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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Related to our previous post- if you had a grant terminated, Pro Publica wants to hear from you. Your work was funded because it was good, important science meant to help Americans. Reach out, and make your voice heard. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
ATS MEMBER WHO’S WHO: Meet Jarrod Barnes, PhD, MBA! Dr. Barnes is an associate professor of medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Additionally, he is co-chair of the ATS’s PhD and Basic and Translational Scientist Working Group. Learn more: site.thoracic.org/about-us/new...
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The ATS joins the @ama-assn.org and over 75 other medical societies and organizations in signing an open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines. Read the letter: www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite RFK Jr. The effort comes as the Trump administration has replaced members of the key federal vaccine advisory panel. wapo.st/3TBmtVd
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The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite RFK Jr.
The extraordinary effort to create a parallel system of recommending and perhaps even providing vaccines faces major challenges.
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The ATS Research Program has announced that five researchers have been selected to receive unrestricted research grants. Congrats to Chaofan Li, PhD; Monica Liu, MD, PhD; Luciana Padua Tavares, PhD; Richard Ramonell, MD; and B. Shoshana Zha, MD, PhD. Learn more: site.thoracic.org/press-releas...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
has been linked to sustained federal investment in research,” said the American Cancer Society Action Network. This commitment has helped lead to the remarkable statistic of over 18 million cancer survivors currently living in the U.S. today.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Dear scientists, Susan Collins of Maine is a critical vote in the Senate going forward and this event will bring pressure on her. If you’re in Maine, please see if you can help! Does anyone know academics at UMaine, Bowdoin, Bates, or USM? If so, please tag them.
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Indivisible Binghamton @indivisiblebing.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#ATS2026 is just a year away! The ATS is seeking input for sessions in all areas of respiratory, critical care and sleep medicine with a clinical, basic science and/or translational focus. Be sure to submit before June 25, 2025. Learn more and submit today: conference.thoracic.org/program/call...
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 18/05/2025
In the FIBRONEER-IPF phase 3 trial, nerandomilast slowed disease progression in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis as compared with placebo. Full trial results: nej.md/4mgWcIU #ATS2025 @atscommunity.bsky.social
A bar chart showing the change from baseline in forced vital capacity at week 52 in the overall trial population
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 18/05/2025
In the PREDMETH trial, first-line treatment of pulmonary sarcoidosis with methotrexate was noninferior to that with prednisone regarding the change at 24 weeks in the percentage of the predicted forced vital capacity. Full trial results: nej.md/4kdaf0o #ATS2025 @atscommunity.bsky.social
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First-Line Treatment of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis with Prednisone or Methotrexate | NEJM
Prednisone is currently recommended as the first-line treatment for pulmonary sarcoidosis but is associated with many side effects. Methotrexate, which is recommended as a second-line treatment, ap...
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wow! What a day for #CureIPF & #ATS2025! First positive drug trial in 10 years in IPF!! Treatment with Nerandomilast -> ⬇️FVC decline compared to placebo in patients on antifibrotics or untreated. Kudos Drs Richeldi and Wijsenbeek and #FibroneerIPF team!!! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Sarah Moore, MD @sarahmooremd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
See you soon, San Francisco! 🫁 Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues, and presenting my work on Staph-induced lung injury and repair (come see me at mini-symposium D97 on Wednesday!) #ATS2025 #RCMBatATS @ats-rcmb.bsky.social
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ATS RCMB Assembly @ats-rcmb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Come say hi and learn more about how to get involved at the RCMB Assembly Membership Meeting! Monday, May 19th, 5-7pm Moscone West Building, Level 3 Rooms 3000/3002/3004 #ATS2025 #RCMBatATS
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ATS RCMB Assembly @ats-rcmb.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Check out these exciting sessions at the Science and Innovation Center (including TWO from RCMB's own, @elizabethredente.bsky.social!)
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
San Francisco is ready for you! It’s not too late to join us at #ATS2025 On-site and same-day registration available. Conference.Thoracic.org
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Elizabeth Redente @elizabethredente.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It’s almost science time!! 🫁 Always innovative and fun at the SIC. Cannot wait to see you there! #ATS2025 @ats-assemblies.bsky.social @mareikelehmann.bsky.social @kambezbenam.bsky.social
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/05/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
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RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 02/05/2025
Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
President Trump has proposed a miserly budget for America with potential for untold suffering. What's at risk? Public health, patient care, the environment, America's universities, as well as the economy and state budgets. Congress, fix this mess! www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Put incompetent people in charge of important things and bad outcomes will happen The vaccine is 97% effective 97% Nothing is this effective in medicine Nothing This is not a serious person
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Why are they trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? #WithoutNSF the US would not be at the forefront of science innovation in the world. #SaveNSF #StandUpForScience www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The AJRCCM 2025 ATS International Conference Abstract Issue is out! With nearly 7,000 abstracts, organized into 36 pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine categories, this issue is full of innovative research that will be presented at #ATS2025 Read now: www.atsjournals.org/toc/ajrccm/2...
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Beth Moore @bmoore-beth.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I am excited to have the opportunity to serve on the ATS BOD! Please vote and put me to work for you and the society!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone
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RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death in children worldwide. Immunizing children against Hib disease, pneumococcus, measles and whooping cough (pertussis) is the most effective way to prevent #pneumonia. #VaccinesWork #WorldImmunizationWeek #WHO
Infant standing wearing raincoat with text Pneumonia is biggest infectious cause of death in children.
