A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
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#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
www.science.org/content/arti...
#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky
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marrazzo is one of the most respected and accomplished physician scientists/public health experts in the world
“In her complaint, the scientist, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who had directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, objected to Trump administration actions, alleging that they had endangered research subjects, defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.”
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
marrazzo is one of the most respected and accomplished physician scientists/public health experts in the world
"Covid czar"?
He's a physician-scientist and immunologist who pursued solutions during a global pandemic and gave us the truth. He's the former director of the NIAID and one of the most cited scientists in journals for 19 years. You may be spineless, but he isn't.
He's a physician-scientist and immunologist who pursued solutions during a global pandemic and gave us the truth. He's the former director of the NIAID and one of the most cited scientists in journals for 19 years. You may be spineless, but he isn't.
July 29, 2026 at 1:29 PM
"Covid czar"?
He's a physician-scientist and immunologist who pursued solutions during a global pandemic and gave us the truth. He's the former director of the NIAID and one of the most cited scientists in journals for 19 years. You may be spineless, but he isn't.
He's a physician-scientist and immunologist who pursued solutions during a global pandemic and gave us the truth. He's the former director of the NIAID and one of the most cited scientists in journals for 19 years. You may be spineless, but he isn't.
I need more physician scientists to absorb this message. Do not put your data into any LLM system.
The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore.
Behave accordingly.
Behave accordingly.
September 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
I need more physician scientists to absorb this message. Do not put your data into any LLM system.
Physician/scientists, let me know if you want to be added to this list: go.bsky.app/9PwKh1k
November 18, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Physician/scientists, let me know if you want to be added to this list: go.bsky.app/9PwKh1k
I’m an emergency physician & dean of @yalesph.bsky.social. Trying this out after a year on Threads.
(Do we do intros here?)
Looking to find…
* healthcare/public health
* scientists (& science writers)
* discussions of great books
* #gunviolence prevention
* higher ed
* RI & CT
* humanity 💕
(Do we do intros here?)
Looking to find…
* healthcare/public health
* scientists (& science writers)
* discussions of great books
* #gunviolence prevention
* higher ed
* RI & CT
* humanity 💕
September 15, 2024 at 12:27 AM
I’m an emergency physician & dean of @yalesph.bsky.social. Trying this out after a year on Threads.
(Do we do intros here?)
Looking to find…
* healthcare/public health
* scientists (& science writers)
* discussions of great books
* #gunviolence prevention
* higher ed
* RI & CT
* humanity 💕
(Do we do intros here?)
Looking to find…
* healthcare/public health
* scientists (& science writers)
* discussions of great books
* #gunviolence prevention
* higher ed
* RI & CT
* humanity 💕
My conversation with Sir John Bell, one of the most influential physician-scientists in the world.
(it's free, with transcript)
erictopol.substack.com/p/sir-john-b...
(it's free, with transcript)
erictopol.substack.com/p/sir-john-b...
May 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My conversation with Sir John Bell, one of the most influential physician-scientists in the world.
(it's free, with transcript)
erictopol.substack.com/p/sir-john-b...
(it's free, with transcript)
erictopol.substack.com/p/sir-john-b...
Truth spoken by @rubinallergy.bsky.social: "Turning one of the nation’s most accomplished physician-scientists into the central focus of political theater doesn’t help us prepare for the next public health crisis"
I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.
August 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Truth spoken by @rubinallergy.bsky.social: "Turning one of the nation’s most accomplished physician-scientists into the central focus of political theater doesn’t help us prepare for the next public health crisis"
Yep. It’s even more insanely difficult for physician-scientists, who, thanks to clinical obligations, have far less time to devote to grant writing. At least we physician-scientists can go back to being full time clinicians if we can’t get funded. Basic scientists don’t have that option.
When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me.
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Yep. It’s even more insanely difficult for physician-scientists, who, thanks to clinical obligations, have far less time to devote to grant writing. At least we physician-scientists can go back to being full time clinicians if we can’t get funded. Basic scientists don’t have that option.
People in my comments are telling me, a physician and scientist, that we should believe what RFK Jr and DJT said last week about Tylenol because we should believe “scientists.” It makes me wonder: do they even know how to tell if someone is a scientist?
