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)
As long as they don't follow similar routes. Given global connectivity of science and convergent forces operating in domestic politics, the damage will not be confined.
Alexander ClarksonIf the American system after 2026 and 2028 elections finds itself unable to repair the damage to research that the Trump administration has inflicted then, however much academics might feel sympathy for US colleagues, the rest of the world will ruthlessly view this as a competitive opportunity
Bacteriophage continue to have so much to teach us. It's in our interest to understand how they work and impact human & environmental health. New joint work led by @mariandm.bsky.social & @rantahan.bsky.social inferring single-cell latent period & burst size heterogeneity from population dynamics.
Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage lysis-associated life-history traits from population-scale dynamicsTheory-guided experiments reveal single-cell heterogeneity of lysis-associated bacteriophage traits from population scale data.www.science.orgNew Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (#SCIMaP) analysis on the impact of the WH plan to eliminate NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. @malar0ne.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social scienceimpacts.org/insights/SBE...
Essential & timely analysis via @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the massive public response to the White House's proposed OMB rule that would politicize grants, science, and federally funded research, including comment analysis dashboard. www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...
The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance RuleTens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.www.techpolicy.pressVery interesting work here... down into the cross-tabs.
Chris Marcum 📖The comments are overwhelmingly calling for OMB to NOT finalize the proposed regulation for federal financial assistance. More from us in @techpolicypress.bsky.social :
As a @washingtonpost.com subscriber and admirer of many of their news team, it is shocking (but not surprising) to read this nihilistic and Orwellian OpEd from Scott Atlas: adviser to Trump I, member of the Hoover Institution at Stanford who wants to literally: "Abolish the NIH" wapo.st/4eWDsMf 🧵
Summary: Ongoing framing from anti-science, organized interests and all-too-willing administration partners ask scientists to, in effect, 'shut up and pipette' and eventually not even do that or anything else in the lab/university if the private capture of public science is successful. 👇
Joshua WeitzWhen you tell colleagues that the public still maintains deep trust in our work (imperfectly & with growing fractures) they are often *very* surprised, in part because of the organized investment in "a rhetoric of science in crisis” to foster an actual crisis. www.nature.com/articles/d41... a 🧵
When you tell colleagues that the public still maintains deep trust in our work (imperfectly & with growing fractures) they are often *very* surprised, in part because of the organized investment in "a rhetoric of science in crisis” to foster an actual crisis. www.nature.com/articles/d41... a 🧵
Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising storySome say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.www.nature.comWith an HHS fueled by Covid grievances that selects vaccine skeptics to lead Ebola response (see today's news re: Brenner), there is a paucity of investment in addressing transmission at its source, even (and especially) in cases where silent spread is rampant. There are other ways to build policy.
AsymptomaticThe Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemicswww.press.jhu.eduCongratulations to @malar0ne.bsky.social who was awarded a Best Talk prize for her #SCIMaP presentation on 'Widespread Economic Impacts of Federal Research Cuts in Local Communities' at the International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation: icssi.org