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I'm not sure I've ever gotten a more enthusiastic comment on a study I'm covering:
"I’m always cautious about how I describe advances in cancer treatment because I don’t want to prematurely raise hope in patients. In this case here, this is huge."
www.the-scientist.com/daraxonrasib...
Watching a House hearing and am struck by how often they are refering to specific news stories and entering them into the record. A real under-appreciated, under-celebrated impact of journalism, IMO.
I keep refreshing the proposed OMB rule to watch the comments tick up. Just surpassed 12,000!
(OMB didn't answer my question about how they plan to respond to all of them)
www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
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Not surprised to learn that @repbillfoster.bsky.social, a particle physicist, is just fantastic at asking questions.
I wrote about the new rule proposing political oversight of every form of federal grant-making and what it means, legally, for OMB to do this.
Wild it's gotten nearly 5k comments in < a week.
Thanks to Carrie Wolinetz, @cdelawalla.bsky.social for their insights
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...
White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.
It was a pleasure to talk to Manisha for this article in @chemistryworld.com: "Supporting pregnant chemists" www.chemistryworld.com/careers/supp...