Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you're preparing a NIH grant submission, you may have to re-download and re-certify your biosketch if you updated on/prior to Sept 18. And make sure NOT to change the file name. 52817
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialPaul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.nytimes.comFDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago. 16328291508
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJudy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 24/06/2026New: How The OMB Rule Will Hurt You And Your Town via @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... #OMB #FederalGrants #Medicaid #Rural #DEI #disparities #race #DrugAbuse #MentalHealth @DefendPublicHealhforbes.comHow The OMB Rule Will Hurt You And Your TownThe OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection. 23823
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialRuth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A Guide to Writing Your Federal Comment on the Proposed Changes to OMB 2 CFR Part 200. drruth.substack.com/p/a-guide-to... Deadline is July 13th This could affect you, your family, and your community!drruth.substack.comA Guide to Writing Your Federal Comment on the Proposed Changes to OMB 2 CFR Part 200.Deadline is July 13th 11912
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Imagine you’re diagnosed with cancer. And then you find out the cancer center is 3 hours away. And it’s the middle of winter. Distance quickly becomes an access issue. The solution? Medicare for All. 682293587
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialValorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 14/06/2026 310135533960
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialelizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...elizabethginexi.substack.comSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance RuleRussell Vought is going destroy American Science 1251397827
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says. 331658977
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3static.klipy.comHuh KermitALT: Huh Kermit 14159103
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠nytimes.comBook on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. 511252369
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialForbes @forbes.com · 16/05/2026The surge in cases marks the 17th Ebola outbreak in the Congo since 1976.forbes.comEbola Outbreak Kills At Least 80 In CongoThe surge in cases marks the 17th Ebola outbreak in the Congo since 1976. 1121344595
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026@maxkozlov.bsky.social covered the staffing shortages at NIH. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/3nature.comNIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this yearSome units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards. 15227
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...hsph.harvard.eduUSAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthThe Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord... 6222001447
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy 8215157
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy 7447126
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialShematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 18/01/2026 1434125
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does. 163163142882
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism. 7526751206
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/08/2025History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism. 691322344
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 29/08/2025Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities: 228132933554
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired. 14136751399
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialMark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement: 458212176929
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired." 20891582343
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS. 12670772698
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Have you benefited from a medical treatment or know someone who has? This one man wants to shut it all down. It sounds nonsensical and mad. And it is. But Russell Vought is head of the OMB, wants to and can do it. Call your members of Congress. Get rid of Vought, not medical research. 7288165
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2025Outrageous. The White House is sidestepping Congress and halting up to $15 billion in NIH research funding, which would have gone to study diabetes, cancer & more. The order was issued through a four-sentence email sent to NIH directors from Office of Management & Budget Director Russell Vought. 43826398
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Russell Vought has unilaterally decided today that he simply won’t allow anyone outside of NIH to receive research funding. $15 billion in NIH funding is now locked down. If not reversed, it will also take down many Universities in the United States. Forget new cancer treatments or vaccines. 42897394
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Reporter: How do you feel about the Columbia settlement? Dominique: Let me tell you about public universities in Republican-led states... I appreciate that I get the kicker on a lot of these stories because I'm the most grim www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... 9522192
catherine-lesko.bsky.social @catherine-lesko.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Omg. I’m shocked they finally admitted/acknowledged this impoundment by default but I’m not going to be so petty that i won’t feel grateful/relieved. It’s so nice to just not be gaslit (briefly). 010
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM. 121335304
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/07/2025Analysts report that cutting the NIH budget by 10% would prevent 30 additional new medications from coming to market in the next three decades. Trump is proposing a 40% cut to the NIH budget. We could potentially lose hundreds of life-saving treatments. 5309142
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated. 15646839620871
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Considerable coverage of the retaliation against the EPA staffers who signed the Declaration of Dissent yesterday. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...eenews.netEPA puts 139 employees on leave who criticized administrationThe staff were put on administrative leave after signing a “declaration of dissent.” 44462203
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 17/06/2025After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech. I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵nature.comJudge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatoryThe decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal. 9405195
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025I listened to the hearing this morning in the two cases (now linked) about NIH grant terminations. These cases are before Judge William Young, a very accomplished judge appointed by Ronald Reagan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... 1/nen.wikipedia.orgWilliam G. Young - Wikipedia 35218
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialSabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I am so effing mad. It's just lies upon lies from these grifting scoundrels. 1/4 925545
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialBryan D. James, PhD @bryandjames.bsky.social · 11/06/2025#SER2025 attendees you will see these slides advertising our new open access journal AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology @ajeadvances.bsky.social As an editor, I’m happy to answer questions about why you should publish with us. Come find me! 093
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 10/06/2025🚨 NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya is testifying before the US Senate Appropriations Committee today. The hearing is bound to be spicy, after more than 300 agency staff wrote him a letter decrying his leadership and actions as director. 🔥 I'll be live-posting the hearing, so follow along here. 7335105
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.apnews.comRFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committeeHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines. 1369163676199
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May. 4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May. The total funded was 99! Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments. 1/2 10212153
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialBenjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 09/06/2025In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdownIn test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes 19132
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage! 141145400
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2025This is your health on MAGA.nytimes.comHere Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye. 7231121
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialE. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 31/05/2025🧵New from me: MAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHD infoepi.substack.com/p/maha-plag...infoepi.substack.comMAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHDThe report maintains a veneer of inquiry, but its structure and many of its claims closely mirror those of a document produced under RFK Jr.'s leadership at another organization. 10260119
catherine-lesko.bsky.social @catherine-lesko.bsky.social · 29/05/2025This is why i tell my students not to use AI to write their papers. 010
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/05/2025Today RFK and co. removed the COVID vaccine from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for children and pregnant people. This is junk science. COVID puts children and pregnant people at higher risk for ER visits and hospitalizations, and Long COVID can cause chronic health issues for anyone. 1461118434
Reposted by @catherine-lesko.bsky.socialArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 27/05/2025+ ignores substantial evidence regarding the benefits of vaccination for older adults & immunocompromised people who live in multi-generational households, &/or have family members who work in the service industry or attend school 28931