J. Andrew (Andy) McCammon

‘Miracle’ medicine, based in federally funded science, arrived just in time to save his life Millions of people are alive today because of leukemia therapies that arose from UC research, including retired Army Major Melvin Mann.

Science pays off big time for army vet
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/miracle...

Even a green card my not be enough...

The suspensions landed perhaps most heavily in math. NSF suspended a $25 million grant for the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), an international center at UCLA that hosts about 2000 visiting researchers every year for workshops and other programs. One of its stars, Terence Tao, a Fields Medal winner frequently named as one of the greatest living mathematicians, also had his only NSF grant suspended. The $750,000 award was in its first year and supported Tao’s own research and a handful of graduate students in developing tools to tell whether a set of numbers is structured or random. Tao says he now cannot offer research assistant opportunities during the academic year, and he calls the cuts to IPAM “quite disastrous.”

NSF and NIH cut off almost 300 grants to UCLA. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work “Our work has no relevance,” an astrobiologist whose research was cited in the administration’s climate change report said.

‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work www.notus.org/climate-envi...

Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows

New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...

14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

“Withholding or suspending these funds would jeopardize that trust and hinder progress on critical health challenges facing our nation. Ultimately, this is about finding cures and seeing them through to fruition.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Three fresh examples of the US government shutting down science [with gift links] 🧪 🧵 1/4

YouTube video by Biochemistry Channel Beyond the Headlines: The Invisible Power of Academic Research in America

Link to a national webinar that brought together four Nobel Laureates, the Presidents of the NAS and NAE, and numerous distinguished scholars from across the country to discuss the rapidly deteriorating state of science and medicine in the US:
youtu.be/Tq5-vBrSDYc

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines Panelists pulled back some endorsements for certain vaccines containing a preservative that critics have falsely linked to autism.

“As a physician and scientist who has devoted my entire career to vaccines and preventing and treating infections, this meeting has been devastating to watch.” ACIP votes to stop recommending some vaccines, even though they're safe and effective. nyti.ms/3ZT1pxg

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...

AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.

American Academy of Pediatrics "will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust." publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

A large face-on galaxy in a cosmic tapestry of glittering galaxy jewels. The galaxy nearly looks like a ring surrounding a bright core. A few bright stars pepper the scene, and the background is filled with the smudges of distant galaxies of various colors against the black of space.

Holyyyyyy....I am a tired exhausted puddle on the floor. What a day for @vrubinobs.bsky.social! This observatory is incredible.

Highly, HIGHLY recommend joyscolling around Rubin's Skyviewer. I quite like this galaxy - which is your favorite? 🔭🧪

skyviewer.app

NIH froze funding for clinical trials at a major university. By fall, they’ll run out of funding | CNN Northwestern University hasn’t received any funding from the NIH since the end of March. Not only could patients potentially stop receiving treatments that trials provided, the research itself could b...

"It’s hard to understand why the administration is pausing funding for medical research and clinical trials if its goal is to counter antisemitism." @megtirrell.bsky.social looks at how Northwestern's trials for heart disease and other diseases are collapsing. www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h...

How Trump’s assault on science is blinding America to climate change Through budget cuts and layoffs, the administration has begun to cripple the government's ability to research global warming.

Trump claims climate change is a “hoax.” Now, his administration is silencing government research that proves him wrong. Climate-monitoring spacecraft will be shut down, thousands of scientists have been dismissed, invaluable data eliminated. The assault has just begun www.eenews.net/articles/how...

According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%.

At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year. 

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer

Here's a piece I wrote for @newscientist.com about how tuberculosis became airborne--and thus one of our worst enemies. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

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I can’t un-see the images of tiny children & others in Gaza being starved to death by Israel & the USA. What does it feel like to starve? How does the world watch this without taking strong, strong steps to stop it?

No, you are NOT doing this is my name. There’s nothing Jewish about genocide.

Just finished reading Carl Zimmer’s new book, “Air-Borne”. It’s a fascinating look at the surprisingly nonlinear history of theories of disease transmission, and the often-colorful characters involved. Highly recommended!

CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say Under Trump, the CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut.

CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

"There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Are you a graduate student in a climate-related field whose research/work/livelihood has been or may be impacted by Trump admin cuts? The @thebulletin.org has a reporter working on a story about this and would love to hear from you. Email me jmckenzie@thebulletin.org and I can put you in touch.

Michael O’Brien MD-I’m sure this has already been said, but throwing yourself a $92 million military parade while cutting healthcare resources for veterans has to be a golden ticket straight to the darkest depths of hell, right?

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Will America be “flying blind” on bird flu? A key wastewater-tracking program may soon end Wastewater disease surveillance has become central to public health officials’ ability to track the H5N1 bird flu that's now spread from wild birds, to poultry, to cattle, and, worryingly, to other ma...

Will America be "flying blind" on bird flu? A key wastewater-tracking program may soon end.

Read the full story from @mattyfield.bsky.social, who spoke to @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social about wastewater surveillance.

Tens of millions of Americans are on the brink of losing healthcare TO PAY FOR MASSIVE TAX CUTS FOR THE ULTRA WEALTHY.

Take a minute to be enlightened on the GOP spin headed your way. Rep Greg Landsman is on the Energy & Commerce Comm responsible for these cuts.

Hands off our Medicaid!
#Momsky