Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Email spam from a “scientific” journal this morning: “I really need a warm support from an ideal person like you.” 😂 😂 😂 010
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB. 17509288
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHPeter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 04/06/2025DON'T MISS AT #SER2025: 'Find your public voice: leaning into advocacy and engagement' with @britshmit.bsky.social, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, & @zinzinator.bsky.social! I am thrilled to be chairing this exciting professional development session at #SER2025 on the Friday at 12pm! #EpiSky 13111
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/04/2025As 100 days in office comes up, let’s focus on the next few months: Trump is trying to stop spending at NIH to justify cutting the NIH budget. Every US scientist should be in contact with their Congressional reps about this. Get grants and money out the door soon or the money goes away. 211940
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 29/04/2025WTF?! What on earth is happening right now? 031
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 25/04/2025A VA colleague just told me about this today….I don’t even know what to say. Some scary, scary times we are living in. 030
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 23/04/2025“No study is a better example of the enormous scientific impact of research on the prevention of chronic disease in the population, one of the stated priorities of the HHS leadership” 💔💔💔 030
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHMaggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 23/04/2025“The funding cuts to the landmark nationwide Women’s Health Initiative will deal a devastating blow to the health of all older adults in the U.S. and throughout the world." www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...statnews.comWomen’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal fundingThe Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down. 01313
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Thrilled to see Macy Corley present on our NCI-Kaiser Permanente Breast Cancer Survivors cohort at #aspo2025 But bummed that NCI colleagues had to pre-record talks instead of being here in person. 110
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Great cancer survivorship session this morning at #aspo2025 focused on personal experience, disparities, and sleep. And this gem: “If you’re using an alarm to wake up in the morning, you’re not getting enough sleep.” Ouch. 000
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHKiernan Mathews @faculty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025An attention-grabbing thing R1 presidents could do is to announce that should NIH (etc) cuts happen, they will reappropriate all athletics allocations into research to protect the core of their academic enterprise. If presidents had the chutzpah, this could stop the administration in its tracks. 212221
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Dang. Just learned ASPO (Amer soc for preventive oncology) didn’t receive their R13 conference grant from NCI for the first time ever, due to the EOs and delays. Still managed to hold a meeting this year. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #aspo2025 282
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data 8740641653
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 06/04/2025It gives me so much hope to see this! If I hadn’t been on a plane all day, I would have been at the protest in Seattle! 020
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 05/04/2025This is great but also NIH grants are never funded at the original, full amounts? I don’t remember the last time I didn’t have a 17% cut right off the top. 010
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHDr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I want to point out two things about yesterday's HHS cuts 1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves 2- state & local health depts will be harmed 319990
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025200 people fired locally today. Never did I ever think it would get this bad. And I’m afraid it’s still going to get worse. 030
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Am honestly sick over what is happening. 000
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The first randomized trial comparing fecal occult blood testing (every other year) testing and (one-time) colonoscopy. No significant difference in colon cancer mortality among >56,000 participants www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.bsky.social 45665108
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Not me accidentally saving over the final tracked changes version of a manuscript with the clean version when both are required for resubmission 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ 100
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Seattle Public Schools just cancelled all after school activities and meetings today…gonna be a wild one! 010
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I keep seeing ads for yoga with puppies on my IG feed and I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something. Is it do yoga? Is it get a puppy? These are very different things. 000
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHDr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies 53773422
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Brilliant scientists are getting their grants terminated for committing the sin of studying people other than white, straight men who don’t live with a disability. These grants were selected for funding via a thorough review done by experts, only to be cut via a hatchet job done by idiots. 127153
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 08/03/2025March for science in Seattle today. Thanks for your support WA state governor! @governorferguson.bsky.social 060
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 07/03/2025My dad lived 26 years longer than any doctor predicted thanks to cancer research. See you tomorrow, Seattle. 030
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grantsStudies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature. 391304889
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025PSA Seattleites: it is 60 degrees and sunny. Go outside! Your mind and body will thank you later. 020
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHKatherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 27/02/2025I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comInside the Collapse at NIHAdministration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now. 27858451
Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH @erinabowles.bsky.social · 26/02/2025What a huge loss for the future of science 😢 010
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data... 17664852542
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Attacks on cancer research, which is what is going on, resonate with everyone. Everyone in America, rural or urban, knows someone with cancer or worries about it themselves. Explain it to people who don’t care about science by talking about the outcomes, the cures for disease. 418741
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHTerra Field @rainofterra.gay · 24/02/2025The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.federalregister.gov30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. PassportThe Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations.... 20920856
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22/02/20251. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love 662539412
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025ATTENTION: If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date. I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter. DM me if you wish or just replymedia.tenor.coma man holding a cup with the words wake up and smell the data on the bottomALT: a man holding a cup with the words wake up and smell the data on the bottom 814084
Reposted by Erin Aiello Bowles, MPHScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here) 14347196