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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Since we seemed to be making distinctions about “scientists”, I might point out the Dr. Jenna Norton earned an MPH and a PhD. Bhattacharya completed an MD but never completed other clinical training. He then got a PhD in econ. I believe he is the only NIH Director who never practiced medicine.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14/11/2025
Eric Green, who was director of the NHGRI until [he was forced out] this spring, has served on more than two dozen search committees for NIH leaders. The process “has worked amazingly well for decades,” he says, and including non-NIH scientists “added broad and deep expertise”…
science.org
Is NIH cutting corners as it rushes to fill leadership positions?
Unlike in the past, agency searches appear to exclude help from outside academic researchers
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The CDC RIFs are terrible in more ways than just immediate impact to people’s health. It’s bad enough that we will lose access to our own health data. It’s worse that these data can and will be weaponized against us. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-health-d...
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A Health Data Surveillance State that Dominates
It's a short trip from "data modernization" to national eugenics registries
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Finally, a good explainer of Dems' other shutdown demand, via @citizencohn.bsky.social. It's about trying to make it harder for the Trump admin to continue unilaterally (and illegally) cutting funding for government programs substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government
It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.
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Books.Sports.Politics @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
CDC Library staff and the larger Office of Science Quality and Library Services have yet to be re-hired at the CDC!!! Please contact your elected reps to advocate for the reinstatement of the CDC Library. Every little bit helps! #medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC
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Books.Sports.Politics @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The CDC Library performs the behind-the-scenes work that enables timely, effective public health responses. Without the library, the administration has placed a massive, unnecessary time tax on CDC staff, forcing them to spend hours searching for information instead of saving lives. #medlibs
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Quetzal1234 @quetzal1234.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hi, Every Library (a political group that advocates for libraries) just launched a petition and a way to email your reps to support the CDC librarians: Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype... Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr... Please share!
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PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library
Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“A horrifying read.” Thank you for the kind words.🙏
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
My op-ed just came out discussing how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers and, importantly, how we can push back and take our future into our own hands.
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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers
Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The thing we have learned very clearly about Jay Bhattacharya in the last six months is: He wants to be a podcaster. He seems to have no interest in running NIH or learning about science. He’s the leader of #darkscicomm
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Battlefields are changing, as Ukraine has showed us. I suspect that instead of building proxy militias with RPGs and rockets, Iran will rearm new fighters with FPV suicide drones and If they can do that into the millions... and if they dig in to avoid IDF bombs... Israel will have a big problem.
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sjh65.bsky.social @sjh65.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
SAMHSA funds "are the backbone of behavioral health in this country," Rachel Winograd, a psychologist at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, told NPR earlier this year. "If those grants were to go away, we'd be screwed." apple.news/A-qPCmN8WRbu...
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Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on — NPR
Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/10/2025
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/10/2025
Does the public has a good sense of just how radical are the Trump/Project 2025 claims of presidential power? "In effect, OPM has asked the courts to invalidate any provision that restricts the president’s ability to remove [civil servants]" - @nicholasbednar.bsky.social
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A Primer on the Senior Executive Service | Lawfare
The Trump administration argues that the removal power extends to top career executives, endangering civil service tenure protections.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
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The Irredeemable DOJ
Why James has an even stronger case of selective prosecution than Comey.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing. undark.org/2025/10/09/o... 1/2
undark.org
NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation
The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.
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Alt The National Institute on Aging @altthenia.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🧵1/6 From our colleagues @27unihted.bsky.social On October 1st, four #NIH directors and one high ranking official were all terminated. This is a devastating loss for our agency and our country. We spoke to some of their colleagues to learn about them and their amazing work.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 13/10/2025
Reporting on conversations with four, fired, infectious disease scientists, including two from USAID, about "their work, their lives now and the state of the nation’s pandemic preparedness".
nytimes.com
They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too. youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...
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Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Why would they recuse themselves when that was exactly why they were inserted into the military?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Definitely worth a read! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... 1/2
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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers
Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Smart thread on billionaires and Congressional power 👇
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Jay Bhattacharya’s job is fulltime podcaster and propagandist. He’s not at #NIH to actually do anything about science, other than to lie about it to the press. Shame on anyone who invites him to speak.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This NYT essay today is just the Scopes Monkey Trial all over again: conservative religious partisans trying to take down science, education, and modernity. This time, the oligarchs are all lined up on the anti-science side, and funding it.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Today, the New York Times published a long essay glorifying Jay Bhattacharya, the Trump NIH director. What?⁉️ Here’s the explanation: That essay was written by the editor of a Trumpist Republican journal, funded by a Trumpist org that hates science. SHAME on the Times. 🧪1/
us. "151 Writing in National Review, the journal's editor Adam Keiper described The New Atlantis as being written from a "particularly American and conservative way of thinking about both the blessings and the burdens of modern science and technology". 61 New Atlantis authors and bioethicists publishing in other journals have also similarly referred to The New Atlantis as being written from a social conservative stance that
utilizes religion. 71181[9][101
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 22/09/2025
Second, the op-ed desk. Oh boy The NYT opinion section has no editorial standards when it comes to evidence, accuracy, contextuality, or public relevance Instead, it is best characterized as a branding endeavor for the NYT to virtue-signal, and worse, a mouthpiece for owner class interests 5/
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Jay Bhattacharya is a Republican political operative, at the head of the Trump NIH. He was installed to lie to the public.
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you aren't familiar with how drugs get their labels you may not realize how bonkers this is but this is absolutely shocking, horrifying, and dangerous stuff happening.
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
But many died unnecessarily due to trump's failed response. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
theguardian.com
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies
The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
All About the Tylenol-Autism Brouhaha www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... via @jonathanjarry.bsky.social "A large amount of scientific evidence points out to autism being mainly caused by variations in certain genes..." Leucovorin "...the scientific evidence behind this is of terrible quality."
mcgill.ca
All About the Tylenol-Autism Brouhaha
At an unhinged press conference last Monday, Donald Trump and his medical acolytes revealed an actionable cause of autism at long last: Tylenol. In what felt like a social media post come to life, Tru...
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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
We need district judges to stand up to the lawless Supreme Court. Shame on Judge Alsup for obeying in advance. The correct move is, as John Oliver said on @lastweektonight.com : “F you. Make me.” Rule correctly, then let the Supreme Court overrule if they will.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
A new email to Director Bhattacharya this morning. 1/n
Dear Director Bhattacharya:

