This story is incredible
21.10.2025 13:02 β π 2543 π 483 π¬ 108 π 12@mom2phd.bsky.social
Mom, cancer researcher, biostatistician. Posts are my own, do not reflect my employer or position.
This story is incredible
21.10.2025 13:02 β π 2543 π 483 π¬ 108 π 12I was referring to him being βhotβ as in the trending lineup.
05.10.2025 18:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0β.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, heβs more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.β
@bloomberg.com 
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The only time this will ever be said (#1)
02.10.2025 12:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0NIH Study reveals no causal link between neurodevelopmental disorders and acetaminophen exposure. A Swedish study with more than 2.5M children also showed no causal affect. Acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy is not linked to the risk of developmental autism ADHD or intellectual disabilities.
22.09.2025 22:54 β π 19 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting that the right demands firing of individuals for their statements about one of their own, yet continue to freak out about those who were fired for their statements around topics they hold dear? Murder is never the answer.
15.09.2025 14:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No notes
09.09.2025 19:39 β π 10478 π 2708 π¬ 182 π 88Iβm trying to decide if I want to serve as a reviewer anymore, somehow we have to push back and I just feel helpless.
27.08.2025 15:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NEW: More than β20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. 
Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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28.06.2025 23:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, THIS part. Absolutely disgusting.
28.06.2025 14:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The pro life party continuesβ¦
27.06.2025 00:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As Robert Kuttner writes, the NIH will need support from Republican Senators to avoid draconian cuts to its FY2026 budget.
prospect.org/politics/202...
After the judge deemed the NIH grant terminations illegal, he noted that the governmentβs practices were discriminatory:
βThis represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against Americaβs LGBTQ community. β¦ I would be blind not to call it out.β
Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Five months in, the Trump administration is still ignoring court orders. HUD grant recipients say they havenβt received funds despite a federal judge ordering their release in May. 
We've compiled a list of the court orders that have been defied here:
life goals :)
20.06.2025 20:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0HHS has decided that DACA recipients are not worthy of health care. In approximately 60 days, they will lose access to ACA health insurance.
Yet another action of the Trump administration to throw families' health care under the bus in order to achieve their radical anti-immigrant agenda
418 anti-science actions since inauguration.
66 just this month. 
The Trump admin is trying to dismantle science in the US via executive orders, loyalty tests for scientists, rigged reports & MUCH more.
Find ways to fight back with action here: zurl.co/VGoKG 
zurl.co/GTS25 
#StandUpForScience
We're hearing reports that the Columbia grant freeze has been lifted! Columbia PIs, please reach out to your POs to confirm.
18.06.2025 15:11 β π 205 π 38 π¬ 4 π 1The rescission of the rescission has been rescinded. 
So I guess thatβs good? π€‘
Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.
10.06.2025 23:08 β π 173 π 46 π¬ 7 π 7My piece for @thenation.com on the bravery of NIH employees who are standing up to those that would destroy the institution, including the NIH director himself. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
12.06.2025 10:06 β π 387 π 140 π¬ 7 π 6Universities ARE healthcare 
βfirst time when all three missions of academic medicine β research, education and patient care β are threatened. The U.S. will probably face a physician shortage, stagnation in scientific progress +a decline in the quality of medical care."
www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
Testing the Boundaries of Presidential Powers in Health
Viewpoint: The second Trump administration has asserted unprecedented presidential control, leading to legal challenges and potential damage to crucial health programs. 
#MedSky
https://ja.ma/3T8zyp7
*new interns, residents, and fellows start on July 1
*~11,000 house staff in US hospitals are on J-1 visas
*these doctors are the backbone of rural & urban safety-net hospitals
*most of these doctors go into primary care after training, often in the same community
www.intealth.org/pdfs/J-1_US_...
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trumpβs Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging www.propublica.org/article/us-o...
28.05.2025 00:04 β π 2096 π 934 π¬ 86 π 89Weβre international students at Harvard. Weβre afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
28.05.2025 00:10 β π 690 π 197 π¬ 15 π 10That would be due to a threat from trump then. If they have any policy considered against his EOs, they threaten. Like Harvard currentlyβ¦
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