Mallory Harris, PhD

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A New Thread on NIH Forward Funding

I recently posted an analysis of forward funding of NIH grants from 2015-25.

This analysis was flawed and should be ignored. I apologize for the misleading information

I present an analysis of my error and a revised analysis which I am confident is right.

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The director's recent projects include an uncritical documentary profiling Alex Jones & a film about libertarianism featuring the guy who published the ghost gun template. It's being produced by RFK Jr's running mate, Nicole Shanahan.

An image of the outline on a blue background of people with signs holding a rally and the text “Rally for the Public’s Health, Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 2:30-4 p.m. on the National Mall” and the url “APHA.org/Rally” and the APHA logo.

Join APHA & our partners Nov. 5 @ 2:30-4 p.m. ET on the National Mall to Rally for the Public’s Health. Be inspired & energized by powerful stories & bold ideas as we highlight urgent public health priorities. More info: www.APHA.org/Rally #SpeakForHealth @bradyunited.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social

He once bragged on an internal Brownstone email thread about getting his son's high school class hooked on cigarettes

My personal faves are "reparations for the business victims of the lockdown" and "let the children work!"

The Love That Never Shuts Up - LewRockwell David Tuller writing for Salon Magazine, the left-liberal bellweather, reports that "Virtually every gay person I know is distraught at the rise of the Bush-Cheney presidency and the passing of the ga...

24 yrs after he advocating for it, Tucker is finally getting his wish for HIV/AIDS research to be slashed! Tucker, whose org honored NIH Dir Bhattacharya, also wrote that the best system wld be "no public funding for medical research" cc @taghivscience.bsky.social
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NIH Director Accepts Award From Anti-Vax Dark Money Group Founded By Accused Sexual Harasser Jay Bhattacharya reunited with his old ally Jeffrey Tucker weeks after the political operative was revealed to have faced a sexual harassment scandal.

Over the weekend, the Director of the NIH accepted an award from a RFK Jr.-allied anti-public health dark money group founded by an accused serial sexual harasser.

Throughout the speech, he repeatedly joked that his current job is “terrible.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-direct...

Breaking: Democrats flip two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia, the first victories in 25 years.

From the Community | President Levin’s first order of business: abandoning academic freedom By standing with tenured faculty and powerful political operatives against contingent researchers and trainees at Stanford, President Jonathan Levin has already betrayed academic freedom, writes Mallo...

Tidmarsh has said he got the job in part due to his connections to FDA's Makary & Bhattacharya's NIH, which started when Tidmarsh funded a Covid summit at Stanford featuring them both. Tidmarsh moderated the panel I wrote about here
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F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment

Tidmarsh gave a different explanation to NYT (gift link). I wonder whether he'll go back to being Board Chair of the "Journal" of the "Academy of Public Health." He was Board Chair, his son was Exec Editor, and several other Trump appointees were involved www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/h...

Grudge Standard Science

Looks like the article has been updated. Basically we don't know whether they're going to actually try to do this and, if so, it would be illegal. OP argues odds of them getting away with it is low. But....
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Scoop: HHS email implies some NIH employees won't be paid during furlough after all. An HHS email sent on Wednesday conspicuously contrasted one sent when the federal government shutdown began.

Anyway insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-some...

Grok is this true

Always good for a govt official to jump to legal action against critics and bolster a tech oligarch's propaganda machine (which, by the way, seems to have just plagiarised large parts of the Wikipedia page while dropping the more critical bits)

He argued to SCOTUS that mods for a specific subreddit taking down a link to the Great Barrington Declaration was a 1A violation & suggests the Wikipedia community's writing is "libelous."

Tweet by Jay Bhattacharya from October 28th: I just read the current grokopedia article on the Great Barrington Declaration. It's balanced & almost entirely factually accurated (though it still has me as Stanford prof). Wikipedia, by contrast, is baised, bordering on libelous. Thank you @elonmusk.

There's something that could be written about how the NIH Director's disdain for the collaborative models of editing on Wikipedia and content moderation on Reddit fit with his approach to grant review

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

The NIH has insisted there are no banned words

But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25

Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next

www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.

That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Amidst a government shutdown in which the White House has proposed slashing federal support of science by billions of dollars, our #SCIMaP team continues to assess the impact of research cuts on communities nationwide.

Learn more about our efforts: scienceimpacts.org

With more to come...

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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

Amidst the shutdown, we are continuing to work towards both reactive and proactive steps to communicate what will be lost now and in the future if America steps away from its commitment to medical and basic research.

scienceimpacts.org

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Cancelled & Frozen NIH Grants

The #SCIMaP project has included these terminations as part of our analysis flow, again linking the site of grant terminations to local economic impacts. The scope of grant terminations remain a surprise to many, both to those who oppose and to those who support them.

AMA president deflects criticism of organization’s restrained approach to the Trump administration The American Medical Association president defended the physician group's restrained advocacy strategy toward the Trump administration

Meanwhile.... www.statnews.com/2025/10/16/a...

This was one of the key moments for me from the #STATSummit last week.

Extreme precipitation, exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, drove Peru’s record-breaking 2023 dengue outbreak Anthropogenic forcing is increasing the likelihood and severity of certain extreme weather events, which may catalyze outbreaks of climate-sensitive infectious diseases. Extreme precipitation events c...

Climate attribution was led by Jared Trok & Noah Diffenbaugh (we then estimate contribution of Cyclone Yaku to dengue epidemic). The key to climate comms is highlighting impacts to varied audiences from angles they care about - great work @ncronline.bsky.social!

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

'A pope in muddy boots': Viral photos of Leo XIV reveal a history of pastoral care Photos of "a pope in muddy boots" began circulating on social media shortly after Cardinal Robert Prevost was introduced as Pope Leo XIV. The story behind the images tells of a pastor in close kinship...

Very cool/unexpected coverage of our work...article in the National Catholic Reporter about Pope Leo's contribution to relief efforts after Cyclone Yaku cites our pre-print, mentions extreme March precipitation in NW Peru has become more likely with climate change

www.ncronline.org/news/pope-mu...

I will be presenting on this project as part of the #IDWeek session on environmental upheaval and infectious diseases at 3:15 today.

Changes At COVID Conspiracy Nonprofit Follow Important Context Report The Brownstone Institute appears to have parted ways with one of its fellows after a report by Important Context highlighted public calls for violence.

The group also made Paul Alexander a Fellow despite his calls for hangings of public health officials

www.importantcontext.news/p/story-deve...