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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D.

@drewinstanley.bsky.social
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Scientist studying drug use, SUD & HSR; cyclist; dog mom

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at Science on K award changes. www.science.org/content/arti... 1/13
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Agency will no longer allow K career awards to fund clinical trials
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
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STAT @statnews.com · 30/01/2026
The White House unveiled a new effort to streamline the country’s response to its drug and alcohol epidemic. But the announcement was light on details. www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/n...
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Trump’s addiction initiative brings bold rhetoric but few details
The White House unveiled a new effort to streamline the country’s response to its drug and alcohol epidemic. But the announcement was light on details.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
SAMHSA IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED $2B IN FUNDING: impacting ATTCs, PTTCs & ORN. This is going to have immediate devastating impact & will cripple communities ability to deliver state-of-the-art services for patients with MH & SUDs. #AODtxWorks #SaveAddictionFunding #ASDN www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
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Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants. grant-watch.us It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon. Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
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Grant Watch
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Bernie Sander's summary of the impact on science. #SavetheNIH
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Anonymous former NIH employee confirms that the administration is ignoring court injunctions & traumatic working environment for NIH staff. #SavetheNIH #AddictionScience
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NIH Post-Mortem by a Former NIH Insider: It’s Worse Than You Think [Anonymized]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, is under unprecedented assault, not just…
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Statement of Concern has been signed by 29 organizations/professional associations & 437 individuals. There is still time to sign & get their newsletter. Scientists need to stand united. #SavetheNIH #NIDAFunding #AddictionScience
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨ADDICTION SCIENTISTS🚨 The Addiction Science Defense Network has developed a nonpartisan Statement of Concern -- click on link to read & consider signing. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. www.npscoalition.org/projects/add... #AddictionScience #SavetheNIH #AODTxWorks
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Addiction Science Defense Network | npsc
The ASDN is an information exchange and action network for individuals and organizations devoted to studying, treating and preventing problems caused by psychoactive substance use, including alcohol, ...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 17/04/2025
Science doesn’t improve by cutting Black, Hispanic, and women experts. But that’s exactly what happened—38 out of 43 removed from NIH boards were just that. And they wonder why trust in institutions is fading.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
All NIH payments are on hold www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review
DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
STAT article out about the passback budget and the NIH organization and proposed budget cuts. www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/t...
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Trump budget draft proposes NIH consolidation and 40% spending cut
Draft Trump budget proposes a $20 billion NIH budget cut in 2026 and a sweeping consolidation
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The NYT released the fed govt ltr to Harvard & Harvard's response, READ them. Harvard's response states: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 09/04/2025
The NIH just froze ALL grant funding owed to Columbia University, meaning that the university's concessions to the Trump administration clearly didn't go far enough to satisfy the federal government.
science.org
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I am honored to serve on the Friends of NIDA (FON) Board of Directors - a non-profit org working w/individuals & professional assoc to improve health for pts with drug misuse/SUDs & support NIDA's research funding. FON is a membership org & lots of policy resources for folks. #NIDA #AddictionScience
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Become a Member | Friends of NIDA
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders. If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here. Please be as safe as you can.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words. Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table. Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
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Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health
A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized - or eliminated
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/03/2025
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
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Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Add R25s to that list. Our NIH funding got straight up cancelled today for the two R25s that my team runs at Columbia for post-bacs and high-school students. I fear for our young scholars, who love learning about the brain and now are losing opportunities to be tomorrow's neuroscientists. 🧪
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
More of this please
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 24/02/2025
In response to our complaint filed along w/ Alden Law Group, the OSC recommends halting termination of probationary federal employees. The decision is now w/ MSPB who has the authority & precedent to approve the pause of terminations. In the absence of a decision, the pause will take effect on 2/27.
Breaking News: Office of Special Counsel Finds Trump's Mass Firings Unlawful, Recommends Reinstating Probationary Federal Workers
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/02/2025
Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A little something to brighten up our timelines. #restandreset
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AltFormerFed (aka Farmer Fred) @dataprism.altgov.info · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentine’s Day. Turn it all off if you need to. Love yourself and the world. Be sweet to your people. Don’t let the rage consume you. #resist
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Sending some love & virtual support to all my friends and colleagues within the DHHS.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Really great graphic that explains NIH indirect or F&A costs, which are critical to science. These costs ensure that we are conducting research in compliance with FEDERAL regs.
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Nidhi Subbaraman @nidhisubs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Another lawsuit challenging NIH cuts of indirect costs, this time from AAMC and groups representing medical centers, hospitals, public health schools
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/02/2025
This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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AltDOI @altdoi.altgov.info · 02/02/2025
The U.S. Department of the Interior manages and conserves 75% of federal lands in America. We swore an oath to the constitution to protect the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage. If this administration thinks they can undermine our mission in any way, they are sorely mistaken.
A bald eagle flying in front of a rainbow.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025
US military budget: $850 billion US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.
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Congressman Bill Foster @repbillfoster.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is dangerously irresponsible on every level. Indiscriminately slashing this funding will cripple lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction.
washingtonpost.com
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Link below for call & email scripts opposing the research funding cuts (credit Elizabeth Marnik). #sciencefunding
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Biomedical Research Under Threat: Urge Congress to Act Now!
A Friday evening plea from a concerned scientist
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Pink panthering it today to show my ❤️ for educ/univs & for my current/former employers & alma mater including Pitt, WVU, UC, JHU & SCSU. #fundedu #fundNIH
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Seen at my doc appt yesterday, it’s going to take a lot of support & collaboration to stand up for #science.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“The abrupt change represents “a nuclear bomb on university budgets,” says Morgan Polikoff, an education researcher at the University of Southern California. “I mean, listen, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. They're just trying to hurt universities.””
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Just like that NIH cap reduced to 15%? OMG this will be devastating
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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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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This year’s new adventure is floral design classes. Given the wild chaotic world of politics this week, I thought I’d support Costco for standing strong & practice some of my new skills.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 28/01/2025
This is a sigh of relief for millions of people who have been in limbo over the last twenty-four hours as the result of the Trump Administration’s callous attempt to wholesale shutter federal assistance and grant programs that people across this country rely on. (Continued in thread)
Breaking news: court announces pause on federal funding freeze
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you want to work with my amazing research team, we have a job opening for a senior research administrator at University of Pittsburgh. Need someone enthusiastic and experienced. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Manager - Clinical Research Operations
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Carlos del Río, MD, FACP, FIDSA @docdelrio.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) did not go out as scheduled.
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Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication
MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today
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Sheila Crowell, PhD @sheilacrowell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A colleague in study section had the meeting abruptly end with the message "Sorry for any inconvenience: This meeting has been cancelled due to White House's Executive Order pausing external communications from NIH and other federal health-related agencies." @drugmonkey.bsky.social
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. @drewinstanley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Apparently this includes NIH grant review meetings, which is scary for anyone with pending grants. #NIHresearch
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