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Adam Saunders

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Industry scientist, educator, and writer gathering wisdom from the living world.

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States United Democracy Center @statesunited.org · 16/09/2026
💰🚨 NEW: Since January 2025, the Trump administration has disrupted $177 billion across 17 funding sectors in all 50 states and DC. Our new project with @grantwitness.org tracks every dollar, grant by grant, and shows the impact of disruptions 🔗 www.lostfunds.org
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Lost Funds — $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 09/09/2026
What happens when young people get the chance to experience marine life, learn together, and realize their own power to make a difference? 🌊 They build connections to the ocean, to their communities, and to a future they can help shape.
A young student wearing a big red bow looks down in awe into an aquarium exhibitA student and chaperone look at exhibit labels in the aviary of an AquariumFour middle school students lean over the bat ray touch pool at the Aquarium, with one girl reacting particularly excited and surprised after touching a rayAn elementary school student holds a magnifying glass while looking into an aquarium tank with purple sea urchins
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Abby Dernburg @adernburg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Biomedical scientists - a reminder that NIH proposes to "improve" peer review by hiding impact scores from Program Officers and applicants, and binning applications into broad categories of "Most competitive,""Competitive," or "Not discussed." Please provide feedback before the October 13 deadline!
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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026
The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NIH has lost more than 20% of its staff. NIH has lost 1 in every 5 workers. This undermines the NIH mission. @27unihted.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
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Lost critical expertise is hindering the NIH mission
Concern 5 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 31/07/2026
All due respect, if you didn’t look like this in the spring of 2020, I don’t really care about your opinion of Dr Fauci
3/2020: me in the ICU about to intubate a COVID patient for the first time
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
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I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I found the guidelines on the ACS website extremely helpful!! acs.quorum.us/campaign/164...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Powerful piece from two former NIH staffers www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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The 3-Pronged Attack on Scientific Communication (opinion)
At the NIH, political appointees exercise extensive control over scientific communication, and research on health communication is under siege.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The Trump administration is planning to axe an ocean monitoring system that provides critical early warning signs of major storms and weather. The entire globe is facing an historic El Nino year, with dangerous extreme weather expected. Trump is putting us all at risk.
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Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world ‘flying blind’
Experts say dismantling the ocean observation system will ‘severely degrade’ the accuracy of weather predictions
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title
Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
More on Vought’s proposed rule to kill science. Includes a great sample comment. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Salting the earth for US science (ACTION ITEM)
Sometimes it feels like scientists in the US are trapped in a burning building and no one is even trying to put out the fire. So few people even seem to recognize that the fire is there.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2026
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
A beeswarm chart of canceled NIH grants showing the years into each project when the funding was pulled. Each dot represents a terminated grant and is colored by the number of publications associated with the project: none, one to four or five or more. The grants are separated into thee rows based on the award type (R01, U01, U54). RO1 research projects had the most terminations, which occurred at all stages of research, from the project onset to 7+ years in. Most grants were canceled short of the 4-5 year lifespan of a typical grant, and 40% of R01s had no publications at the time of termination. Projects that had been active for longer had more publications, suggesting that more findings are disseminated in the later stages of these grants.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog
Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…
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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Better infrastructure = better results, better data, better science. Each dollar applied to indirect costs amplifies the effectiveness of every dollar spent on direct costs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csng...
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Understanding the Real Costs of Research
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 14/02/2025
That is to say, building public trust with clear general-audience communication about the process of science and its results is important … but it cannot overcome a multibillion dollar organized effort to undermine public trust in science
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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Let's go @ascbiology.bsky.social #scientistsinaction #useyourvoice #leadership find your representatives www.govtrack.us Call daily!
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Useful and great guidance and a script on how to contact your congressional representatives to advocate for federal scientific funding. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social! If this is your battle, start here!
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
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Eric Boodman @ericboodman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms). I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it. #Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.
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US FDA drops web pages on improving clinical trial diversity
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies to test medicines and devices in diverse populations as part of a purge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at U.S. health agencies.
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Jim Van Deventer @vandeventerjim.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The current Director of the National Institutes of Health, Monica Bertagnolli, is speaking out against the new administration's disruptive halt of numerous NIH activities. Post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/monica...
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Monica Bertagnolli on LinkedIn: It is understandable that a new administration would pause some of the… | 37 comments
It is understandable that a new administration would pause some of the activities of an agency as new leaders are put in place and new priorities are set in… | 37 comments on LinkedIn
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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/01/2025
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Jan 21 2025: 27 job openings listed at NIH.Jan 22 2025: There are no postings at this time.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science. Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
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Diana Libuda @dianalibuda.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Yay #FluorescentFriday! A live #celegans hermaphrodite germline undergoing oogenesis with a fluorescent synaptonemal complex, a meiotic chromosome structure, marking the chromosomes in each nucleus. Movie taken by @cahooncori.bsky.social #meiosis4eva
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Our mission is to support biologists and inspire biology, so please feel free to let us know what content you would like to see on here from us and how we can support you.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
This is a good resource for undecided or unmotivated voters, or people talking with same: comprehensive analyses of what the 2024 election means for science, health care, technology, education, nuclear weapons and more (issues, not horse race nonsense) 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/report/how-t...
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How the 2024 Presidential Election Will Shape Science, Health and the Environment
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris represent very different futures when it comes to science-related policy issues that deeply affect our lives. Scientific American has rounded up the U.S. presidential ca...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Nature: "Trump repeatedly ignored research-informed knowledge...undermined national and global science and public-health agencies...denied climate science, lied about the federal response to hurricane forecasts...pulled the US out of the WHO in a pandemic" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The world needs a US president who respects evidence
As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off, the fate of US democracy, science and evidence-based policy hangs in the balance.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
An early study claiming that the risk of long COVID in kids is "strikingly low" has been retracted. New research shows that 10-20% of kids, or about 6 million in the U.S., have long COVID symptoms after infection. www.scientificamerican.com/article/long...
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Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids. They Need Help.
Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants
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