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The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines
Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers
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How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones?
@meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/a….
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Scoop from @sarareardon.bsky.social about the erratic process behind NIH's grant cancellations. www.science.org/content/a….
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Exclusive: NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more
Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts
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Have advocates of more rigor in science been "useful idiots" who unwittingly helped Trump's attacks on U.S. research? @cathleenogrady.bsky.social sheds light on a fascinating discussion. www.science.org/content/a….
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Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say
Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science
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Selling journal subscriptions is how scholarly societies have long made money. But that revenue stream is declining, putting the other work societies do at risk. www.science.org/content/a…. by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social
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Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows
Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk
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Yesterday, Senators asked NIH director Jay Bhattacharya how Trump can justify a 40% cut to NIH's budget. He declined to say. www.science.org/content/a…. by @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
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Senators press NIH director on killed grants and proposal to slash agency’s funding
Jay Bhattacharya says NIH’s final budget will be a “collaboration”
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In the early 2010s, critics started pointing out that much of the psychology literature was unreliable. Now, a statistical analysis suggests the field is improving, @cathleenogrady.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/a….
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‘A big win’: Dubious statistical results are becoming less common in psychology
Fewer papers are reporting findings on the border of statistical significance, a potential marker of dodgy research practices
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“We dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
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NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown
In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes
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“It is a difficult time:” Mpox continues to spread in Africa but vaccination efforts are falling far short. www.science.org/content/a…. (by @cohenjon.bsky.social)
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African countries fall far short of mpox vaccination targets
Continent faces a shortage of doses and distribution challenges
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Tiny Sierra Leone has seen more than 3000 mpox cases since January; the past few weeks, it accounted for more than half of all new cases in Africa. www.science.org/content/a….
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Explosive mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone overwhelms health systems
Rapid transmission through sexual networks raises fears of wider spread in the region
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HIV control efforts are falling apart in Lesotho en Eswatini, which have the highest infection rates in the world.
This story by @cohenjon.bsky.social is the first in a series about Trump cuts' effects on global health, funded by the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social.
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U.S. aid helped two African countries rein in HIV. Then came Trump
In Lesotho and Eswatini, treatment and prevention cutbacks are hitting pregnant women, children, and teens especially hard
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The Trump cuts to USAID undercut hard-won progress against 5 neglected tropical diseases that don't kill large numbers of people but that can be debilitating and stigmatizing--and that trap people in poverty. My story at www.science.org/content/a….
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Crippling tropical diseases threaten to surge after U.S. funding cuts
Closing of programs that fought neglected diseases imperils drug donation and distribution efforts in 26 countries
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“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
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NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency
Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step
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And here's more on Alondra Nelson's bombshell announcement today: www.science.org/content/a….
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NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency
Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step
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For those having a hard time following all the changes to NSF by the Trump administration, here's a wrapup of the past week's momentous events--and what they mean for the agency. www.science.org/content/a….
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
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And the most predictable one …
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“The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying”
My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social
and others about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”.
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Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate
Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk
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I found this recent @spiegel.de essay on what Trump's transphobic policies mean for Americans living abroad, by my Berlin colleague Charles Hawley, really moving. www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Meinung: Executive-Ordered Out of Existence: How Trump's Transphobia Is Affecting My Family from Afar
My transgender daughter is getting the care she needs here in Berlin. But she is no longer able to travel to her second home in the U.S. to visit family and friends. In Donald Trump's America, the tra...
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In the largest ever study of Tenochtitlan obsidian, researchers found that the Aztec empire sought obsidian from far and wide to make ritual jewelry and basic tools, revealing complex trade networks and ritual preferences. More in my story in @science.org www.science.org/content/a….
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Aztec empire sought obsidian from far and wide to make ritual jewelry and basic tools
Largest ever study of Tenochtitlan obsidian reveals complex trade networks and ritual preferences
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“What’s troubling is to have an announcement that this is a revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, and there’s nothing on which to base those statements.”
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Gold standard or appalling? HHS’s $500 million vaccine bet on inactivated viruses puzzles field
Department selected universal flu vaccine work by NIH leaders without “transparency,” some scientists say
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NSF downgrades role of rotators and designates priority research areas www.science.org/content/a….
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NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm, my latest in @science.org www.science.org/content/a….
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Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm
Behavior is more complex than scientists realized, could reveal origins of musicality
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This totally tubular robot doesn’t need a centralized processing system to hop around on land or swim in the water—it relies instead on air and simple physics. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/a…. 🧪
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After a few weeks of personal and work travel, followed by long-delayed feature writing, I'm back on the earth, climate, and planetary science beat.
As a reminder, if you have a tip for @science.org about NOAA, NASA, NSF GEO/OPP, USGS, etc, on Signal I'm at voosen.01.
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Herring live up to 20 years. Unpredictable things happen when the older generations are overharvested. 🐟 🌊 www.science.org/content/a….
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Herring had a spawning ‘culture.’ Overfishing obliterated it
Younger generations lost their way after older fish were killed
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Things are going from bad to worse at NSF; www.science.org/content/a….
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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