Rachel Bainbridge, PhD

Screen shot of a Just The News article saying: “National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, meanwhile, is fending off a mutiny by nearly 500 self-identified staff — some perhaps laid off in reduction-in-force plans — based in part on an alleged "list of banned words" in grants recommended for funding, especially those related to diversity, equity and inclusion. "This one is really frustrating," Bhattacharya told Just the News. He informed representatives of the "Bethesda Declaration," named after NIH's Maryland home base, at their July 21 meeting that "I ordered there be no banned list" to his staff months ago, but some program officers "took it upon themselves" to create ad hoc, unofficial lists. “

Wow! So Bhattacharya is now saying in right leaning rags that it’s been rogue program officers that created banned words lists at NIH. 🤣

What a sad, small person he is!

“Program officers ‘took it upon themselves’ to create ad hoc, unofficial lists…”

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.

🧵Over 6,000 doctors, nurses, researchers, and others released an open letter of warning against the administration’s destruction of public health, research, and Medicaid programs. “We are certain this will cost lives.”

This is the energy we need right now. Refuse to be silent. Lives depend on it.

E&C Dem Leaders: Any Attempt to Retaliate Against NIH Whistleblowers is Illegal | Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

More support for the NIH #BethesdaDeclaration heroes from the Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/media/press-...

If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.

4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.

The total funded was 99!

Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.

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I signed because I believe science is for everyone. Check out this thread to read the Bethesda Declaration and sign to support the life-saving science supported by the NIH.

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is a critical victory for trans rights.

CDC plans to waste time and taxpayers’ money chasing windmills in the midst of one raging epidemic (and on the precipice of several others) that would not have existed except for people who claimed fraudulently there was such a link in the first place (which there isn’t)

Bit longer headline but…

Morality is a muscle. If you use it when you have nothing to lose, it will sustain you when you are about to lose everything.

let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a *terrible* bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Also, ICE requires a judicial warrant, not an administrative warrant. Know the differences.

(image from facebook, of all fucking places)

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

How the fuck. This is the longest month of all time. It's insane. January 2nd is like.... 6 months ago. How the absolute fuck

Ibuprofen isn’t enough I need to become an invertebrate