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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 5

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Aug 5

Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

WASHINGTON, DC—AUGUST 5, 2025—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 8

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Sep 2

What an unprecedented and strong bipartisan voice to sound this alarm. Will the Republican Congress wake up and stop playing politics with the health of the American people?

Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 11h

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Structural Studies of Nedicistrovirus IRES-Driven, Initiation Factor-independent Translation Shed Light on Key Steps of Eukaryotic Translation Elongation

We utilized the Nedicistrovirus (NediV) intergenic region (IGR) IRES-mediated, initiation factor-independent translation initiation system and determined high-resolution structures of 80S ribosome com...

www.biorxiv.org

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 11h

My OpEd piece in US News & World Report, about not wanting my life to be book-ended by two fascist regimes and about the state of higher education in this country,

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

has now been republished in German translation by JOSHA:

josha-journal.org/en/categorie...

www.usnews.com

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent! Thanks for posting!
You may be interested in my OpEd piece in US News & World Report:

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

www.usnews.com

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 6d

Drop what you’re doing and read this.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 6d

I hope this Nobel Prize gets people talking meaningfully about our amazing immune systems and the importance of basic research to human health (and funding basic research).

I am also glad young women get to see that women can not only work at this level, but that those who do can get recognized.

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 1d

Pancreas?

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 3d

Make the proof

kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 RFK Jr on Tylenol & Autism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍃 🦠 🧪

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4d

Yet another study shows that annual COVID vaccines save lives. When you vaccinate, you prevent severe illness, complications & high medical bills.

COVID vaccines reduced:
1. Risk of ER visits by 29%

2. Hospital visits by 39%

3. Risk of death by 64%

🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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If you can’t be brave, be kind 🥪🥋⚔️☯️👩🏼‍🎨🖋️✏️ @takemusu.bsky.social · 5d

Alaska's City of Fairbanks Mayor David Pruhs, a Republican, conceded to Mindy O'Neall, a Democrat, in the mayoral election on Tuesday night. www.newsweek.com/alaska-fairb...

Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

The mayoralty has been held by a Republican for years.

www.newsweek.com

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thejuliewolf.bsky.social @thejuliewolf.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan

States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

www.theguardian.com

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Bab @bab102.bsky.social · 5d

Uncle Taught The Notorious Unabomber
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6d

How can you tell Democrats have the upper hand in the week-old shutdown fight? Marjorie Taylor Greene just endorsed their key demand.
From the great @citizencohn.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

www.thebulwark.com

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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 6d

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 6d

theconversation.com/universities...

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

theconversation.com

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 6d

Today's OpEd piece in US News and World Reports
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 6d

Love 😍 this....

New Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdall was NOT around to accept his Prize yesterday.

Why? He was "off the grid," "living his best life" on a hiking trip.

#WorkLifeBalance 🧪

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

www.theguardian.com

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 7d

This is deranged and horrifying. We never had this happen in our country before- the insurrection continues - far more dangerous and deadly. Miller and the regime of #47 are the enemy within.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks #DV1

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 7d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 7d

CONGRESS is out of session until mid Oct

During:

*A Govt SD
*Govt Violence

W/O voting on:

*Apprs
*ACA Tax Creds
*2017 Tax Creds
*Farm Bill
*Debt Ceiling

And not swearing in Rep. Grijalva of Az

All to protect human garbage that don’t give a shit about you or I.🖕🏻
#SheShed

Release the Epstein Files
@jen.sheshed.rock
Signed, Epstein's Mom

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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