Will Murtaugh

Ending U.S.-global health research partnerships will cost America U.S. research on HIV, tuberculosis, Covid-19, mpox, and other fast-moving epidemics is under threat by a hastily announced NIH policy.

The chaos is the point. 😣 It’s not just funding cuts and delays, it’s the nuances of administrative and policy whiplash choking the scientific community to death

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1000 paper cuts

NIH funding policy deals new blow to HIV-related trial networks Halt to foreign “subawards” disrupts ongoing global studies and has researchers scrambling to fulfill ethical obligations to trial volunteers

These funding policies have been devastating for us, and the disruption to the PHOENIX study is just one piece of a larger mess. Unconscionable actions by the administration and HHS

NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.

I support Lab Ops for ACTG, world’s largest HIV drug trials network w/ major TB portfolio. The study referenced and the entire network I’ve supported for nearly a decade is being gutted. It’s an ethical failure. Lives are at risk. Please speak out. Hold the administration and Congress accountable.

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

In Lesotho and Eswatini, U.S. budget cuts threaten to wipe out years of progress against HIV. scim.ag/3Fdl6c3

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere

https://go.nature.com/437v5IW

Let doctors, teachers, HIV researchers, therapists, authors, U.S. Servicemembers, journalists, aid workers, park rangers DO THEIR JOBS.

Anti-equality extremists in the White House & Congress are actively interfering with Americans who are just trying to do their jobs.

Stop the censorship. End the attacks. Resume funding.

Let Americans do their jobs—without government interference.

This is truly sad

nearly every single federal grant terminated at one of the largest schools of public health

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The late Nobel Peace Laureate and Archbishop Desmond Tutu would certainly support 👏

The Republican bill headed for committee markup tomorrow includes significant cuts and structural changes to Medicaid. Here’s a breakdown of what’s in it, plus where the party is (or isn’t) headed on SALT and taxes on the wealthy.

Had the chance to talk tonight with @andersoncooper360.bsky.social about the significance of the firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden & the ban on books about gay, trans people, and about race and racism from libraries in military academies.

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

done ✅

Soooo…what’s your plan old man?

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

“We are demanding answers” is such a tired response to these crises. Who among us doesn’t already know the terrible answer? What the people want is your action!

Forget single and double breasted, I’m ready for quadruple breasted suits, cheese baked right into the fabric!

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James Franco "first time?" meme

Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably

Facts and myths about measles It seems ironic that Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of the most prominent antivaccine activists, has been made Secretary of Health and Human Services in the USA while one of the largest recent measles outbr...

“Measles is a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for under-vaccination, be it due to vaccine misinformation, lack of access to vaccination, or conflict”

@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Atlantic's Derek Thompson: 'Completely reject' the idea that tariffs will lead to abundance Derek Thompson, The Atlantic staff writer, joins CNBC's 'Power Lunch' to discuss newly announced tariffs, how the American public feels about them, and more.

You must listen to Derek Thompson push back against gullible CNBC anchors @dkthomp.bsky.social

www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

Our original “Cheat Sheets for Tuberculosis Activists” are so popular we split one of them into two separate pieces. Download the “TB Treatment Regimen Cheat Sheet” and the “TB Preventive Treatment (TPT) Regimen Cheat Sheet” now. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/publication/...

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A lot of great people doing important work just lost their jobs because the most destructive, bigoted, willfully ignorant people in the world have targeted them. Here's what you can do to support yourself or anyone you know who lost a job. Please add your own advice at the end of the thread <1/n>

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

"Tuberculosis is coming back." For the world's most vulnerable populations, tuberculosis never went away. Learn more at TBFighters.org

"Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past" - John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis. #Tuberculosis killed 1.25 million people in 2024, & will kill even more this year if we don't immediately reinstate USAID programs. Call your reps: tbfighters.org/action

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.