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Dr Mark D'Arcy @markofthed.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Science is under attack in the US. And no, we don't just mean trans research as Trump keeps saying. We mean cancer research, Alzheimer's research, vaccine research, and all those other things that improve health and longevity.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Absolutely this 👇

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Compelling piece about Alzheimer's disease funding. www.beingpatient.com/alzheimers-d...

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thanks so much to @jeremymberg.bsky.social for helping us bring attention to the impact of funding delays within our ADRC networks. Wish my first NYT quote could have been something related to cool science but these are times we live in!

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’ve spent most of the day reviewing grants for NIH study section and I’m not gonna lie…feeling pretty demoralized. My own grants are in limbo, including a non competing NoA for the next year of funding that was supposed to start today and is still pending. Sigh.

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JAMA @jama.com · 01/06/2025

JAMA Insights: More than 30% of US adults have low health literacy, which affects their ability to understand and use health information, necessitating improved communication strategies from clinicians and health care systems. ja.ma/3Sv47Vt #MedSky

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Could someone explain to me how to do this fraud? We spent 20k out of pocket while having our Autistic kids be denied SEVENTEEN times, now we reapply every year to ensure that they haven’t been “cured”. Some fraud sure would have saved me a lot of time.

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Shannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Single-nucleus multiomics in brains from Hispanic individuals reveal APOE-ε4-driven disruption of focal adhesion signaling in the presence of cerebrovascular pathology #NeuroDegeneration

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Since 2022, my colleagues and I have been targeted by political attacks. Early on, we worried that political actors would specifically target our projects & universities for defunding. But in the end, they came after everyone. The strategy of keeping heads down was never the right one.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In my opinion, the U.S. is facing a greater public health threat from Robert WTF Kennedy Jr. than we do from COVID19. He has the power to undermine *all* vaccinations in the U.S. and therefore the world. It’s hard to fully take this on board when Congress idly sits by, courting disaster.

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I'm 70ish and doing the same! READ don't BURN!🔥

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

TV watching recommendations The lead story on 60 Minutes tonight is about NIH and concerns about damage done and continuing during the current administration. 1/2

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Be sure to comment! See thread below!

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This! They wouldn’t know a gold standard if it punched them in the face

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

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Alastair McAlpine, MD @alastairmca30.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

To talk about children with autism like this - like they are irreparably damaged and a burden to society - is ignorant, mean and callous. This man simply has no idea what he’s talking about. He brings shame to America.

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Thank you @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for these important words. I am the parent to two Autistic children. I don’t know what they will be yet, but I do know their lives are worth living without a “cure”, they are brilliant and kind. More than I can say for any member of the current administration.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Law professor here: Things are F-U-C-K-E-D up.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

My comments and thoughts with @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Bugs in Europe with more rights than humans in the US. 😢😢😢😢😢😢

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I have had issues & been hearing from people having trouble just ACCESSING their Social Security accounts. INSTEAD of going to a branch which may be hundreds or 1Ks+ of miles away from you, call your members of Congress. They have constituent services that will help you regain access. Please SHARE!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

More in "bloodbaths": Per a source, the National Institute on Aging's leadership has been "decimated," including deputy director Amy Kelly and scientific director Luigi Ferrucci. And apparently acquisitions teams across all of NIH have been fired.

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Alzheimer's research at 14 U.S. centers faces imminent shutdown due to funding delays, jeopardizing patient care and scientific progress. A great article featuring the fearless @cohenannied.bsky.social telling it like it is. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/al...

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Alzheimer's Research Caught in Trump Funding Delays

Longstanding dementia cohorts, Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers in limbo

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thank you so much to my colleagues for speaking out for our ADRCs and all the other important research happening.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/03/2025

“Many laboratories will simply shut down. Scientists will leave. I personally know of high-level scientists already being recruited by foreign institutions. A significant impact will be not having access to new medicines.”

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thanks to Josh Grill and Gil Rabinovici for getting this important message out in such a clear and concise manner.

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 14/03/2025

Involving lived experience experts in translational research Comment by Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg & Silke Lipinski Part of our Collection on lived experience expertise in mental health research: go.nature.com/3DOKEv6 Web: go.nature.com/3Dx3Rl7 PDF: rdcu.be/edAgn #psychology #psychiatry #clinpsy

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 11/03/2025

Getting a grant is freaking hard. Getting a grant - or not - can make or break a career. The shock of getting a grant TAKEN AWAY must be like a shotgun blast in the face.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Please, please continue to fight for the ADRC funding,this jewel that has existed for 40 years supports countless families, patients and cutting edge research.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“It would have a similar effect to the closing of a steel mill,” said @vscooper.micropopbio.org , a prof of microbiology at the Univ of PBG. “This is not a steel town anymore; it’s a biomedical research town, and those cuts would affect Pittsburgh perhaps more than any other city in the country.”

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

THE most important element of an NIH application is the NIH functioning at the time your grant is reviewed

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Melissa E. Murray @drneurochic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

✅Fall in love with the brain 2002 ✅3rd times the charm, PhD begins 2005 ✅Experienced sciencing in Great Recession 2008 ✅1st R01 2016 ✅Sciencing during pandemic 2020-23 🧱Brick wall 2025...decide to focus on doing great science, tightening up, and spread messages of hope, joy, and love for #science

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22/02/2025

🚨 WANT TO HELP US STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? 🚨 Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process! Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #standupforscience2025

Photo of the United States with a color code for states that have rallies confirmed, in progress, needing a leader, or no leader.

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Jay @jebnc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If University of Iowa can’t afford NIH 15% indirect rates then no one in California, NY, Fla or Pennsylvania can

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