HHS has reversed an obscure requirement called the Richardson Waiver, which requires a period of notice and an opportunity for public comment on a wide range of decisions related to “agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.”

"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired"

Emerging 4th world country in North America!
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The marketing wing of the org I work for is starting layoffs due to Musk cuts to CDC Heart Disease grants. We desperately need people to understand that the gov’t is not an isolated entity but a host of very mundane programs employing millions in federal, state, local agencies + private industry.

maybe we’ve reached a point where having a panic disorder is an evolutionary advantage

BREAKING: VIRUS FROM NEVADA DAIRY WORKER WITH BIRD FLU HAS THE SAME GENETIC MUTATION seen in the Nevada cows – a change of PB2 D701N that has previously been assoc with more efficient virus replication in ppl & mammals.

CDC told Fortune that the D1.1 variant in this worker is the same strain of

When you don’t understand how anything works, everything is a conspiracy.

Has anyone been able to reconcile their thoughts re: foreign aid as a form of imperialism and what we’re seeing happen with USAID? Devastated for the aid workers + obv the Trump/Musk administration is acting out of malice, but at what point do we start dropping Jacobin in the family group chats?

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health.

I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.

BERNIE: “Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DF3FXK6...

If the richest, most powerful men in the world can be this dumb and ugly then I should also be able to be dumb and ugly

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

Unpopular opinion but a lot of this could have been avoided if we had an equitable tax system, well funded public schools, and collectively decided that bullying nerds is okay every once and awhile