Marc Presler

@BostonGlobe, a great shot for you!

I randomly remembered today that @redmakeda is a FABULOUS opera singer in addition to being a remarkable scientist. If I were that good of a musician, I’d be insufferable 😂.

At least 350 @harvardmed grants were among those terminated such as studying antibiotic resistance, identifying early precursors of breast cancer, breaking barriers to deliver effective drugs for Alzheimer's, and researching cures for ALS. ⬇️1/4 abcnews.go.com/US/350-harvard…

Just got news that all of my NIH and NSF grants were officially terminated today. Have been expecting this for some time, so it's not surprising, but still jarring to see the news. Have heard similar news from dozens of colleagues. Will be hard, but we'll find a way forward.

I don’t think people realize how dire the threat to American scientific research is. Whole lines of research will end. Life-saving and world-changing discoveries won’t be made. On the course we’re on it could be decades for the engine of American innovation to recover. If ever.

This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR says was used to calculate the reciprocal tariffs we imposed on other countries. And when you back out the Greek symbols, what is that formula? Trade deficit/imports - exactly what I said it was. I don't know if the Deputy Press Secretary was misinformed, or is just being misleading. Either way, the Trump administration did not "literally calculate tariff and non tariff barriers" to determine the tariff rates it's imposing on other countries. As I said, it divided our trade deficit with a country by our imports with that country, and then multiplied by 0.5 (because Trump was being "lenient"). Oh, and if our trade deficit/imports with a country is less than 10%, or we have a trade surplus with a country, Trump slapped a flat 10% tariff on that country.

The strategy of not speaking up out of fear is not working. It’s time for companies to spell out the existential threat the upheaval at HHS poses to biomedical innovation in the US and the future of an industry that employs more than 1 million Americans. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Evidence on the benefits of improving indoor air quality is mountainous. It's so utterly stupid that countries all around the globe haven't mandated IAQ standards for all public buildings, & subsidized installation of IAQ monitors & HEPA filters... in schools *at the very least*.

@katjballantyne , are you going to let people be taken off the streets in Somerville? instagram.com/p/DHqpABMO5bf/

CNBC discussed impact of defunding NIH, cancer clinical trials, Alzheimer's trials & landmark diabetes studies on chronic diseases, new drug development, US health & innovation. youtube.com/watch?v=DpYU5a… @MelissaLeeCNBC @timseymour spoke w/ investor @portalinno's John Flavin

Pay attention to this: Musk is trying to make our air traffic control system "dependent” on him by integrating his equipment, which has not gone through security and risk-management review. It's corruption. And it's dangerous. Fire Elon Musk. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Biotech and Pharma, are you going to sit passively on the sidelines while your future innovation and intellectual property is destroyed? Do you desert the current and future patients you say you are aiming to treat? #biotech #research #cancer #CancerResearch #XBI $XBI

While I agree… it’s frustrating to watch the same public health apparatus that threw its hands up on COVID despite over a million deaths in the US seem shocked at the lack of urgency around this outbreak. We normalized mass death from infectious disease, what did we expect?

@alexolegimas I mean maybe but didn’t we panic about other tools like “spell check” or calculators? *thinks about my spelling and mental math skills* Uh oh….

There is a field experiment showing this exact effect. Introducing GPT tutors increases performance by *a lot*--students seem to be picking up the material much faster--but when GPT is removed those who had access perform *much worse* compared to those w/o access. 1/4

Terminating unrelated biomedical research grants because of political accusations before any kind of investigation or due process is an obscene authoritarian move that in addition to being unamerican, will weaken America permanently

Btw this is an actual movie, shot with a Canon DSLR in a photo studio incubator, of fluorescence-expressing plasmids competing and segregating inside cells

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

Alabama voters & business leaders have been reacting to the NIH news. Steve Ammons, president of the Birmingham Business Alliance, said University of Alabama at Birmingham is in the top 30 for '24 for NIH funding and UAB is the state's largest employer:

This is a five alarm fire. The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk. Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security. This should not be a partisan issue.

Answer, the US subsidizes drug development for the rest of the planet in exchange for early access to new therapies. This deserves an honest conversation with the electorate. There is probably a way to still get the benefits here without bankrupting the American people…