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hshoch @hshoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Critical care pediatrics docs - please join in our user study!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026

Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If John Fetterman hates being a senator so much he can always—and should—make his way to the nearest exit door. He is a public servant, not an indentured one. Bye!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You're the dean of a public health department and *this* is the first time you've thought about America's built environment? www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

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Tyler Bender (She/Her) 💙🦋💙🦋 @tbender.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In May 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba, carrying 937 passengers—almost all Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Ultimately, the ship returned to Europe, where 254 passengers later died in the Holocaust. (1/4)

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🔥🔥🔥 www.science.org/content/blog...

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MIDAS Network @midas-network.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Be sure to register for Friday's MIDAS Webinar Series: Building the Human Behavioral Landscape to Assess Tick-Borne Disease Risk. Speaker: Pilar Fernandez, Ph.D. Date: Friday, July 24, 2026 Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT midasnetwork.us/midas-webina... Register: pitt.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I contacted my NIH PO about the new rules requiring reporting foreign co-authorships on papers that acknowledge NIH support. Here's a summary of what I heard back: 1) NIH POs are confused about this too & fear a massive workload as a consequence 2) PIs should report co-authorships in their RPPR /t

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Russia endured Lysenkoism in the 1930s. It forced Lamarck's theory of use & disuse. The WH OMB rule is akin to Russia's Nomenklatura, where a political senior appointee overrides expert peer review. There is still time to comment to stop this TONIGHT. 100k comments so far. 🧪 archive.today/WLYJi

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Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

History can often give us glimpses into our potential future. The Soviet Union’s history with politicizing science under Stalin and Trofim Lysenko shows what our future might be like under Vought’s proposed OMB rule. www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

sciencenews.org

Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I am reposting this August 28, 2025 article which explains why there is this cyclosporiasis outbreak. CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program. www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...

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CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/07/2026

Join us Monday @2PM to send a clear message to Congress: Protect our science infrastructure from partisan interference. Peer review, not politics, should guide scientific research. Slashing funding for science that does not conform to Trump’s ideological agenda will harm ALL Americans.

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OMB Deadline Day Rally - The Fight is Just Beginning

OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

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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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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cartoon by Robert Ariail

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DGCassidy @dgcassidy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

PLEASE DO THIS. Russ Vought at OMB wants to politicize grant-making. It is foolish and dangerous. Please submit your own comment on this proposed rule, and contact your reps about it too. See the link below! Here's what I wrote...

The proposed rule OMB-2026-0034 should NOT be taken up. I have supported multiple for-profit and non-profit organizations in their pursuits and awards of federal grants. The competition for ideas was and remains strong. It should not be subject to political whims, culture war conflicts, or the passing notions of political appointees. America’s prosperity relies on this rule not proceeding.

The growth of our economy and businesses have been accelerated and increased by the federal government’s investment in the pursuit of breakthroughs and initiatives that the private sector is both unwilling and unable to take on. The ability for our government to select and invest in the right experts and organizations rests on its commitment to identifying the best proposals - NOT the best proposals subject to political qualifications.

The new rule will make America less competitive and entrepreneurial. It will reward fealty over daring. It will fund moribund ideas over pioneering visions. It will make us less safe, less healthy, and less wealthy - precisely the opposite of government’s intended purpose.

Additionally, the rule suffers from an obvious and fundamental strategic weakness: it places one organization - OMB - at the center of the grant-making enterprise. This is a classic single-point-of-failure organizational design. Not only is the federal grant-making enterprise too big to be managed or governed by one command-and-control node, it will also be fundamentally weakened by such centralized oversight. While OMB retains many powers in governance of federal dollars, it is NOT a research or grant-making organization, and has no experience in that activity; it does not possess nor can it retain the breadth of expertise required to effectively manage the variety of grant-making conducted by the government. Delegating that expertise to individual agencies ensures the rule itself will fail; as power dissipates through distance from OMB’s control, corruption and failure become…

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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

NYT headline (July 2, 2026): U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady Pace

NYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Scott Atlas, the champion of herd immunity as an Fox News commenter and the Trump Advisor during COVID, weighs in with a DEEPLY MININFORMED op-ed in the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/7

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Opinion | Abolish the NIH

A $48 billion government monopoly should give way to the market.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A huge thank you to Major Watson for his dedication to this country and our constitution. If you don’t see this as patriotism, you’re doing it all wrong! #ProudBlue #Pinks

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 01/07/2026

🧪 Over 535,000 whole genomes are now linked to 482,000 electronic health records in the NIH's All of Us database. While the UK Biobank has a similar scale, 86% of this U.S. cohort comes from historically overlooked groups. It's a major step, but a 72% budget cut since 2023 dims its outlook. 🧬💻

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N.I.H. Announces World’s Largest Integrated Health Database

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

(1) The party of Jeffrey Epstein wants genital inspections for teen athletes. (2) Every time conservative justices can destroy a campaign finance law, they will. (3) Upholding birthright citizenship should have been unanimous. That it wasn't shows how extreme the Court conservatives are.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/06/2026

DeLauro states "You have stepped well beyond the bond of the ordinary push and pull between the White House and Congress", "Spent billions and billions beyond what is legally allowed", and "Taken over $400 million in taxes in secret service for Trump's ballroom."

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Such a pleasure to work on this important article with @craigspencer.bsky.social, @drdebhoury.bsky.social and Marty Cetron. We should all be concerned about the US response to the current #Ebola outbreak and what it means long-term for American global health leadership and global health security

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Kaplan Lab at the University of Pittsburgh has received funds to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to establish a multiplexed assay of variant effect for a disease gene. This relates to our studies on RNA Polymerase II. This project requires experience with human cell lines and genomics 1/

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Post Doctoral Associate

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

BREAKING: Trump’s rule change for the Office of Management and Budget will not only require agencies to ensure grants advance the president’s priorities, it will also kill up to 5,000 clinical trials — including 1,000 cancer treatment studies fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net

TRUMP'S NEW FEDERAL GRANT GUIDELINES COULD KILL
5,000 CRITICAL
HENCAL
STUDIES

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to Pennsylvania voter records. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. Another defeat for DOJ. DOJ is now 0-10. 👀 ELG remains undefeated! 🗳️⚖️💪 www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

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🚨 United States of America v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Learn more.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/06/2026

ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.

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Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults

This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

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MIDAS Network @midas-network.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New paper from the Consortium of Infectious Disease Modeling Hubs (MIDAS is a member and contributor) introduces the Hubverse — tools for building collaborative modeling infrastructure. doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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A software platform for collaborative infectious disease modelling - Nature Health

Designed to allow interaction between infectious disease modellers, analysts, software developers and decision-makers, a suite of software tools presents the current standard for collaborative infecti...

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hshoch @hshoch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you are at all interested in science and research, please read up on the latest proposals from the Office of Management and Budget, and submit comments before July 13.. www.aaup.org/news/omb-pro...

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OMB Proposal Is the Latest Salvo in Trump’s War on Science

The AAUP and AFT urge the scientific community, university leaders, business leaders, and the public to fiercely resist the latest attempt to coerce the American scientific research sector.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.

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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Downtown Pittsburgh & the Three Sisters Bridges are all lit up in rainbows. Happy Pride!

Three Sisters bridges and Highmark Building lit up in rainbows as seen from the Parkway North

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3

A slide with recommendations about peer review scores.

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