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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 18/06/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules
Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 17/06/2025
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70552...
courtlistener.com
#48 in Association of American Universities v. Department of Defense (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-11740) – CourtListener.com
Judge Brian E. Murphy: ORDER GRANTING 13 PLAINTIFFS MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER...Defendants' opposition to the Motion is due by Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 3 p.m. Plaintiffs may file a re...
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 01/06/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
cnn.com
Fareed’s take: Trump’s war on Harvard is destroying an American strength | CNN Politics
America is made stronger by its top-tier universities that produce world-class research and attract students from across the globe. Fareed says the Trump administration is attacking all of that — and ...
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 01/06/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Trump’s war on Harvard is bizarre — and incredibly damaging
He is wrecking American competitiveness.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 01/06/2025
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
cbsnews.com
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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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 31/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 31/05/2025
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...
statnews.com
New HHS document details deep NIH cuts as part of Trump budget request
Budget documents for Congress provide the most detailed look yet at how the Trump Administration hopes to reshape the National Institutes of Health.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 28/05/2025
www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
statnews.com
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 27/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Intends to Cancel All Federal Funds Directed at Harvard
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 27/05/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
washingtonpost.com
RFK Jr. ends covid shot recommendation for healthy children, pregnant women
Currently the vaccine is recommended for all people over 6 months of age.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 27/05/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
politico.com
Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting
It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 25/05/2025
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 23/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 23/05/2025
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A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth
YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 23/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 15/05/2025
Really cool study by Debby Silver and her team: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA
Finding adds to the bigger picture of how humans developed such large brains.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 08/05/2025
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 02/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 01/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 01/05/2025
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
nih.gov
NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies
New initiative aims to reduce use of animals in NIH-funded research.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 29/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing
Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 28/04/2025
Superb Duke piece on Alzheimer's Research: today.duke.edu/2025/04/how-...
today.duke.edu
How Public Supported Studies Bring This Researcher and Patient Closer to a Cure for Alzheimer’s | Duke Today
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 28/04/2025
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration
Separate from the public dissent, a group of school leaders are strategizing behind the scenes about how to respond and push back against the White House.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 28/04/2025
60 Minutes piece on NIH cuts www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...
cbsnews.com
Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations
Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 27/04/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Trump is destroying 100 years of competitive advantage in 100 days
Cuts to research and attacks on universities are handing global leadership to China.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 26/04/2025
Required Listening www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...
nytimes.com
The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
Christopher Rufo has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 26/04/2025
Great Op-Ed by Chris Beyrer on HIV and PEPFAR: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
On going backwards
There are patients you can never forget. Some because you connected unusually deeply with them as people or with their stories—some because you may have seen yourself or a loved one in their shoes, on...
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 11/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 11/04/2025
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
uscis.gov
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 11/04/2025
rollcall.com/2025/04/10/k...
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Kennedy pledges to find autism cause by September - Roll Call
The announcement comes amid lingering criticism that Kennedy has offered mixed messaging on vaccination, including whether it causes autism.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 11/04/2025
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fda.gov
FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs
FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 09/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The latest NIH grant chaos: NIH apparently sent stop-work orders to all *97* MARC and U-RISE programs in the country. These programs support underrepresented undergrads interested in health research careers. MARC dates to 1977. Over 48 years, the programs have supported thousands of students.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 25/03/2025
A really informative visual from Jeremy Berg on grant renewals compared to last year jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
jeremymberg.github.io
NIH_since_1_20_25
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 24/03/2025
NPR article on NIH funding, highlighting Duke University www.marketplace.org/2025/03/24/t...
marketplace.org
How federal funding cuts are affecting cancer research at Duke - Marketplace
Research at a Duke University laboratory led to a new breast cancer drug in 2023. Government funding for that lab is now in limbo.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 22/03/2025
HHS terminated grants tracker taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 14/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Johns Hopkins to lose 2,000 jobs after Trump’s $800m cut in USAid funding
University says cut in funding ‘forcing us to wind down critical work’ as academics rally against job losses
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 13/03/2025
Great resource for tracking federal activity in the research space: research.umich.edu/fed-research...
research.umich.edu
Fed Research Blog
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 09/03/2025
www.wral.com/video/on-the...
wral.com
On The Record: What funding cap means for Triangle researchers, medical advancement
WRAL goes 'On The Record' with a panel of medical professionals to examine what a recent cap put on NIH funding means for the Triangle's biggest researchers.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 08/03/2025
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 07/03/2025
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 07/03/2025
Duke and UNC flying the flag! www.newsobserver.com/news/busines...
newsobserver.com
Open Source: How NIH under Trump has ‘stopped the wheels from turning’ at Duke, UNC labs
Smaller Ph.D. programs. Impending layoffs. Expired grants. Triangle researchers say the impacts of new federal policies are being felt.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 07/03/2025
Trying to understand the difference... www.nih.gov/news-events/...
nih.gov
NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen integrity
The proposed approach is expected to save more than $65 million annually.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 05/03/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Live updates: Elon Musk to meet with House Republicans as concerns about DOGE mount
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 05/03/2025
Declaration in support of AAU lawsuit re F&A rate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 05/03/2025
Speaks for itself: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Freeze Foreign Aid
The move came after Chief Justice Roberts temporarily paused a trial judge’s order requiring the administration to release more than $1.5 billion.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 05/03/2025
MIT President response www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI4r...
youtube.com
Update from President Kornbluth on MIT’s response to federal actions
YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 05/03/2025
RFK Jr:"Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons." Whiplash. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
cbsnews.com
Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, is voicing support for the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak, mainly in Texas.
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Colin Duckett @colinduckett.com · 05/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/h...
nytimes.com
As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies Like Cod Liver Oil
In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but did not mention vaccination.
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