Francis Collins resigned from NIH yesterday. He rightly pointed out that it's Human Genome Project revolutionized every aspect of biomedical research. He points out that NIH has historically been sens as high priority and non partisan. 1/

Great news coming from NIH: nih.gov/news-events/ne… A beautiful piece of work, funded by the NIH $$, from Susruta Majumdar 's team nature.com/articles/s4158…

Their war on science intensifies 👇 The nationwide #StandUpForScience is tomorrow - I don’t care about meetings or experiment happening at that time. I will be there and so should you Nationwide: surl.li/yckzpj UCLA : surl.li/jlgjda UCLA Health David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is a fucking star. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

Not because Trump and friends can’t use their brains that they should silence ours #StandUpForScience2025

Congrats Jessica Higginbotham Jose Moron-Concepcion. and team! Huge achievement with this paper. Lots of work and great approaches to assess sex-specific impact of pain on fentanyl intake and dopaminergic activity. Give it a good read 👇 cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/41Tj74S

No words.

NIH funding today.

This is somehow both the most corrupt and pathetic thing I’ve ever seen.

Let’s be very clear: NIH research funding isn’t just about science - it’s an economic powerhouse. The $36.94 billion in external grants last year not only supported groundbreaking medical and scientific discoveries but also sustained over 400,000 jobs, fueling nearly $95

Read this #EditorsPick from #PapersoftheWeek from Jessica Higginbotham et al. and Neuron showing evidence that estradiol protects against fentanyl use in male rats through suppression of fentanyl-evoked VTA dopamine bit.ly/4bGLgjd #PRF

Our research on alternative treatments for fentanyl overdoses using peripheral restricted opioid antagonists is highlighted in this podcast by Cambridge University. This work was conducted by the outstanding postdoc Brian Ruyle thenakedscientists.com/articles/inter…

BREAKING—Trump HHS has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues. The discontinued grants include about $11.4 billion from

✊✊✊ We need more of this

Yesterday our department UCLA Anesthesiology at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA organized its 5th yearly Womxn Leaders Symposium. Being supportive and inclusive matters and I am grateful that my Dpt’s leadership thinks alike. We need more of this NOW

Please share. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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Check out our preprint!! Here we show the relationship between #pain #AffectiveStates #opioids in chronic pain patients. Opioid misuse is mediated by affective states in chronic pain patients medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to Plan Nacional Sobre Drogas Agencia Estatal de Investigación Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació BIOTECMED