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Anna C. Fagre

@annafagre.bsky.social
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🦠 PI, Comparative + Integrative Pathogen-Host Ecology Research (CIPHER) Lab, Iowa State University Vet Med 🦇 veterinary epidemiology, arboviral ecology, diagnostic microbiology, wildlife health🔬 🎨 🎵multi-media synthesis ✂️🎹 🏳️‍🌈 she/they

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And here will be Kennedy's reason to dismiss this. "The woman had several chronic medical conditions that made her vulnerable to severe complications from measles. She had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or C.O.P.D., and was on 24/7 supplemental oxygen."
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Unvaccinated Woman Likely Died of Measles Complications, Pa. County Coroner Says
The case is the third reported death linked to a rapidly expanding outbreak that has sickened more than 670 people in the state.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026
This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s 2026 and we *still* don’t have an isopod emoji
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Roly Poly Pill Bug Rolling Up
ALT: Roly Poly Pill Bug Rolling Up
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Singing "vaccine" while waiting for her dose.
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Dolly Parton sings and gets COVID vaccine shot
YouTube video by Associated Press
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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E. Anne Chambers @chamberea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're hiring! The Chambers Lab is recruiting grad students interested in landsacpe & conservation genomics or species delimitation of reptiles & amphibians. Find more info here (or reach out with questions!): chamberslab.org/opportunitie...
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opportunities – Chambers Lab
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📢 #Internship opportunity at @who.int's Emerging Zoonosis and High Impact Epidemics Unit, focusing on #arboviruses and an early warning system for #chikungunya and other #arboviral threats.🦟 Closing date: 21 August 2026. More info ⬇️ careers.who.int/careersectio...
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Internship – Emerging Zoonosis and High Impact Epidemics
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Fantastic opportunity at a great school here in Iowa!
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (#SCIMaP) analysis on the impact of the WH plan to eliminate NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. @malar0ne.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social scienceimpacts.org/insights/SBE...
Insight blog

