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Robert Gregg

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Professor and Lab Director @UMRobotics | Enhancing human ability with robotics, control systems, and prosthetics/orthotics

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/01/2026
Thank you. The estimate I have heard (from outside NIH sources) is 39% in FY25. And everyone should remember that lowered success rates across many institutes from around 10% to around 5%. Disaster. bsky.app/profile/need...
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🧪🛟🫁 Excellent reporting by @bruceylee.bsky.social in @forbes.com about the new NIH multi year funding policy decimating US biomedical research. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get
The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I was supposed to serve on the BTSS study section today—nope. And my A1 application review was canceled last week, after the A0 application was also delayed earlier in the year. Winning!
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I enjoyed sharing our latest work in my plenary talk this morning at the 2025 Modeling Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)! Had a great time at the conference too, thanks to the organizers.
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Christian Hubicki @chubicki.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Great demo from Boston Dynamics/Toyota Research Institute. Other robots do manipulation (hand tasks) while people mess with them, but mostly while standing upright and still. Here it steps and crouches to pick up parts, combining locomotion with manipulation quite nicely. youtu.be/HYwekersccY?...
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Getting a Leg up with End-to-end Neural Networks | Boston Dynamics
YouTube video by Boston Dynamics
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Trump tries to put federally funded science under full ruling party political control. Hard to see how the U.S. maintains any global competitiveness in science in this scenario.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/08/2025
Yep, it's Fustilarian Friday again. Defunding Terry Tao to own the libs.
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NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA
Move follows Trump administration finding that school didn’t effectively combat antisemitism
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.
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Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
‼️🚨‼️ Russel Vought just locked up the entirety of the remaining extramural NIH budget for this fiscal year, and part of intramural. $15 billion. ~a third of the NIH budget. THIS IS AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT. All $$ is iced except intramural salaries, admin expenses, and clinical center. NO MORE GRANTS. 🧪
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
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Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget
NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Good grief, the US National Cancer Institute projects it will fund only one in 25 RO1 grant applications in 2026. This is massively defunding cancer research. Despicable vandalism. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
National Cancer Institute projection of a 4% pay line in FY2026.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/07/2025
📣 CALL TO ACTION - Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget. If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
Red banner at top reads “CALL NOW! Demand NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the FY 2026 Budget!” Below are three sections: “What’s Happening” explains the House CJS Subcommittee marked up the NSF budget; “Why It Matters” warns of a 23% funding cut; “What You’ll Do” urges people to call if their rep is on the list. Statue of Liberty background and “next page” arrow at bottom.Graphic with a red banner reading “CALL NOW! Demand NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the FY 2026 Budget!” Below is a list of 12 members of Congress (Republicans and Democrats) with their states and districts. “Stand Up for Science” logo at bottom.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals. First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals. 1/n
Graph showing NIH funding for new and competitive renewal grants for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. The fiscal year 2025 curve is substantially below the fiscal year 2024 curve.
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Nature @nature.com · 14/07/2025
In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications for the US agency, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3TEw7GN
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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/07/2025
US NIH to cap publisher fees for federally funded research by 2026 reut.rs/4kyoTiH
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US NIH to cap publisher fees for federally funded research by 2026
The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it plans to implement a policy that caps how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research publicly accessible.
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Mabel Syrup @emmylis.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Read this thread, watch the segment and share. As a comms manager for an org that supports cancer centers, I’ve been consumed by these budget cuts and their impacts since January. I hope this helps people who aren’t immersed in this day to day start to understand what’s happening — and fight it.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"[The House letter] called on appropriations leadership to provide 'at least $51.3 billion' for the NIH’s foundational work in FY 2026. The House recommendation aligns with the FY 2026 funding recommendation set forth by the AAMC-convened Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research."
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...
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Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ‘bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze
The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A strong statement about the importance of NIH on @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy Sunday Morning (Part 1)
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Ugh they are taking away the one COVID vaccine that doesn’t render me useless for 24-48 hours.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Carl makes an excellent point that peer review has already been done for canceled grants, so the science quality has already been vetted.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Breaking: NSF will pause the 15% indirect cost cap until June 13 in order to proceed to a summary judgment, thereby avoiding a preliminary hearing. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70143...
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Notice - Other – #50 in Association of American Universities v. National Science Foundation (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-11231) – CourtListener.com
Notice - Other
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Nonsense, Mr. Secretary. Facts are facts. seer.cancer.gov Data from NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program shows clear decreases in cancer deaths from 2019 to 2023.
What Are the Recent Trends in Cancer Death Rates?
Between 2019 and 2023, overall age-adjusted death rate decreased on average 1.8 percent per year for men and 1.1 percent for women. During this period, thirteen of the 19 most common cancers in men and thirteen of the 21 most common cancers in women showed statistically significant decreases in death rates. Testicular cancer showed the greatest increase in death rates among men. Uterine cancer showed the greatest increase in death rates among women.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🧪 Though a doubling of NSF's budget might seem far-fetched, that's exactly what Congress said what's needed to maintain national competitiveness in science & tech. From the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022:
CHIPS and Science authorization for FY26 = $17.8B

