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Distinguished and Endowed McKenzie Professor; Director Institute on Digital Health and Innovation; Florida State University; Researcher and Public Health Advocate

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saveaidsresearch.bsky.social @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Announcing 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research! Join us September 16 starting at 11am ET as we come together in community, share insights, answer questions, and inspire action! Register bit.ly/45U1keO and join us on YouTube bit.ly/45Qftts #saveAIDSresearch
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/04/2025
💣The Carpet Bombing of HHS 💥 It's hard to describe how America's health agencies have been bombed and shelled in the past few months, but John Oliver is a good start. 🧵
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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
With these cuts, the Trump administration is denying the existence of disparities affecting nearly one in 10 Americans, while conveniently ensuring there’s no paper trail proving the harm caused by its policies targeting the LGBTQ folks. Full piece (no paywall): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The Very Idea of LGBTQ Health Is Under Attack
The Trump administration has canceled millions of dollars in grants to study disparities affecting the well-being of the community. Valuable research has been lost.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process 1/n
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/03/2025
“During Donald Trump’s first term, he made it a goal to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. by 2030. That priority has fallen by the wayside in the second Trump administration, with the termination of a number of grants related to HIV in the past week” www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/n...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
5 yrs ago, Trump made it a goal to eliminate HIV Last week, several grants that would help w/ that were terminated, incl. a big study on adolescents ft. @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drjenellstewart.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @scott-delaney.bsky.social 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/n...
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NIH cuts halt 24-year program to prevent HIV/AIDS in adolescents
NIH terminated grants for a program studying how to diagnose, treat, and prevent HIV and AIDS in adolescents
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com So many devastating cuts to research from NIH. Please elevate coverage of the termination of the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN). This vital research network has been active for nearly 30 years and has resulted in saving the lives of thousands of US youth.
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you
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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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In 2023, Heritage described AIDS as a “lifestyle disease” and argued that PEPFAR was “a patronage program for clients of the Democratic Party.” Heritage analyzed the political giving of USAID and key contractors and concluded that it’s a left-wing plot. Source.

Heritage also analyzed the political contributions of Interaction, a non-profit association of development organizations, and found they were heavily weighted to Democrats. For Heritage, this justifies cutting off funding for Interaction. Source.

The author of those papers, Tim Meisburger, is now the head of USAID humanitarian operations, according to his LinkedIn. He’s an election denier and conspiracy theorist.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
NBC News story about NIH Director nominee...Not a great fit for NIH and, perhaps, a destructive agenda. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... 1/2
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Who is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya? Trump’s pick to lead the NIH faces Senate confirmation hearing
As director, Bhattacharya would oversee the nation's top medical research agency, which is set to undergo drastic changes.
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
dollyparton.com/front-porch-... RIP Carl Dean
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Dolly and Carl's 50th Wedding Anniversary
Dolly Parton and her husband of 50 years, Carl Dean, celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary with a special second wedding ceremony.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/02/2025
Republicans don't care about you.
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Trump Costs America
Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.
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💙Jezebel Spirit🌊 @jezebelspirit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA
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Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library - NewsBreak
Dolly Parton has called on Indiana’s governor to reverse course on plans to do away with her popular “Imagination Library” program. The country singer, wh
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Judge John D. Bates of the D.C. Federal District Court has ordered the CDC to temporarily restore pages removed from its website to comply with Trump’s executive order barring references to race, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here are the losses red states will face w/ Trump's assault on NIH's indirect costs. TX: $310,282,120 OH: $171,355,609 TN: $133,514,022 MO: $131,590,159 FLA: $123,982,436 IN: $68,925,255 AL: $46,642,500 UT: $45,974,847 IA: $36,986,835 SC: $33,368,620 www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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What The NIH Cut To Indirect Cost Payments Could Cost Red States
The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants will cost ten red states more than $1 billion.
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apettifor.bsky.social @apettifor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH declares 15% indirects. This will decimate research universities. Budgets will be cut by 70%. Science in the US going down hill in this administration. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It’s nearly impossible to describe how severe a cut this is for universities. And all through executive action. The university lobbyists, that they relied on to recruit bipartisan support in Congress for so long, have no traction here. Key text:
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS. Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here. Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 06/02/2025
"Just since Donald Trump’s election, Musk’s personal net worth has grown by far more than the entire annual budget of U.S.A.I.D., which in any case accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget."
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here's my latest on the very grim happenings inside NIH
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What Can The Worst Person In the World Do With Access to NIH's Grant Software System?
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Goes without saying for scientists: This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas? #scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑‍🔬
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NEW from inside NIH: I am hearing that a “young” DOGE staffer now has access to eRA, the software system used to track/administer all NIH grants.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/02/2025
Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
At the newsletter right now: The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.
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Breaking: Trump is Scrubbing HIPAA Info off HHS Website
The White House is deleting information on reproductive health privacy and discrimination at pharmacies
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2025
Government-wide censorship, freeze in funding, data compromise. Let's call this what it is: an authoritarian takeover. Nobody voted for this. They will take as much power as we give them. CALL your politicians now. Emails/letters are often ignored. www.senate.gov/senators/sen... 5calls.org
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Daniel Dawes on LinkedIn: CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be… | 22 comments
Yesterday, many of you heard the alarming news that the CDC had abruptly removed key information and data from its websites. Data sets that have been… | 22 comments on LinkedIn
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"Over a third of sponsored expenditures go toward salaries, and the loss of federal funding could endanger entire research labs."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
American science will not be same after all this.
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It Is Becoming Difficult to Imagine What American Science Will Look Like Next Week
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Here's a story about this and some updated guidance for across HHS. This is some cruel bullshit.
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NIH, Other HHS Divisions Told to Terminate Contracts or Grants Because of 'Gender Ideology'
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Good morning. RFK Jr would be an absolute disaster for NIH. The HHS Secretary has enormous power over NIH. Enormous. He could effectively end the agency as a science funder. Please organize to stop RFK Jr. Students, you can help: use all the channels you have to get the word out.
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AVAC @avac.org · 24/01/2025
"Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying HIV Treatment Worldwide", more from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
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Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
For the first time in six decades, the CDC did not publish its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Thursday, just one effect of a flurry of executive orders & administrative moves after President Donald Trump’s January 20 inauguration. www.poz.com/article/trum...
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Trump Muzzles Federal Health Agencies, Withdraws from World Health Organization
CDC and other agencies were told to halt public communications, and the NIH grant process appears to be on hold.
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Duty to Warn: More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter imploring senators NOT to confirm RFK Jr., Trump’s highly controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Warning that Kennedy is an existential threat to “important and highly respected institutions and…
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drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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I Took the Test RFK Jr. Is Using to Determine Who Should Work at His Health Department. We Are Extremely Doomed.
It made me feel like a worm had eaten my brain, too.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/w...
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How Kennedy Has Worked Abroad to Weaken Global Public Health Policy
The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more.
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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Definitely a place of joy!! Very grateful for it! 🧪🌎🌊
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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.
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Sylvie @bohemiantornado.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an
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