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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 18h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7d

marrazzo is one of the most respected and accomplished physician scientists/public health experts in the world

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 7d

“In her complaint, the scientist, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who had directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, objected to Trump administration actions, alleging that they had endangered research subjects, defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.”

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 9d

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

www.nature.com

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 10d

According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16d

Jamie Raskin FTW.

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Kate MacNamara @macnamaralab.bsky.social · 16d

A fun list to inspire.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16d

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown?

Have you considered becoming a rock star?

It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪

Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

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Kate MacNamara @macnamaralab.bsky.social · 25d

I really feel this. I received a brand new puzzle. It was a gift, a picture of many beautiful skeins of yarn. When I completed it, there was one missing piece. Right in the center. It felt like the universe was flipping me off. It happened years ago, and it still makes me sad.

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Haky Im @hakyim.bsky.social · 27d

I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.

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Elaine Emmerson @doctoremmerson.bsky.social · 26d

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Emmerson lab within the Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the University of Edinburgh. This three year, BBSRC-funded postdoctoral research associa...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 28d

“If a new pandemic began today, mRNA vaccines are currently the only type of vaccine that could be developed quickly enough to disrupt its spread”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/h...

How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims | CNN

At a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced heated questions from numerous senators about his vaccine policies, inc...

www.cnn.com

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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.latimes.com/obituaries/s... RIP David Baltimore. A true giant of biomedical research. Made so many fundamental discoveries: Reverse transcriptase; NF-kB; Rag genes (among others) Also shut down his lab for a week in 1970 to protest the US invasion of Cambodia.

David Baltimore, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former Caltech president, dies at 87

Baltimore played a role in virtually every important national debate over the use and potential misuse of the science of genetic engineering.

www.latimes.com

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ISEH - International Society for Experimental Hematology @isehsociety.bsky.social · Sep 4

Big news! As experimental hematology evolves, so do we. ISEH has been hard at work creating a new website that reflects who we are today — modern, mobile-friendly and built for you.

🚀 The new ISEH website launches next week — get ready for a fresh, streamlined experience!

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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is RFK Jr.'s doing. He must go. He's coming for your children's vaccines next. The US is going to be one, big Petri dish soon enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States

www.nytimes.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 29

I stand with Joachim Frank. I would hope that others would have had a better understanding of history.

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Joachim Frank, a German American biophysicist at Columbia and 2017 Nobel laureate in chemistry, said he was outraged by Columbia’s unwillingness to litigate instead of negotiate. The stance, he said, had emboldened Mr. Trump to ask for even more money from other universities. Dr. Frank called the administration’s decision to withhold funding over accusations that Columbia had tolerated antisemitism a “ruse for the government to take control of the universities, in a model essentially similar to what happened in Hungary and Turkey.”

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 28

Demetre Daskalakis' resignation letter. One for the history books. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-resign...

The Resignation Letter Of Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis Of The Centers For Disease Control

"FIRE HIM"- wrote Senator Patty Murray tonight about the deeply malevolent Robert Kennedy after a day of extraordinary chaos

www.hopiumchronicles.com

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Aug 22

ASM, ASBMB, ASCB & FASEB are deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling allowing cancellation of $800M in NIH grants, threatening labs, jobs, and early-career scientists. Stable funding is vital for U.S. science.

Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in American Public Health Association v. NIH - ASCB

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and the Federation of American Societies ...

www.ascb.org

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ISEH - International Society for Experimental Hematology @isehsociety.bsky.social · Aug 14

This week on #SimplyBlood🩸 we're delighted to share an inspiring conversation with Dr. Toshio Suda, Editor-in-Chief of ExpHem! @keisukeito-lab.bsky.social had the unique opportunity to discuss the journal’s evolution including its future vision and ongoing efforts➡️https://www.simplyblood.org/

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Kate MacNamara @macnamaralab.bsky.social · Aug 14

Earlier this month we had a great time at our departmental retreat-- hearing some science, WINNING some trivia, getting a little nature & art therapy, and just taking a breather. I am grateful for this team and it is a true privilege to work together. #MacLab2025

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Aug 7

I don’t have a problem with someone evaluating my science abilities if I have the ability to examine theirs.

Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Jul 30

Russell Vought wanted to shut down all extramural grants from NIH in this current fiscal year, putting stop to ALL research across the US. Someone in the White House had better sense. But Vought is a dangerous man, who will stop at nothing to destroy science in America. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding

The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

www.wsj.com

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