Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D.

It's crazy to me how the papers that get published today could easily have been 3 or 4 papers even a decade or two ago. The amount of information they are saturated with is intense.

i had a great conversation with this reporter and overall feel this is a really balanced piece exploring what might be going on with this shift to "first person or bust" that has taken over romance.

Anti-birth control ads have started popping into my feeds this week. And I can't help but laugh when I hear them promoting the same "natural family planning" methods that led my Catholic grandmother to get pregnant 12 times in 18 years.

The #TransitCat of the day wants you to know that every sidewalk bicyclist is a vote for protected bike lanes.*

*local conditions apply

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

I hope you will look at these data carefully and think about steps that you, now a leader at two of the agencies, could do to help. Sincerely, Jeremy M. Berg Director, NIGMS 2003-2011

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Their headline conclusion is that 67% of Americans have confidence in career scientists working at US federal health agencies whereas only 43% have confidence in their leaders. Furthermore, 62% of Americans trust NIH to be a source of trustworthy public health information now compared to 75% in February 2024 (after the COVID pandemic but before you became NIH Director).

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https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide-americans-more-confident-in-career-scientists-at-u-s-health-agencies-than-leaders/

A quick email before I head of to get ready for the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally.

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Divisive F.D.A. Vaccine Regulator Resigns

YES

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/h...

And, if you'd like to come sign the petition, we'll have people at the following locations tomorrow (Saturday):

Princeton (10am-5pm): in front of the Garden Theatre
Montgomery (11am-3pm): at Kasia Korean/Asian market

By the way, both of these are great places to visit in NJ12!

I worked in public health for a long time - in fact doing mass vaccination clinics - and between “we need to meet people where they’re at” and “look at these fucking idiots, we should shun them,” only the former will reach anyone. Public health is as much about harm reduction as anything.

Some days I want to do a masters in family and consumer science so that I can have a class where I teach kids how to budget and sew.

Kind of disappointed now that I know what Shield of America is...

would be cool if we had some sort of, i dunno, nimbler platform to more quickly create flu vaccines that match circulating strains, someone should look into that

Wrong answers only.

A new diaphragm.

Me: "man its annoying how sensitive cells are. I mean you can *swirl their dish* and activate ERK1/2 phosphorylation! The nerve!!"
Smarter scientists: "hold my coffee, I'm gonna see if we can use that as an antiviral therapeutic strategy!"

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Linkedin is becoming a weird place with all the career lifestyle influencers and AI slop.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

This is horrifically cruel. “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth, a local official in Chandler said Tuesday.” An excruciating and wholly preventable death. No words are adequate.

The most handsome dog you have ever seen is looking towards an intersection, surrounded by a bunch of orange construction barrels. In the distance are construction equipment, and men working.

it’s been 10 months since a driver hit my dog and I and this morning @mcdotnow.bsky.social is installing a crosswalk at that intersection. I am deeply grateful. that said, people shouldn’t have to beg Montgomery County for basic pedestrian amenities, and that needs to change.

We need candidates who fall firmly into “looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you” overlap.

I haven’t gone fully analog, because I don’t think it makes sense for the nature and goals of my public health courses. But I have introduced more in class writing/handwritten activities this semester, and I am seeing the benefits.

The official flag of Loudoun County, Virginia

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

This is great news.

If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.

Also worth noting: between 1999 and 2024, healthcare premiums have gone up by more than 300% in the US. (Premiums are what one pays just to have insurance each month.)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I think if you really want to be concerned about lower-income folks being funneled into the military-industrial complex, you should be yelling at your Congressional reps to set up a new Works Progress Administration instead of smol-beaning the All-Volunteer Force