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This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

I must tell say, getting this study stopped AND the universal birth dose effort moved up a YEAR AND launching the Science & Justice Project is one of my proudest accomplishment, personally and professionally.

such good news

Many NIH staff object to what’s happening at NIH but don’t speak up because of fear. @27unihted.bsky.social 27unihted.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

this matters

a few weeks old now

bumping: we will publish things anonymously on reasonable request. Recently we have gotten some <eyes> comments re science nonprofits.

One rule may seem technical. Five rules, moving in the same direction, begin to resemble a pattern documented in democratic backsliding: expanding executive control over the bureaucracy while narrowing institutional checks on personnel decisions. Pay attention.

On the 4th of July: It’s hard to hold a clear view of reality in one hand and hope for better in the other, and to fully commit to both of these things at the same time. This is the hard work of “a Republic, if you can keep it.” Patriotism is to use our freedoms to make America more free for ALL.

It is sad that Scott Atlas doesn’t understand basic economics. Paul Samuelson wrote about public goods—why NIH has been such a stunning success—more than 75 yrs ago. Also, to see why Atlas urges ending US success, just look at who elevates him: pro-privatization billionaires. 1/

Abolishing the NIH has always been this admin’s plan. They told us in Project 2025. They’ve SHOWN us with their actions over the past 18 months. This is why a heads down approach will not work. The scientific community has 2 options: oppose this with all we’ve got, or let them carry out their plan.

Right, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The OMB proposed rule putting political appointees in charge of healthcare-funding decisions threatens the patients we serve by @nurseteria.bsky.social & @donnagaffney.bsky.social

Meet the microbiologist and science advocate who’s headed to Congress. Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat - by Jeffrey Mervis | 22 May, 2026 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor... cen.acs.org/people/profi...

Thousands of HHS staff who shape policy, including on public health, federal health insurance programs, and health data privacy, have had their employment status changed to a designation that makes it easier for them to be fired. www.statnews.com/2026/06/05/s...

Must-read. Everything that Vought has done to science in the past 16 months is now laid bare as a plan to “cripple science research.” Five-alarm fire and all of us must respond. Speak out, focus on Vought.

getting a bunch of messages from NIH people 👀👀

“Mr. Kennedy said at a Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit organized by the MAHA Institute… “No major medical organizations were represented at the gathering…” These people are just quacks and cranks.

It’s one of the worst industries there is, taking advantage of our broken healthcare system to sell hope and bullshit and turn people away from proven medicine. It’s despicable and we need to demolish it with a regulatory hammer.

Oh, self-dealing by the MAHA crowd??? Who would have thought. We can’t get back soon enough to civil servants who serve the country first

Calley Means, the senior White House advisor to HHS, founded a company, TrueMed, that prompts customers to use money from flexible savings accounts to purchase alternative “wellness” products — prompting conflict-of-interest charges. www.importantcontext.news/p/heritage-f...

David Morens' name should be trending. A 78-year-old doctor who worked in the NIH and has no criminal record was abducted from his home by armed federal agents and *stripped* before being transported away--all because the DOJ now works to validate right-wing conspiracy theories like the lab leak.

The indictment is absolute soup. Lab leakers have completely given up on proving their main contention and are now just flailing around looking for any rule violation or procedural misstep that makes it look like a cover-up happened. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...

The perversion of justice is perhaps the most dangerous thing happening under Trump. Morens is being targeted to throw red meat to the GOP base and to validate a conspiracy theory. This is a scandal worse than Watergate. Another one. But this demands swift accountability. Patel must go.

“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social. @nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.

same deal in science. Too many scientists are into self-flagellation, blaming what scientists did as opposed to attacks from the far right authoritarian party.

Bhattacharya is not a friend to science. The sooner the scientific community (and members of Congress!) realize this, the better shot we have to save science. This article positions Bhattacharya as a defender of science, pushing back against Russell Vought’s OMB. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

This isn’t about differing political opinions. It’s about a man who has presided over the destruction of American biomedical research. Bhattacharya deserves no homecoming @stanforduniversity.bsky.social. He should be shunned forever. Good riddance.

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With Trump planning to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants, it seems that infrastructure week is finally here.

When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring. This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence. And now The Regime is setting us back decades.

This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH. It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career. www.vox.com/future-perfe...