Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.

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H5N1 avian influenza is spreading rapidly across southeastern Australia owing to infected wild bird species, including little penguins, magpies, crested terns and pelicans. Bird aggregations during…

We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Russell Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to p...

A conversation with AAUP’s Katie Rainwater on proposed federal rules to restrict and redefine university research and teaching.

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.

How OMB is using Regulatory Review to Slow NIH Policymaking

Texas and Florida state governing institutions have engaged in longstanding attacks on academic and intellectual freedom at state higher education institutions, especially in areas related to race, et...

The American Association of University Professors called the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's push to gain readmission to the AAU into question following last year's program and position eliminations.

After the January 2025 inauguration, federal datasets and pages began disappearing, changing or losing fields. Researchers raced to preserve copies, while roughly 3,000 removals were reported across 2025 and the exact count remains contested.

A ruling in a free speech case against West Point permits professors at the academy to speak and write without prior approval.

Academic censorship is very real.

Fact Check: NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya at the March 17, 2026 House Appropriations Committee HearingPublished May 11, 2026Overview: During his March 17 testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, NIH Director Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya made multiple deceptive claims to lawmakers, continuing...

Academia must organize now to secure the future of the US academic research enterprise.

Health committee chair Bill Cassidy said fatal outbreak of disease is a ‘terrible legacy’ for Trump administration

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"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly disappeared it.

Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...

The Justice Department fulfilled the public records request for the letters just as their author departed the agency.

President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.

ICE agents turned up at David Streever's home over a harsh email he sent to an ICE official. Now a court order prevents the federal government from making additional threats against him.

The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance

"Understanding Government Censorship" research project We’ve shared a lot of stories in our newsletters about the damage being done by the Trump administration’s censorship of research, such as the d...

Just over one year ago, Defend Public Health began publicly tracking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s deceptions, distortions and disinformation in a weekly website feature, the RFK Jr. Whopper o...

Defend Public Health has a new retrospective report on lessons learned from debunking some RFK Jr's most egregious "Whoppers" over the past year.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten demand that the Trump administration immediately cease weaponizing taxpayer funds and civil rights enforcement to politically coerce coll...

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