Alabama Reflector Thousands of Alabamians participated in the protests against President Donald Trump, part of national demonstrations that drew millions.

Thousands of people attended 'No Kings' demonstrations on Saturday in protest of the policies of President Donald Trump. Participants criticized everything from Trump's consolidation of power to his immigration policies to congressional apathy toward him. Here are reports from four protests.

So no terrorism then?

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

#NoKings Birmingham, AL

Plain language summary about misconceptions about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

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If you wanna check in on the nation's cancer researchers, we're doin' bad. Real bad. No single post/article fully captures the depth and breadth of it.
We may be the first to feel this, but every single person in the country will feel it eventually.
Cancer. Does. Not. Discriminate.

Not sorry for them. Take off the masks and quit acting like criminal thugs. There are other jobs.

In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.

🧪Silence is not an option. Scientistic societies and leaders MUST stand up & speak out against the ongoing unprecedented attack on science in the US #resist www.nature.com/articles/d41...

PIDS has issued a statement on the recently released federal guidance regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and its application in children.
pids.org/2025/06/05/p...

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

Brain Chats is every first Saturday at 11 AM at Avondale Library. June 7, Dr. Andrew Hardaway will discuss "GLP-1 Medicines: Myths, Truths, and a Tale of Basic Science." Don't miss this opportunity to discuss the fascinating science behind new weight loss drugs with @andrewhardaway.bsky.social

SA universities face funding crisis as US federal agencies freeze research grants | News24 An investigation into the impact of the US aid freeze on research funding to South African universities has found that 44 programmes worth R2.5 billion were affected.

A not very happy Friday. CERI had 6 NIH grants canceled, which will impact operations, surveillance and response to epidemics. We are working to try to minimize disturbance but not easy with 6 grants terminated at the same moment. A crisis is unfolding in SA www.news24.com/southafrica/...

On consecutive Mondays, the presidential administration welcomed white Afrikaners as refugees and began investigating Chicago's mayor for hiring too many African Americans.

This administration is aggressively pursuing an agenda of white supremacy and we'd be foolish to pretend otherwise.

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

I have spent many years studying congenital CMV, a leading cause of permanent hearing loss in children. With the loss of the EHDI programs, many of these children will be missed and not receive critical services to mitigate their hearing loss.
Our children deserve better
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Please read this.

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

Since DEI, racial justice, antiracism, and the like are getting outlawed at the federal level and in several states as well, it's time to get a refresher on some of these "illegal" terms and concepts.

The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.

The Trump administration has halted hundreds of NIH-funded research projects, including over 100 clinical trials. Experts warn this could jeopardize patient care and vital research on HIV, cancer, and mental health, particularly impacting LGBTQ health studies and eroding public trust in science.

BREAKING | A UA student was reportedly detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning. Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from Iran studying mechanical engineering, was reportedly arrested by ICE officers at around 5 a.m. at his home on Tuesday.

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graph showing publication of NIH funded publications, relative to other funders. China is catching up.

NIH spending more than pays for itself. It generates about $2.5 for every $1 spent. In terms of research productivity, NIH funding dwarfs the rest of the world. The only long-term potential rival is China. Politicizing the NIH's scientific processes will hand China a huge strategic advantage.

graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Last Friday, 1,000 more NIH biomedical research projects were defunded with no notice

Here’s a word cloud of canceled grants, based on their titles

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

I hope that folks in media know the scope of the bloodbath that is happening across the #NIH. They are literally cutting millions of $ focused on #HIV, improving human health across populations, & PREVENTING DISEASES. I can't go 1 hour without another colleague telling me their work was ended (1/3)

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

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