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KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · Jul 10

Intriguing exploration of role #eosinophils and adipose tissue/angiogenesis by @katequinlan.bsky.social at

#IES2025 #Montpelier

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EOS Network @charityeos.bsky.social · Jul 8

💜 Our team is at the International Eosinophil Society #ies2025 Congress in Montpellier!

🗣️Proud to represent the patient voice It’s an incredible chance to learn the latest from top experts and connect with attendees from 26 countries.

#PatientVoice #EosinophilicDiseases

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KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · Jun 18

I’m sorry, what?

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Jun 12

My piece for @thenation.com on the bravery of NIH employees who are standing up to those that would destroy the institution, including the NIH director himself. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

NIH Staff Have Broken Their Silence

Civil servants usually keep a low profile. These NIH employees are putting themselves at risk by calling out the Trump administration.

www.thenation.com

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 10

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Jun 5

concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again?

stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment

Centaurus A. A glowing orange region shines at the upper left corner, with dark brown and black dust cascading diagonally down to the lower right. Distant stars dot the hazy background of space. Bright pink regions of star formation are interspersed throughout the dust.

Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.

A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation.

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

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Daniel L. Barber, PhD @danbarberphd.bsky.social · May 30

We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!

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KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · May 21

I can imagine all the really good things this technology will be used for…

KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · May 21

Grants that fund asthma or rare chronic diseases are part of population health. When we study rare diseases there are discoveries of mechanisms that translate into therapies. Also without folks doing the research it only gets slower.

KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · May 21

Honestly it doesn’t really matter. We should be providing healthcare to those who need it most and implementing or translating the discoveries.

I don’t buy the notion that we’re fixing chronic disease because at every turn there are cuts that impact the environment and medical care

Nature @nature.com · May 21

If returns on science investment are shrinking, there are plenty of potential culprits

https://go.nature.com/4k9FVUQ

Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find?

Researchers are arguing over whether ‘disruptive’ or ‘novel’ science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.

go.nature.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 28

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster

An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Apr 19

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · Apr 9

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · Apr 6

I gotta say @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of the best writers I’ve come across in recent times. The writing is both beautiful and crushing at the same time. Can’t wait to read this one.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Apr 5

"I don't remember when I started mourning the future more than the past."

-- THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP

long excerpt from my book THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP about this being a hard time to be a parent and how you have to try anyway

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John R. Davis @jrdarchivist.bsky.social · Apr 1

Now available for preorders! My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC," comes out October 1 via @georgetownup.bsky.social. A 100k word history of the D.C. punk zine community with 130+ full color images.

press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Yo...

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Jason Andrews @jasonandrews.bsky.social · Apr 2

My sincere thanks to Jeanne Marrazzo for her service as NIAID director. She delivered the Merigan lecture last year & then kindly met w/our trainees & faculty, listening openly to ideas & suggestions for how to make NIAID stronger. A brilliant yet humble physician-scientist. This is such a loss

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 22

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · Mar 15

Science is an ecosystem, it’s all interconnected. It’s only a matter of time before labs and groups across the country are forced to pull back/close, PhD programs aren’t accepting apps, college grads can’t do internships. We will lose the next generation of physicians and scientists.

Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · Mar 15

I guess we’re aiming for blissful ignorance. Good luck to the kids.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Mar 14

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution

The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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KhouryMD @khourymd.bsky.social · Mar 8

Feels like late night QVC?

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Feb 27

“Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.”

These are high-performing labs — absolutely senseless destruction

Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · Feb 27

More tragic news about NIH and NIH science. Grant system is frozen and intramural program is being slashed. All will claw back on treatments and cures for cancer and other human diseases. This can’t be what the public wants. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

www.science.org

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Scott_Boyd_Lab_Stanford @scottboydlab.bsky.social · Feb 21

Deep thanks to our many collaborators and all research participants. #immunology #science 🧪 @science.org @sarahhross.bsky.social

NIH funding was the lifeblood of this work, as it is for almost all biomedical discoveries and therapies in the U.S. @niaidnews.bsky.social

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 17

Firings at FDA over the weekend taking out A.I. staff
www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f... Note the subtitle.

FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology

Layoffs at the FDA appear to have hit the AI and digital health staff particularly hard. It also has a strained relationship with Musk’s company Neuralink.

www.statnews.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 9

A shining example....there are 1,000s of these fundamental science discoveries that NIH supports to promote human health

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 9

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

globalnews.ca

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