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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

From the Tennessean: "About 500 are being let go in June, due in part to federal cuts to indirect costs previously covered through research grants from the NIH" As we wrote in Nat Hum Behav: "NIH IDC cuts will impact the economy and employment". rdcu.be/eo3Hp www.tennessean.com/story/news/h...

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces up to 650 layoffs due to fed funding cuts

Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces up to 650 layoffs after federal cuts, including to research grants.

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Since about April, some larger terminated grants (P30 and U19) have left the TAGGS termination PDF. Presumably, those will start to be able to draw funds, correct?

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In an email to staff, NIH deputy director Matt Memoli says: "It has come to our attention that some staff are giving guidance... that the word 'diversity' may not be used in any context." "Obviously this is bad guidance... Please ask your staff to use common sense when implementing NIH priorities."

Subject: From the NIH Principal Deputy Director: Guidance relating to NIH Priorities
Colleagues,
It has come to our attention that some staff are giving guidance to various employees that the word "diversity" may not be used in any context, and that anything with the word
"diversity" in it is not allowed. This is not true. For example, an employee was told they could not go to a conference to discuss research on "neurodiverse
individuals." Others are being told not to use the phrase "genetic diversity." Obviously, this is bad guidance. There are clearly many appropriate uses of the word diversity, and in no way does the NIH police speech or ban

Please ask your staff to use common sense when implementing NIH priorities or ensuring compliance with executive orders. If they are not sure about something, they should ask up their chain of command to get an answer. For NIH to continue its important mission, all staff must work collaboratively to promote rigorous science that does not discriminate and that will lead to potential breakthroughs for the health of all Americans.
Please share this information with other leadership across your ICOs as appropriate.
Matt

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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."

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

After ruling the NIH grant terminations illegal, Judge Young ended the hearing with an eye-opening speech. “This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so.”

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young: "This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In a swift response to this morning's hearing, District Court Judge William G. Young has just ruled that the directives that led to 100s of grant terminations at the NIH are arbitrary and capricious. The directives + subsequent terminations are illegal, he said. "They are of no force and effect."

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants. It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates. Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

To add to this, I've had the chance to look at abstracts from year to year and see where some have changed. Whether by force or fear of reprisal, there are instances where even the mention of health disparities have been removed or altered. We can't solve problems if we can't talk about them.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Dr. Bhattacharya's first line of his Monday PM response to The Bethesda Declaration was "We all want NIH to succeed". Like the OSTP Director, the rhetorical 'we' implies that HHS leadership are engaged in good-faith negotiations with the best interests of America's health in mind. (they aren't)

Dr. Bhattacharya on twitter June 9: "We all want NIH to succeed and I believe that dissent in science is productive. However, the Bethesda Declaration has some fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions NIH has taken in recent months. 🧵1/5"

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Bhattacharya responds to the Bethesda Declaration, saying, "We are reviewing each termination case carefully..." As I reported last month, DOGE sent a spreadsheet of projects and demanded that NIH staff terminate them without any scientific review.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's response to the letter hundreds of agency employees sent him: "The Bethesda Declaration has some fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken in recent months, including the continuing support of the NIH for international collaboration...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

More complete analysis of NIH outlays (or lack thereof) from grant-watch.us grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

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Trends in NIH outlays: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern funding drops to $0 – Grant Watch

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/06/2025

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

BREAKING: Trump has banned all foreign-national Harvard students and researchers from entering the US on student or foreign exchange visas. Shifts legal fight from one over State and DHS powers to presidential powers

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/06/2025

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg GRANTS class certification for the people held at CECOT and gives the government ONE WEEK to explain how they're going to facilitate due process for EVERYONE sent there under the Alien Enemies Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“The Trump administration has moved to end funding for a broad swath of HIV vaccine research, saying current approaches are enough to counter the virus, several scientists and federal health officials say.” OBVIOUSLY CURRENT APPROACHES ARE NOT ENOUGH, hence the research!🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Trump administration ending multiple HIV vaccine studies, scientists and officials say

"This is a setback of probably a decade for HIV vaccine research," one scientist said.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Meanwhile (as federal funding to science acts a rug pulled out from under the research universities), some states pile on to undermine the independence of their state universities.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Absolutely devastating and affecting a lot of my colleagues here at @scripps.edu who dedicated their whole careers to coming up with a vaccine for HIV. Which, btw, outside HIV, has led to a whole field of much better vaccines and vaccine platforms.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

To put these top-line budget numbers in context, cuts of this magnitude would effectively mean no new grants in FY2026. The entire extramural budget would go to existing, continuing grants. An abject failure of American ambition. And a betrayal of our global leadership in health science innovation.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Perhaps relevant as scientists weather a range of attacks, our team (led by UW research scientist Rachel Moran) published a paper describing how a slew of public records requests impacted our work & what that means for collaborative research in adversarial spaces & times: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

There's a good chunk of information in this dataset, so stay tuned as we continue to dig in. 5/5

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

We are hoping that watching the number of overdue grants each month will give us insight into things like funding freezes. Below we see that almost 60% of Columbia's grants whose most recent funding period ended in March are overdue. More on that freeze here: www.science.org/content/arti... 4/5

We have zeroed in on institutions with more than 20 grants that had a budget period ending in March 2025 and plotted the percentage of these grants that were still overdue. Columbia, which has been under a funding freeze since early April, stands out. However, we also see UCD pop out at this time. We will continue to track this metric over time to better understand grant funding delays that may not be reported publicly.

