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Max Kozlov

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Max Kozlov

@maxdkozlov

science reporter covering biology @Nature | proudly Ukrainian 🇺🇦 | maxkozlov.bsky.social (views mine, not springer nature's) SIGNAL: mkozlov.01

Joined January 2012

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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Jun 2, 2025
@AmitaGuptaMD has spent more than a decade on a $70m trial to study a new TB drug, enrolling 6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because an NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. For @Nature
NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
From nature.com
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Dec 12, 2022
FAUCI's reply to @elonmusk "Prosecute/Fauci" tweet in a @Nature exclusive: "I don't pay attention to that, Max, and I don't even feel I need to respond... A lot of that stuff is just a cesspool of misinformation, and I don't waste a minute worrying about it." Full interview TK
Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Dec 12, 2022
Replying to @maxdkozlov @elonmusk and @Nature
Q: Do you feel your safety is at risk? FAUCI: Of course it's at risk, that's why I have armed federal agents with me all the time. [Musk's tweet] stirs a lot of hate in people who have no idea why they're hating, they're hating because somebody [famous] is tweeting about it.
Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Apr 18, 2025
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Jan 4, 2023
'Disruptive' science has plummeted — and no one knows why. Research in the 2000s is much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction. Check out my latest for @Nature with @russellfunk, @dashunwang, @yian_yin
‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why
From nature.com
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Jun 16, 2025
An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can." My story for @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Apr 18, 2023
Hoping to help with the pandemic in any way they can, a motley crew of self-taught citizen scientists scour millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes for problematic mutations — all for no pay. Meet Ryan Hisner (@LongDesertTrain), a rural school teacher from Indiana
How a rural school teacher became a top COVID sleuth
From nature.com
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Mar 27, 2024
🤯 When a long-term memory forms, some neurons experience electrical activity so strong it snaps their DNA. Then, an inflammatory response kicks in, repairing this damage and helping to cement the memory. For @Nature w/ @TJRyan_77 @Clrar @DrLiHueiTsai
Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it
From nature.com
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Mar 10, 2022
Some exciting news: I'm officially joining the @Nature newsroom full-time later this month! I'll be covering US science policy, the NIH & FDA, and biomedical science & research at large. 🧪🔬🧬
Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Jul 30, 2025
Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumor cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day trigger a relapse. Now, a study shows these rogue cells can be roused from their slumber by viruses such as COVID-19 or the flu.
nature.com
‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu
Nature - Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Apr 18, 2025
Replying to @maxdkozlov
For reference, these five institutions together received ~$1.7 billion of NIH funding in 2024, or nearly 5% of the entire agency budget for research done outside of NIH's campus
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Apr 19, 2023
babe wake up, a new homunculus just dropped read all about it, for @Nature:
Famous ‘homunculus’ brain map redrawn to include complex movements
From nature.com
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Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Mar 10, 2021
this is an actual picture included in the supplemental media for a study that came out today about spatial cognitive ability in pheasants
Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Jan 13, 2023
I'm the reporter who wrote the news story about the "science is getting less disruptive" @Nature paper. I've seen some misconceptions floating around about what the paper did and did not show. A few observations: 🧵 1/12
Max Kozlov
@maxdkozlov
Jan 4, 2023
'Disruptive' science has plummeted — and no one knows why. Research in the 2000s is much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction. Check out my latest for @Nature with @russellfunk, @dashunwang, @yian_yin nature.com/articles/d4158…
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