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Kenneth Sherr

@kennethsherr.bsky.social
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Professor of Global Health, Implementation Scientist, live music enthusiast (Phish, Grateful Dead, Goose, KGLW to name a few)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Fascinating piece from Paul Krugman with Jonathan Gruber with a powerful argument for public funding of science. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-car... 1/n
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Health Care: Jonathan Gruber
A key founding father of Obamacare on what comes next
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Stand UP Alaska | Alaska Civics Channel @standupalaska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Anchorage - 5k Fairbanks - 2k Gustavus - 113 Homer - 1.3k Juneau - 1.7k Kodiak - 170 Kotzebue - 42 Matsu/palmer - 350 Valdez - 70 Seldovia - 33 (pop 78) Sitka - 379 Talkeetna - 85 #NoKings! ❌👑 We had more folks show up in #Alaska than showed up at the saaaad 😥💔birthday parade in DC. Just sayin...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
11 / 340 is 3.2% of the population of these United States!
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
When Senator Bill Cassidy announced he would vote to confirm RFK Jr, he included this in his statement: “If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” WITHOUT CHANGES.
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JΛKΣ✌️ @mothmanshadow.com · 09/06/2025
LAPD out there like
The popo pepper sprayed a sin bather in a a Georges Seurat painting
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"We don't need the fucking Marines @jesscraven101.bsky.social Now from downtown L A. It's peaceful It's their right under the first Amendment "People have their dogs with them " No looting No violence Thank you so much Jess Be peaceful Be safe We Stand with Los Angeles
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
All Things Considered story on #BethesdaDeclaration www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.
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Monica Carson @brainimmunity.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#academicsky #neuroskyence
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom tonight says he was told Trump is sending *another* 2k National Guard troops to LA. Newsom says first batch of 2k troops is sitting mostly "unused" without food or water (minus the 300 deployed)
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here 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.
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Angie@blueangie.bsky.social @blueangie.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I LOVE THIS!!!
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Wonder if Clarence Thomas is starting to think he settled a bit low with that luxury RV.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants. grant-watch.us It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon. Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
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Grant Watch
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Rebekah @rebeccaharkness.swifties.social · 28/04/2025
This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I just updated the T mechanism data. The non-competitive renewals are picking up a little bit, but the new and competitive renewals are flatlined... 1/n
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Your assignment is both the comment and to share this will colleagues, friends, networks, etc. We need an overwhelming response. The government is required to respond to comments. This may not be sufficient but it certainly is necessary! /fin
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
King Holmes was a giant in STI research. He built the UW into a powerhouse in the area and steered my own thesis advisor, Maggie So, toward what would become her pathbreaking career of work on Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Our work as researchers, educators, and mentors sends ripples to distant shores.
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Remembering King Holmes | UW Medicine Huddle
UW School of Medicine Professor Emeritus
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
STAT article up about "A Blueprint for NIH Reform" www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/a... 1/n
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Why a small journal’s ‘blueprint for NIH’ is getting so much attention
A paper proposing NIH reforms is circulating in academic circles and within the agency as scientists search for hints of its direction
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Started/Going. Two infants died of pertussis in Louisiana, where last month the state’s surgeon general banned health department staff from encouraging vaccination.
Screenshot of the headline of an article from WWNO Public radio on Feb 14, 2025. It says Louisiana Department of Health officially ends all vaccine promotion, events
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The email address for the receipt of the 5 bullet points required of all NIH employees was broken and all submissions bounced. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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larry.earth (he/him) 8647 @larry.earth · 22/03/2025
FYI @haverfordaaup.bsky.social @haverfordheritage.bsky.social @fordsgbball.bsky.social
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Confirmation!! And including open sessions!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Grant funding updates and progress on the dashboard concept 1/n
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Median age of: - The United States: 38.7 years - The House of Representatives: 57.5 years - The US Senate: 64.7 years It's time for a new generation of leaders.
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Age and generation in the 119th Congress: Somewhat younger, with fewer Boomers and more Gen Xers
The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years, while the Senate's median age is 64.7 years.
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The situation at Columbia... www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... 1/n
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Over $250M of $400M cut to Columbia is from NIH, agency says
Over half of the approximately $400 million in grants and contracts that the Trump administration said on Friday it’s cutting from Columbia University is from the National Institutes of Health, that a...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications. The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
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