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It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

Credible inferences in microbiome research: ensuring rigour, reproducibility and relevance in the era of AI - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool that could be applied to microbiome research. This Perspective discusses best practices and current limitations with the application of AI in microbiome...

Credible inferences in microbiome research: ensuring rigour, reproducibility and relevance in the era of AI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

We think so! More validation is needed across contexts. Looking forward to seeing how other researchers use this approach.

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“The employees who have resigned amount to about 6.7 percent of the government’s civilian workforce of 2.3 million people.”

What I’ve see in the lit: pills that deliver to the small bowel seem less effective. Haven’t heard of enteric coated butyrate pills, but maybe it’s been tried. Fibers with conjugated butyrate have also shown bp benefits

Effect of Acute Gut Butyrate Delivery on Blood Pressure in Black Individuals With Hypertension: A Proof‐of‐Concept Randomized Controlled Study | Journal of the American Heart Association

Butyrate enimas lower blood pressure in a human trial: “Effect of Acute Gut Butyrate Delivery on Blood Pressure in Black Individuals With Hypertension: A Proof‐of‐Concept Randomized Controlled Study” www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

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Jay Bhattacharya once studied health disparities. As NIH director, he’s allowed such research to wither Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

Incredibly well reported deep dive on NIH and health disparities research in STAT. 🧵

www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n...

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Gibbons lab picnic. Summer, 2025.

Lab picnic in Cal Anderson Park this week.

Peak Seattle summer 🌞

Man, they’re really going to wheel out Maxwell and have her perjure herself in exchange for being released early. Show-trial level shit.

This is outrageous 💔😡 -- PBS and NPR forever ✊

Laws matter. jamanetwork-com.laneproxy.stanford.edu/journals/jam...

If you're a UCLA researcher (PI, grad student, etc) with an NSF, NIH or other suddenly suspended grant, please email or DM me.

I'm trying to confirm what the suspension letters say and how extensive the NIH suspensions are.

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Accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool!

when i was younger conservatives used to call stuff like this an “entitlement” or “victim” mentality. the response, if this were a nonwhite person, would be “suck it up a d work harder.”

BOEM Rescinds All Offshore Wind Energy Areas in Major Policy Reversal The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced yesterday it has rescinded all designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, effectively ending the federal designatio...

RIP US offshore wind. US Bureau of Offshore Energy Management rescinds ALL areas designated for offshore wind energy development in federal waters.
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No idea what he’s talking about.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

Multi-omics analysis highlights the link of aging-related cognitive decline with systemic inflammation and alterations of tissue-maintenance Aging-related cognitive decline is associated with changes across different tissues and the gut microbiome, including dysfunction of the gut-brain axis. However, only few studies have linked multi-org...

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🧠 Excited to share our new preprint on molecular drivers of cognitive function in aging mice!
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📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

They ended cancer research for this.

MEDI gives total food reads. But individual foods are relative abundances. We can show good predictions for total energy and protein intake.

Really cool work, congrats Gechlang, Sean, and team! 👏🏽

🙏 -- good point! shoot, we should have included those data in our analysis 😅

A Simpler, Smarter Way to Measure Gut Bacterial Biomass ISB has developed a fast, affordable gut bacterial biomass measurement from stool data, advancing microbiome research and health insights.

For a pop-sci digest of this work, check out the @isbscience.org news story here: isbscience.org/news/health/...

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Senator Murray Opening Remarks at Full Committee Mark Up of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Public pressure works. The Senate proposed FY26 funding for the NIH that is being voted on today includes a $400 million increase. Keep up the great work everyone, call your house representatives and make sure this passes through the full Senate.