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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy. Projects studying mRNA vaccines may be next. Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org 🧪 #IDsky

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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines

Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A few selected signs for your enjoyment

It’s grant season and I took time off for this

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Bluetorial: The announcement to move scientific review out of the institutes and centers into the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and its potential consequences

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a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card

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junhyongkim.bsky.social @junhyongkim.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

You may be asking, yes it felt good but does it matter? Yes, it does--maybe not in the way you think. Here is my thoughts from college years during Korean military dictatorship. 1/4

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Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Yes, all of nih.gov going down is bad of course, regardless of whether it’s malicious or a technical oops that will get fixed eventually (tldr.nettime.org/@ww/11408997...), but I do encourage everyone to learn about the federated nature of the INSDC (including Genbank and PubMed)

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Attached: 2 images So, three nameservers out of seven for the pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov are broken. If you try to look at the web site, you stand a 3/7 chance of encountering something that is broken. ...

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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

HT to Sean Davis for creating a status page for NIH websites: stats.uptimerobot.com/Zrqh8AhvKn - simultaneous worth sharing and sad.

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Government Biomedical data

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

On the 3rd anniversary of Dr Paul Farmer's death, several leaders reflect on his lessons for dealing with the ongoing crisis in global health & development Paul Farmer’s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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Paul Farmer’s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness

On the 3rd anniversary of Dr Paul Farmer's death, several leaders reflect on his lessons for dealing with the ongoing crisis in global health and development

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Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

On the bright side, the wording in NOT-OD-25-068 is pretty clear that all non-US based research institutions currently receiving NIH funding are now allowed to double their F&A rate.

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Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Disastrous consequences aside, what's fascinating about NOT-OD-25-068 is how it publicly names and shames specific institutions in a way that NIH has never done before. It's as if someone broke into eRAcommons earlier this week, threw it into their AI bot, and asked it to justify their actions.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

NIH cuts indirect rates on grants to 15%. This will be the end of American excellence in science. Universities will struggle and many (likely most) will terminate their research programs. Independent research institutions will not be able to survive this. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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WHO @who.int · 03/02/2025

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at an unprecedented speed for a randomized vaccine trial in an emergency.🧵

Groundbreaking Ebola vaccination trial launches today in Uganda

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Danny Park @dannyjpark.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Excellent, rapid work by Uganda’s CPHL and partners and also a great use case for @pathoplexus.org

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