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We commemorate and mourn the losses resulting from cuts to funding, programs, and people that have been both discriminatory and indiscriminate. We gather every Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro station at NIH in Bethesda. Opinions are our own.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 4h
@nihvigils.bsky.social In the news. Science. I am speaking in that Vigil picture. How do I add this to my publication list? www.science.org/content/arti...
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ScienceAdviser: Finally, a transgenic cephalopod
Today in Science and science: An archaic lineage made boars big, 142 years of cheese, and more
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h
Doctors and researchers used to have free rein experiment on people living in poverty, notably Black Americans and women, without their consent. They rationalized that since they were getting “free” healthcare, they owed something to society. And now RFK Jr. is doing the same.
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RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event
Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A year ago, Jeffries promised accountability. Will he remember in 3 months? We may need to remind him.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New HHS Hall of Heroes: John Snow, Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister, Alice Stewart, Herbert Needleman, Frances Kelsey, Rachel Carson, Jay Bhattacharya bit.ly/4hg6Rn0
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ADM Brian Christine, MD (@ADM_Christine) on X
Yesterday at @HHSGov, we unveiled the Hall of Heroes—honoring men and women who had the courage to pursue truth in science, medicine, and public health, even when the evidence challenged convention an...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excited to have @jeremymberg.bsky.social with us this week at the @nihvigils.bsky.social this week, with @27unihted.bsky.social Tune in below!
Jeremy Berg speaking at the NIH Vigil
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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This weekend, I spoke at the SOS for Health rally at the @nihvigils.bsky.social Organized by @27unihted.bsky.social Here is the link to the full Livestream. www.instagram.com/savehealthre...
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Save Health Research on Instagram: "Live stream of the SOS for Health Event: Speakers: Jeremy Berg, Dave G., Nicolette P., Sylvia C., Lee Eiden, Anna Culbertson, et al."
28 likes, 0 comments - savehealthresearch on September 26, 2026: "Live stream of the SOS for Health Event: Speakers: Jeremy Berg, Dave G., Nicolette P., Sylvia C., Lee Eiden, Anna Culbertson, et al."...
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 26/09/2026
A great day with @nihvigils.bsky.social and @jeremymberg.bsky.social . Dr. Berg's ties are the right length. He can show @podcastjay.bsky.social how to tie a tie properly.
NIHers at a vigilDr. Jeremy Berg and me.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
impeachvought.com
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themedici.bsky.social @themedici.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vought has been breaking the law since this regime took power. He must be impeached and removed from office.
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Greg Burke @gregoryburke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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RFK Jr. Took Money Out of Key Health Agency for His Own Security
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took millions from the Office of Minority Health in order to fund his exorbitant security costs.
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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you to Sen Collins and Sen. Murray @murray.senate.gov and their staff for crunching this crazy proposal. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Collins: White House drops effort to politicize health research grants
The White House halted a planned executive order that would have put control over NIH research grants in the hands of political appointees.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As you call members of Congress to raise concern about a Vought-led grant review panel, encourage them to sign onto proposed legislation that could help: 1) Follow the Science Act by @degette.house.gov would remove political appointees from the grant-making process: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Women are half the population, and yet the majority of physicians have NO training on how to treat women with menopause. I talked to Dr. Rachel Rubin and Dr. Kelly Casperson about how women are demanding better, and why Congress should PASS my bill to invest in menopause research & training.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Honestly, this is a vast improvement.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Vought is staging a power grab on NIH funding. NIH Vigil next Sat Sept 26 we’ll be telling him not on our watch. Join us. 1/2 www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'll be there. Join us. @nihvigils.bsky.social
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My quote of the day From Plantiffs v. NIH, Bhattacharya, HHS, Kennedy, and DOGE, filed September 16, 2026
The Challenged Policies violate the First Amendment by imposing viewpoint-based bars or penalties on government funding designed to facilitate private speech. Defendants are discriminating against Plaintiffs and the proposed class by inhibiting their ability to fairly compete for or retain NIH funding based on the fact, or Defendants’ perception, that Plaintiffs’ research-related speech will communicate disfavored views concerning (1) DEI, (2) gender identity, (3) climate change, (4) vaccines, and (5) misinformation.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/09/2026
A few folks asked us to talk about drug-resistant ringworm, so here we go! Ringworm is a common fungal infection of the skin, hair, or nails. Most cases are mild and treatable. But some emerging types are spreading to new places, causing more extensive infections, or becoming harder to treat.
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Emerging Types of Ringworm
Two new types of ringworm: one is antifungal-resistant and another spreads through sexual contact.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/09/2026
🧵 Fibroids 101 A follower asked us to explain uterine fibroids, so let’s start with the basics! Fibroids are benign (not cancerous) growths that develop from the muscle tissue of the uterus. They’re also called leiomyomas or myomas.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Angel Mendez🏳️‍🌈🦋 @akm6.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Houston Muslim leaders tout voter mobilization as they bash new social studies curriculum “”We are not asking the board to hide an uncomfortable history, but to apply the same intellectual standing to everyone,"” Vow to register 1000 voters a week. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Houston Muslim leaders say they're registering 1,000 voters a week
The president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston said his organization is registering 1,000 voters a week as Texas officials grow hostile to Muslims.
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thank you to the plaintiffs, the staff at Protect Democracy, staff at ACLU, ACLU of Northern California, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Jacobson Lawyers Group, and all who supported this immense effort. protectdemocracy.org/work/researc...
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Researchers challenge NIH screening of grants for disfavored viewpoints - Protect Democracy
Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At 18, I got myself vaccinated. My mother claimed religious exemptions to skirt school requirements when I was a child. Recently, I find myself reflecting on how lucky I was to grow up then and not now. And how grateful I am to the largely vaccinated community I grew up around, who kept me safe.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Monday’s Beltway message
Overpass message that says GRIFTERS GONNA GRIFT BUT VOTERS GONNA VOTE
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Alt WASO NPS @altwasonps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once upon a time, a bunch of random people stood up at the same time in defiance of something they opposed. And through the fog and fear and despair they found each other. They formed unbreakable friendships, they did things that will never be known to most.. all that matters is that they stood up..
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New from me. Union nurses warn 🚨 Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system, which was already in crisis. I speak with a panel of @nationalnurses.bsky.social from Maine, Missouri, and Illinois. This is a must-listen! @therealnews.com therealnews.com/palantir-nur...
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'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17/09/2026
Trying not to go to bed angry, but just read that RFK Jr. is headlining a conference tomorrow hosted by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vax organization he founded. 😡 Tonight, we try to calm ourselves and rest. Tomorrow, let’s channel that rage into something productive. Good night 💚
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You don't solve a budget shortfall by auctioning off 45 million acres of national forest to the timber industry. It's not a management plan; it's a taxpayer-funded liquidation of public land. Demand your representative block this corporate giveaway: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
$9.5 Billion. That’s how much Trump paid Feds not to work. My >5 months on paid admin leave is barely a blip in the grand total. But I did see the waste first hand. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort (Gift Article)
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From veterans, healthcare workers & health policy & bioinformatics scholars w/ frontline & leadership experience inside VA who aim to protect veterans by ensuring that decisions about VA health information technology are driven by safety, evidence, transparency & accountability. stoptherollout.org
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Stop the Rollout
The 'Federal EHR,' from those inside the system — and what to do about it.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A friend shared this article from Third Way, and I am just floored by the absurdity. The article provides actual lists of words that democrats shouldn’t use. And it encapsulates everything that is wrong with democratic leadership. www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...
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Was It Something I Said?
For a party that spends billions of dollars trying to find the perfect language to connect to voters, Democrats and their allies use an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dre...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bhattacharya’s NIH has made a habit of ignoring the expert input of NIH staff. They push forward “solutions” even when we point out the new problems they will create. The consequences come in harm to research participants, lost research advances & a contracted workforce. substack.com/@27unihted/n...
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Changing policies without staff input is creating foreseeable damage
Concern 6 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bhattacharya claims under oath that he’s trying to increase trust in NIH. But his past actions helped create the mistrust, and his actions as NIH Director seem to have the opposite effect. 27unihted.substack.com/p/declining-...
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Declining Trust in NIH: Fact Check, Part 9
Jay Bhattacharya ignores how he contributed to lowering trust in public health by spreading disinformation
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/09/2026
RFK Jr. continues to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation. He's making Americans LESS healthy.  Fire RFK Jr.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New email to Director Bhattacharya to start Labor Day weekend regarding the secret transfer of appropriated funds to the Department of Defense.
Dear Director Bhattacharya:

