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Angelika Jacobs
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Former scientist gone science journalist gone science writer/editor for the University of Basel. Constant nerd. 🤓
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March 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Image with text that reads: It's happening now: - All US health meetings around the world remain cancelled indefinitely. This includes critical ones on ‘bird flu,’ flu vaccines, and seasonal flu - and things like the recent Ebola case in Uganda, and other global health crises. Disease respects no borders. To combat disease we must benefit from and contribute to international information and dialogue. (Source: Reuters)
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Image with text that reads: It's happening now: The NIH (National Institute of Health) has issued guidance to terminate all contracts or grants that include 'gender ideology'. This includes using the word 'gender' according to the memo issued. That means potentially all studies that say 'gender: M/F' instead of 'sex: M/F' on a survey or intake form could be cancelled. It could also impact studies specifically designed to better understand treatments and drugs on diverse populations - including women (traditionally excluded from medical trials!), people of different sexuality, different races, different gender presentations, and people with disabilities. Potentially years of research and studies lost. (Source: Science.org)
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Image with text that reads: It's happening now: - The NSF (National Science Foundation) has frozen payments on all grants. PhD student and Post-doc salary requests were denied this Tuesday. No news on when they will get paid. This applies to ALL NSF grants (which are hugely prestigious) - work on evolution, geology (earthquakes), cancer, novel chemicals, and more. If funds stay frozen, animals will have to be euthanized, and billions of dollars of experiments will be lost. This impacts all kinds of work, in the name of stopping programs that may list DEI principles. (Source: NPR)
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Image with text that reads: It's happening now: All of the American Public Health Labs (APHL) Global Health team has been furloughed. This is everyone outside of the US, including deployed staff and locally employed staff. These are people working on infectious diseases (and more) all over the world. Designing tests. Improving diagnostics. Improving lab procedures. This is a huge team, doing critical work.
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Image with text that reads: It's happening now: Critical disease-related publications like MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) are frozen, with no release this week. This report is a lifeblood of health events in the USA. it has been published weekly without pause since 1960. It is essential for keeping all US (and global) researchers updated on outbreaks and investigations. This week alone there were reportedly to be 3 publications on the bird flu. The publication is also a likely venue for further information about the ongoing Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas. (Source: Reuters)
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM