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A.S. Barwich
@smellosopher.bsky.social

If anything, 2026 has shown women that they were never the less qualified candidates when the dude who was friends with the director boldly walked in and stated his beliefs as facts. Or why women, when they reach middle age, laugh openly at the mere thought of some people.

Mark Histed@markhisted.org

On NIH's key institute director positions: Aug: "The pick is stoking worries that Jay Bhattacharya is choosing—or being forced to choose by his boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. —leaders with fringe scientific views and no experience with NIH research funding."

science.orgNeurologist with MAHA ties to lead NIH’s child health instituteAppointment of John Gaitanis increases concern that scientific qualifications are no longer driving leadership picks