Sean J. Morrison

There were more lab members who started bowling but not everyone survived to the end. They’re so competitive 🙄.

Torikul won again!

Kennedy’s Comments On Novavax Delay Scientifically, Legally Inaccurate, Experts Say The HHS Secretary publicly acknowledged the unusual delay of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine licensure, but his justification was neither scientifically accurate nor legally justifiable, experts said.

Kennedy’s comments on the Novavax covid vaccine approval delay aren’t scientifically accurate and don’t conform with FDA law, experts said.

Giants in neuroscience and leaders for the entire time I’ve been in science (Yuh-Nung interviewed me for a postdoctoral fellowship in 1995).

Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council of the United States: tariffs were not introduced for Russia because it's in the middle of peace negotiations.

(By the way, Ukraine is subject to President Trump's tariffs).

A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80.

What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people.

Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one.

Wake up.

Peter Marks from the FDA resigns

"it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

#medsky 🛟😷🧪

America will be less healthy & less safe as a result of Peter Marks' forced resignation from FDA. He & FDA protected us from people who enrich themselves selling snake oil: unproven stem cell therapies, vaccine alternatives, other fake treatments. Thank you for all you did for public health Peter.

Kymmenen pistettä ja papukaijamerkki!

Why waste time briefing Elon Musk, when you could just share America's most sensitive military secrets with the Chinese government directly?

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

Another outstanding story of the real-world impact of the short-sighted cuts to NIH and other federal support for the best scientific research infrastructure in the world.

www.wsj.com/articles/bio...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Congratulations to Liming Du, now on the faculty @iShandong university, for discovering that increased interferon levels in aging bone marrow remodels the stromal microenvironment around arterioles and contributes to the decline in lymphopoiesis.

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (and what we stand to lose)
@nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Stand Up for Science Rally Sees Mix of Science, Politics and Anxiety Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts.

Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them. By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.

Scathing, and rightly so. www.thefp.com/p/trumps-cry...

House cuts to NIH (to fund billionaires) would cut the Cures Act (passed with bipartisan support) by ~$300 million or 70%. Scientific loss includes cancer research, adult stem cell research, brain/dementia research, and a critical data collection project to study rare diseases, among other topics.

Way to go Anna!!

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Measles outbreak in the U.S. continues to expand with 39 new cases in Texas (198 total) and 20 new cases in New Mexico (30 total)
h/t BNO News

This is the Attorney General, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. She goes on Fox News every day. Every single day. Spewing MAGA talking points. I wonder how MAGA would feel if the next AG under a Democratic president went on MSNBC every day & spewed partisan Dem stuff.

YouTube video by The Hub Canada In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's tariffs against Canada and America's place in the world

I opened by saying how much better it was when "decline of the American empire" was the title of a Quebec sex comedy rather than the foreign policy goal of the president of the United States www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aD...

At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract.

His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.

Apparently, program officers (POs) must evaluate each grant and confirm that it complies with the Exec Orders. The objectionable topics include workforce DEIA, gender identity, environ. justice, foreign sites, and Plans for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives)

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NIH has been intentionally holding up grants including non-competitive renewals.

This “pause” should be evident in Reporter data over the next week, but I posted about the beginning of it yesterday.

This is now ending because “NIH” has put a process in place to evaluate grants.

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Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.

Stopping cyber operations while the Russians aggressively pursue theirs is another unearned accommodation. Historically, Russia banks concessions and pushes harder. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...