I listened to more of your conversation with Glenn Beck. You made a number of statements that are false and misleading. You have considerable responsibilities in your current position and need to live up to them.

You dismiss critics of President Trump's comments at the press conference by saying:

"I think the key point here is something called "Trump Derangement Syndrome".
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
If only there had been an overwhelming number clues in major newspapers for years that this guy was a crank. If only.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2025
With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.
wrd.cm
Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?
With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 28/09/2025
Sec Air Force Meink reminds all Airmen & Guardians that social media use requires discipline & must not be used to undermine readiness. On that, I agree. I'll also add that we must demand that the chain of command adhere to & set that standard. Please visit Truth Social for bad examples from the CIC
The full text of the Department of the Air Force memorandum, dated SEP 16 2025, and subject "Personnel Responsibilities Associated with Public Communications," is as follows:
​MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DAF PERSONNEL
​SUBJECT: Personnel Responsibilities Associated with Public Communications
​References: (a) DoDD 1344.10, Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces, 19 February 2008; DAFI 51-508, Political Activities, Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly, 30 March 2023;
(b) DoDI 5400.17, Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Policy, 12 August 2022;
(c) DoDI 5410.19 V2, Community Outreach Activities: OSD Outreach Programs, Speaking Engagements, and Support to Non-DoD Organizations, 29 September 2021;
(d) Articles 88, 89, 92, 133, & 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ);
(e) Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments from OSD (P&R) Reminder on Service Member Responsibilities Associated with Public Communications, 19 February 2025.
​Department of the Air Force (DAF) personnel must maintain the highest standards of conduct without exception. Conduct that falls short directly undermines the American people's trust in our institution. For uniformed service members, this clear expectation applies at all times—on- and off-duty. It is the responsibility of every Airman and Guardian in the DAF to understand and ensure full compliance with all laws and regulations governing speech and political activities. There is no room for ambiguity or delay in maintaining the integrity that our nation demands and deserves.
​Airmen and Guardians are personally responsible for what they say and do, and this includes social media. You must avoid any social media posts that unlawfully attack or demean a person or group based on characteristics such as race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or political beliefs. Social media posts that include offensive and inappropriate language or behavior, that advocate for or condone violence in any manner, or that bully or …The full text of the Department of the Air Force memorandum, dated SEP 16 2025, and subject "Personnel Responsibilities Associated with Public Communications," is as follows:
​MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DAF PERSONNEL
​SUBJECT: Personnel Responsibilities Associated with Public Communications
​References: (a) DoDD 1344.10, Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces, 19 February 2008; DAFI 51-508, Political Activities, Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly, 30 March 2023;
(b) DoDI 5400.17, Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Policy, 12 August 2022;
(c) DoDI 5410.19 V2, Community Outreach Activities: OSD Outreach Programs, Speaking Engagements, and Support to Non-DoD Organizations, 29 September 2021;
(d) Articles 88, 89, 92, 133, & 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ);
(e) Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments from OSD (P&R) Reminder on Service Member Responsibilities Associated with Public Communications, 19 February 2025.
​Department of the Air Force (DAF) personnel must maintain the highest standards of conduct without exception. Conduct that falls short directly undermines the American people's trust in our institution. For uniformed service members, this clear expectation applies at all times—on- and off-duty. It is the responsibility of every Airman and Guardian in the DAF to understand and ensure full compliance with all laws and regulations governing speech and political activities. There is no room for ambiguity or delay in maintaining the integrity that our nation demands and deserves.
​Airmen and Guardians are personally responsible for what they say and do, and this includes social media. You must avoid any social media posts that unlawfully attack or demean a person or group based on characteristics such as race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or political beliefs. Social media posts that include offensive and inappropriate language or behavior, that advocate for or condone violence in any manner, or that bully or …
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Just got this RFK Jr brainworm sticker from @firedbutfighting.bsky.social! They have a great shop, and the money goes to a good cause!
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CDC Mutual Aid Network @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Questions about vaccines for children? There's a free, virtual town hall with CDC alumni @drdemetre.bsky.social this week:
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New article in Research Professional News on NIH and the SCOTUS ruling [Big thanks to the editors for putting this in front of their paywall] www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-... 1/6
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Supreme Court's NIH decision has ‘chilling effect on science’ - Research Professional News
Research community fears judgment allowing $800m funding cull will tie up science in courts
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/08/2025
This isn't a walkout. It's a clap out - a way we have often supported our leaving leaders. Staff are taking admin leave for it. And wow, what an amazing and inspiring show of community support. 💚🥹💚 The US Public Health Service (uniform: service dress blues) will be holding a salute send-off now.
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