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Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover. Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities. We work to cure diseases like cancer. Pers views. #science #medicine

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this matters
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a few weeks old now
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bumping: we will publish things anonymously on reasonable request. Recently we have gotten some <eyes> comments re science nonprofits.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
a contributor sent that to us in 2025, and it holds up reasonably well.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
context on the OMB proposed rule and the Trump White House’s new science plans: “Trump and Republican elites are now seeking to politicize, damage, and corrupt NIH. They want to take over the science grantmaking system to destroy US universities.” from 2025
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Trump is attacking NIH because politicizing funding can force universities to become conservative thinktanks
It's bad, folks. The real war is on free thought in the United States.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 16/07/2026
One rule may seem technical. Five rules, moving in the same direction, begin to resemble a pattern documented in democratic backsliding: expanding executive control over the bureaucracy while narrowing institutional checks on personnel decisions. Pay attention.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On the 4th of July: It’s hard to hold a clear view of reality in one hand and hope for better in the other, and to fully commit to both of these things at the same time. This is the hard work of “a Republic, if you can keep it.” Patriotism is to use our freedoms to make America more free for ALL.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 02/07/2026
It is sad that Scott Atlas doesn’t understand basic economics. Paul Samuelson wrote about public goods—why NIH has been such a stunning success—more than 75 yrs ago. Also, to see why Atlas urges ending US success, just look at who elevates him: pro-privatization billionaires. 1/
Clown shoes pro-oligarchy pablum, supported by far-right billionaires — a Hoover fellow, brought in by Trump 1 to blame others for COVID, arranged doubt via billionaire-funded AIER, and now writes in the Bezos Post.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Abolishing the NIH has always been this admin’s plan. They told us in Project 2025. They’ve SHOWN us with their actions over the past 18 months. This is why a heads down approach will not work. The scientific community has 2 options: oppose this with all we’ve got, or let them carry out their plan.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
No one should be surprised at this. This has always been what the "free market"/"Libertarian" right has wanted. They are honestly deluded enough to think that the free market will step in, just as they are deluded enough to want to abolish the FDA because they think private labs will test drugs.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Right, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Abolish the NIH
A $48 billion government monopoly should give way to the market.
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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The OMB proposed rule putting political appointees in charge of healthcare-funding decisions threatens the patients we serve by @nurseteria.bsky.social & @donnagaffney.bsky.social
commondreams.org
Politics Should Never Decide Who Gets Care | Common Dreams
The Office of Management and Budget’s proposed rule putting political appointees in charge of healthcare-funding decisions threatens the patients we serve.
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Stephen Barry @wa3zgt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Meet the microbiologist and science advocate who’s headed to Congress. Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat - by Jeffrey Mervis | 22 May, 2026 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor... cen.acs.org/people/profi...
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Meet Jasmine Clark, the self-described ‘mad scientist’ running for the US House
Jasmine Clark, a PhD microbiologist who won the democratic primary for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, tells C&EN how being a scientist is propelling her toward Congress
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STAT @statnews.com · 07/06/2026
Thousands of HHS staff who shape policy, including on public health, federal health insurance programs, and health data privacy, have had their employment status changed to a designation that makes it easier for them to be fired. www.statnews.com/2026/06/05/s...
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What stripping civil service protections for thousands of federal workers will mean for HHS
Thousands of HHS staff who shape policy have had their employment status changed to a designation that makes it easier for them to be fired.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Must-read. Everything that Vought has done to science in the past 16 months is now laid bare as a plan to “cripple science research.” Five-alarm fire and all of us must respond. Speak out, focus on Vought.
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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I keep thinking I’m done being shocked. It is abundantly clear there is a vendetta against anything that gives joy or laughter and helps people. I cannot believe the brilliant researchers who have been targeted and criminalized. Easy to demolish, hard to rebuild. www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...
npr.org
Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
getting a bunch of messages from NIH people 👀👀
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McNally 🗺️ @likethemaps.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“Mr. Kennedy said at a Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit organized by the MAHA Institute… “No major medical organizations were represented at the gathering…” These people are just quacks and cranks.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It’s one of the worst industries there is, taking advantage of our broken healthcare system to sell hope and bullshit and turn people away from proven medicine. It’s despicable and we need to demolish it with a regulatory hammer.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Oh, self-dealing by the MAHA crowd??? Who would have thought. We can’t get back soon enough to civil servants who serve the country first
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Calley Means, the senior White House advisor to HHS, founded a company, TrueMed, that prompts customers to use money from flexible savings accounts to purchase alternative “wellness” products — prompting conflict-of-interest charges. www.importantcontext.news/p/heritage-f...
importantcontext.news
The Heritage Foundation Has a Radical New Project
The rights of women, people of color, gay people, disabled people and trans people—a vast majority of the country—are being targeted by a billionaire-funded network.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
David Morens' name should be trending. A 78-year-old doctor who worked in the NIH and has no criminal record was abducted from his home by armed federal agents and *stripped* before being transported away--all because the DOJ now works to validate right-wing conspiracy theories like the lab leak.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The indictment is absolute soup. Lab leakers have completely given up on proving their main contention and are now just flailing around looking for any rule violation or procedural misstep that makes it look like a cover-up happened. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...
