Aaron Norris

What To Know About The MAHA Movement Q: Why are they obsessed with cooking with beef tallow? A: It’s easier than fighting for a functioning health care system.

What To Know About The MAHA Movement
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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

Great story that illustrates the importance and ultimate value of discovery science (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

So true. So well put.

The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation

What a quote from Bill Gates re Musk. "In the meantime, the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Here’s last night’s story about the impact RFK Jr. is having on public health, and why the rate of diabetes in China is *not* fifty percent. Can you hear us, Robert? Robert, listen to us: you have to stop acting like half of China has diabetes. It’s wrong, and also very weird! youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs

The yen strengthens against the US dollar in response to President Trump ramping up his criticism of the Fed chair for not reducing interest rates. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250422/p2g/00m/0bu/025000c

Estradiol protects against pain-facilitated fentanyl use via suppression of opioid-evoked dopamine activity in males Higginbotham et al. show that inflammatory pain increases opioid-evoked dopamine neuron activity to promote fentanyl use selectively in males. Ovarian hormones offer females protection, but estradiol’...

New work from the lab published at @cp-neuron.bsky.social. In this study we dissect the role of hormonal regulation in pain-induced enhanced opioid intake in males.
Work conducted by the super talented @jessinbotham

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

Stanford must oppose Jay Bhattacharya's appointment To protect the eminence of U.S. biomedical research and its own researchers, Stanford must oppose the nomination of Jay Bhattacharya to serve as Trump’s NIH director, Sanchez writes.

Written by a MD-PhD student who had worked with rhe incoming NIH director stanforddaily.com/2025/01/29/s...

Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶

I still don't think it's sunk in to many that after February 20th, there ain't no study sections.

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.

This is crazy!

This is outstanding. All academic scientists should be required to watch this.

Sign the Petition Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
"Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.

Bad news for science
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

a man in the distance walking up a snow field on a mountain towards the clouds

On the way to summit Quandry Peak 2023.12.23

Backpacks <<BACKPACK COMPARISON CHART>>

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This sounds really interesting.... Do these pts have the same psychomimetic effects of kor agonists or does mu disruption alter the kor functions due to remodeling?

fluorescence images of mouse locus coeruleus showing expression patterns

How the noradrenergic system in the brain helps reverse sedation caused by midazolam.
https://buff.ly/4iD1nkT

The top reasons for burnout show that it isn't an individual problem, it's a workplace one:

1. Unfair treatment at work
2. Unmanageable workload
3. Lack of role clarity
4. Lack of communication and support from their manager
5. Unreasonable time pressure

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report:

Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken No More General Anesthesia

A real, actual thing BCBS is doing youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

Congratulations🎉 He gave a great defense!

Chart of falling US unemployment rate after Britney Spears releases Work Bitch in 2013.

Obviously my favorite one

A simple action reduces high fat diet intake and obesity in mice Diets that are high in fat cause over-eating and weight gain in multiple species of animals, suggesting that high dietary fat is sufficient to cause obesity. However, high-fat diets are typically prov...

Modern food environments are driving obesity, but what is it about them that does this? Is it the content and types of food in modern diets? Or how easy it is to obtain low cost unhealthy food? We address these questions in mice in an updated pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Glutamatergic supramammillary nucleus neurons respond to threatening stressors and promote active coping Activation of a population of glutamatergic neurons in supramammillary nucleus enhances active coping behaviors in response to threats, offering new insights for therapeutic strategies against anxiety...

🧠 Our latest study - published in eLIfe, exploring the pivotal role of the supramammillary nucleus (SuM) in stress! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
We discovered neurons SuM play a crucial role in responding to stress and promoting active coping behaviors. @alexxai.bsky.social and Michael Bruchas