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September 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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This reminds me of the old saying, “You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.”
August 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This reminds me of the old saying, “You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.”
Wow! That’s like 90% downward revisions. I’m sure that I’ve seen larger raw numbers of decreases, but I can’t recall any percentages that large.
August 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! That’s like 90% downward revisions. I’m sure that I’ve seen larger raw numbers of decreases, but I can’t recall any percentages that large.
I wonder if they just fired people in all these agencies so they could replace them with loyalists. If so, hiring new people may not solve the problem.
July 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I wonder if they just fired people in all these agencies so they could replace them with loyalists. If so, hiring new people may not solve the problem.
Funding fewer studies will lead to fewer new treatments. Going from funding 10% to 6% of new applications will force current NIH researchers out of research and discourage aspiring NIH researchers from beginning. It will take decades to get back to where we were a year ago.
July 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Funding fewer studies will lead to fewer new treatments. Going from funding 10% to 6% of new applications will force current NIH researchers out of research and discourage aspiring NIH researchers from beginning. It will take decades to get back to where we were a year ago.
That’s a lot of money. I wonder how they’ll spend and how much they’ll steal.
July 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
That’s a lot of money. I wonder how they’ll spend and how much they’ll steal.
That’s not good. It wasn’t long ago we were talking about ending the epidemic. Now we’re going backwards. Here’s a link to blog post about it for people who don’t have access to the Washington Post article.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Federal HIV Guidelines Face a Shutdown — A Critical Loss for Clinicians and Patients
Each week, our HIV clinical group gathers to review active patients, share updates, and celebrate good news. On our whiteboard, we list four columns: Inpatients, Outpatients, Issues, and Celebrations....
blogs.jwatch.org
June 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
That’s not good. It wasn’t long ago we were talking about ending the epidemic. Now we’re going backwards. Here’s a link to blog post about it for people who don’t have access to the Washington Post article.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
The president of Tajikistan installed a 541 foot flag pole in Dushanbe in 2011. It was the tallest in the world until 2014. I guess the president was happy. Of course the roads had huge potholes—many were unpaved—and the economy was terrible, but that flagpole was big.
April 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The president of Tajikistan installed a 541 foot flag pole in Dushanbe in 2011. It was the tallest in the world until 2014. I guess the president was happy. Of course the roads had huge potholes—many were unpaved—and the economy was terrible, but that flagpole was big.
Many decades. Trust is gone. It will be hard for the agencies to recruit top scientists without job security. Scientists won’t put in work to win NIH grants if they can be canceled when administrations change.
April 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Many decades. Trust is gone. It will be hard for the agencies to recruit top scientists without job security. Scientists won’t put in work to win NIH grants if they can be canceled when administrations change.
I don’t blame them. With all the NIH and CDC grants being cancelled, I think attendance at a lot of conferences in the US and international will be substantially lower. If people can’t afford travel, I wonder if some conferences will go back to being virtual like they were during COVID.
April 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I don’t blame them. With all the NIH and CDC grants being cancelled, I think attendance at a lot of conferences in the US and international will be substantially lower. If people can’t afford travel, I wonder if some conferences will go back to being virtual like they were during COVID.
Satire not sarcasm. Jack Kimble isn’t real.
March 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Satire not sarcasm. Jack Kimble isn’t real.
Cool! I mostly just read your articles on PTR.
March 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Cool! I mostly just read your articles on PTR.
Congrats! The first first author pub is always kind of a milestone. Good luck with the cap on indirect, and I hope stand up for science gets a great turnout.
February 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Congrats! The first first author pub is always kind of a milestone. Good luck with the cap on indirect, and I hope stand up for science gets a great turnout.