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Truly honored to have this opportunity to serve my specialty society, @aaaaiorg.bsky.social! In this time of immense changes in healthcare, our roles as allergists and immunologists are
critically important for advancing the health of the nation.

Intriguing exploration of role #eosinophils and adipose tissue/angiogenesis by @katequinlan.bsky.social at

#IES2025 #Montpelier

💜 Our team is at the International Eosinophil Society #ies2025 Congress in Montpellier!

🗣️Proud to represent the patient voice It’s an incredible chance to learn the latest from top experts and connect with attendees from 26 countries.

#PatientVoice #EosinophilicDiseases

I’m sorry, what?

NIH Staff Have Broken Their Silence Civil servants usually keep a low profile. These NIH employees are putting themselves at risk by calling out the Trump administration.

My piece for @thenation.com on the bravery of NIH employees who are standing up to those that would destroy the institution, including the NIH director himself. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again?

stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment

We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!

I can imagine all the really good things this technology will be used for…

Grants that fund asthma or rare chronic diseases are part of population health. When we study rare diseases there are discoveries of mechanisms that translate into therapies. Also without folks doing the research it only gets slower.

Honestly it doesn’t really matter. We should be providing healthcare to those who need it most and implementing or translating the discoveries.

I don’t buy the notion that we’re fixing chronic disease because at every turn there are cuts that impact the environment and medical care

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

I gotta say @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of the best writers I’ve come across in recent times. The writing is both beautiful and crushing at the same time. Can’t wait to read this one.

Now available for preorders! My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC," comes out October 1 via @georgetownup.bsky.social. A 100k word history of the D.C. punk zine community with 130+ full color images.

press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Yo...

My sincere thanks to Jeanne Marrazzo for her service as NIAID director. She delivered the Merigan lecture last year & then kindly met w/our trainees & faculty, listening openly to ideas & suggestions for how to make NIAID stronger. A brilliant yet humble physician-scientist. This is such a loss

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Science is an ecosystem, it’s all interconnected. It’s only a matter of time before labs and groups across the country are forced to pull back/close, PhD programs aren’t accepting apps, college grads can’t do internships. We will lose the next generation of physicians and scientists.

I guess we’re aiming for blissful ignorance. Good luck to the kids.

Feels like late night QVC?

“Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.”

These are high-performing labs — absolutely senseless destruction

Deep thanks to our many collaborators and all research participants. #immunology #science 🧪 @science.org @sarahhross.bsky.social

NIH funding was the lifeblood of this work, as it is for almost all biomedical discoveries and therapies in the U.S. @niaidnews.bsky.social

FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology Layoffs at the FDA appear to have hit the AI and digital health staff particularly hard. It also has a strained relationship with Musk’s company Neuralink.

Firings at FDA over the weekend taking out A.I. staff
www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f... Note the subtitle.

A shining example....there are 1,000s of these fundamental science discoveries that NIH supports to promote human health