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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/09/2026

17 new public bathrooms. Across all five boroughs. Because you can’t wait — and you shouldn’t have to.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Daily Show should not be allowed to go dark for all these weeks during the summer. It should be a felony.

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Katy Patras @katypatras.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So excited to share our recent paper!Urogenital immune signatures are associated with birth outcomes after maternal urinary tract infection | Science Translational Medicine share.google/pW97VQQofxId...

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Urogenital immune signatures are associated with birth outcomes after maternal urinary tract infection

Immune responses to urinary tract infections distinguished preterm birth in mice and were linked to birth outcomes in a human pregnancy cohort.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Insights from inside NIH on the proposal to hide scores and instead bin applications into broad score categories. Please read and comment on the RFI. 27unihted.substack.com/p/nih-wants-... Link to RFI: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...

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NIH wants to shroud peer review scores. Here’s what you can do about it.

Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Please comment!

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 31/07/2026

It’s heartbreaking that we lose nearly 50,000 Americans annually to suicide. People in crisis need help — and fast. Our 9-8-8 hotline is bringing that help and it’s saving lives.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Do you ever wonder about the process for determining the size of year over year increases to any given salary structure? Who holds in their mind a need to increase (based on?) and thinks “but it should be less than inflation”? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/t...

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The academic culture of compensation

I may have told this story on this blog before but it bears repeating as the setup. There is a distinct culture of academics that both derides and takes pride in what we see as our low salaries. Th…

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 28/07/2026

Dear insurance companies, If you don’t cover super important medications, the patient more times than not will end up in the ER and then the hospital and I’m pretty sure those stays cost a lot more than the medication you wouldn’t pay for. Sincerely, Your biggest hater

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

9 lessons from Bethesda Declaration organizers on how to rescue US science: www.ovid.com/jnls/dartmou... 1. Scientists can no longer safely claim the privilege of being outside of, or above, politics 2. Inaction can be riskier than action. 3. Progress requires work. 4. Do not wait for someone else.

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Nine lessons from Bethesda Declaration organizers... : Dartmouth Journal of Healthcare Delivery Science

Abstract was not provided for this article.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Speaking of using your own words, don't forget that the NIH's RFI on limiting the number of RPG awards per PI/MPI is open for comment. I will remind you that the RPG designation includes everything from R03 ($50k direct, 2 y limit) to P01, huge U mechs and DPetc. rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a1f200c6e...

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Request For Information

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So the OMB rule supporters are concerned with Waste, Fraud and Abuse. So clearly the onus is on OMB to show there is substantial waste, fraud or abuse in, say, NIH grants. And how political review counters peer review that causes waste, fraud or abuse.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The OMB rule would codify this uncertainty, making termination a constant threat to all federally funded science. Your field might be safe now, but this rule would allow the admin to stop any line of research that becomes politically inconvenient. Posting below resources on where/how to comment.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/07/2026

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

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Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

NIH Grants Management people are truly heroic (as are Program officers)--mine is emailing at 8:50 PM--they are working overtime to keep science in operation in the US.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An important read. Naive researchers are using TriNetX easy-to-use tools without realizing that their analyses of routinely collected data are meaningless, even claiming that nonexistent TriNetX tools fixed biases.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Women are 55% of Social Security recipients but collect $5,254/yr less than men. Looming cuts in 2032 would hurt women more than men. Women are already more likely to live in poverty than men, with single women over 65 faring the worst (poverty rate=21.4%). www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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Why women may bear the brunt if Social Security benefits get cut

Women already collect less in Social Security than men. See how states compare and why women may take the largest hit if benefits are cut.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“A slow, heavy desert lizard called the Gila monster can go months between meals. In the early 1990s, a physician-scientist named John Eng grew curious about how it keeps its blood sugar steady across those long fasts… Years later, a synthetic version of that molecule became the first GLP-1 drugs”

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Does this make the ovarectomy/hormonal replacement model illegal?

