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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

'If this keeps up, it would be really devastating' "Academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts... Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students..amid uncertainty about federal science funding." #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold

Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📣 Last call for applications! Deadline 30.04.25

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hamburg researchers scanned 44 Long COVID patients and found severe shrinkage in key brainstem-cerebellum bridges. These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Brainstem Reduction and Deformation in the 4th Ventricle Cerebellar Peduncles in Long COVID Patients: Insights into Neuroinflammatory Sequelae and "Broken Bridge Syndrome"

Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS), also known as Long COVID, is characterized by persistent and often debilitating neurological sequelae, including fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, motor deficits, and autonomi...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 08/04/2025

Coincidentally, the $45 billion to be spent on concentration camps happens to be the size of the NIH budget.

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Bumping this post for anyone who missed it yesterday and needs tigris this weekend!

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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This AI generated forest is really not keeping up with what real trees can do for me yet.

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The photo at the right is actually the more hopeful one, because it was taken after liberation.

Screengrab of a selfie video recorded by US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, in front of barracks in CECOT, a forced-labor prison in El Salvador, from which the country's totalitarian president has promised no one will ever be freed, and to which the Trump administration has deported Venezuelan refugees who had been granted asylum by the United States.

"Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high, in a barracks in the Buchenwald concentration camp." Photograph by Donald R. Ornitz, 23 April 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mary Dickinson. https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa11068
Presented here by me as fair use, without consultation with anyone at the Museum.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Former President of my current University. I’ve never felt so much fear in University spaces in my 25 year career. As an 80s kid, it feels at least a little bit like how I imagined people might feel (and behave) in Soviet Russia.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Take it from people inside #NIH: If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead. Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is a lie. Social Security is even more efficient than the private sector. It's a political tool they're wielding to destroy Social Security. "Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

The reality is that ‘fraud’ is almost non-existent in Social Security. An examination of data from 2015 to 2021 shows that after accounting for overpayments and underpayments, and the recovery of overpayments, the loss rate is around .001%. As a point of comparison, the 2021 average retail shrink in the private sector, due to administrative errors, vendor fraud, shoplifting, and return fraud, was 1.44%.

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This Wednesday at 12pm ET, I'll be giving a FREE 3-hour webinar on "Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in #rstats" Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl! Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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2025 Press Releases

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 23/02/2025

This is a war on science, an illegal attack on functioning government, and it is racism. Real students, current and future research professionals -- working on the pressing issues of the day, for government and society -- which any functioning modern democracy needs, having their careers cut off. /5

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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Looking forward to receiving your submissions! ⭐ Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“The president has completely stopped funding for research that discovers cures for diseases that devastate families across the country, like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, all so he can give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations… crushing families’ hopes and dreams of having cures.”

nytimes.com

NIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 Billion

After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases.

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The powerful thing about this website issue is that it is very easy for the judge to verify compliance. That's very different for impoundment. The Trump admin can hold up payments and that's hard to check. But websites? We can all tell if the website has been restored.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025

US military budget: $850 billion US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
Notice Number:
NOT-OD-25-068
Key Dates
Release Date:
February 7, 2025

Related Announcements
None

Issued by
Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)

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Jen @introvertoutside.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

As a hospital based cancer registrar, it is my job to collect the data that cancer researchers use and is also used to provide cancer statistics. SEER, which falls under the NIH umbrella provides many of our manuals and databases that we use daily to do our jobs. 1/2

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Jen @introvertoutside.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I am working on a difficult cancer case and need guidance normally provided by submitting a question to Ask a SEER registrar. The website states “Answers are not being sent out at this time. You may continue to submit questions.” This disruption thrust upon NIH is more far reaching than most know.

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Joanna Kempner @joannakempner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

George W Bush politicized sciencd to a shocking degree, but when Rep Toomey & the religious right attacked NIH grants based on this *exact* keyword search strategy, W’s NIH director defended every grant on the list. www.nature.com/articles/nm0... journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This happened to me too just now. Anyone else having trouble getting in to NIH eRACommons? I only use login.gov so am not sure alternative logins are working?

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’m feeling sick. BRFSS is one of the most basic public health survey datasets. There is no conceivable reason to take it down.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

More than 60 German universities and research outfits are announcing that they will end their activities on twitter. Including my alma mater, the University of Münster. HT @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

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Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hey PhD students with demography/population health training! The Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social is hiring multiple postdoc positions for next year. Apply to come work in the coolest pop center around (not that I'm biased or anything)! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

pop.umn.edu

Postdoctoral Training | Minnesota Population Center

Postdoctoral TrainingWe hire both project-based Post Doctoral Associates and program-based Post Doctoral Trainees.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/01/2025

Interesting. "The more gender equal a country is, the more likely women are to be more left-wing than men in their political ideology." Thanks for sharing.

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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

@socimages.bsky.social our team has been creating some of these biscale maps. Here we looked at blood pressure inequalities by neighborhood in Cleveland. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29764

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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Dr. Adebambo and I collected some stories of things that happen in health care. Each author is courageous. The E-book is free if you're at a Springer Link school. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Racism, Microaggressions, and Allyship in Health Care

This book provides a complete teaching companion that an organization can use to educate about racism, antiracism, microaggressions, bias and allyships.

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Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Are there any critical-cultural-social ageing/gerontology starter packs? I can only find very services/health care focused ones @socbarb.bsky.social @sallychivers.bsky.social @dianateggi.bsky.social @lizbaz.bsky.social @nicoledalmer.bsky.social @cassie-phoenix.bsky.social @merryngott.bsky.social ???

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