Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
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'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz) ..
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Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
&
'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz)
Joshua S. Weitz is an American biologist. He is both a professor of biology and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics at the University of Maryland. Previously, he was a professor at Georgia Tech, where he was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. .. more
Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Maryland, College Park • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US.
scienceimpacts.org
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The proposed remedies are naive, e.g. prioritizing MAHA preferred research.
Riding this out and/or collaborationism won't end the war.
But it will ensure degradation of national capacity.
But 1.5+ years of grant terminations, staff dismissals, fired boards, and OMB proposals all point in the same direction: the admin wants political control of what research is funded.
That is a path to ruin.
www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Nicholas A. Christakis, Joshua S. Weitz
Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
Future versions of this miracle are what we are currently losing, due to the US Administration’s decision to shatter the public’s partnership with our universities. 
Officials battled over NIH in the Oval Office today, per people familiar.
RUSS VOUGHT criticized NIH "woke" spending and floated executive order to review its grants.
JAY BHATTACHARYA defended NIH's alignment with Trump.
TRUMP appeared to side with Vought.
with @rbeggin.bsky.social
Officials battled over NIH in the Oval Office today, per people familiar.
RUSS VOUGHT criticized NIH "woke" spending and floated executive order to review its grants.
JAY BHATTACHARYA defended NIH's alignment with Trump.
TRUMP appeared to side with Vought.
with @rbeggin.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael Barnett, Joshua S. Weitz, Scott L. Greer
Officials battled over NIH in the Oval Office today, per people familiar.
RUSS VOUGHT criticized NIH "woke" spending and floated executive order to review its grants.
JAY BHATTACHARYA defended NIH's alignment with Trump.
TRUMP appeared to side with Vought.
with @rbeggin.bsky.social
Reposted by Dawn J. Wright
Selling something is not the same as doing something.
Science is hard.
This 'new golden age' won't make it easier.
Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Richard S.J. Tol , and 24 more Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Richard S.J. Tol, Nicholas A. Christakis, Brendan Nyhan, Joshua S. Weitz, Steve Peers, John McLaren, Michael A. Clemens, Mark D. White, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, Daniel W. Drezner, Smith, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Robert Wolfe, Robert B. Reich, Kate Starbird, Mark Rice, Lisa Diedrich, Henry Jones, Nelson Flores, Karen O’Leary, Manisha Sinha, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jeannette Sutton
Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”