White House skinny budget = $3.9B
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Nature @nature.com · 01/05/2025
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
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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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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Here’s the full NIH @60minutes.bsky.social segment. Please watch and share with family and friends.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The federally-funded research university is almost surely the single greatest American invention ever. And it probably has some of the best ROR in federal spending, both in its contribution to the US specifically, but also to the greater world overall. I doubt anything comes close.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The campaign against academic research continues: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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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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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Announcing our new @ieeetro.bsky.social IEEE Transactions on Robotics paper entitled "Ambilateral Activity Recognition and Continuous Adaptation With a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis" with Shihao Cheng, PhD Curt Laubscher and Kevin Best! youtu.be/4tPWJnouVEA
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Ambilateral Activity Recognition and Continuous Adaptation with a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis
YouTube video by Locomotor Control Systems Laboratory
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process 1/n
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 12/03/2025
We are in a biotech space race, cutting off basic science via slashing NIH and NSF funding robs the US of our competitive advantage: early innovation.
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Daniel P. Ferris @dpferris.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
If you are interested in learning about the state of the art in robotic exoskeletons to assist human movement, this is an incredible lineup of speakers at #ICRA!!! @doctorbobg.bsky.social @rai-maclean.bsky.social @helenhuang.bsky.social @mehuber.bsky.social sites.google.com/umich.edu/ic...
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ICRA 2025 Workshop
FULL DAY WORKSHOP: Monday, May 19, 2025
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Anxiety-reducing videos playing at our faculty meeting was a highlight of the day on Friday. 😅
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
NIH operates three cycles of grant review, approval for funding, and actual notice of award right now all three cycles are blocked if noncompeting awards are frozen, that's a fourth block American science is running out of oxygen because of an acute airway obstruction
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
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Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Nature @nature.com · 23/02/2025
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked. go.nature.com/4iboVwb
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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
Nature - The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This article explains the current freeze on NIH review, which has impacted my R01 renewal: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article)
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I was quoted in this @nytimes.com article on accessibility-related initiatives in the sciences: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s...
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Accessibility Is Taking a Hit Across the Sciences (Gift Article)
Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Who could have seen this coming.
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The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials
NIH officials said they were given no advance warning and less than an hour to post the memo publicly.
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Nature @nature.com · 20/02/2025
Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The MRS study section scheduled for yesterday was canceled. My R01 renewal is now in limbo with the current period expiring in the next months. I have no words. This article explains what is currently happening at NIH: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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Robert Gregg @doctorbobg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I've seen plenty of great analysis on why the new NIH indirect rate (15%) will devastate research hospitals and universities. I'll add that it's especially harmful to cut indirect costs without relaxing the regulatory regime that contributed to administrative bloat in the 1st place. 1/n
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Daniel P. Ferris @dpferris.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I am sure the Florida legislature and DeSantis will be happy to make up for the $100 million income that UF just lost in the annual budget, yes?
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NIH peeps have been told that they are explicitly not allowed to communicate publicly.
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