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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold

@marielouh.bsky.social
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Professor, M.D., Ph.D., Scientist, Swedish/American, Concerned Citizen, Dog and Nature Lover

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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
thespectator.com/topic/cured-... Cured DEI? Curiously, the link to the "new formal priorities for the NIH" in the last paragraph goes to an NIH notice in April 2025 that was rescinded in June!
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How we cured DEI at the National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health will no longer fund research based on DEI that has diverted resources from advancing health
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I have a strange feeling that fewer and fewer of my fellow scientists post anything critical on social media. I wonder why?
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors open.substack.com/pub/sciencea... Job ads on FB for 12 Institute Directors do not inspire confidence in the hiring process!
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Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors
The institute directors at NIH are top scientific leaders who in principle can redirect grant money as they please. The Trump NIH must not install new directors without a real hiring process.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress.
Sidelining our field will inevitably leave us all unprepared for the next threat
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
grants.nih.gov/news-events/... Only the top third will be discussed, but the middle third will still be considered for funding (even though it was not discussed! SIC!). This seems to be the end of impactful peer review, at least for now!
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Emergency Modifications to NIH Peer Review | Grants & Funding
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel... "Without the use of paylines or any other transparent metric that’s clearly available to the public, the risk is that funding decisions will get even more politicized and less scientific.""Will this allow NIH grants to be awarded more as political favors? "
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New NIH Process To Choose Grant Awardees Will No Longer Use Paylines
The National Institutes of Health has just announced that it will no longer rely on paylines to determine who gets NIH grant funding. Here's what this change might do.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The inside scoop on how RFK Jr. has maneuvered to dismantle America's longstanding vaccine system. It's a tangled tale including a government whistleblower, activists, a discredited researcher and CDC officials who fought back, then quit. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
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Liz Borkowski @lizborkowski.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
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New NIH Policies Make It Easier to End Grants, Ignore Peer Review
Also, long-time AIDS leader was reassigned
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Institute Directors have a huge amount of power at NIH. To maintain (what’s left of) the integrity of NIH, we need to make sure qualified scientists with topic-specific expertise and leadership experience remain at the helm.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
She was a remarkable person.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The first mass shooting made very few headlines. Damaged by war?
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I hope not!
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is good advice for now!
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclo... Does anyone remember reading this? I read it many decades ago, but I still remember that it made a great impression on me. It was written by Sartre in 1936—food for thought right now.
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Erostratus by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939 | Encyclopedia.com
EROSTRATUS Source for information on Erostratus by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939: Reference Guide to Short Fiction dictionary.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sometimes AI can be used to counteract “amateur science” faster than you can! A 2024 study of nearly 2.5 million children in Sweden found no causal link between prenatal acetaminophen (Tylenol) use and an increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
On August 12, 2017, I staffed an aid station for the counter protest against the fascists who came to Cville. Nazis attacked the church we were using, and antifascists put their bodies between my patients and harm.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Sharing stories matters. If you’ve faced grant terminations, funding delays, loss of research jobs, etc., your voice is needed. Help show the real impact of NIH funding interference - tell your story so we don’t lose innovation, cures, and hope for the future. www.27unihted.org/biohealthbeats
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Biohealth Beats — 27 UNIHTED
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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If you don't know, this is a secondhand account of what measles subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is like. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
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What Measles Did to My Family
My mom always told me that measles was what made my sister sick. I was 8 when she finally explained the whole thing.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Another SSPE story.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Incredibly sad, but predictable. SPPE is a horrible 100% fatal, slowly progressing disease that is rarely ever seen in vaccinated kids. The prevalence has been predicted to be about 1/600 cases after a natural infection. You do the math; we are likely to see many more cases in the coming years.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Big Event September 16th saveaidsresearch.org
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Answer to one of my questions. Statistics like this are not bad when it comes to diseases, but.....
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... Student newspapers are an important source of information and opinions right now. This is an opinion piece from The Cavalier Daily, our UVA student-run newspaper.
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CULLEN: Let's not make the U. like it used to be
Fortunately, there is a remedy for this that can produce a diverse student body without resorting to affirmative action based on race or gender. It is affirmative action based on socioeconomic status.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Thank God for student newspapers! Seems to be one of the few ways in which we can get real information about the ongoing government/university battle. In most places, the universities are hiding all information behind attorney/client privileges.
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Harvard Was Cleared To Get Some Federal Funds. Then DOGE Stepped In. | News | The Harvard Crimson
DOGE officials have used their control of a federal payment system to keep money away from Harvard — even after a judge’s ruling required the National Institutes of Health to let some grants start flo...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My quote of the day Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. Frederick Buechner
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Comment on the Fallows post
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
.. and then there is this. When I was a graduate student in Sweden, we still had several cases of SSPE, a slow, deadly encephalitis. It is a horrible disease and only one of the complications after a natural infection. As we experienced this year, kids can also die quickly from this disease.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This graph speaks for itself.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s... A giant in science who meant a lot to me and so many other scientists. Such sad news, he will be sorely missed. May his memory be a blessing.
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I am old enough to have experienced several women suffering and dying from this disease. The vaccine changed this in a much more dramatic way than I could dream of (even as a virologist).
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Brown-nosing at the highest? level! Obviously, criticizing Russia for Putin for his relationship with oligarchs is like throwing stones in a glasshouse.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Supposedly confirmed. Very unclear what this will mean for ranking based on peer review, but clearly not good!
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Questions I have right now: 1) How much of the NIH budget for this fiscal year remains as of now. 2) How mucn is likely to not be spent by September 30? 3) What will happen to the unspent money after that date?
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
www.facebook.com/share/v/1JoF... Complete exchange, still unbelievable
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Redirecting...
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Look at their faces!
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Unbelievable!
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 03/09/2025
HHS staff are coming together to demand the resignation of RFKjr. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...
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HHS employees demand RFK Jr. resign for ‘compromising the health of this nation’ | CNN
More than 1,000 current and former employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote a letter to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday, arguing that his leadership has “put the ...
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Whatever RFK Jr. is, he is not a powerhouse.
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Feeling mitochondrially challenged lately? Here are two classic reviews on #mitochondria that should help. www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...
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The Origin and Diversification of Mitochondria
Moving beyond the simplistic view of mitochondria as the power house of the cell, Roger et al. present the immense diversity of mitochondria and mitochondrial functions across eukaryotes, and bring th...
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A win for Harvard ( at least a temporary one)!
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is certainly not good news.
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
God help us!
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Looks convincing to me, but I guess RFK Jr. et al. never saw this?😉
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
You do not have to be a historian to realize this!
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Marie-Louise (Lou) Hammarskjold @marielouh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Incredible that so many people still seem to believe this! Alternatively, they may simply not care or be informed and educated enough to understand the consequences. However, it is hard to know how to break through to them and make them understand.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
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