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Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz

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Social and affective neuroscientist and civil servant advancing behavioral and social sciences research. Personal account, views are my own.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Devistating. And against Congress's directive. SBE was included in the 26 budget and the NSF section states that "no directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to the fiscal year 2024 enacted level."
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exciting news! SANS has received an R13 from the National Institute for Aging at NIH! It will provide support for trainee travel and programming focused on aging at the SANS Annual Meeting as detailed below:
SANS has received an R13 Conference Grant from the National Institute on Aging at NIH (1R13AG104345-01; PI/MPI Fareri/Satpute) that provides support for trainee travel and programming focused on aging at the SANS Annual Meeting as detailed below:

New Travel Awards for Trainees: Travel awards are available for trainees who are interested in learning more about aging and lifespan research. Specifically, 15 awards in the amount of $1,300/award will be available for the 2027 conference. You do not need to currently study aging to be eligible—curiosity is enough! If you are interested in how aging might intersect with your current or future work, we strongly encourage you to apply. Trainees receiving these awards will participate in dedicated opportunities to engage with experts in aging research, including networking and mentoring activities during the conference and follow-up activities after the meeting. Additional details and requirements will follow and will also be specified in the abstract submission portal. 

Special Symposium on Aging: The 2027 SANS Conference in Montreal on April 7-10, 2027, will feature a symposium highlighting aging and lifespan research in social and affective neuroscience and other aging-oriented programming. We encourage researchers working in this area to submit posters or talks. Submissions may also be considered for presentation in the special symposium.

We hope you are excited about the potential for this award to stimulate new research and scientific discussion among the SANS community. See you in April in Montreal!
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21/09/2026
Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding. to.pbs.org/4iH9YW1
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Key senators reject White House proposal on NIH grants
Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding.
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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 I’m considering PhD students for Fall 2027! We study how our identities shape the way we see ourselves, how others see us, and how we interact across group boundaries. Our work spans race, gender, multiracial experiences, and intergroup contact with kids and adults. sites.duke.edu/dukeidlab/
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join Sabrina Habib and Adam Green for a Science for Society on September 18 as they think through what's at stake if #AI overtakes our creative processes. Register: member.psychologicalscience.org/eve…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
People who’ve worked on U.S. government vaccination programs fear that kids in America will wind up fighting for their lives against preventable infections. “I don’t think I imagined it could or would be this bad,” said a former CDC vaccine leader.
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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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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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm sure the cake decorator thought she was correcting my typo, but I assure you this was supposed to say BRAIN
A sheet cake with sprinkles that says Brian Forever
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Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our lab is hiring a postdoc! You would work with clinical partners and the All of Us study to implement our genetic literacy measure, studying how people understand genetics and use it daily. Help us do social and behavioral research at the forefront of genomics: careers.ashg.org/jobs/22449118
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
‼️NIH is proposing to change NIH Peer Review outcomes. Instead of impact scores they propose 3 categories: "Most competitive" "Competitive", or "Not discussed" This RFI link will accept your comments/feedback on this proposal until 10/13/26. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 14/08/2026
As part of our guidance for the upcoming changes to OSF Projects, we developed a help guide on choosing a repository and a list of repository options to help researchers identify potential places to store their research outputs. ℹ️ Guidance on choosing a repository:
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Where should I share my Data, Materials, Code now? - OSF Support
This Article Is Licensed Under CCO For Maximum Reuse. The following is a Table of Contents that links directly to specific sections within the guide: Table of R
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 13/08/2026
🗓️ Join us on August 27 for an overview webinar and Q&A about the changes to OSF Projects. We'll cover why the changes are happening, key dates, what will & won't change, & how to prepare, followed by Q&A. Submit questions in advance: bit.ly/prewebinar-q... Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Center for Open Science 
Changes to OSF Projects Overview and Q&A webinar 
August 27 at 11 AM
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026
Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...
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12  Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/08/2026
COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
10/ So if you're a parent wondering, "What am I supposed to do right now?" here's my answer: nothing has changed about your ability to vaccinate your child today. You can still follow the existing schedule; your doctor can still provide those vaccines, and they remain free.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/08/2026
More evidence is emerging that the U.S. National Institutes of Health has launched a new wave of grant terminations, as Director Jay Bhattacharya ends two more grants—both for health disparities research at the University of Pittsburgh. scim.ag/4gfsD9J
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NIH Director Bhattacharya kills more health disparities grants
Letter says agency is “adjusting its extramural research portfolio, which includes terminating grant awards”
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/07/2026
Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: scim.ag/4pF6Mvy
NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikes
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Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This validated measure of genetic literacy is now published and available for use! We’d love to collaborate with people to put it into clinical or educational practice
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
Last year, the FDA lost more than 400 workers that support inspections of everything from dairy farms to seafood processors. More than 240 consumer safety specialists left across the agency, including nearly 40 workers responsible for safeguarding food. (Published Aug. 2025)
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 13/07/2026
1/ I am thrilled to begin sharing the latest release of pyEM, a Python package I built for fitting cognitive computational models to behavioral data using hierarchical expectation maximization (EM) with maximum a posteriori estimation (MAP). github.com/shawnrhoads/...
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One minute these babies are fine. The next they're seizing, or vomiting blood, or not waking from a nap, or not breathing. I spoke with more than a dozen doctors who have seen the consequences of more parents declining the routine vitamin K shot for their newborns. This is what it looks like.
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As Parents Reject Vitamin K Shots, Some Babies Develop Devastating Bleeding
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Karolina Lempert @klempert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hi all! I’m looking for a full-time RA / lab manager (start date: late Aug or Sept, 1 year of funding guaranteed). Ideal candidate is a recent grad w/ relevant research experience. App review has begun, so if you’re interested, please apply here ASAP, by 7/12! Thx! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...
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Hiring Research Assistant, - Garden City, N.Y.
View job details and apply now
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/07/2026
Exclusive: Fireworks for this year’s July Fourth celebration are expected to cause hazardous levels of pollution around the National Mall and “very unhealthy” conditions in central D.C., according to internal National Park Service documents.
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July Fourth fireworks likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show
Internal modeling shows the July 4th fireworks display will cause hazardous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy conditions across central D.C.”
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Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NEW: Is there a 'crisis' of public trust in science? It can feel that way — with attacks on research in the US and growing rejection of vaccines. I investigated for @nature.com - and found some surprises. My feature article is out today and a short🧵here www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story
Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.
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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
SHOW US YOUR BRAINS! Enter your beautiful brain images and videos into the Annual BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest! Submission closes soon, and all are eligible to enter! 🧪🧠🎨 www.2026brainconference.com/event/44a17f...
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Photo & Video Contest - 2026 BRAIN Initiative Conference
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/06/2026
A covid vaccine study that the CDC halted over methodological concerns was published in a leading medical journal. It found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency room visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter.
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CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal.
The study found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter.
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Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz @brethelhaurwitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Target Recalls Up & Up Fragrance Free and Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes Due to Potential Microbial Contamination
Target is voluntarily recalling Up & Up Fragrance Free and Up & Up Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes following customer complaints of product discoloration, and FDA testing that identified the presenc...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference
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White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires
The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Trump just signed order "reclassifying" ~8,000 civil servants so they are easier to fire for political reasons -- this has been in the works since his first term www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F
Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The building that houses the agency responsible for containing the spread of invasive pests in the United States has a bed bug infestation
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The Federal Government’s Insect-Defense Agency Is Infested With Bed Bugs
The department sent staff home twice, but has declined to do so a third time after the insects returned.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 01/06/2026
Exclusive: The Department of Health and Human Services is now recommending changes to peer-reviewed National Institutes of Health grants. scim.ag/3RXCs2l
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Exclusive: HHS is now weighing in on science in NIH grants
Staffers say comments coming after NIH’s own approvals are overriding peer review
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The ABCD Study® @theabcdstudy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The #ABCDStudy 7.0 Data Release and Data Exploration & Analysis Portal (DEAP) are here, delivering the largest single dataset of #BrainDevelopment & child health in the US! Secure, controlled-access available via the #NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub: www.nbdc-datahub.org #Neuroscience
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
More on the RIFs and schedule F/ Career policy reclassifications at NIH that I mentioned previously: www.govexec.com/management/2...
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HHS to start Schedule P/C conversions while withholding details on new RIFs
Hundreds of GS-15s are being converted to the controversial job classification that strips civil service protections.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”
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NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year
Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...
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Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness
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CL @cllantz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Learn more about the BRAIN Initiative Research Roadmap, and the BRAIN Directors vision of the future of neuroscience! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Inventing the future: A neuroscience research roadmap
The past decade of transformative advances in neurotechnology portends an exciting future for neuroscience. This NeuroView charts a strategic path to accelerate and integrate research discovery and sp...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
When the NIH abruptly terminated thousands of research grants last year, the fallout wasn’t distributed equitably. A new analysis suggests the cuts disproportionately hit women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ investigators. My latest for @nature.com
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NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists
A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The scope of these terminations is unprecedented. At RFK Jr's HHS alone, 77 advisory boards were disbanded in 2025 — more than a quarter of all the panels. For context: in 2024, HHS terminated just two. Among the casualties: panels on organ transplantation, dietary guidelines, and long COVID.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/04/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. scim.ag/4cxQWhl
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Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New York Times article about the slow pace on NIH grant making as well as enforcement of political constraints. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... 1/4
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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year
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