Melinda Munos
@mmunos.bsky.social
Epidemiologist in Baltimore. Maternal, newborn, child health & nutrition. Spend my time thinking about measurement and program evaluation. Opinions my own.
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
Dismantling of USAID could disrupt clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...
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How much money will Americans lose if USAID is cut? Quite a lot, it turns out. I've made shareable graphics showing the ties betwen AID agriculture funding and each state. A public Google Drive repository is here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
February 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
How much money will Americans lose if USAID is cut? Quite a lot, it turns out. I've made shareable graphics showing the ties betwen AID agriculture funding and each state. A public Google Drive repository is here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Some economist should calculate the scientific and financial waste of the last few weeks. Including impacts on datasets, labs, ongoing studies, personnel, opportunity costs…
Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
February 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Some economist should calculate the scientific and financial waste of the last few weeks. Including impacts on datasets, labs, ongoing studies, personnel, opportunity costs…
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Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
February 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
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aaaand now it all makes sense
February 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
aaaand now it all makes sense
We should be very clear that Trump's actions will kill people - many outside the US, but quite a few in the US as well. Pregnant women, preterm babies, people with HIV, people with cancer, malnourished kids – they are all losing access to programs and interventions, and some of them will die.
January 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
We should be very clear that Trump's actions will kill people - many outside the US, but quite a few in the US as well. Pregnant women, preterm babies, people with HIV, people with cancer, malnourished kids – they are all losing access to programs and interventions, and some of them will die.
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Proposed changes to NIH from the new administration are reducing the budget to half ($48 billion actual annual budget), going from 27 institutes and centers to 15, and limiting the number of grants an investigator can hold. #AcademicSky #EpiSky www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump won. Is NIH in for a major shake-up?
Congress might serve as a bulwark, but some changes may be coming
www.science.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Proposed changes to NIH from the new administration are reducing the budget to half ($48 billion actual annual budget), going from 27 institutes and centers to 15, and limiting the number of grants an investigator can hold. #AcademicSky #EpiSky www.science.org/content/arti...
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Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Epidemiologist: It depends.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Epidemiologist: It depends.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Astronomer: This is a high metallicity sightline
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Astronomer: This is a high metallicity sightline
November 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Epidemiologist: It depends.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Epidemiologist: It depends.