NIH Vigils

Just a reminder that Russell Vought needs to be impeached. impeachvought.com

God almighty, RFK Jr is such a repulsive, dangerous human being

Also, never forget: RFK Jr put together a panel of his buddies as peptide advisers, who voted to make peptides more easily available—but SEVEN of the advisers have financial conflicts of interest! MAHA is all about grifting, corruption, and ties to industry www.cspi.org/press-releas...

SCOTUS reform will need to come first for any reform to stick

this is where impunity (and unaccountable wealth) leads & why we need to build a movement for accountability for all those who've escaped it for so many years

accountability will be a big feature of a dem congress, as @gregsargent.bsky.social, @jamellebouie.net, @sifill.bsky.social, @ryanlcooper.com & others are writing abt it in one way or another, & as ppl like @ossoff.bsky.social & @kim.senate.gov are advocating. we need to think long-term.

A thousand times yes

When you put your own self on a wanted poster.

Selective due process is not due process.

Dr. Sethi never held an NIH grant, finished her residency in 2017, and hasn't had a significant leadership position. In other words, an early stage investigator may direct an institute. NIMH staff and stakeholders deserve a more experienced leader. www.science.org/content/arti...

Brownstone's founder, the pro-smoking, pro-child labor, anti-vaccine neoconfederate libertarian who was the architect of the Great Barrington Declaration, also became the man who built RFK Jr's cabinet of MAGA/MAHA/anti-vaccine federal health agency leaders: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Doge didn’t save money or make government more efficient It invaded your privacy and gave the data to Musk

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen: Bhattacharya will chat with RFK Jr’s kooky science adviser, Martin Kulldorff, the dude who got $ from suing HPV vaccine makers, about how “science is under attack”🤣 Jay, RFK & Martin killed, banned or censored science that they hate—they are the attackers!

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Calley Means has taken his ball and gone home because he realized he got conned by RFK Jr. But this is definitely a case of “let them fight”. Means is himself a grifter who probably didn’t get enough pellets from RFK Jr.’s grift dispenser even though he kept pressing the bar with his little paw.

A highly regarded physician-scientist recommended by NIH Director to lead the agency’s mental health institute is no longer in the running. Instead, RFK Jr. favors a researcher who studies treating mental illness with diet—an approach advocated by some in MAHA. www.science.org/content/arti...

Guess their intelligence wasn’t so super.

I’m a Program Officer and scientist at NIH, writing in my own personal capacity, and RFK Jr. is harming the NIH. I look with alarm at the harms he has done to our sister agencies, FDA and CDC, and to public health in general.

The health of 342 million Americans shouldn’t depend on one person’s beliefs. I’m an NIH scientist, clinician, and autism specialist. RFK is dismantling NIH. If he wanted to build trust, he’d reimburse clinicians for time to answer patients’ questions, not create a CPT code for vaccine injury.

Anna Culbertson Former NIH Scientific program specialist and I agree RFK Jr. is destroying the NIH. Happy to talk with anyone who wants to challenge me on that. Thank you for calling attention to this @markhisted.org

I will add my name to this, too. Another NIH scientist, not anonymous, declaring that RFK, jr. is destroying NIH. Don’t want to take my & @markhisted.org’s word for it? 39 current/recent NIHers put their name to this just a few months ago: www.27unihted.org/bethesda-dec...

I am an NIH scientist, I am not anonymous, and RFK jr is destroying the NIH

Good morning, especially to all who advocated against this unethical (and stupid science) study from going forward. Great news: this study ain't happening. 🙌

Holy cow. The Guinea-Bissau offices of the two Danish researchers who were funded by RFK Jr. to conduct an unethical experiment with the HepB vaccine just had their offices raided and vaccines seized by the police. Great work on reporting this story once again by @melodyschreiber.com.

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

In Trump's continuous assault on TPS, tomorrow two more countries can join the list. Every single expiration / termination is inhuman. This one too. Ukraine and Sudan.

Only YOU can prevent wildfires. And only Congress can fund the Forest Service. I’ll be fighting Trump’s budget cuts tooth and nail.

This Sat 10/23 in Cleveland, rally at Gold Star Families Memorial Monument, 10701 East Blvd to protest rollover of VA health records system to a more expensive no-bid contract to Oracle that harms vets

What an INCREDIBLE No Kings NIH Vigils. For eighteen months current NIH staff have been speaking outside of the agency every week in their personal capacities. New faces come to the microphone at every event, because courage is just that contagious.

I have told Dr. Houry personally that I think she is a hero, and that one day I believe that she will be formally recognized as one. She never stops working. Vote for public health. For your communities, your loved ones, your family and friends.

On my way to our @nihvigils.bsky.social & @27unihted.bsky.social event for No Kings. Where are you going to be today?

@nihvigils.bsky.social, @27unihted.bsky.social hosted a No Kings event this morning. About 150 people showed up for music (Northstar Union), speeches, and the oath of office, in a rallying yell to get out the vote.

From @adamjkovac.bsky.social at @sciam.bsky.social on the premature closure of the NIH peer review binning RFI.

Let us get this straight. Measles is spreading. Kids are dying from preventable diseases. Vaccination coverage is falling. And Texas AG Ken Paxton’s response is to investigate pediatricians for vaccinating kids, alleging financial incentives and a conspiracy with vaccine makers and insurers.

Good news Contrary to what the Danish researchers themselves are saying publicly, in fact the government and key health authorities in Guinea-Bissau have NOT approved this highly unethical RFK Jr-funded trial www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

HHS gave disabled CDC and NIH employees 20 days to submit medical documentation for our reasonable accommodation requests. We submitted it on time. We have receipts. And HHS closed our cases anyway, claiming our documentation was missing. Now we're left in limbo.

Whiny baby Republican congressman @RepAndyHarrisMD has no idea how the law works😂

Hopefully NIH will put the RFI back up and extend the deadline. This is not acceptable and I know several people who had prepared comments they didn’t get to submit. You can see the very clear deadline in red text here: web.archive.org/web/20260821...

Thanks to RFK Jr, the USDA scuttled a plan to combat bird flu that included vaccinating chickens, because Brooke Rollins “was concerned about whether it would clash with the Health secretary’s anti-vaccine views”. Seems like a good time to deploy the word shitbirds for these government officials.

Apparently NIH shut down the RFI form early. Thank goodness for the @waybackmachine.bsky.social where we can clearly see the deadline was supposed to be 11:59pm. web.archive.org/web/20260821... @maxkozlov.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

The hepatitis b vaccine has proven itself over 30-40 years and a bajillion doses. We don’t have to pretend we are starting from scratch here. The numbers speak for themselves.

What actual DOJ weaponization looks like. We are very far off the cliff.

Time to bring back the classics I guess.

Listen to speeches by @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , @gnatzzamara.bsky.social @gnatzzamara.bsky.social , @aculbert.bsky.social and more, all in their pers. capacities. Music by Northstar Union (🎸👨🏼‍🎤🥁), merch available, families welcome. Info on parking and bathroom in comments.

Looking forward to No Kings this Saturday! Join us outside NIH/Medical Center metro for a No Kings edition of our @nihvigils.bsky.social

Regaring this Press Release from yesterday. A 🧵 www.nih.gov/news-events/... I was pleased that NIH has been supporting early career investigators after Director Bhattacharya's rhetoric but lack of action last year. 1/9

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