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Dr. Jen Rinker @drjrink.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Defending soon? Come postdoc with us - MUSC is a great place to prepare you for your next career move, in or outside of academia!

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Patrick Mulholland (He/Him) @mulhollandlab.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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Dr. Jen Rinker @drjrink.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just one day without mass chaos would be nice.

Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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Takes all of 5 seconds!

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This is beyond embarrassing. 😳

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I just don’t understand how. But no one seems to even be trying to stop him. How tf did we get here?!?!?

This will continue to be postponed and livelihoods and scientific advancements are going suffer the consequences. You can nay say, but you said calm down and wait til Feb 1, now that’s been pushed back further. You don’t know because you aren’t in it and doesn’t affect you.

Decisions on ALL funding have been further paused. If some uneducated trump minion decides a grant is “not in line with administration priorities” in any way they can cancel current awards and block review of pending. It’s not just DEI but those are their priorities.

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Where are the checks and balances - this is the most egregious overreach of presidential power...

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Dr. Jen Rinker @drjrink.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Another sweeping extension of the pause in ALL federal funding of science now subject to potential cancellation mid-stream: bsky.app/profile/mari...

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There are lots of good scientists on here and other platforms trying their best to interpret the science for the masses and dispell any misinformation. I’ll try to remember to come back and tag accounts when I have more time!

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

So how’s it going so far?

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Also you can say this sitting comfortably outside the line of fire. So…

I’d be tickled if you were right about this. But I strongly suspect you are not. And it is not the communications pause that we are so worried about. As I said the gutting of existing grant programs removes opportunities for good science and scientists to be funded. And that is NEVER a good thing.

I’m not going to blindly hope for the best, that requires a faith in trump that doesn’t exist in any fiber of my being. I’ll prepare for the worst. Rally folks to stand up for science and medicine and rational thought. And breathe a sigh of relief if someone is able to reason with this monster.

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Not blowing out of proportion, as you so astutely pointed out, that this unpredictable and irrational admin has already executed things more aggressive than we thought. Has put forth a candidate, whom will be approved and whom pitched even more aggressive proposals.

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Sure not promised to an individual. But the opportunity was taken away after everyone put their hard work into writing the grants with the promise of review for a chance. Now those opportunities are gone. But I have a grant that was funded that NIH staff are not allowed to communicate to me about

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It is reasonably attributed to this admin. Was done in the same sweeping call for a pause. Notifications of grant awards are directly related to this. You can excuse away his behavior. But best you’re speculating everything will come back online exactly as it was and we KNOW that is not true. Facts.

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I do not believe we’re overreacting. Every other admin was clear in their intentions. Gave information as changes were instituted. Even ones I didn’t vote for, even previous trump admin. This is different. He’s out for blood. Grants & our jobs aside look at his pic for head of HHS. It’s malicious.

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No it is not. They canceled mid stream a number of grant programs. Some of the ones that were supposed to be reviewed a few days no longer exist. Some were terminated mid stream end dates going from 2027 to Jan 25, 2025. I’d make sure you know what you’re talking about before telling us we are wrong

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