Nancy L Sieber
@nancysieber.bsky.social
Physiologist and environmental health researcher and teacher. I travel to India a lot for work, and love it. Interested in public health, politics, and cat photos.
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His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent. John Quackenbush, computational biology pioneer, ‘knew biomedical research was in the crosshairs’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
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His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent. John Quackenbush, computational biology pioneer, ‘knew biomedical research was in the crosshairs’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
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Scientists working on the LA Fires:
lafirehealth.org/conference/
lafirehealth.org/conference/
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Scientists working on the LA Fires:
lafirehealth.org/conference/
lafirehealth.org/conference/
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The Cost of Forgetting
by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.
by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.
The Cost of Forgetting
by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.
smallthingsconsidered.blog
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Cost of Forgetting
by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.
by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.
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Increase the chances that this precious document will be found among the ruins of our declining state.
It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Increase the chances that this precious document will be found among the ruins of our declining state.
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“Womanosphere influencers … help direct the national conversation away from how the government could invest in communities” and help the right convince “women to expect less from a nation that could give them more.”
This whole piece from Adrienne Matei is🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
This whole piece from Adrienne Matei is🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“Womanosphere influencers … help direct the national conversation away from how the government could invest in communities” and help the right convince “women to expect less from a nation that could give them more.”
This whole piece from Adrienne Matei is🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
This whole piece from Adrienne Matei is🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Sign up for my popular online Human Pathophysiology class! Focus is on CV, resp & renal systems, & how they work (& fail) together. Co-taught by critical care MD. Great prep for MCAT, etc. Interactive classes - you will learn ALOT. Mon 5:30-7:30 PM EDT. DM for details. Enrollment ends 8/28.
Human Pathophysiology I - Harvard Division of Continuing Education Course Browser
This course focuses on the pathophysiology of the human cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal systems, and on how these systems are altered by various physiologic challenges. The concept of homeostas...
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August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Sign up for my popular online Human Pathophysiology class! Focus is on CV, resp & renal systems, & how they work (& fail) together. Co-taught by critical care MD. Great prep for MCAT, etc. Interactive classes - you will learn ALOT. Mon 5:30-7:30 PM EDT. DM for details. Enrollment ends 8/28.
Sign up for my popular online Human Pathophysiology class! Focus is on CV, resp & renal systems, & how they work (& fail) together. Co-taught by critical care MD. Great prep for MCAT, etc. Interactive classes - you will learn ALOT. Mon 5:30-7:30 PM EDT. DM for details. Enrollment ends 8/28.
Human Pathophysiology I - Harvard Division of Continuing Education Course Browser
This course focuses on the pathophysiology of the human cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal systems, and on how these systems are altered by various physiologic challenges. The concept of homeostas...
coursebrowser.dce.harvard.edu
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Sign up for my popular online Human Pathophysiology class! Focus is on CV, resp & renal systems, & how they work (& fail) together. Co-taught by critical care MD. Great prep for MCAT, etc. Interactive classes - you will learn ALOT. Mon 5:30-7:30 PM EDT. DM for details. Enrollment ends 8/28.
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Well said Rick Bright
“In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology. The ability to rapidly design, produce and deploy medical countermeasures is as vital to our defense as any military capability“
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
“In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology. The ability to rapidly design, produce and deploy medical countermeasures is as vital to our defense as any military capability“
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Well said Rick Bright
“In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology. The ability to rapidly design, produce and deploy medical countermeasures is as vital to our defense as any military capability“
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
“In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology. The ability to rapidly design, produce and deploy medical countermeasures is as vital to our defense as any military capability“
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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Such an important essay on the anti-vaccine playbook — and how not to fall for it
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism
Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Such an important essay on the anti-vaccine playbook — and how not to fall for it
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I am grateful for the immunologists working to understand the long term impacts of Covid on our immune systems! Looking forward to knowing so much more about the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen in the decades to come.
Outstanding article on covid’s impact on our immunity. We need to confront this emerging truth and stop this harm to all humanity.
@nicktsergas.ca
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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
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August 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am grateful for the immunologists working to understand the long term impacts of Covid on our immune systems! Looking forward to knowing so much more about the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen in the decades to come.
What is this? Hanging from a tree in rural Vermont.
August 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
What is this? Hanging from a tree in rural Vermont.