According to the indictment, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, Co-Conspirator 2, and others conspired during the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud and commit several offenses against the United States after NIH terminated Co-Conspirator 1’s grant. NIH terminated the grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence (bat coronavirus grant), based on allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China. NIAID awarded the grant to Company #1 and Co-Conspirator 1, who made a subaward to the WIV.

Following the termination, Morens and Co-Conspirator 2 pledged to help Co-Conspirator 1 restore the termination of the bat coronavirus grant and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab. In anticipation that their communications would be requested through a FOIA Request, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, and Co-Conspirator 2 agreed in writing to intentionally hide from public view their communications by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The perversion of justice is perhaps the most dangerous thing happening under Trump. Morens is being targeted to throw red meat to the GOP base and to validate a conspiracy theory. This is a scandal worse than Watergate. Another one. But this demands swift accountability. Patel must go.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
and/or are contrarians who have dedicated their careers not to finding ways to make the world a better place, but tearing things down instead
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social. @nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.
nature.com
‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms
Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
same deal in science. Too many scientists are into self-flagellation, blaming what scientists did as opposed to attacks from the far right authoritarian party.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“Trump regime“ - @doggett.house.gov
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Russell Vought‘s attacks on biomedical research are terrible. The public hates how he destroyed cancer research. Hammer on this!
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Right. Govt does this. Public funding does this, it helps build a fair system of social cooperation. That’s why MAGA wants to destroy govt
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Part of the reason we are here is the Trump administration has sought to destroy both immigration and good STEM and academic jobs, which do a lot to create innovation and future good, stable jobs. Creating good honest work for young people means rebuilding public funding for many things
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Bhattacharya is not a friend to science. The sooner the scientific community (and members of Congress!) realize this, the better shot we have to save science. This article positions Bhattacharya as a defender of science, pushing back against Russell Vought’s OMB. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
politico.com
Trump's budget hawk is still trying to slash medical research. Congress is saying no.
The NIH has proven a difficult target for the White House budget director, because lawmakers have a symbiotic relationship with the agency.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This isn’t about differing political opinions. It’s about a man who has presided over the destruction of American biomedical research. Bhattacharya deserves no homecoming @stanforduniversity.bsky.social. He should be shunned forever. Good riddance.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
link previews are working again on bluesky so click this one and read it
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Living through Trump's time bomb
A whole civilization may not have died, but something within us certainly did.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
With Trump planning to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants, it seems that infrastructure week is finally here.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Thanks to @drugmonkey.bsky.social for elaborating. Also we want to distinguish between fine, longstanding CSR processes (reorganizing study sections as science evolves, see below)… and this, a bad change that helps Project 2025 (believing that review doesn’t need science expertise 😡).
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"they don't want people with expertise - they want SROs to be limited as to how long they interact with a particular scope of research and that community"
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"the dysfunction of the place [CSR] is incredible"
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hearing from #NIH sources the peer review office (CSR) is being broken. "They [top of CSR] want ppl with zero expertise in the review area to run review. I heard they don't want people to be "distracted by the science." (??) It's crazy to think a person can run good review for any kind of science."
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I think there is another lesson here: this regime takes some very big swings that, even as they get WILDLY slapped down, allow cover for other bad decisions that nonetheless get legitimized. What if Dems did something similar for the good, PROGRESSIVE, things some of us want?
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Very likely a spam account, and the good thing is you can not only block them, but first click through to see their followers and block everyone that follows them too.
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@apoirolyb.bsky.social Right now, the Universities are controlled by the
Left, which is as bad as the Extreme Right!!
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.“ We’ve been saying this since Jan 2025
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is a war against universities and truth itself, and 🧪 and scientific leaders must wake up to that before it’s too late. Trump and rightwing billionaires are enemies of education, science, and media because they are enemies of truth.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring. This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence. And now The Regime is setting us back decades.
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NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds
A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH. It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else
Revealed in one chart.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Great Barrington Declaration is one of the most wrongheaded, shortsighted, cruel, callous, and villainous arguments ever made. Literally ever. Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Help NIH staff give OMB Director & Project 2025 author Russell Vought the birthday he deserves. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...
A picture of Russell Vought wearing an adorable pink and gold birthday party hat, with balloons and a birthday cake. The caption reads: "Help Us give OMB Director & Project 2025 author Russell Vought the birthday he deserves." The bottom of the photo has a link to impeachvought.com
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