Teresa Winstead

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

In this era of Silicon Valley brainrot, I think the best way to save the humanities & liberal arts is just a really good acronym, so I propose to you:

SHWARMA PLLATE: sociology, history, writing, anthropology, rhetoric, media, art, philosophy, literature, languages, and technology & economics

A flyer from Project Mayday featuring a dreamy sunset sky in shades of blue and pink. There’s a QR code at the bottom. A text box reads: “REQUEST FOR AFFIRMATIONS We are thrilled to share that we will finally have our withdrawal kits ready for distribution this month! We are looking to include positive affirmations/quotes with the kits and we need your help! Are you someone with lived experience or just love PWUD? Do you have words of encouragement to help folks get through a hard time? Fill out the form and submit a positive affirmation/quote!”

Want a positive moment? Want to help us help people? For free?

We’re looking for affirmations and words of support to insert into kits that help people get through opioid withdrawal. Bonus points if you can speak from experience.

Anything rude or judgmental will be edited out, so don’t bother. 🙃

Love all this. ❤️ Will raise at our LEAB mtg to see if folks can add comments while we hv dinner together, pre-meeting.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

Observation: the Secretary of Defense is not a reliable narrator

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...

It's Monday morning and Casey Means still doesn't have the votes to become Surgeon General. Let's keep it that way. Send a letter to your Senators now. If you have friends, famiy, colleagues who can do so, urge them on to act now. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

Major Good News Update!! Good morning, everyone.

Good news only update: We are doing this update no matter what is happening in this world every Sunday.

Why? Because the world needs to be reminded that there is some good news out there.

I know you are overwhelmed. I know you are tired. Start off with some good news.

I've spent my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness — I expect a lot of that from Trump tonight.

He's spent the past year trampling on our Constitution and pushing a harmful agenda — and Susan Collins has enabled him all along the way.

I don’t like Janet mills but I really wish the alternative was literally anyone but this guy

peter thiel

But it's different in science based classes, and especially so in a larger lecture. Anyway, 🙈 frickin AI😑, rip Higher Ed.

Can you pivot to in class discussions of them? ...One thing I was ~thinking before leaving the trad tenure track was AI sort of forces more old school discussions. Know this +/- ends up being more work, but just wondering if it might work for case studies so u can still use? Like, eval differently?

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Feeling this

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever.

"If you compare the United States to every other industrialized country and you rank them from the very best to the very worst, the American stock market comes 21st out of 23."

Measles hit decades-high levels last year, and this dangerous, highly contagious virus is surging again Measles is back and highly contagious. Learn about the 2025–26 spikes, the danger for young children and how vaccines prevent severe illness.

This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS rejects science and adopts conspiracy theories.

And, unless we stop it, epidemics could become much worse.

www.uchealth.org/today/is-mea...

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’ Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland.

Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M.

America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech.

This is what integrity looks like.

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Great postdoc opportunity in Community Health at Tufts! My wonderful colleague Beth Marfeo is looking to recruit someone working at the intersection of public health policy, politics, and aging.

#PhDsky #academicsky #publichealth

Please, please click the link and send a letter to your senators today.

This whole hearing is incredibly triggering. It's dredging up all the fear, guilt, and shame I was taught to feel as a girl growing up in a conservative Catholic family and going to mass, and CCD, and youth group events every week.

Love the 'mhmm' transition so good.

No, we shouldn’t put them in prison Think more deeply about what that actually means, and what it would do.

Listen, I do a lot of work trying to educate people in thoughtful and kind ways, but can I just be real for a second?

The amount of you who seem to genuinely want a different society but who also shoot down every idea for trying something different is just absolutely wild.

Grievance Is All You Need Understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists

Thank you to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social. The origin of the current assault on science and public health has a direct tie to COVID contrarianism. But Bhattacharya, Prasad and the rest couldn’t rise without help and patronage. 1/ joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...

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