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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 14/01/2026

We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Deep dive into the forced leave of Dr. Jenna Norton from her position has a Program Director at NIH. Why this matters, and what you can do: theprincipledinvestigator.substack.com/p/deeper-div...

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This week's news digest for extramural investigators theprincipledinvestigator.substack.com/p/the-princi...

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The Principled Investigator - November 21, 2025

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Great discussion RE changes to student loan eligibility www.facebook.com/share/v/1BeY...

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Update on a significant development NIH grant terms. On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons. But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July. 1/

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HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows

Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"I am dying of cancer. To add insult to personal tragedy, my country’s government has decided to use my illness and that of so many other cancer patients as leverage in the current administration’s battle against higher education." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/stop...

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Stop holding cancer patients hostage in campus controversies | Op-Ed

The Trump administration's withholding of federal funding for universities it disagrees is hurting vital, lifesaving research.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/stop...

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www.seattletimes.com/opinion/stop...

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is a travesty, eliminating #PublicHealth loans for PT, OT, MPH, DrPH and many other degrees. They are trying to kill us.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Make some noise, people. Share this. Comment on it. Tell others today, right now. Family, friends, colleagues, social media, news outlets, the legislature, make the noise. This is our task: to ensure the American public understands how far down authoritarian rule we’ve actually gotten

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

“An HHS official [] described Dr. Norton as a radical leftist and said she was put on leave because she was criticizing the administration when she was supposed to be working” So, the fed govt openly eliminates ppl for their personal beliefs, got it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

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N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Never have you seen a 30th %ile get picked up. But I’ve seen an impact score range of 2-5 shift to 2-3, etc, and those are the grants that get funded. The idea that we can pre-triage 66% of apps is just bonkers. 1st stage of review is not that accurate, takes discussion to sort wheat from the chaff

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Ricky Roo @rickyroo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

teams that could have made revisions to build fundable applications will never get the chance to be mentored and grow because this administration hates knowledge this is how we never end cancer this is how we never end HIV this is how we never end any fucking thing except ourselves 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Holy crap. They're triaging 2 out of 3 applications that are submitted. 2 out of every 3 applications will not even have a chance for discussion.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I can further confirm that @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is experiencing retaliation by “Free speech” Jay and the Trump administration. @standupforscience.bsky.social stands with her and will continue to support public servants who speak out against the harms of this administration.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is an important explainer about one of the many ways that this administration is destroying NIH. Meritocracy? We are watching it go away. And what’s being done at NIH is just one example of the ongoing, lawless destruction of American democracy

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Weird thing happening where I + my colleagues, same convo on repeat: can't think about next year, next month, even next week. All I can do is wait for the next days or next hrs, close projects, write more grants that wont save us, sit in misery. This is what the fed govt is doing to science

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Why is there no hope for labs like mine? Because I have to pay people's salaries. I can't produce that $ out of thing air. I've put in an ungodly amt of work getting grants in, but even if things got better tomorrow, those grants simply wont arrive in time

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Unreal, the impact this is having on scientists. I spent over 700 hrs writing 4 grants submitted Apr-Sept that *might* have been funded next Apr; 2 abt to be 3 apps missed review bc of shutdown. In normal times takes 9-24 mo to get a grant funded. No hope for labs like mine. Literally no hope.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/11/2025

Donald Trump just said he'll ask the Supreme Court to freeze SNAP payments AGAIN. His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Have to read it to believe it. "The opening sentence asserts that 'the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs' " abcnews.go.com/US/snap-appe...

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In SNAP appeal, Trump administration says it faces more harm than people who can't buy food: ANALYSIS

The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge's requirement that it make full November SNAP payments.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 07/11/2025

Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.) This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I can’t believe that these two headlines actually co-exist, that we now live in a country where the federal government MAKES PEOPLE GO HUNGRY to score partisan leverage

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

With a title from w-h dot gov that says “Democrats are to blame for airport chaos”, I guess we just don’t even pretend to care about the Hatch act??

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is a great substack to check out. It's a weekly digest summarizing faculty-relevant news RE continued attacks on higher education and federal funding agencies + the general chaos

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captain obvious @captainobviousn132.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

These substantial donations reveal a simple truth: billionaires and corporations have the financial means to support higher taxes.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Workforce development (WFD) is just one of many invisible ways that NIH + other funding agencies ensure there will be sufficiently trained professionals to meet society’s needs. When NIH is cut, these WFD activities stop happening, + we won’t see that impact for a decade or longer

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Scientists, engineers, nurses, clinical research professionals + others don’t just appear magically appear on demand. It takes 10-20 yrs to train the medical/STEM workforce. So ppl (me, others, NIH) do this. It takes specific effort to make sure we have enough ppl to care for society’s needs

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

What IS workforce development (WFD)? An example explains: from declaring premed to becoming a doctor can be anywhere from 8 to 20 yrs. WFD is not just abt medicine but abt all workforce: how do we ensure that there will be sufficiently trained ppl to support science + medicine in yrs to come?

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

“It’s bizarre when people arguing for viewpoint diversity declare any statement by an employee…must be the official position of an institution. You can’t have viewpoint diversity unless you…reject the belief that every writer speaks for the…college or org” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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No, the AAUP Is Not Opposing Reform

We need to recognize a broad range of views opposing government censorship, even if we think they have pursued the wrong strategy.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Just won an award 4 innovation in workforce development from NCATS RE engaging engineers with medicine. But grants that support these internship programs remain stuck in purgatory, 1 was to be reviewed 10/21! Nothing bc of shutdown. Attacks on our govt hurt everyone. Poster link tinyurl.com/36yh33t7

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2025 Fall CTSA Program Annual Meeting | CTSA CCOS

<p>The Fall 2025 CTSA Program Annual Meeting theme is <span style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);">CTSAs Leading the Way: Resilience, Innovation and Impact. T</span>opics to be addressed include New/...

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Want to stay informed on the continued demolition of NIH and ongoing attacks on academia? Check out this new resource, a weekly digest of current events and action items for scientists. Subscribe to the substack and share broadly! theprincipledinvestigator.substack.com/p/the-princi...

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The Principled Investigator - October 24, 2025

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James Miller (Millermena) @jamesmiller.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

ICE assaulted a citizen journalist in his car, tried to bash in his window with a gun & it discharged shooting both the journalist & a US Marshall. The incompetence is the point. ICE are American shabiha or titushky, barely trained thugs who spread destruction & fear www.wfsb.com/2025/10/21/u...

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Immigration agents shot a suspect after he rammed their vehicle during LA stop, DHS says

Federal officers shot a man in the elbow and a deputy U.S. Marshal was hit in the hand with a ricochet bullet during an immigration enforcement operation.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 24/10/2025

On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. www.911forhealthandscience.org

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

How isT’s approval rating still above 40%?! The psychology of that eludes me

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.” — Former First Lady Betty Ford

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

A democracy isn’t (just) an electoral system. It’s also a culture of deliberation, debate, sensitivity to public concern, attention to social movements and community leaders, respect for civil rights and minority interests, free expression and association and due process. How’s your country doing?

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Add a third button: “try to prevent the destruction of democracy in America”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/10/2025

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 21/10/2025

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

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