Cynthia Holladay
@cynthiaholladay.bsky.social
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Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
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🚔 Opioid treatment in jails saves lives
A new study found that people who received medications for opioid use disorder while jailed were less likely to overdose, die, or return to jail after release.
🔗 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
#SciComm 🧪 #Opioids #Prisons
A new study found that people who received medications for opioid use disorder while jailed were less likely to overdose, die, or return to jail after release.
🔗 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
#SciComm 🧪 #Opioids #Prisons
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in County Jails — Outcomes after Release | NEJM
In 2019, seven county correctional facilities (jails) in Massachusetts initiated pilot
programs to provide all Food and Drug Administration–approved medications for opioid
use disorder (MOUD). This...
www.nejm.org
September 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🚔 Opioid treatment in jails saves lives
A new study found that people who received medications for opioid use disorder while jailed were less likely to overdose, die, or return to jail after release.
🔗 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
#SciComm 🧪 #Opioids #Prisons
A new study found that people who received medications for opioid use disorder while jailed were less likely to overdose, die, or return to jail after release.
🔗 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
#SciComm 🧪 #Opioids #Prisons
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Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH
DOGE cuts to science will impact Ohio, students • Ohio Capital Journal
It isn’t just the DEI or climate-related grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board, tens of billions of dollars. This means Ohio students will…
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May 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH
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It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.
May 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.
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RFK says HHS will cure cancer by Memorial Day.
RFK Jr. says the federal government with determine the meaning of life by Halloween
April 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
RFK says HHS will cure cancer by Memorial Day.
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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
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The crazy thing about firing all of these federal employees is that they tend to be underpaid, super hardworking, in it for the right reasons, idealistic people who could’ve worked in industry or pharma and made way more money but they truly believed in the mission and the good they were doing.
April 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The crazy thing about firing all of these federal employees is that they tend to be underpaid, super hardworking, in it for the right reasons, idealistic people who could’ve worked in industry or pharma and made way more money but they truly believed in the mission and the good they were doing.
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Open letter from nearly 2000 NAS member scientists: "We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united (...) in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
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March 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Open letter from nearly 2000 NAS member scientists: "We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united (...) in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
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Some day we'll figure out how much it cost to fire and un-fire thousands of government employees.
Trump DOJ says that it's not trying to skirt a federal judge's order to rehire probationary employees by putting them on leave after rehiring.
That's just a "phased plan for return-to-duty," the government says.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
That's just a "phased plan for return-to-duty," the government says.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some day we'll figure out how much it cost to fire and un-fire thousands of government employees.
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STUNNING review of Everything Is Tuberculosis in @apnews.com. "The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word. He uses the stories of real people to turn overwhelming problems into something personal and understandable."
apnews.com/article/ever...
apnews.com/article/ever...
Book Review: John Green is obsessed with tuberculosis. He makes a strong case that we should be, too
Bestselling young adult author John Green's newest book is a nonfiction thesis on the deadliest infectious disease, which infects millions of people per year.
apnews.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
STUNNING review of Everything Is Tuberculosis in @apnews.com. "The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word. He uses the stories of real people to turn overwhelming problems into something personal and understandable."
apnews.com/article/ever...
apnews.com/article/ever...
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Kudos to @standupforscience.bsky.social for getting the @nytimes.com to finally acknowledge how upset Americans are about Trump trashing this country
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on Friday for Stand Up for Science, a rally to protest the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to the federal work force and to federally funded science. nyti.ms/3DruZlu
March 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Kudos to @standupforscience.bsky.social for getting the @nytimes.com to finally acknowledge how upset Americans are about Trump trashing this country
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The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
I don't disagree that the US university business model was/is fragile, but surely not for this reason?
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
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So anyways this continues to happen and I'm not really aware of our government doing anything about it but maybe that's just because they fired the person that would tell us?
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Indiana bird flu cases explode, killing chickens, sandhill cranes, other waterfowl
There is no cure for the disease, which has a high mortality rate among birds but remains a low risk to people, according to the CDC
www.indystar.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So anyways this continues to happen and I'm not really aware of our government doing anything about it but maybe that's just because they fired the person that would tell us?
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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It’s not cute to accidentally cancel Ebola prevention — a virus with a 50% fatality rate.
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It’s not cute to accidentally cancel Ebola prevention — a virus with a 50% fatality rate.
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
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Please, please, please join me in contacting your congressional representatives IMMEDIATELY to tell Congress to STAND UP AND ACT.
Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
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Reverse Funding Ban
Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.
act.pih.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please, please, please join me in contacting your congressional representatives IMMEDIATELY to tell Congress to STAND UP AND ACT.
Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
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That's how they view themselves, even with tripartite control of the US government; they're the underdogs, fighting for a revolution.
That's why they have to invent things like the Deep State or Secret Masters or fucking whoever, because they can't cope with being in charge AND things aren't fixed.
That's why they have to invent things like the Deep State or Secret Masters or fucking whoever, because they can't cope with being in charge AND things aren't fixed.
February 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
That's how they view themselves, even with tripartite control of the US government; they're the underdogs, fighting for a revolution.
That's why they have to invent things like the Deep State or Secret Masters or fucking whoever, because they can't cope with being in charge AND things aren't fixed.
That's why they have to invent things like the Deep State or Secret Masters or fucking whoever, because they can't cope with being in charge AND things aren't fixed.
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“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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February 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo
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This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
time.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
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/8 UPDATE: the paper has taken down the article in compliance with the buffoonishly lawless court order. Here’s a blog reposting it. How many sites can we get to repost it?
hipcrimevocab.substack.com/p/clarksdale...
hipcrimevocab.substack.com/p/clarksdale...
Clarksdale, Mississippi, is a lawless town that believes its government is superior to the First Amendment.
It is time they learned otherwise.
hipcrimevocab.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
/8 UPDATE: the paper has taken down the article in compliance with the buffoonishly lawless court order. Here’s a blog reposting it. How many sites can we get to repost it?
hipcrimevocab.substack.com/p/clarksdale...
hipcrimevocab.substack.com/p/clarksdale...
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NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.
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2/ If you put it together it makes sense if you posit a conversation where someone says we’re very concerned there might be more effective treatments for cancer coming. How do we prevent that? And you basically get what we’re seeing now at nih and nci and across much of hhs.
February 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
2/ If you put it together it makes sense if you posit a conversation where someone says we’re very concerned there might be more effective treatments for cancer coming. How do we prevent that? And you basically get what we’re seeing now at nih and nci and across much of hhs.