September 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
People in my comments are telling me, a physician and scientist, that we should believe what RFK Jr and DJT said last week about Tylenol because we should believe “scientists.” It makes me wonder: do they even know how to tell if someone is a scientist?
It's really hard to tell young wanna-be-physician-scientists that the future for a career in science and medicine is bright right now.
September 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's really hard to tell young wanna-be-physician-scientists that the future for a career in science and medicine is bright right now.
We have PhD-MD physician scientists because there’s a generally accepted understanding that being a practicioner of something and being a scientist of it are distinct skillsets with different training, but for some reason “legal academia” lawyers get to freely cosplay as historians and economists
February 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We have PhD-MD physician scientists because there’s a generally accepted understanding that being a practicioner of something and being a scientist of it are distinct skillsets with different training, but for some reason “legal academia” lawyers get to freely cosplay as historians and economists
JAMA: A call for physician-social scientists:
Medicine’s future depends on leaders who bridge clinical practice, research and society. Physician-social scientists are equipped to do this, but their potential cannot be realized without investment in their training.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Medicine’s future depends on leaders who bridge clinical practice, research and society. Physician-social scientists are equipped to do this, but their potential cannot be realized without investment in their training.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Expanding the Pipeline of Physician–Social Scientists
This Viewpoint discusses the need to expand the pipeline of physician-scientists trained in the social sciences and humanities to meet the growing demand for leaders who can fully integrate medicine a...
jamanetwork.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
JAMA: A call for physician-social scientists:
Medicine’s future depends on leaders who bridge clinical practice, research and society. Physician-social scientists are equipped to do this, but their potential cannot be realized without investment in their training.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Medicine’s future depends on leaders who bridge clinical practice, research and society. Physician-social scientists are equipped to do this, but their potential cannot be realized without investment in their training.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Lest we forget senator Barrasso, also a physician who confirmed these witch scientists.
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Lest we forget senator Barrasso, also a physician who confirmed these witch scientists.
If doctors can be physician-scientists, physician-advocates, physician-educators, physician-leadership…
I can be a physician-warlock. And change healthcare by invoking fel energies to bring forth our demonic masters—especially for the Ashenvale Orcs.
#MedTwitter #ObGynTwitter #FelTech
I can be a physician-warlock. And change healthcare by invoking fel energies to bring forth our demonic masters—especially for the Ashenvale Orcs.
#MedTwitter #ObGynTwitter #FelTech
October 10, 2023 at 6:08 PM
If doctors can be physician-scientists, physician-advocates, physician-educators, physician-leadership…
I can be a physician-warlock. And change healthcare by invoking fel energies to bring forth our demonic masters—especially for the Ashenvale Orcs.
#MedTwitter #ObGynTwitter #FelTech
I can be a physician-warlock. And change healthcare by invoking fel energies to bring forth our demonic masters—especially for the Ashenvale Orcs.
#MedTwitter #ObGynTwitter #FelTech
The list is growing, amazing physician/scientists on here! please follow along
November 22, 2024 at 7:16 AM
The list is growing, amazing physician/scientists on here! please follow along
Claiming to be pro-family, Trump’s research funding cuts only limit our understanding of the environmental factors that may contribute to infertility. After ending Dr. Mahalingaiah’s research grant, her lab had to lay off young physician scientists, further limiting future scientific discoveries.
She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Claiming to be pro-family, Trump’s research funding cuts only limit our understanding of the environmental factors that may contribute to infertility. After ending Dr. Mahalingaiah’s research grant, her lab had to lay off young physician scientists, further limiting future scientific discoveries.
Fired: CDC's most recently hired Epidemic Intelligence Services officers – the people who fight disease outbreaks.
They are not mere "probationary" staff. They are "Fellows" who are physician-scientists in a globally recognized applied epidemiology training program.
They are not mere "probationary" staff. They are "Fellows" who are physician-scientists in a globally recognized applied epidemiology training program.
An update on HHS cuts today
#1 - all of CDC's most recent class of Epidemic Intelligence Services officers, aka agency's "disease detectives," are among cuts
#2 - Stat is reporting that NIH is working out which probationary to cut
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
#1 - all of CDC's most recent class of Epidemic Intelligence Services officers, aka agency's "disease detectives," are among cuts
#2 - Stat is reporting that NIH is working out which probationary to cut
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
The latest I've heard on cuts at HHS
- FDA officials say heard nothing about probationary cuts, so far
- lots of rumors at NIH about cuts, all from a Reddit thread I think, but nothing official yet?
