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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · Sep 19

The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.

IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · Sep 3

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.

Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi

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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · Sep 15

Happy Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month! The ATS is highlighting some of its Latinx and Hispanic members to spotlight their stories & successes. Here's @juancceledonmd.bsky.social, MD, DrPH, ATSF, of UPMC, and past president of the ATS, talking about being a leader in field of pulmonary medicine.

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ATS Assemblies @ats-assemblies.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣Calling all assembly members!📷 Help shape the future of the ATS by nominating a colleague for a leadership position within your assembly.

We're accepting nominations for a variety of positions!

Submit your nominations before Sept. 4!

2026 Call for Nominations - Assembly Leadership Elections

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

surveymonkey.com

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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ATS Pediatrics Assembly @ats-peds.bsky.social · Jul 29

VIPRA is an interactive virtual course designed for international pediatric pulmonology fellows and early career researchers. It focuses on pediatric lung health and teaches scientific research methods. Apply here: thoracic.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · Jul 7

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue:
Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine)
Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky)
Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska)
Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina)
Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas)
Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota)
Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas)
Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia)
Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana)
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi)
Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee)
Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama)
Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma)
Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska)
Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota)
Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington)
Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois)
Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island)
Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire)
Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon)
Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware)
Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii)
Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin)
Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut)
Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland)
Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico)
Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan)
Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York)
Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

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Daniel Weiner @djweiner.bsky.social · Jun 19

Ok, #pediatricpulmonology @ats-peds.bsky.social - we have some folks graduating soon from fellowship - let's make sure they are all added to the family tree: academictree.org/bronchopulmo...

(I'm happy to help add your trainees - just send me a message)

Bronchopulmonary Tree

Bronchopulmonary Tree - The Academic Genealogy of Pediatric Pulmonology

academictree.org

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 16

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.

https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

go.nature.com

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · Jun 15

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”

In the US alone.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

jamanetwork.com

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Erick Forno, MD MPH @efornomd.medsky.social · Jun 11

“We are alarmed by the proposed elimination of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program…[putting] the ability of our children’s hospitals to train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at risk”

www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...

CHA Statement on Trump Administration Proposed Budget That Eliminates CHGME

Children’s hospitals urge greater investment in pediatric health care training.

www.childrenshospitals.org

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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · Jun 10

The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

apnews.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨The NIH has rescinded its April 21, 2025 which had mandated by that by accepting an NIH award recipients had to “certify” that they would not “operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws;”…

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.

4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.

The total funded was 99!

Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 3

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · Jun 3

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?

Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.

He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Jun 3

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jun 3

Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Universities and the government: Which needs the other more?

From public health to high-tech innovation, universities are the workhorses of national progress.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 2

JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget…

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

jamanetwork.com

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · May 30

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.

The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.

Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.

www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · May 29

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

jamanetwork.com

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Faith Crittenden MD MPH @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social · May 28

I just want to come back to this post and say I called this a week ago…. smh ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Blocking J1 visas is going to be a healthcare crisis come July

4,000 J1 visa holders in July will be blocked

1 doctor cares for 5,000 patients/yr

Up to 20 million Americans will be impacted

Faith Crittenden MD MPH @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social · May 22

If Harvard is blocked from bringing in international physicians .
Hospitals lose doctors July 1.
Patients lose care.
This isn’t just red tape—it’s a healthcare crisis in motion.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 22

everyone with undue power is playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · May 23

This was an awesome experience! Deadline June 16th! www.nationaljewish.org/getmedia/dbb...

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Dr. Meghan McGarry, MD MAS @drmeghanmcgarry.bsky.social · May 21

Hey everyone attending #ats2025 speak out to save science and protect the NIH! @atscommunity.bsky.social

Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Erick Forno, MD MPH @efornomd.medsky.social · May 18

⬇️ #ATS2025 ⬇️
Diversity Forum

Featuring Dr Terri Laguna @terrilaguna.bsky.social @ats-peds.bsky.social

American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · May 18

🌟 Join us at the Diversity Forum at #ATS2025 to celebrate the difference-makers leading us toward a more inclusive future.

Find out more: www.atsconferencenews.org/diversity-fo...

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Lekshmi Santhosh MD MAEd (she/her) @lekshmimd.bsky.social · May 14

Headed to #ATS2025 & want to advocate against the systemic attacks on science & public health? Join us on Tuesday May 20th @ 530pm at the Vigil for Lost Science.

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