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I wonder if there is any recent, similar study for the US.

”Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature.
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We use the #SugarPixel. That thing is brilliant. It’s not just the look, but the random beep generator as an alert really does work and wake you up despite “beep fatigue”. I couldn’t recommend it enough.

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"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct"

This should terrify every single scientist in America.

HbA1c can be misleading even without that: I’ve seen some people trying to remain borderline hypoglycemic as often as they could to compensate from the highs they were experiencing and keep the HbA1c at bay. For people with CGMs nowadays, GMI sounds like a much better alternative to me.

Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs? Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.

The perils of HbA1c for diabetes detection www.wired.com/story/diabet...

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Today’s xkcd cartoon…
xkcd.com/3081

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NIH Grant termination in 2025 since the new administration took office. You can sort by title, institution, etc.
airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...

Just pushed an update to Healthicons.org with great new icons from our volunteer illustrators. New icons include:
- Dry eyes
- Autoimmune disease
- CPAP
- Social determinants of health
- Tumor
- Cell tissue
- FHIR2
- IV drip
and lots more!

WashU is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowship in Diabetes & Related Metabolic Diseases (T32 DK007120). If you are eligible for T32 support (need to be a US citizen or permanent resident) and are interested in working with stem cell-derived islets, please contact me!

Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.

Interesting article on the US Administration campaign against Universities in the NYT today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Je suis chercheur aux États-Unis, et c’est exactement la situation dans laquelle on se trouve. Pas de quoi en rire ou le prendre à la légère. L’ensemble du domaine biomédical (et la recherche dans bien d’autres domaines aussi) est menacé et en suspens. C’est dramatique.

Ce qu’on voit aux Etats-Unis, c’est l’installation d’un régime autour de la crainte, de la terreur qui me fait penser aux débuts de Vladimir Poutine.

@franceinfo.fr

China’s Biotech Advances Threaten U.S. Dominance, Warns Congressional Report Congress should invest at least $15 billion to support biotech research over the next five years and take other steps to bolster manufacturing in the U.S., the report said.

www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...

“The total includ[es] $5 billion to pay for biotech research that industry was unlikely to pursue on its own.”

As anyone in biotech or pharma will tell you, their talent, targets, and drugs critically depend on NIH funded basic, translational, and clinical research.

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

Columbia
Penn
Harvard
Princeton
Brown
and now Cornell and Northwestern

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔

Trump team removes senior NIH chiefs in shock move Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 04 April 2025

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

You also have to factor in the people who get news on X, Facebook ro Instagram. It’s scary…

You can add to the list: The iOS G7 app crashes in the background on a regular basis. The phone doesn’t display values, and doesn’t relay them to the Dexcom servers, so caretakers loose numbers through Follow. Dexcom support has been less than helpful and didn’t even ask to see the crash logs…

26% des chercheurs français aux Etats-Unis remettent en cause leur expatriation.

Mon passage sur @franceinter.fr : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone.

Here it is in the US press (and in English): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...

#StandUpForScience Article in French. A French scientist going to a meeting in Houston was denied entry and kicked back to France because *on his phone*, he had exchanged messages with colleagues criticizing the actions of the Trump administration on Research:
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.

@elaineywchen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪

Add to it that there are a bunch of “revisions” out there, with no information for the users as to what has changed between versions. Most of the ones we got are Rev 5 and 6 (when I know they have at least up to 13 now).

The trasnition to th G7 has NOT been smooth for users. Adherence issues, values all over the place for the first day or so, sensor errors right and left… And on top of it all, the app freezes, stops beeping and fails to communicate to the Dexcom server (so Follow gets nothing). Not fun!!!

Shipments out. Supporting 20 research projects across Canada, North America, Europe and Asia. We have room for more. Give us a shout if you need islets, pancreas, intestine, adipose…. for research. https://www.bcell.org/faqs.html

With the >2 yo purge mailboxes here experienced, I’m surprised you still managed to get to 98% full… (unless you asked ofr an extension, in which case, IT will soon take care of the problem for you :->