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Amanda Cook @amandacook627.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I wonder how long it will be before my local university is next to lose their funding. Our town will be devastated if so, on top of the cuts to NIH funding. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University, official says
The administration of President Donald Trump plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University over what it calls antisemitism on campus, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday, but the university said it had not yet been formally notified.
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Janet Krommes MD @janetkrommes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Kennedy Remains Quiet on 10,000 Jobs Lost at HHS @apnews.com's insightful reporting: Kennedy with no public explanation & right-hand guy Casey Means denying NIH funding cuts. Could this possibly mean they do not know what they've done? Radical transparency or radical...not sure how to fill that in!
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Kennedy Remains Quiet on 10,000 Jobs Lost at HHS
Kennedy's silence is prompting questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Right before RFK announced disastrous cuts to HHS, major health data repositories were "marked for review." Archivists say this data is often impossible to save www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Scientists sue NIH, HHS, RFK Jr. over termination of research grants
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Scientists sue NIH, HHS, RFK Jr. over termination of research grants
Researchers who had millions of dollars' worth of grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health are suing the federal government.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
this really represents a disaster for the US. Further 35% cuts for CDC, NIH, FDA, Medicaid & Medicare
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Marty Frank @mfrank6999.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
Neuroscience institutes tells 10 scientists placed on leave it’s working on a “long-term” solution to officially reinstating them
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Adrian Egli @adrian7745.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What we're seeing at NIH and so many other gov agencies is the No Personnel Policy. Without staff knowing supplies are low or equipment broken, the public doesn't either, and plays into the DOGE "savings" bullshit. H/T @theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/politics/202...
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No Personnel Is Policy
The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Reach out to your Senators with your concerns and suggestions. HELP committee… www.help.senate.gov/about/members
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Members | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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US Senator Cassidy calls on Kennedy to appear before Senate panel over health agency cuts
The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will on April 10 hold a hearing on the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, its chairman Senator Bill Cassidy said in a statement.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Comments regarding NIH announcing what was already obvious regarding diversity considerations... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The NIH just officially killed diversity statements in its grant applications
"I think we will lose a lot as an agency," an agency employee told Mother Jones.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/03/2025
Exclusive: Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by NIAID, including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. scim.ag/4iVm7mY
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Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research
Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants about COVID-19, leaving long COVID funding in limbo, according to a new internal guidance document I obtained. “Now that the pandemic is over, the grant funds are no longer necessary,” it says. We published the full document in my latest for @nature.com:
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Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal
Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The people who provide healthcare are being squeezed - just like the public. From the perspective of those of us who work in the ER, the collapse is already happening.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Beautiful, powerful letter I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words Took me a while to ruminate My response: Harvard is its people and their voices If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
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Bluebird 📎 @letsliveandlearn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#scpol
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NPR @npr.org · 20/03/2025
Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.
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With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close
Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/03/2025
By gutting the Department of Education, President Trump is again trying to undermine Congress' authority — this time putting the education and civil rights of millions of students at risk. Congress must take action.
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Trump’s Attack on the Department of Education, Explained | ACLU
The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of Education offices and firing half of its workforce.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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NEW: Baldwin, Welch Announce Forum on Devastating Trump Cuts at NIH Jeopardizing Cures for Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancers | U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Peter Welch (D-VT) announced that...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 20/03/2025
BREAKING: Flanked by students and educators, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives reut.rs/4kNfaq7
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Trump signs order aimed at dismantling US Department of Education
Flanked by students and educators, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives.
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embroidery-journey.bsky.social @embroidery-journey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
CALL TO SC residents!!! I have sent letters to my local reps in SC, State Senator Richard Cash and State Representative April Cromer, about their DEI bill. I also included information on this bill's effects on poor/rural white communities. Send letters: find them at www.scstatehouse.gov/index.php
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South Carolina Legislature Online
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NPR @npr.org · 20/03/2025
BREAKING NEWS: The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by nearly half.
