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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 5d
You can listen to my recent interview with WBUR's Here & Now:
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Undercounted: The hidden deaths in America’s jails : Here & Now Anytime
Over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023, about 1,000 people died annually in U.S. jails. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal data by...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d
Crystal Carter went to tour an apartment. Rent was $1,500 a month.

“I’ll be paying with a Section 8 voucher,” she said.

“Yeah,” the landlord said. “I don’t do Section 8.”

This is what housing voucher discrimination looks like 👇

(Published 2020 w/ @ctmirror.org)
How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out
Section 8 vouchers should give low-income people the opportunity to live outside poor communities. But discriminatory landlords, exclusionary zoning and the federal government’s hands-off approach lea...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d
The fiscal year is over.

So how was the NIH appropriation committed?

A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
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ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d
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.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11d
Followup
“This is only one institute at NIH, but it’s good news. Other institutes may not have done as well.”

Also we’d add: Russ Vought tried to stop NIH spending to create illegal impoundment, and THIS YEAR, he failed. He’ll be stronger next year as more NIH staff have left.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11d
Hearing from someone in NIH program:

“Our final Task Order for $6.2M went out today. Every obstacle DOGE put up to keep us from funding new TOs and extending others was overcome. My fired contract officers were rehired. It was a lot of work, but we did it.
For now.”
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 9d
Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9d
The fiscal year ends tomorrow.

Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.

The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.

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A graph showing the fraction of annual grant funding committed for NIH for fiscal years 2015 to 2025. The fiscal year 2025 lagged behind but then caught up over the last two months.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 10d
Clarence Thomas on precedent: He doesn't feel bound. www.rawstory.com/clarence-tho...
Justice Thomas signals during speech the court is open to tossing aside prior rulings
In a rare public appearance, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas hinted that the nation’s highest court may very well be considering tearing up legal precedents that have been in effect fo...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14d
This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
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drwendieberg.bsky.social @drwendieberg.bsky.social · 14d
Today is #WorldDenseBreastDay! Educate yourself and those you love about the higher risks of missed cancer on mammograms and of developing breast cancer. Great resources @densebreastinfo.bsky.social @densebreastscanada.bsky.social. Thank you @bcrfcure.bsky.social for supporting our research!
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DenseBreast-info.org @densebreastinfo.bsky.social · 14d
📻 Healthcare providers! ICYMI: DBI’s Chief Scientific Advisor, @drwendieberg.bsky.social, joined Dr. Miriam Green on SiriusXM to cover #DenseBreasts, supplemental screening, and insurance coverage. Don’t miss these insights!

Catch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVG9...

#WorldDenseBreastDay
Dr. Berg Discusses Dense Breasts, Supplemental Screening, and Insurance Issues on Sirius XM
YouTube video by Densebreast-info.org
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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 14d
This is data on the % of FY2024 appropriation committed to date in FY 2025 by NIH Institutes.

Such EXTRAORDINARY work for most NIH institutes including NICHD and NIA who are at the top of the list!!!!! Well done program officers and staff getting those grants OUT!!! 🙏
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14d
Here are data on the percentage of FY2024 appropriation committed to date in FY2025. Most ICs are well on track, but four ICs (NIMHD, NINR, NHLBI, NHGRI) still appear to be under 80%.

Note that values >100% reflect either a higher appropriation for FY25 or an increased % devoted to grants.
A table of the percentage of fiscal year 2025 funding compared to fiscal year 2024 for 25 NIH institutes and centers (and the Office of the Director).
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16d
Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year)

(Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )
A graph showing NIH grant funding for fiscal years 2015-2024 and 2025 showing that fiscal year 2025 was lagging behind the pace from other years, but has been catching up in July and August.
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NPR @npr.org · 18d
George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.
The Census Bureau is now headed by a Trump official in an acting position
George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.
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Erica Groshen @ericagroshen.bsky.social · 18d
#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency.
Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll.

www.bls.gov/cex/notices/...

#econsky
Consumer Expenditures 2024 Data Release to be Rescheduled
Consumer Expenditures 2024 Data Release to be Rescheduled (9/19/2025)
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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 18d
Another court ruling against the administration, and NEA, in favor of first amendment rights of artist grants.

Court Rules Against Arts Endowment on Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
Court Rules Against Arts Endowment on Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 21d
This is one hell of a read.

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New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out
The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that causes painful razor bumps and scarring to be kicked out of the service -- an is...
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Chiraag Bains @chiraagbains.bsky.social · 21d
See the forest. Per new @brookings.edu analysis yesterday, "The Trump administration’s broader economic agenda threatens to drastically reduce the financial capacity of Black students to attend college." www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Trump Redirects Millions to Historically Black Colleges, Charter Schools
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23d
We've seen protein organ clocks that indicate the pace of aging for each in a person. Now there's 11 organ/system methylation clocks from a single blood sample www.nature.com/articles/s43...
11 organ or system methylation clocks for pace of aging
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26d
This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated.

They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 26d
A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.
Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery
The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 27d
This weekend, Secretary Kennedy claimed that there haven’t been any real successes out of HHS in the past 30 to 40 years. We disagree! Swipe to see just a few of the major public health successes from HHS over the past few decades.

#USAnotRFK #ResignRFK #SavePublicHealth
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27d
👎 BOO: Federal judge just denied a preliminary injunction to reinstate terminated NSF grants (link below).

Also allows Trump admin to still apply the lawless new "priorities" to pending NSF proposals, at least for now (www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...).

A thread... (with call to action for Congress) 🧵
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29d
Updated update

I downloaded the data from NIH Reporter too soon. The large end of the month update had not occurred.

Here are the results as of this morning.

NIH grants management staff have been busy making awards.

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A graph of NIH funding to date showing a substantial increase in the rat of funding in the last month.
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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 29d
Rate of NIH grant awards this year vs recent past…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 8
Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete.

Not great news...

The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year.

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David Turnbull @dturnbull.bsky.social · Sep 7
Hell yeah, @ezraklein.bsky.social.
Front page of SundayOpinion section of the NYT with a grid of headshots of democratic Senators with headline “Democrats can’t wait until the midterms. The caucus needs to start fighting with everything it has.”
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 4
In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.
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