Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If you are an NIH funded scientist and have not commented, you are agreeing that this change is a good idea. If, you, like me, think ditching peer review is a bad idea, take the 5 minutes and post a comment. 18291
Kenneth Matreyek @kmatreyek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I once made this just to see if it could be done. 160
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/09/2026Ok here we go: It DOES look like a major purpose of this NIH funding transfer to NIH is to circumvent NIH’s peer review processes so political appointees can have control. Check out the redacted agreement @maxkozlov.bsky.social released: 1/ 11441245
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekCraig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026My view is that this proposal coming out now cannot be considered in a vacuum. It should be considered a tool to subvert peer review of NIH proposals. The statements in the RFI about impact scores are actually correct- they are imperfect measures. But reporting them maintains transparency. 43216
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role. 30446451512
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Disgraceful. Simply disgraceful. 561497406
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026If you start your article or newscast with an unqualified “President Trump says…” what are you even doing? 731410211
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for UniversitiesMichael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science. 362276965
Reposted by Kenneth Matreyek💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 12/07/2026🔴 BRAVA ‼️ this intrepid woman, shut ice down ✊🏾🇺🇸✊🏻 22528661479
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I fundamentally disagree with this. We cannot reform the NIH right now. We need to fight against ALL changes until we have an administration that isn’t hellbent on destruction. Until then we have to assume that literally everything is being done in bad faith. 510519
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Yes, it's a ban, since these words will automatically halt funding of a grant containing them, and the ban can be lifted only through the action of political apparatchiks applying secret criteria. 01713
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This is such a disturbing flex. He’s basically acknowledging that he and Trump have raised the bar on what scandals presidents can get away with so much that Watergate was nothing compared to them today. True. But yikes. 751763429
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekNPR @npr.org · 18/06/2026Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life. n.pr/3SiQr31n.prThe head of the family is 17. Money is tight. The roof leaks. How did this happen?Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life. 19210105
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026“A deliberate crippling” is a very accurate description of what Russell Vought and Jay Bhattacharya are doing to NIH. cssh.northeastern.edu/a-deliberate...cssh.northeastern.edu‘A deliberate crippling’: NIH researchers, Mass. scientists sound alarm over new funding rulesOne year after hundreds of National Institutes of Health employees publicly accused the Trump administration of politicizing biomedical research in what they called the “Bethesda Declaration,” staff m... 9519212
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3 5298223
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAbraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels. 13332121
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I heard an MS NOW reporter describe GOP resistance to Ukraine aid as “isolationist.” But when you see Republicans plunge the U.S. into a Mideast war, steal Venezuelan oil and blow up boats in international waters, it’s clear that over-all GOP policy is not isolationist. It is, however, pro-Putin. 20966315
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekTom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK 9592259
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow 20073023066
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekSoumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Uhhh… I have bad news about #medical research in the United States… 46319
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great. 4153252362
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series" earlier today and I just wanted to run through some of the main claims he made - you'll be unsurprised to learn that almost all of them are false. Here's his summary slide - let's start there. 🧵👇 7199112
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it. 24993159113634
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The Trump administration is intentionally sabotaging American science in a treasonous effort to hand global leadership in science and technology to the Peoples's Republic of China. 1169
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekSasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025. 149668
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science. 18697420
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇nature.comWhite House stalls release of approved US science budgetsThe US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed. 221130758
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/02/2026The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power. 201213404
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”? 14161092080
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job! 684291947
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekZach Buchanan @zhbuchanan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable. 33257142825
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMeta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔 313176036772
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪 7771199
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekPatrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Left hand on the ground trying not to hit the pavement; right hand still holding a cell phone. ICE person standing with a one handed grip pointing his gun right at the man’s head. There is nothing about this that we should accept. We all must reject this. This is our government, & they want this 421492549
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAmarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 25/01/2026How the Shooting of Alex Pretti Unfolded www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comTimeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded (Gift Article)A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event. 59243
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Text of the video posted by Mac Randolph “Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point.” 4178802015
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him." 122392792
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested. 4342313811146
Reposted by Kenneth Matreyekmarissa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw 9930461538
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22/01/2026It’s shameful verging on collaborationist that universities slashed DEI rather than fighting the administration on this. 17666171
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation. 11292690715895
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026The whole story is worth reading, but I want to highlight this plot of science agency staffing that we pulled together from historic and current data. It shows that cuts to science staffing are almost uniformly steep across the board and unlike anything seen in the first Trump administration. 13320
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/01/2026The charts in the story are just jaw-dropping. Take this one, showing the bludgeon the Trump admin has taken to the federal scientific workforce. 46527
Kenneth Matreyek @kmatreyek.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I completely agree. It feels purposeful just how unusable that website has become despite its use now being a requirement for submitting new grants. 010
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026This isn’t “standing up for children's health, gold standard science, and common sense”. This is the work of weak, pathetic, arrogant men who are seeking revenge on actual public health experts. And it is barbaric. 1316550
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Yes! Resistance can seem futile and slow, but it does work and it is very important. Capitulation or resignation does not good and makes things worse in the long run. 16913
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5 5573559218057
Reposted by Kenneth MatreyekJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19/12/2025When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore. 251203190