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Yesterday, I met Jay Bhattacharya briefly for the first time. I don’t think he’s a fan. 😬🤷‍♀️😇 He spoke yesterday at an NIH workshop on Health Disparities. I want to reflect on his talk, as well as the brief interaction that followed. Here goes… 🧵1/???

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network

NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 11/06/2026

Neuroscientist here, who has talked about the US losing science ground to other countries: The biggest problem for generating future cures for brain diseases is the ongoing utter destruction of US basic neuroscience. It’s not about regulation.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you share the concerns of NIH staff worried about the future of NIH, based on the harms we've seen through bad policies at NIH to both the conduct science and the public as its beneficiaries, please add your name (or anonymous endorsement): actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor...

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Support Authors of the Bethesda Declaration One Year Later

Be counted as a support of the Bethesda Declaration One Year Later. If you're an NIH current or former worker and would like your name and position listed on 27 UNIHTED's website, we will add your nam...

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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We published an article written by a number of current and former peer review workers in their personal capacities outlining the changes to peer review at the NIH over the last 18 months. It’s a great resource, and we’re grateful to the authors who wrote it! open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

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The Quiet Attack On Science: Subverting NIH Peer Review

Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review, this is an overview of all the changes to NIH's peer review over the last 18 months.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Good assessment of 4 wearables in this N of 1 study by @nicnguyen.bsky.social of Oura, Whoop, Fitbit Air, and Apple Watch gift link wsj.com/tech/persona...

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 06/06/2026

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

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Christos Constantinidis @cconstan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I just completed my service in my NIH study section. Some thoughts - with the disclaimer that these are personal, subjective impressions and do not reflect the opinion of any official body. Other than the one attached to my head. (1/10)

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 04/06/2026

If you’re between 14-45 years old and experience heavy menstrual bleeding, this is an exciting new trial investigating transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation. Early results are promising with ~50% decrease in blood loss. QR code below. Please repost/share!

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

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The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title

Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 29/05/2026

Today, we're celebrating 178 years of the Dairy State! 🎉 From our Great Lakes coasts and the banks of the Mississippi to our rolling farmlands and vast Northwoods, what makes our state really great is the Cheeseheads who call it home. Happy Birthday, Wisconsin!

Graphic with Wisconsin License Plate design that reads "Happy Birthday Wisconsin"

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Good story from Stephanie Lee at the Chronicle of Higher Education on dealing with funding uncertainty with very highly rated grant proposals. www.chronicle.com/article/they... 1/2

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They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.

The NIH’s spending on new medical research is significantly slower than in previous years, leaving confused scientists in the lurch.

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CAMH @camhnews.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Dr. Liisa Galea hosts Women’s Health Interrupted, a podcast that explores women’s health with equal parts curiosity, science, and rage. Tune in to the first two episodes of Season 3 now, and make sure to follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! ow.ly/hzgm50XbXJR

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Women's Health Research Cluster (@whrcluster.bsky.social)

Season 3 of Women’s Health Interrupted is here! 🎙️ Ep 1: Dr. Cat Bohannon on how science sidelined female bodies Ep 2: Rachel Bartholomew on how femtech innovation turns research into reality Now str...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 15/05/2026

#NIH is developing a policy to make sharing clinical research results with study participants standard practice across NIH awards. We're looking for public comments for the RFI. Please share with your networks. #sciencesky #datasky

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Return of Research Results

Bioethics in Research

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Bhattacharya: "I don't see a bottleneck now.... My job is to make sure every single dollar goes out, and it will go out by the end of the year on excellent science. A lot of the concerns, it just seems like political noise to me. It's not reality." Reality... 🧵1/6 www.27unihted.org/jay-fact-che...

Graph: Number of Competitive Awards. Cumulative numbers of competitive awards administered by the NIH through February of respective fiscal years. FY2021-2024 average is just under 3,000, FY2025 is just under 2500, FY2026 is at about 1000. Data from NIH Reporter.

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