Robert French

Average SNAP benefit per person is less than $200. Elon has received over $38 billion of our tax payer dollars. But go on about soda Karen.

Some spending rules: Randomly pick up the tab for your friends on a night out Vacations give you more memories than the balance of your portfolio Certain material possessions can make you happier Save & invest up front so you can spend guilt free awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/10/bens...

In Episode 4 of “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited,” guests Laura Adams, Vardit Ravitsky, and Dr. Roxana Daneshjou explore how to responsibly implement AI in medicine, from governance and fairness to reshaping patient relationships: msft.it/6015SR2ix

It is with extreme sadness that we announce that ASE Past President, beloved mentor and volunteer, Roberto M. Lang, MD, FASE, University of Chicago, passed away after a brief illness. Read our full statement: bit.ly/4e54xMq

Financial advice that doesn't work anymore: Just ignore the noise Just wait for the fat pitch Put 20% down on your first house Pay off your mortgage early You need 12 months of living expenses in an emergency fund awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/05/fina...

… and Molly is not alone. More than $2.6B of ongoing research has been canceled (with much more this week, at Harvard). With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷

Science doesn’t PAUSE. If you don’t maintain - cell lines, reagents, genetic models - you lose - trained personnel, unique expertise, collaborators or cores - if those things get disrupted, it becomes 10x harder to build it back. Are we efficient yet? Definitely not safer or healthier

Things are breaking. eRA commons was down for me most of yesterday- I am sure this is just the start. Make sure to download personal copies of all of your records from commons! www.wired.com/story/depart...

In the late-19th century 50% of the labor force was in farming Now it's <2% Most of those jobs then went into manufacturing That's now at 2% We're a service-based economy now AI and robotics are going to make that even more apparent in the years ahead awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/04/the-...

So.... we're no longer ensuring that our food safety laboratories, can actually do what they're supposed to do: "The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts" www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Visualizing the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Medical Research & Why It Matters New #substack on collaborative effort with @asinclair.bsky.social and our #SCIMaP team Website: scienceimpacts.org Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...

DECADES. This is a loss to be realized over DECADES. Many people will die - it’s not hyperbole. We are destroying our children’s futures

Hey Bluesky, I was interviewed about the attacks on science for NPR’s All Things Considered. Listen, below! www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...

my wife works at a nonprofit hospital and they're absolute getting fucked by these cuts, to the point where there's mass layoffs (possibly including her) we are genuinely looking at the real potential for U.S. healthcare collapse and that's just...not mentioned in a healthcare thread? At all?

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

Until recently, science was always a bipartisan endeavor. The value of medical research was one thing that different political parties in our country actually agreed on. I don't think *anyone* wants to see this wanton destruction of something we all worked so hard to build- anyone but Trusk, that is

I don't think the general public wants cancer research to go away. But that's exactly what DOGE and the EO's are doing: they are demolishing the infrastructure that enables us to do our work

The diabetes prevention program is so vital to the study of a whole host of chronic diseases. Really depressing that they would throw such a rich dataset out the window.

Compelling thread, click through the comments below

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Why isn't bench research (develop and test new therapies) done in private practice? Because research depends on INFRASTRUCTURE: microscopes, MRIs, tissue core, animal vivarium, statisticians and biorepositories. All of this is funded by NIH, being cut right now through fewer grants and slashed IDCs