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If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
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🇺🇸 War on #science: The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of #Trump’s ruthless health secretary #RFKJr
“Once #PublicHealth becomes politicised, then it’s game over. There’s just no way to come back from that”
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
“Once #PublicHealth becomes politicised, then it’s game over. There’s just no way to come back from that”
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
A war on science: Kennedy’s slash-and-burn approach to pu...
The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of Trump’s ruthless health secretary
observer.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🇺🇸 War on #science: The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of #Trump’s ruthless health secretary #RFKJr
“Once #PublicHealth becomes politicised, then it’s game over. There’s just no way to come back from that”
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
“Once #PublicHealth becomes politicised, then it’s game over. There’s just no way to come back from that”
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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I feel like I’ve been grasping at anything that gives me joy lately. Like helping a friend finish a quilt, knitting a shawl, taking a turn about my garden every day. I’m really trying to not let the weight of fascism hurt my spirit, but it’s been really hard lately. I know I’m not alone in this.
June 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I feel like I’ve been grasping at anything that gives me joy lately. Like helping a friend finish a quilt, knitting a shawl, taking a turn about my garden every day. I’m really trying to not let the weight of fascism hurt my spirit, but it’s been really hard lately. I know I’m not alone in this.
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This is Gus. He was caught sitting at the kitchen table while home alone. His motives remain unknown. 14/10 (TT: milolovesromeo)
June 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is Gus. He was caught sitting at the kitchen table while home alone. His motives remain unknown. 14/10 (TT: milolovesromeo)
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Vaccines may offer double protection against dementia, study suggests
Vaccines may offer double protection against dementia, study suggests
Oxford research shows adjuvant chemicals included in vaccinations may enhance their antiviral effect
www.irishtimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Vaccines may offer double protection against dementia, study suggests
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RFK Jr. is going to kill thousands of people. That’s not hyperbole.
June 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
RFK Jr. is going to kill thousands of people. That’s not hyperbole.
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Jay, please stop gaslighting early career researchers.
June 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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1/4 Trump’s Assault on Science & Academia Is a National Crisis
The Trump regime slashed federal research funding in a sweeping ideological purge, gutting the NIH, canceling almost 2500 lifesaving projects, and punishing universities. This is sabotage.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Trump regime slashed federal research funding in a sweeping ideological purge, gutting the NIH, canceling almost 2500 lifesaving projects, and punishing universities. This is sabotage.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
1/4 Trump’s Assault on Science & Academia Is a National Crisis
The Trump regime slashed federal research funding in a sweeping ideological purge, gutting the NIH, canceling almost 2500 lifesaving projects, and punishing universities. This is sabotage.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Trump regime slashed federal research funding in a sweeping ideological purge, gutting the NIH, canceling almost 2500 lifesaving projects, and punishing universities. This is sabotage.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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As a Chinese international student during the first Trump administration, Qian Di was accused of research misconduct for his work on air quality, and eventually chose to return to China.
In this piece he reflects on his experiences, and the continued impacts of hostile US policies.
rdcu.be/epAMd
In this piece he reflects on his experiences, and the continued impacts of hostile US policies.
rdcu.be/epAMd
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health
Nature Human Behaviour - Qian Di talks about what it was like doing public health research as a Chinese scientist in the USA during the first Trump administration. His experiences foreshadow...
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June 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
As a Chinese international student during the first Trump administration, Qian Di was accused of research misconduct for his work on air quality, and eventually chose to return to China.
In this piece he reflects on his experiences, and the continued impacts of hostile US policies.
rdcu.be/epAMd
In this piece he reflects on his experiences, and the continued impacts of hostile US policies.
rdcu.be/epAMd
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People have no idea of the extent of the destruction happening in the scientific community. There is no real-time feedback loop like the stock market. But, man, are we shooting ourselves in the foot. Decades to build; months to destroy.
May 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
People have no idea of the extent of the destruction happening in the scientific community. There is no real-time feedback loop like the stock market. But, man, are we shooting ourselves in the foot. Decades to build; months to destroy.
So much is being lost when we terminate these grants. salatainstitute.harvard.edu/breathe-easi...
Breathe easier? Not without the science - The Salata Institute
By canceling a multi-year study of older people with lung disease – a few months before it was due to end – the Trump administration has left patients without help, doctors without answers, and wasted...
salatainstitute.harvard.edu
May 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So much is being lost when we terminate these grants. salatainstitute.harvard.edu/breathe-easi...