Julienne Rutherford, professional placentrix

Pritzker’s health department in Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers in response to the mess in Washington, a senior Illinois health official confirms to me.

Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.

🌻as a healthcare worker overseas looking in on what’s happening to your health care system especially with regards to the CDC is horrifying.RFK jnr’s trying to kill you with his ludicrous claims & beliefs -funny how so many who grew up with the protection of vaccines now think they know better🤨

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.

This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.

This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Ok that made me laugh

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

Hard-working civil servants are losing their jobs because Trump is intent on destroying the government. You know people who voted for this. Don't let them forget that ordinary people are suffering because of their vote.

Royal Society urged to expel Elon Musk as fellows sign open letter More than 1,700 academics complain about X owner’s behaviour, citing his ‘assault on scientific research’

"Pressure growing on the Royal Society to expel Musk after more >1000 scientists sign open letter" www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Never ever and those who claimed it was, should be, or could be if we just quieted down are learning a tough lesson now.

Are you affected by firings at federal health agencies? Have you been affected by firings at federal health agencies? @statnews would like to hear from you.

If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

'We Will Not Surrender': How to Stand Up to Trump Administration Attacks on LGBTQ+ Health Research - Ms. Magazine 'We Will Not Surrender': How to Stand Up to Trump Administration's Attacks on LGBTQ+ Public Health Research

My bestie Wendy Bostwick wrote this searing Op Ed about the assault on LGBTQ research and healthcare.

msmagazine.com/2025/02/14/w...

Ohio announces human H5N1 avian flu case, state’s first

The United States has recorded 68 human cases of avian flu since 2024.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions.

Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.

An irony of the push to lower overhead rates on grants to reduce waste / fraud is that a significant amount of overhead goes to “grant compliance” because of a Bush II focus on grant oversight. Every university has a huge office filled with staff ensuring no grant dollar goes where it’s not allowed.

I have a confession
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I was an “overhead cost”.

I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.

Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.

Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

This is the plan. Any Senator who votes for this man should lose his or her job.

It all adds up! Ours went kaput around Labor Day and I still haven’t gotten around to replacing it. Maybe I’ll take advantage of a Presidents’ Weekend sale.

Excited to share this preprint of our work identifying placental biomarkers associated with postpartum hemorrhage both with and without preeclampsia, posted on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social on my birthday, 12/31/2024 and coming soon to peer review near you!