- many contractors have contracts not renewed
www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...
- FDA officials say heard nothing about probationary cuts, so far
- lots of rumors at NIH about cuts, all from a Reddit thread I think, but nothing official yet?
- many contractors have contracts not renewed
www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...
February 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Fired: CDC's most recently hired Epidemic Intelligence Services officers – the people who fight disease outbreaks.
They are not mere "probationary" staff. They are "Fellows" who are physician-scientists in a globally recognized applied epidemiology training program.
They are not mere "probationary" staff. They are "Fellows" who are physician-scientists in a globally recognized applied epidemiology training program.
CDC team that updated go-to physician reference on contraceptive science is fired | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
CDC team that updated go-to physician reference on contraceptive science is fired
Scientists combed the literature, synthesizing evidence of safety for busy providers
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
CDC team that updated go-to physician reference on contraceptive science is fired | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
There’s Katherine Johnson who got us to the moon. Or Marie Daly who researched cholesterol’s affects on the heart, or Mae Jamison, physician, engineer & astronaut, or Angela Ferguson who gave us the test for Sickle Cell. Find more wickedly smart black women here:
www.scijournal.org/articles/fam...
www.scijournal.org/articles/fam...
September 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
There’s Katherine Johnson who got us to the moon. Or Marie Daly who researched cholesterol’s affects on the heart, or Mae Jamison, physician, engineer & astronaut, or Angela Ferguson who gave us the test for Sickle Cell. Find more wickedly smart black women here:
www.scijournal.org/articles/fam...
www.scijournal.org/articles/fam...
PEOPLE TRUMP HATES starter pack3
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is an homage to brilliant scientists from around the world—working in scientific fields 🔭 🧪 unheard of by most, to do great things for humanity.
My dad was a physician & I'm dismayed by what Trump is doing to science & scientists
go.bsky.app/EDhx9HW
⚕️🧲🔭🔬🧪🧫🧬🌐🧑🏽🔬🌗
is an homage to brilliant scientists from around the world—working in scientific fields 🔭 🧪 unheard of by most, to do great things for humanity.
My dad was a physician & I'm dismayed by what Trump is doing to science & scientists
go.bsky.app/EDhx9HW
May 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
PEOPLE TRUMP HATES starter pack3
⚕️🧲🔭🔬🧪🧫🧬🌐🧑🏽🔬🌗
is an homage to brilliant scientists from around the world—working in scientific fields 🔭 🧪 unheard of by most, to do great things for humanity.
My dad was a physician & I'm dismayed by what Trump is doing to science & scientists
go.bsky.app/EDhx9HW
⚕️🧲🔭🔬🧪🧫🧬🌐🧑🏽🔬🌗
is an homage to brilliant scientists from around the world—working in scientific fields 🔭 🧪 unheard of by most, to do great things for humanity.
My dad was a physician & I'm dismayed by what Trump is doing to science & scientists
go.bsky.app/EDhx9HW
How we develop early-career physician scientists through their 3 phases of growth #medsky #surgsky #mentoring www.aasurg.org/blog/moving-...
November 23, 2024 at 7:05 PM
How we develop early-career physician scientists through their 3 phases of growth #medsky #surgsky #mentoring www.aasurg.org/blog/moving-...
I like what Japan does with money: no politicians but instead scientists, authors, etc. Currently:
¥1000- Kitasato Shibasaburō physician and bacteriologist
¥5000- Tsuda Umeko educator who founded Tsuda University
¥10000- Shibusawa Eiichi business magnate.
¥1000- Kitasato Shibasaburō physician and bacteriologist
¥5000- Tsuda Umeko educator who founded Tsuda University
¥10000- Shibusawa Eiichi business magnate.
March 18, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I like what Japan does with money: no politicians but instead scientists, authors, etc. Currently:
¥1000- Kitasato Shibasaburō physician and bacteriologist
¥5000- Tsuda Umeko educator who founded Tsuda University
¥10000- Shibusawa Eiichi business magnate.
¥1000- Kitasato Shibasaburō physician and bacteriologist
¥5000- Tsuda Umeko educator who founded Tsuda University
¥10000- Shibusawa Eiichi business magnate.