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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Feb 27

NEW:

“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”

newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · Apr 19

There were more lab members who started bowling but not everyone survived to the end. They’re so competitive 🙄.

Torikul Islam, PhD @mtislam.bsky.social · Apr 19

The Morrison Lab Bowling Event.

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · Apr 19

Torikul won again!

Torikul Islam, PhD @mtislam.bsky.social · Apr 19

The Morrison Lab Bowling Event.

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Torikul Islam, PhD @mtislam.bsky.social · Apr 19

The Morrison Lab Bowling Event.

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · Apr 11

Giants in neuroscience and leaders for the entire time I’ve been in science (Yuh-Nung interviewed me for a postdoctoral fellowship in 1995).

Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Apr 10

This was the last @hhmi.org conference Lilly and Yuh-Nung Jan attended as investigators. They're becoming HHMI emeritus but still run a thriving NIH-funded lab. From cloning the first potassium ion channel (Shaker) to decoding neuronal development, the Jans have made a huge impact.

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · Apr 10

Kennedy’s comments on the Novavax covid vaccine approval delay aren’t scientifically accurate and don’t conform with FDA law, experts said.

Kennedy’s Comments On Novavax Delay Scientifically, Legally Inaccurate, Experts Say

The HHS Secretary publicly acknowledged the unusual delay of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine licensure, but his justification was neither scientifically accurate nor legally justifiable, experts said.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Apr 10

This was the last @hhmi.org conference Lilly and Yuh-Nung Jan attended as investigators. They're becoming HHMI emeritus but still run a thriving NIH-funded lab. From cloning the first potassium ion channel (Shaker) to decoding neuronal development, the Jans have made a huge impact.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Apr 6

Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council of the United States: tariffs were not introduced for Russia because it's in the middle of peace negotiations.

(By the way, Ukraine is subject to President Trump's tariffs).

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STAT @statnews.com · Apr 1

#Breaking: HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...

HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies

Layoff notices began arriving early Tuesday for thousands of employees of HHS and its subsidiary agencies, with as many 10,000 workers potentially expected to be hit by the cuts.

www.statnews.com

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · Mar 29

America will be less healthy & less safe as a result of Peter Marks' forced resignation from FDA. He & FDA protected us from people who enrich themselves selling snake oil: unproven stem cell therapies, vaccine alternatives, other fake treatments. Thank you for all you did for public health Peter.

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@IM_Crit_ @imcrit.bsky.social · Mar 29

The resignation letter of FDA’s director for the Center for Biological Evaluation & Research

#medsky

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · Mar 21

Kymmenen pistettä ja papukaijamerkki!

Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social · Mar 20

For the 8th year in a row, Finland is the happiest country on earth! ❤️🇫🇮🌍

"They’re wealthy, they’re healthy, have social connections, social support, [and] a connection with nature."

"They’re not happy, joyful, dancing in the streets type people, but they’re very content with their lives."

Finland is the world’s happiest country yet again. Here are the top 10 on the list

For the 8th successive year, Finland ranks no.1 on the annual World Happiness Report.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · Mar 21

Why waste time briefing Elon Musk, when you could just share America's most sensitive military secrets with the Chinese government directly?

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Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social · Mar 20

For the 8th year in a row, Finland is the happiest country on earth! ❤️🇫🇮🌍

"They’re wealthy, they’re healthy, have social connections, social support, [and] a connection with nature."

"They’re not happy, joyful, dancing in the streets type people, but they’re very content with their lives."

Finland is the world’s happiest country yet again. Here are the top 10 on the list

For the 8th successive year, Finland ranks no.1 on the annual World Happiness Report.

fortune.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Mar 20

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · Mar 14

Another outstanding story of the real-world impact of the short-sighted cuts to NIH and other federal support for the best scientific research infrastructure in the world.

www.wsj.com/articles/bio...

Bioscience Funding Confusion Threatens U.S. Innovation

‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns.

www.wsj.com

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

www.thelancet.com

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · Mar 10

Congratulations to Liming Du, now on the faculty @iShandong university, for discovering that increased interferon levels in aging bone marrow remodels the stromal microenvironment around arterioles and contributes to the decline in lymphopoiesis.

Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social · Mar 10

ONLINE in @PNASNews: @seanjmorrison.bsky.social & former postdoc Liming Du, Ph.D., have discovered the periarteriolar environment in the bone marrow becomes inflamed during aging, remodeling stromal cells and reducing the production of lymphocytes ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #relentlessdiscovery

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social · Mar 10

ONLINE in @PNASNews: @seanjmorrison.bsky.social & former postdoc Liming Du, Ph.D., have discovered the periarteriolar environment in the bone marrow becomes inflamed during aging, remodeling stromal cells and reducing the production of lymphocytes ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #relentlessdiscovery

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Mar 10

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (and what we stand to lose)
@nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Mar 9

House cuts to NIH (to fund billionaires) would cut the Cures Act (passed with bipartisan support) by ~$300 million or 70%. Scientific loss includes cancer research, adult stem cell research, brain/dementia research, and a critical data collection project to study rare diseases, among other topics.

Additionally, the Cures Act provides multiyear funding to four highly innovative scientific initiatives:

The All of Us Research Program, formerly known as the PMI Cohort Program,
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative seeks to better understand how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information, which will transform the ability to diagnose and treat neurological/mental disorders.
The Cancer Moonshot℠
The Regenerative Medicine Innovation Project will support clinical research in coordination with the FDA using adult stem cells to further the field of regenerative medicine.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · Mar 9

Scathing, and rightly so. www.thefp.com/p/trumps-cry...

Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds

To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.

www.thefp.com

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Mar 8

Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...

Stand Up for Science Rally Sees Mix of Science, Politics and Anxiety

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts.

www.nytimes.com

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · Mar 8

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines
Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them.
By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · Mar 8

Way to go Anna!!

Anna Molofsky Lab @annamolofskylab.bsky.social · Mar 7

Agree! An honor to receive the Bowes award together with @kampmann.bsky.social - a testament to the incredible collaborations at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social that make our science possible!

Martin Kampmann @kampmann.bsky.social · Mar 6

Honored and grateful to receive the 2025 Bowes Biomedical Investigator Award - along with my friend, colleague and collaborator @annamolofskylab.bsky.social
😊🎉🎉🎉

www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/02...

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Anna Molofsky Lab @annamolofskylab.bsky.social · Mar 7

Agree! An honor to receive the Bowes award together with @kampmann.bsky.social - a testament to the incredible collaborations at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social that make our science possible!

Martin Kampmann @kampmann.bsky.social · Mar 6

Honored and grateful to receive the 2025 Bowes Biomedical Investigator Award - along with my friend, colleague and collaborator @annamolofskylab.bsky.social
😊🎉🎉🎉

www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/02...

How to Build Bold Thinking to Foster Scientific Breakthroughs

Martin Kampmann, PhD, and Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD, are the 2025 recipients of the Bowes Biomedical Investigator award, which supports scientists who take novel approaches and have the potentia...

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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · Mar 7

Measles outbreak in the U.S. continues to expand with 39 new cases in Texas (198 total) and 20 new cases in New Mexico (30 total)
h/t BNO News

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Science Magazine @science.org · Mar 7

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events

Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · Mar 5

At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract.

His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · Mar 4

I opened by saying how much better it was when "decline of the American empire" was the title of a Quebec sex comedy rather than the foreign policy goal of the president of the United States www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aD...

In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's tariffs against Canada and America's place in the world

YouTube video by The Hub Canada

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