Margaret A. McNulty

Reposting with all the tags… #anated #meded #vetmed #anatomy #dissection #infectiousdisease #riskmanagement #cadaver

Infection Risk From Humans and Animals in the Anatomy Laboratory: A Scoping Review Whole-body dissection is a cornerstone of anatomy education. During and following the COVID-19 pandemic, exposure to infectious agents and other risks of dissection were highlighted. To identify pote...

I’m so proud of this scoping review article, as I feel it is desperately needed within our field. There are many misconceptions about the infection risk in cadavers, and this article provides hopefully one-stop shopping on the risks and mitigation factors to reduce those risks.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Summary of key examples of answers to 5W1H for preclinical tendon and ligament model selection. 5W1H, why, who, what, where, when, and how.

Like us, horses can injure their tendons and ligaments & often don't recover full tendon or ligament strength. Diane Little, et al. explore preclinical tendon & ligament animal models for developing better treatment: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ORSxDerby #ORSSMC @jorthopres.bsky.social

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

Update on this one!!! They reversed this decision today

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The Indiana General Assembly just passed HB 1515 and at the last minute slipped in a provision that all allied health professional schools must be on an A-F or similar merit system

93% of medical schools have left the A-F system because it does not improve learning

This is really really bad

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

This might be a bit of a hot take, but can organizations that write press releases for new studies please include a link for the actual paper.

Scientists love to read the original articles and sometimes it can be frustrating in tracking them down.

🌎🧪🦇🐦🦋🐟

Horses, donkeys and zebras have adaptations that break normal genomic rules A genetic mutation in horses that would typically halt protein production has become a molecular asset. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Vanderbilt University have identified a rare instanc...

2025. Horses, donkeys and zebras have adaptations that break normal genomic rules phys.org/news/2025-03...

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).

Thank you, Senator.

The threat is so big that even Red-state GOP politicians are starting to crack.

IN Sen Young wrote in WaPo that "basic research isn’t a federal handout to help sustain academia.... it is a vital ingredient in our innovation future, economic and geopolitical competitiveness, and national security."

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

The majority of farmers supported the firing of scientists. That included scientists from the CDC and veterinarians. This is the trickle down. This is why people who do not have degrees in a field shouldn’t be in charge of anything. It is dangerous.

Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump (Gift Article) Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

Yale can 💯 afford to defend academic freedom, and its educational and research mission www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

If anyone in Indiana’s 5th Congressional district has the time, please attend this town hall and ask Rep. Spartz why she supports the NIH cuts to IU… her district is chock full of IU employees who will be negatively affected! I desperately wish I could attend but will be in Portland for a meeting 😫

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Spring is springing so here’s your regular reminder LILIES WILL KILL YOUR CAT. Even the tiniest sniff of pollen or licking a tiny bit of it off of their coat can cause kidney failure *quickly*. If you have cats you should keep lilies out of your house.

Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding Physicists had long assumed that the elusive force has constant strength. But the latest results from a project to map the Universe’s expansion challenge this idea.

Fresh data have bolstered the discovery that dark energy, the mysterious force that makes galaxies accelerate away from each other, has weakened over the past 4.5 billion years.

https://go.nature.com/4hmYWB6

Super-important point — HHS/NIH pay to train doctors. It’s not just research funding.

The funding for residency programs is also being weaponized by Trump and Musk. Trump and Musk want your kid to not have a doctor.

Opinion | The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.

Strong column from @nytimes.com editorial board. “The people who are attacking higher education are talking nonstop,” said Holden Thorp. “And the people leading higher education are not saying very much.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

Lol thanks! It’s Halloween makeup so just like coloring with crayons 🖍️ 😆

Public health is under attack in America.
Maternal and child health is under attack in America.
Health research is under attack in America.

Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.

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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.

Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

I was unable to attend the Indy @standupforscience.bsky.social march today because I had already committed to a horse show in Ohio with my daughter. But my beloved Oliver 🦄 still helped me resist in our own way. #standupforscience (spoiler alert: we even won our class 💪🏻)

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”….

🧪 #AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Herding cats: It’s past time to include pets in disease surveillance These veterinarians, flu scientists, and biosecurity experts are watching with growing concern the rise in H5N1 avian influenza in cats.

Herding cats: It’s past time to include pets in disease surveillance www.statnews.com/2025/03/04/h... via @statnews.com

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

I've been noodling a lot lately on academic freedom and the ability of faculty members to speak as individual faculty members

I get the impression that many are self-muzzling due for self-preservation purposes

This is a quick 🧵 on speaking out as an academic faculty member

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