Cynthia Holladay

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in County Jails — Outcomes after Release | NEJM In 2019, seven county correctional facilities (jails) in Massachusetts initiated pilot programs to provide all Food and Drug Administration–approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). This...

🚔 Opioid treatment in jails saves lives

A new study found that people who received medications for opioid use disorder while jailed were less likely to overdose, die, or return to jail after release.

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#SciComm 🧪 #Opioids #Prisons

DOGE cuts to science will impact Ohio, students • Ohio Capital Journal It isn’t just the DEI or climate-related grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board, tens of billions of dollars. This means Ohio students will…

Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH

Devastating. Not devasting.

Nation Can't Believe It On Harvard's Side

It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.

@catgyoung.bsky.social

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RFK says HHS will cure cancer by Memorial Day.

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

The crazy thing about firing all of these federal employees is that they tend to be underpaid, super hardworking, in it for the right reasons, idealistic people who could’ve worked in industry or pharma and made way more money but they truly believed in the mission and the good they were doing.

Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...

Open letter from nearly 2000 NAS member scientists: "We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united (...) in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."

Some day we'll figure out how much it cost to fire and un-fire thousands of government employees.

Book Review: John Green is obsessed with tuberculosis. He makes a strong case that we should be, too Bestselling young adult author John Green's newest book is a nonfiction thesis on the deadliest infectious disease, which infects millions of people per year.

STUNNING review of Everything Is Tuberculosis in @apnews.com. "The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word. He uses the stories of real people to turn overwhelming problems into something personal and understandable."
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Kudos to @standupforscience.bsky.social for getting the @nytimes.com to finally acknowledge how upset Americans are about Trump trashing this country

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.

We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

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Indiana bird flu cases explode, killing chickens, sandhill cranes, other waterfowl There is no cure for the disease, which has a high mortality rate among birds but remains a low risk to people, according to the CDC

So anyways this continues to happen and I'm not really aware of our government doing anything about it but maybe that's just because they fired the person that would tell us?

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

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It’s not cute to accidentally cancel Ebola prevention — a virus with a 50% fatality rate.
 
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.

Please, please, please join me in contacting your congressional representatives IMMEDIATELY to tell Congress to STAND UP AND ACT.

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That's how they view themselves, even with tripartite control of the US government; they're the underdogs, fighting for a revolution.

That's why they have to invent things like the Deep State or Secret Masters or fucking whoever, because they can't cope with being in charge AND things aren't fixed.

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo

What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi “To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.

This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...

You should join us for an event with the talented infectious disease researchers and students at IU Indy! As research faces a dire future among drastic funding cuts, help us show the public the amazing work being done is worth saving!

Clarksdale, Mississippi, is a lawless town that believes its government is superior to the First Amendment. It is time they learned otherwise.

/8 UPDATE: the paper has taken down the article in compliance with the buffoonishly lawless court order. Here’s a blog reposting it. How many sites can we get to repost it?

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NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.

2/ If you put it together it makes sense if you posit a conversation where someone says we’re very concerned there might be more effective treatments for cancer coming. How do we prevent that? And you basically get what we’re seeing now at nih and nci and across much of hhs.

USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

Even though Rubio promised life-saving aid wouldn't be interrupted, it has essentially been halted worldwide, interrupting HIV and TB treatment and threatening millions of lives. People are dying today because of these chaotic, inconsistent stop work orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency