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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is devastating for science and individual scientists. The k99/R00 has been such an important mechanism for diversifying our pipeline.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Application deadline is Monday, April 27 at 5pm! Apply now!

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Come work with us!!! careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024) 1/12

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a dog is sitting on a rug in front of a brick wall and a plant .

ALT: a dog is sitting on a rug in front of a brick wall and a plant .

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My lab hosted a Halloween crafting party for our research institute @impactinstitute.bsky.social yesterday. So much fun. Grateful to my team for making this happen and for everyone who showed up!!

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

@impactinstitute.bsky.social is taking up to 4 postdoctoral fellows next year! Please see the flyer in the link below. If my own funding holds, I will be hiring one of the four postdocs, so if you have interests in women's health and need a postdoc, apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Writing grants is so exhausting.

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Just got an email that the NIH Early Independence award is "not going forward." This was an award that catapulted promising PhD students into faculty positions and is part of the High-Risk High-Reward grant program in the NIH Office of the Director. Deadline was 9.6.25!

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Save Health Research @savehealthresearch.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Deadline extended www.instagram.com/p/DNd-PdvyU3F/

Has your NIH grant been withdrawn, left without review, pending, or delayed?
Consider joining thousands of scientists represented in the
NIH VS. APHA case.
Deadline Monday, August 25st, 5pm EST.
@SaveHealthResearch

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

When chatGPT just gets you: Me: What is a better word to use in this sentence than normalize? I dislike that word for various and likely obvious reasons. ChatGPT: Totally fair to dislike "normalize"—it can feel clinical, loaded, or imply that things were previously “abnormal.”

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a penguin wearing a wizard hat sits at a desk with a computer and the words let chatgpt do it

ALT: a penguin wearing a wizard hat sits at a desk with a computer and the words let chatgpt do it

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

📣 Big Announcement! 📣 🚨 It’s here! Agenda's up & registration's open for our Data Design Workshop! Join us for a hands-on workshop that will transform how you design charts, posters, and presentations. 🗓️ Sept 8 & 22 & Oct 8 & 15, 2025 📍 Virtual REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR

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Annie💙&Joe💛 @annieandjoe.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I bought the cabinet that came in this box on December 30, 2024. So much has happened since then. Should I contact them and see if they can fix ALL THE THINGS???

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🎨 Calling all health researchers! Tired of confusing graphs, chaotic slides, and posters no one reads? 📊📈📉 💡Join us for “Visualizing Health Research” — a hands-on workshop that will give you a toolbox 🧰 to level up your design game. 🧵👇 🧠 Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on email list.

four half day workshop on design for academics and researchers. Email MSS_education@northwestern.edu to get on the list to be alerted when registration starts.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New opportunity to help sustain global health research re-fund-global-health.vercel.app

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The label on my Noosa yogurt this morning promises "a delightful escape." Not sure how that is possible given [gestures to everything everywhere all at once], but am willing to try and will report back. Stay tuned.

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a panda bear in a cage with the words " i will break free " written on the bottom

Alt: a panda bear trying to escape a crib with the words " i will break free " written on the bottom

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Bianca Albers, PhD @balbers.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We continue to look for an #ImpSci Postdoc to work with us - if you consider applying and want to have a chat first, let me know. New deadline end of May: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Our analysis shows that, looking at just the projects terminated so far, a whopping 29% are related to HIV/AIDS and 24% to trans health. 17% are related to COVID-19.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

NIH-funded LGBT+ health work has been obliterated. This denies “a small but real percentage of the population answers to critically important questions about their health”, says Shirley Tilghman. “You cannot eliminate a segment of the population by executive order, but you can harm them greatly.”

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I generally find that creative things help me cope - like with the loss of all of my NIH grant funding. So, with help of chatGPT, I wrote a movie pitch about a group of queer and trans faculty who lose their funding and the lengths they will go to to re-fund it. Will add some snippets below.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Does anyone else find notes to themselves that are completely incomprehensible? Exhibit a. What the? Who are Gabby 1, Gabby 2, Bartholomew, and Togmasss(?!!!!????)????

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We announced today on social media that our SOQIR study's NIH funding has been terminated--effective immediately. Given that NIH funds fully supported our research, we cannot continue our work until we secure more funding. bsky.app/profile/soqi...

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Friend “How are you?” (With concern abt my grant terminations.) Me “more optimistic today than last week but it changes every 3mins.” Friend: “oh, I thought you were gonna say it changes every day.” Me: “well on Saturday I was saying it changes every 30 seconds, so - progress!”

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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

a few things you can do to help queer health research: - call your reps - contact your local media ** for both, highlight the value of this work to your community - donate to state AGs - donate to relevant legal orgs - amplify what's happening & thank you to everyone who has reached out, truly 💗

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

🚨 ALL my remaining NIH grants were just terminated Without philanthropic gifts, this is the end of 1️⃣ my career (as I know it) 2️⃣ @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social 3️⃣ our LGBTQ health equity work Yet, reading about LGBTQ families in my kid's class reminded me: love knows no bounds 🌈 You with us?

Mother and daughter smiling while holding a book titled "Sam is my Sister"

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Rin Reczek @rinreczek.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.

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Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.

This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/03/2025

Grant cancelled? 👇

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I have heard of so many LGBTQ+ grants terminated today. I am so sorry to everyone affected. This is devastating to our communities and to us as researchers. I have nothing more eloquent, comforting, or helpful to say. This is all just immeasurably horrible.

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Best spam text ever (or wrong number text!).

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I saw One Party Consent today at The Den. It was well done and intense. Today is the last day, otherwise I’d urge all Chicagoans to go see it - especially academics. It’s about a dept chair and a student and power and racism…so good.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The lunar eclipse the other night. So hard to convince myself to leave my warm cozy bed but it think the photos are worth it.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Sunrise this morning. If you look closely, you can see a sliver of the sun peeking out.

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