This email depresses me every Friday. Are we ever going to have new notices again? Or is NIH just completely broken now. @altnih4science.bsky.social

Especially given all of the hype about a “popular mandate” from Miller, Vance etc, it really cannot be repeated enough that somewhere around 98% of the policies of the Trump administration are unpopular — as well as many of them being counter-majoritarian, and others downright unconstitutional.

This restructuring is a disaster beyond imagining. Start with the major lose of jobs continue with the draining of expertise both organizational and scientific and end with everything being lumped into five applied areas with no space for basic and theoretical work www.science.org/content/arti...