Nothing screams "radical transparency" like quietly signing an agreement with another agency transferring hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated to NIH that is only publicly disclosed through investigative reporting and only confirmed by a vague statement by you on "X".

As you know, I have been tracking NIH commitments in as close to real time as possible. I am flattered that NIH has mimicked my "funding curves" on the front page of the NIH Reporter website. Apparently, I will need to consider essentially secret interagency transfers in my analysis.

This is another good contribution to your legacy at NIH..."Director Bhattacharya broke new ground and many other things."

Sincerely,

Jeremy M. Berg
Director NIGMS, 2003-2011
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Die & test positive for measles, it’s a measles death. RFK Jr & CDC Dir don’t want you to know how many babies died. Nor the men who failed the families they serve. Vote for leaders who think your child deserves to live. @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/who-is-acc...
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Who is Accountable for Measles Deaths?
Politicians are not authorized to distort reality to avoid answering for the deaths their actions have caused
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/09/2026
Dear Americans, The president golfs every weekend while getting soldiers needlessly killed and and got mad that you get “too many holidays.” National strike when?
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today’s Beltway message
Highway overpass message that reads CON MAN HAD NO PLAN FOR IRAN
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 31/08/2026
The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
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Samuel Alito Holds More Than $175,000 In Fossil Fuel Investments Ahead Of Hearing Exxon Case, Disclosure Shows
The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 31/08/2026
💉 Where can you find accurate information on vaccines❓ ✅ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-... ✅ Medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and... ✅ CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
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