Jonathan Rosenblum
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Maybe another useful entry point for this recent article about why several very successful academics have left Harvard to more efficiently bring their science to patients.
NIH is amazing, but it's not intended for making medicine.
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...
#medsky
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NIH is amazing, but it's not intended for making medicine.
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...
#medsky
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Careful Rams.
21-0 in the first half against a team you should destroy is the most dangerous lead in the NFL.
21-0 in the first half against a team you should destroy is the most dangerous lead in the NFL.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Careful Rams.
21-0 in the first half against a team you should destroy is the most dangerous lead in the NFL.
21-0 in the first half against a team you should destroy is the most dangerous lead in the NFL.
And awesome.
Why have I never thought of suspending my bathing suit before?
Why have I never thought of suspending my bathing suit before?
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
And awesome.
Why have I never thought of suspending my bathing suit before?
Why have I never thought of suspending my bathing suit before?
The guy who said nobody should listen to his medical advice is personally rewriting the Centers of Disease Control website.
What kind of person does this?
Someone you cannot trust.
What kind of person does this?
Someone you cannot trust.
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The guy who said nobody should listen to his medical advice is personally rewriting the Centers of Disease Control website.
What kind of person does this?
Someone you cannot trust.
What kind of person does this?
Someone you cannot trust.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
Weird and stupid
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Weird and stupid
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We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
People are so weird
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
People are so weird
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Of course the White House is leaning into this. Because apparently they don't realize we exported more higher ed last year than natural gas & coal *combined*
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Of course the White House is leaning into this. Because apparently they don't realize we exported more higher ed last year than natural gas & coal *combined*
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
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As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I read Tbe Double Helix when I was in graduate school.
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
Great thread from Jeremy. But 16/41 leapt out and reminded me again of learning about base pairing in high school. That was _the_ moment I knew I wanted to study biochemistry.
Now I really must go read Heraclitean Fire...
Now I really must go read Heraclitean Fire...
He may not have fully understood this, but Crick did because of his work on helical diffraction. The question of where the bases were remained. According to The Double Helix, Watson was focused on this and eventually figured out the A-T and G-C pairing that proved so important.
16/41
16/41
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I read Tbe Double Helix when I was in graduate school.
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
The thing that most impacted me then and has stuck with me til now: they went on a ski trip (or some other vacation) when they were on the cusp of solving the structure.
How!?!
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And here's a YouTube link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
YouTube video by The New Yorker
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
And here's a YouTube link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
Could this be true?
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Could this be true?
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Francis Crick, an academic for half a century, applied for only a SINGLE grant?!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The plaintiffs have experienced violence for exercising their First Amendment rights under the constitution, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The plaintiffs have experienced violence for exercising their First Amendment rights under the constitution, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.
Thinking a lot about this thread tonight.
A thread about keeping one’s head above water under the current conditions and not being incapacitated by rage, fear, despair or some mixture of those (1/11)
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Thinking a lot about this thread tonight.
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A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
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This is pathetic on two counts. First, the “Dear Leader” worship from Trump’s Cabinet is mind-boggling. Second, it’s dishonest — Trump’s been defunding science, driving talent overseas, and creating a brain drain.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is pathetic on two counts. First, the “Dear Leader” worship from Trump’s Cabinet is mind-boggling. Second, it’s dishonest — Trump’s been defunding science, driving talent overseas, and creating a brain drain.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
Now, if there were a Nobel for idiocy, he’d be a finalist.
Halloween foliage
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Halloween foliage
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This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...
www.cnn.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
There should be an Olympics for most confusing graphical abstract.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There should be an Olympics for most confusing graphical abstract.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
I thought these things were supposed to make it easier to understand what you did than reading your paper! Guess not.
As someone who was on THAT ROAD on THAT DAY this is infuriating.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Marines at Camp Pendleton fired 30 155mm rounds over Interstate 5 on Oct. 17 in a test run for an Oct. 18 celebration, while cars drove past. trib.al/EARzH4Z
Marines fired artillery over freeway without warning during rehearsal
Marines at Camp Pendleton fired 30 155mm rounds over Interstate 5 on Oct. 17 in a test run for an Oct. 18 celebration, while cars drove past.
trib.al
October 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
As someone who was on THAT ROAD on THAT DAY this is infuriating.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Just absolutely reckless behavior for no reason.
Seeing lots of fall foliage pix. We don't have so much of that in SoCal, but we do have...
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Seeing lots of fall foliage pix. We don't have so much of that in SoCal, but we do have...