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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Indirect costs and scientific impact at NIMH: “Greater indirect rate was associated with modest but statistically significantly greater number of publications … and total citations … Each 10% increase in indirect rate was associated with a 20% increase in odds of patent filing”

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Indirect costs and scientific impact at NIMH

Abstract. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards additional funds for extramural research to support research infrastructure and administration, su

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thank you, @rwjf.org ! www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

RWJF call for proposals to replace cancelled grants

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Senator Baldwin raised concern about the NIH MYF “policy” as discussion begins on Senate Labor, HHS, & Ed appropriations bill - bipartisan push back in the bill. They got the message.

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

More about the “policy” that isn’t a policy. Most ICs haven’t updated their funding policy websites, but NCI describes the “recently implemented” MYF requirement in their July 23rd update to explain the lack of payline (but essentially 4th percentile)

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A Quiet Policy Shift That Could Devastate American Science

Why NIH’s sudden move to multi-year grant funding should alarm every principal investigator and university

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"That new policy is the 'multi-year funding' policy." But there is no FY25 "policy"-just FY26 CJ: "The FY 2026 request will continue the FY 2025 NIH policy of allocating half of the budget for competing RPGs for awards that fully fund their outyear commitments as part of the initial grant awards."

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

NCI lowered paylines by 2 points (to 7th/13th percentile) for May Council: “Considering the significant budget reductions proposed for FY 2026 … NCI’s funding strategy for FY2025 is to support current research activities, while reducing future-year budget requirements.”

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Funding Policy - Research Grants

NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Interesting. NHLBI is issuing its own funding opportunities outside the NIH Guide to Grants & Contracts. (full funding opportunity announcement: nhlbi-ai.org/sites/defaul... )

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How to Apply | NHLBI-AI Enabled Precision Medicine Initiative for Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep (HLBS) Health

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

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Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services

Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is bad. Partial list - check the status of all data repositories you need for research: DASH N3C DANDI Brain Image Library Cancer Imaging Archive BioData Catalyst Ntl Sleep Research Ntl AD Coord Center SEA-AD Brain Cell Atlas EPAAD CHILDES HuBMAP NIDDK Central Rep SenNet CURE-ID NeMO MMHCdb

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NICHD DASH - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Data and Specimen Hub

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In advance of mass firings, administration rescinded NIH Scientific Integrity Policy preventing political interference & ensuring accountability, transparency, scientifically qualified hires, free flow of scientific information, protection of whistleblowers, etc. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-24-178: RESCINDED - Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: RESCINDED - Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-24-178. OD

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

So American victory in the Revolutionary War was in part due to George Washington’s vaccine mandate (& he shuts down the herd immunity approach) …

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Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War (U.S. National Park Service)

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Looks like the NIH has quietly updated the parent T32 NOFO, issued Nov 15, 2024, to remove all mention of & requirements for "diversity" (since they apparently still cannot issue new NOFOs - NIH Guide has not been updated since Jan 22, except for rogue F&A Notice). Data tables updated March 18, 2025

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨 1/ @paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it. paulwaldman.substack...

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The Real Goal of Trump's War on Universities

It isn't about stopping antisemitism. It's about power.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Read every word of this article to see what the Trump folks are doing to the good civil servants at NIH -- and to the important work that protects all of our health. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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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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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

@altnih4science.bsky.social Does the NIH need to announce Asynchronous Electronic Discussions (AED) in the Federal Register? If not, could this be used to continue reviewing applications so at least paylists are ready when Councils can resume? (yes, I’m old) public.csr.nih.gov/sites/defaul...

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

No surprise, Pitt is being responsible: people move across country/globe, rearrange their lives for several years for this. Fed $$ funding PhD research could be gone before year’s end. Yes, human & economic health will suffer. Country needs to wake up that this is real! And unfathomable waste!

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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A Boston federal judge on Friday extended her hold on a Trump administration proposal to slash reimbursements from the NIH for research grant costs, a move colleges, hospitals and other institutions have said would wreak havoc on scientific research. www.law360.com/artic...

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NIH Research Cuts Stay On Hold As Judge Mulls Objections - Law360

A Boston federal judge on Friday extended her hold on a Trump administration proposal to slash reimbursements from the National Institutes of Health for research grant costs, a move colleges, hospitals and other institutions have said would wreak havoc on scientific research.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Does Congress even remember that it has the power of the purse? www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Catch-22: NIH funding freeze supposedly lifted but grant review panels can't meet unless they publish a public notice. And Trump order bars agency from posting a notice. More on the Trump Tracker. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos

Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers

Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will they say now?

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

NIH cannot make awards if it cannot publicly announce its study section and Council meetings in the Federal Register.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Checking in with sources this morning... The total from NIH was apparently slightly more than 1500 people (out of 5200 HHS Department-wide) 1/n

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NIH IC Directors being fired

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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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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ah - so AI didn’t hallucinate the “study” described in the “NIH” Notice on F&A costs … it failed to cite a Heritage Foundation report that was the source of those statements.

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Jeremy concurs - no need to lose more sleep, but still lots to do to keep Congress from enacting Project 2025 efforts to bring down research university system

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

And, it’s the only item in the NIH Guide since the communication ban on Jan 22. Seems the NIH still can’t issue public notices, which tech teens forgot. Feeling like this abrupt cut won’t be immediately enforceable, but F&A rates could still be tweaked by this Congress (reconciliation, FY26)

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Writedit @mlkwritedit.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

@jeremymberg.bsky.social @archstreet.bsky.social Both the Notice & especially the X announcement were clearly written not by anyone at NIH but by DOGE - and AI! (look at that “study”!) I have never seen an NIH Notice like this. Could tech teen ignorance & AI hallucinations tank this in court?

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