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Trump signs order aiming to close the Education Department
The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by half.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
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Todd B. Bates @toddbbates.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
After Columbia’s ‘nightmare,’ dozens more universities brace for Trump NIH cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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After Columbia’s ‘nightmare,’ dozens more universities brace for Trump NIH cuts
Threats to end funding over alleged antisemitism are rocking medical researchers—and stoking calls for legal action
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chilling to see this list of terminated NIH grants. Research on Alzheimer's, HIV, rare diseases, vaccines -- gone. Cancer centers closed, training grants & fellowships terminated. Young scientists stranded. Patients waiting for treatments that'll never come. Just sad. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Studies terminated at NIH: -On reducing asthma from mold -On prenatal risks & screening -On statins influence on dementia -On the safety/risk of gender-affirming care -On how Covid vax outcomes & disparities -On improving HIV care -Training programs for the next generation of scientists
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...
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At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus. irp.nih.gov/catalyst/33/...
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Slaying Sickle Cell | NIH Intramural Research Program
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Unless things change quickly — Congressional Dems, get moving!! — NIH will be left a shell of itself in a few months. And that will be Trump’s fault. NIH has a stellar reputation worldwide. The Trump NIH looks like it will be a toilet. Don’t blame the NIH people.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.
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a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
They are going to make it harder for the scientists to stop, or even record, what comes next.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I guess by sharing this, I am making my situation worse but, baby, that ship has sailed...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19/03/2025
President Trump is trying to bypass Congress by dismantling established programs they already approved to protect students' education and civil liberties. Take action now to save the Department of Education.
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Save the Department of Education
The Trump administration is jeopardizing education for millions of students by gutting the Department of Education. Take action now.
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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Every university hiring freeze is many, many newly minted PhDs unemployed. We are in 2008 levels of people being fucked. Talent leaving every field, just as departments were rebuilding.
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Science under attack: a growing list of statements from journals @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @plos.org theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos... @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... @embopress.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The American Diabetes Association issued a statement regarding NIH's discontinuation of the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study: "Eliminating funding means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention." diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...
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American Diabetes Association Statement on Canceled National Diabetes Prevention Program Funding | American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association® (ADA) is extremely concerned about the impact of canceled National Institutes of Health funding on the success of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National ...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
ATTENTION: ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS Nothing posted yet in the Federal Register I had heard that at least some institutes and centers had tentatively scheduled "make-up" meetings in April but are no longer planning these. 1/2
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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citycrofter.bsky.social @citycrofter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Yeah I’ve been saying this for weeks: we are disrupting at least one, more likely two generations of scientists in the pipeline. It’s gonna suck the most for, say, people with cancer and ALS and neurodegenerative diseases and dementia. Among others.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"See no climate change, hear no climate change, and speak no climate change"
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts
Reductions to federal support for research at universities and other institutions under President Donald Trump are dimming young scientists’ prospects, cutting off pathways to career-building projects...
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is remarkably destructive. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’
The Trump administration is rapidly canceling hundreds of grants, in the most aggressive attack yet on American science.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“Our next generation of researchers are now poised on the edge of this cliff, not knowing if there’s going to be a bridge that’s going to get them to the other side, or if this is it” Musk and Trump are blowing up science careers for every STEM student.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“We’re actually going to kill people is what it amounts to” new piece in AP on NIH funding cuts and grant review delays…lil’ quote from yours truly in there too 😊 apnews.com/article/trum...
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Jobs lost in every state and lifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research cuts
Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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SC Daily Gazette @scdailygazette.com · 05/03/2025
SC anti-DEI bill could impact everything from school cafeterias to university bookstores scdailygazette.com/2025/03/05/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social
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SC anti-DEI bill could impact everything from school cafeterias to university bookstores • SC Daily Gazette
Opponents warn a proposal meant to strip DEI initiatives from South Carolina state and local governments would have a broad impact.
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