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Overdue supplements are at similar levels for both years, which likely just reflects the usual dynamics for these grants. But we've pulled these out to dig into later. 3/5

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Delays at the NIH likely explain a lot of the 30-day overdue grants. But there are still substantially more primary grants at least 60 days overdue now than last May. We are concerned that many may be effectively terminated. 2/5

A second bar graph shows a similar number of overdue supplements today as in May 2024, but the number of overdue primary grants is far higher.

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

A sizeable number of NIH grants are going multiple months without a new funding period arriving in RePORTER. The Grant Watch team has begun to track these overdue grants in an effort to shed further light on our broken system. grant-watch.us/posts/tracki... 1/5

We found 1066 which were 30 days overdue, 502 that were 60 days overdue, and 309 that were 90 days overdue.

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Shit.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

TRO granted: NYT: “[A] federal judge in Boston moved swiftly to block implementation of the federal government’s order.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

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Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

More details on what's happening to NIH grants right now: www.chronicle.com/article/an-n...

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

SCOOP: HIV scientists were given a choice by the National Institutes of Health: Eliminate a study of transgender youth, or lose a shot to recover larger grants that had been terminated. They chose the former. www.chronicle.com/article/an-n...

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An NIH Grant Is Restored, With a Catch: Cut A Study on Trans Youth

HIV scientists were given a choice: Eliminate a study of transgender youth or lose a shot to recover a larger grant. They chose the former.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 20/05/2025

🚨 Over 700 previously undisclosed #NIH grant terminations were released this week, totaling $1.7B and nearly doubling our count of terminations to >1500. Diversity supplements for research awards are a huge fraction, as well as service awards and training programs. grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne...

Table: Top 10 funding programs of new grant terminations

Funding Opportunity Numbers,Program Title,Terminated Grants,Grants Value
PA-23-189, PA-21-071, PA-20-222,Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research,191,$768,214,323
PA-20-185, PA-19-056, PA-20-184, PA-20-183,Research Project Grant,109,$290,364,678
PA-21-049, PA-20-251, PA-23-271, PA-21-052,Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award,76,$5,232,698
PAR-19-218, PAR-21-146,Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement,58,$45,889,490
PAR-24-031, PAR-19-037, PAR-21-025,Initiative for Maximizing Student Development,38,$43,152,674
PAR-22-220, PAR-20-066,Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program,29,$97,054,509
PAR-21-271, PAR-21-272, PAR-19-343,Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers,22,$5,529,685
PAR-22-241,NIAID Research Opportunities for New and "At-Risk" Investigators to Promote Workforce Diversity,21,$21,601,155
PAR-21-313,Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research,18,$7,200,840
PAR-23-114, PAR-20-223,Enhancing Science, Technology, EnginEering, and Math Educational Diversity,12,$6,550,142

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The District Court of R.I. has ordered a preliminary injuction against the termination of $11 Billion in COVID-19 funding. An earlier TRO in this case resulted in 60-70 NIH grants being reinstated as well as numerous CDC grants. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69829...

Upon consideration of the States' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (ECF No. 60 ), it is hereby ORDERED:1) Defendants and all their respective officers, agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and any persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this order (collectively "Enjoined Parties") are hereby preliminarily enjoined from implementing or enforcing through any means the decision made on or about March 24, 2025 that numerous health programs and appropriations responsible for $11 billion of critical federal financial assistance were "no longer necessary" because the "COVID-19 pandemic is over" ("Public Health Funding Decision"), including any funding terminations, or from taking any action to reinstitute the Public Health Funding Decision for the same or similar reasons. This injunction is limited to funding for Plaintiff States, including their local health jurisdictions and any bona fide fiscal agents of Plaintiff States or their local health jurisdictions. 2) The Enjoined Parties shall immediately treat any actions taken to implement or enforce the Public Health Funding Decision, including any funding terminations, as null and void and rescinded. The Enjoined Parties must immediately take every step necessary to effectuate this order, including clearing any administrative, operational, or technical hurdles to implementation.3) Defendants' counsel shall provide written notice of this order to all Defendants and agencies and their employees, contractors, and grantees by the end of the day on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.4) By the end of the day on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, the Defendants SHALL FILE on the Court's electronic docket a Status Report documenting the actions that they have taken to comply with this Order, including a copy of the notice and an explanation as to whom the notice was sent.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is a different (though related) issue. I’m trying to argue that when we … as scientists and universities … craft our advocacy, we need to include projects and societal value from the areas the Trump regime wants to convince people are the “bad science.”

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

So far this has helped label terminations as "arbitrary and capricious". But the good/bad wedge will certainly be there as they determine what opportunities will even exist in the future.

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Anthony Barente @anthonybarente.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I feel like we see this strategy in recent court filings from HHS. A couple instances of publishing lists of grants they *didn't* terminate. A way to argue they are just separating good from bad science.

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