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“If NIH budget money, designated by Congress to be spent on medical cures, doesn’t go out over the next few months, all US scientists are looking at budget cuts that will not just take away cures but harm local economies.” URGENT!
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social
Colleges and universities are among America's most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
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What are America's most competitive exports? By dollars, not coal or corn.
Dollar value of exports in select sectors, 2024
Education-related travel
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.” The Lancet calls for Kennedy’s resignation. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Supporting medical science in the USA
The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
‘Matthew Memoli, then the acting director of the NIH, sent instructions to urgently “fund research” into “regret and detransition following social transition”’ Bhattacharya and RFK are producing a political autism/vax study… 1/ www.theatlantic.com/...
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‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’ - The Atlantic
The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"Dear @senmullin.bsky.social, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn..[and 6 others]" "These hastily-executed NIH contract cuts will damage medical research for diseases like cancer&dementia..." "It would be taking the side of cancer to do nothing to stop [the cuts]" Letter sent to R Senators:
To: The Republican Senate caucus, including Senators Mullin, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Blackburn, Tillis, Lankford, Tim Scott, Rick Scott, and Sullivan (see quotes below)
Dear Senators:
Earlier this month, the Trump administration confirmed ordering NIH and HHS to eliminate 35% of all contracts', amounting to a $2.6 billion cut to NIH?. We write to inform you that these cuts will damage vital clinical care and medical research, conducted at NIH and funded by NIH at centers across the country. Despite what the Trump administration's political employees claim, there is no way to implement these cuts without damaging the NIH mission to understand biology and to understand, prevent, and treat disease and improve human health.
All Americans are touched by diseases like stroke, cancer, and Alzheimer's that NIH works to prevent and cure. NIH has been a worldwide beacon and powerful leader in this research. Currently, this work is under attack from the Trump administration, notably but
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
not pity or dismissal. To every autistic person who heard those words and felt erased: you matter. You are not a burden. You are a vital part of our communities, our movements, and our future. We see you. We stand with you. And we will not let this kind of rhetoric go unchallenged.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Autistic people are not broken. They are not burdens. They are artists, athletes, workers, friends, partners, and taxpayers. They live full lives. And yes, they write poems. They go on dates. They contribute to their communities every single day. Autistic people deserve dignity and respect,
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u... #FYMM
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Harvard University Sues Trump Administration
Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.
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ATS RCMB Assembly @ats-rcmb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
On Thursday, April 24th at 3pm ET, join us for the fourth session of the Grant Writer's Toolkit: Mock Study Section These sessions are tailored to help ECPs master the art of writing successful grants, offering expert insights on both NIH & non-NIH grant processes. To register: shorturl.at/6euaf
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/04/2025
Overhead pays for things like ... Keeping the lights on at our universities. There are so many people to keep universities functioning, and those margins have also gotten incredibly tight. Janitorial staff, painters, locksmiths, purchasing (those brave souls).
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/04/2025
Happy to walk anyone through this. Our grants are proposed work. We often budget for things like salaries, student tuition, and equipment and consumables (in my field). We work on tight margins - we're often asked to "trim" or modify budgets because program officers try to spread the money.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“Nothing discussed in this letter comes within a million miles of any plausible jurisdiction of the U.S. attorney. And all of the questions posed by the letter relate directly to basic issues of editorial judgment that lie at the core of 1st Amendment protections”... www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t...
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Medical journal receives U.S. attorney letter seeking information about alleged bias
“Why would the interim US attorney be qualified to judge scientific viewpoints on the treatment of advanced lung disease and critical illness?"
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Wow! Read this letter! They first came for Universities, now they’re coming for Medical Journals, next they’ll come after all of us! Chest is one of the top journals in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Rigorous and fair. Let’s all stand with @accpchest.bsky.social!!
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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Nearly half of CDC's developmental disabilities and birth defects center is now off the job Secy Kennedy's layoffs included entire team working on sickle cell disease www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cut...
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CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs
Nearly half of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities was laid off.
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Free idea: a website where you enter the name of your disease/injury/condition/procedure and get shirts, stickers, signs, etc. with “NIH grant number X saved my life.”
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We see you all! Incredible turnout so far across the country — current estimates put participation at around 750,000 and counting! More accurate numbers are still coming in, with many events yet to begin.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
From a source at NIH: “Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed. The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad. Everything is stopped”
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ATS RCMB Assembly @ats-rcmb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Join us this Monday, April 7 at 11am ET for the Emerging and Junior Investigators/Researchers Forum Spring Retreat! The session will feature two expert presentations on cutting-edge research in lung health and aging. Learn more and register at the link below 👇 tinyurl.com/LungAgingRet...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Emerging and Junior Investigators/Researchers Forum Spring Retreat . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us for our annual retreat featuring two expert presentations on cutting-edge research in lung health and aging. Presenter #1: Natalia Vanegas, PhD Senior Research Associate, Lung Aging Lab, Divi...
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ATS RCMB Assembly @ats-rcmb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Join us Fri, April 11 @ 4pm ET for an important and timely webinar: Advocacy in a New Administrative Era: Focus on Early Career Professionals Ft. Gary Ewart (Chief, ATS Advocacy and Gov't Relations) & Jack Iwashyna, MD @iwashyna.bsky.social (JHU) Link to register👇 tinyurl.com/AdvocacyForE...
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American Thoracic Society | Advocacy in a New Administrative Era:…
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
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