"Cuts to NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate will have significant economic impacts nationwide"
https://scienceimpacts.org/insights/SBE-2026-07-13
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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Opportunities
BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…
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Paulina Pawlica @paulinapawlica.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Join our team and uncover the mysteries of viral noncoding RNAs! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hiring Postdoctoral Position in Viral RNA Biology and Host-Virus Interactions in Manhattan, NY | LinkedIn
Posted 2:36:55 PM. The Pawlica Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City is seeking a highly…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 13/07/2026
Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Screenshot text: Between May 29 and July 9, roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov (and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published). The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided: about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it, with fewer than one percent marked as unclear. The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign. Support for the rule, by contrast, was almost entirely organized: nearly nine in ten supportive comments (about 2,500) came from a single form-letter campaign. Opponents mostly wrote their own comments; supporters mostly signed the same form-letter.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/07/2026
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally. n.pr/4w1lkb8
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Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...
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Comments are Half A Plan To Stop the Takeover of Science...
...here's the second half.
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Alison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
How much change is there from preprints? “The primary claim was unchanged in 39.9% of abstracts, minorly revised in 50.0%, and substantially revised in only 10.2%” 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
HPAI (H5N1) – Sustained dairy cattle outbreak with 71 herds under quarantine in Idaho, USA Read more at: beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=f…
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
Screenshot of page 1 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 2 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 3 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 4 of my letter (see link in post for full text).
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/07/2026
The Trump admin continues to attack whatever they deem as “woke” with no basis, suppressing those who are most vulnerable. This rule change would attack research on black maternal health, LGBTQ+ health, and much more. Fight back by leaving your public comment here: zurl.co/OcDQM zurl.co/DrBw8
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Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research
White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Public comment is open until July 13!
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“The new office, called the Executive Advisory, Science, and Operations Unit, would review scientific publications, including Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, intended for peer-reviewed journals, or briefings by the director on preparedness activities.”
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
CIDRAP News is publishing a consumer health piece for gender-diverse folks during Pride Month: ‘Everyone who has a cervix is at risk’: Transgender people often miss out on cervical cancer screenings. Read our story to learn how you can stay healthy. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
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‘Everyone who has a cervix is at risk’: Transgender people often miss out on cervical cancer screenings
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Each Friday, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  Juneteenth (Yr 2, Wk 25) - NSF *not* destroying ocean observation systems (+ will restore?) - Dept of Ed offloading disability ed to HHS & civil rights enforcement to DOJ & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Year 2, Week 25
Jun 13-19 - a long time coming
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Academia 💃
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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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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Trump tried to impose a $100,000 H-1B visa fee by executive order. A federal judge just shut it down: Presidents don’t get to invent taxes Congress never approved. Ruling: “VACATED in its entirety.” 🔥 www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/fed... #BlueSky #LawSky
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Federal Judge Nukes Trump’s $100K H-1B Visa Fee by Ruling It’s an Unlawful Tax
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump's executive order imposing a $100,000 payment on employers submitting petitions for new H-1B visas.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
WHO published the latest situation update on the Ebola outbreak. confirmed cases are now at 534 including 93 deaths in the DRC. CFR is about 17% but likely underestimate as investigation seeks to confirm cause of death from earlier in the outbreak. www.who.int/emergencies/...
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Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus, Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda
The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to evolve rapidly, with increasing case numbers, geographic spread, and cross-border transmission to Ugand...
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The implications of this EO are staggering for public health, biomedical research, and global outbreak preparedness/response. If you only read one thread today, let this be it. 👇
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
5 urgent realities in the DRC #Ebola outbreak: 1️⃣ This is a health systems crisis 2️⃣ HCW infections are a major warning sign 3️⃣ Diagnostics matter as much as vaccines 4️⃣ Community trust is critical 5️⃣ Panic followed by neglect is not preparedness
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Two research entomology positions available with USDA focused on the New World screwworm outbreak situation with opportunities to study biting fly and ticks that impact livestock species. www.usajobs.gov/job/86823510...
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RESEARCH ENTOMOLOGIST
The incumbent is a Research Entomologist at the Livestock Arthropod Pest Research Unit of the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In a rare show of unity, both R and D US lawmakers agree: the scientific publishing industry needs reform. Lawmakers are worried about the literature being flooded with 'AI slop' and the high open-access fees that some publishers charge. Read more @nature.com on this week's House Science hearing
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US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices
A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little agreement on what reform would entail.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), an outbreak of a mystery illness in Burundi has killed at least five people and sickened 35 others since March 30. Read more: ow.ly/7aEO50YLiLl.
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At least 5 dead in Burundi from a mystery illness: Africa CDC
Lab tests are negative for more than 200 pathogens, but testing continues.
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American Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The latest #AIBS Public Policy Report has been released. Leadership shakeup planned at science agencies, #NSF #GRFP draws scrutiny over rejections without review, Administration repeals Endangerment Finding, & other news. www.aibs.org/news/2026/26...
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
How do we protect wildlife from HPAI? Here, King Penguins vaxxed w self-amplifying mRNA 2344b H5 vaccine. Chicks followed for 250 days - good immune responses, no adverse effects. Good to see trials like this, protect species of conservation concern. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
RIP to the GRFP vanity number: 866-NSF-GRFP. Now disconnected. 📞
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
NSF GRFP update—My mentee’s RWR appeal is “actively being reviewed.” The GRFP Op Center # was disconnected. Seems that DGE is fielding these calls now. When we finally got through, we were told to “give it two weeks”; the person we spoke to would not provide their name or additional info. 🙃
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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny b) improving representation of the Global South in public data www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread 1/n)
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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods
This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is devastating on so many levels. Thank you to @noamross.net and others at grant-witness.us for organizing this. ALSO... feeling so proud of all the trainees (including my first PhD student) who submitted proposals despite all of the hurdles they faced in November.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“WHO therefore regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe.” 🧪 www.who.int/news/item/24...
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WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States
WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. The notification of withdrawal raises issues that will be con...
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 17/01/2026
Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
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Dealing with ScienCV formatting
Some tips for composing and making your new NIH biosketch not look like garbage
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“But we can fight back. The biggest lesson the four of us have learned over this past year is that what feels impossible and overwhelming when you’re sitting by yourself can begin to feel achievable and urgent when you are working with others that share your values.“ 🧪
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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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VectorByte @vectorbyte.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Learn about using the VectorByte Databases, VecTraits and VecDyn, to answer cool questions! Save the date for the VectorByte training workshop at Virginia Tech, together with EEID, May 30-June 1, 2026!!
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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Really pleased to share this website with you all for our Wellcome Trust funded TACTIC project developing tools, analyses, engagement, and communication around health impact assessment. Check out our site, the team, and stay tuned for more! www.tactic-tools.org
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Anna C. Fagre @annafagre.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Logged onto X yesterday for the first time in months and was immediately met with this gem 🧭🗺️🤔
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