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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 24/09/2026

"The antidote to agnosis, anxiety, and despair is action. Hope is work, and work brings hope…Is this the end of science? Maybe. But there is still time to defend it. With our allies and in our numbers, we can hold the line." -- @avastmachine.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot from journal web page, showing abstract and first paragraph of journal article:

The End of Science? Agnosis and American Fascism, by Paul N. Edwards

Abstract: The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies. Past winners have included founders of the field, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to understanding the social dimensions of science and technology. This article is the revised text of the 2025 Bernal Lecture by Paul Edwards.

In January 2025, fascists led by Donald Trump took over the United States federal government for the second time. Following the Heritage Foundation blueprint Project 2025, these far-right authoritarians colluded with mega-corporations, billionaires, and white-nationalist Christian evangelicals to disrupt the government, nullify democratic processes, and execute Trump's every whim as “policy.” His regime has successfully (if not entirely) evaded Constitutional checks and balances; manipulated corporate affairs, the US economy, foreign allies, and the entire rules-based world order by means of tariffs, executive orders, extrajudicial killings, threats of force, and war; created a huge, militarized secret police force (Immigration and Customs Enforcement); brought false charges against political opponents to neutralize and punish them; and, resuscitated the 19th-century colonial Monroe Doctrine to license renewed US imperialism. The Trump autocracy has brought major American institutions to their knees, singling out federally funded scientific enterprises and research universities for ideological assault via budget cuts. Incredibly, even as I write, leaders at the highest levels of our government are discussing how to suspend the 2026 elections by declaring a trumped-up national emergency...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 07/08/2026

@lofgren.house.gov and @georgewhitesides.bsky.social to White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios: "We have no reason to be surprised that you chose to continue this pattern of obfuscation and disrespect of the Committee’s oversight..." democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

Page from letter from Lofgren and Whitesides to OSTP. Full text at link.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 01/08/2026

My comment on NSF-2026-OTR-0001, NSF's obsequious gutting of their own procedures, replacing them with OMB's proposed rules undermining federal grantmaking with their ideological agenda. Need guidance on commenting? @standupforscience.net has you covered: fight2win.standupforscience.net #NSF

Full text at https://gist.githubusercontent.com/noamross/292dee0ff3b9d47e345801cc7796f70c/raw/2f9bde9cdd1ce067bcce6633e7ddaf70bf0db041/2026-07-31-comment-NSF-2026-OTR-0001.txt

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 23/07/2026

Yeah, Rep Whitesides (D-CA) is a fan it seems.

A photograph shows Representative George Whitesides seated and speaking into a microphone at a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing. Behind him, staff members hold two large poster boards displaying line charts that track cumulative grant data across multiple fiscal years. The left poster shows a sharp drop in the number of grants awarded in Fiscal Year 2026 compared to previous years, with a red caption reading "55% Decrease in Total Grants from FY 2024." The right poster illustrates a similarly steep decline in funding obligations, with a red caption reading "30% ($1.3B) Decrease in Total Grant Amounts from FY 2024."

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 22/07/2026

The complete list of terminations so far, as well as grants with slow-rolled renewals, and the halt of new funding at grant-witness.us/ahrq-data.html As always, we need your help to report this information! Submit info on NIH or AHRQ terminations at: grant-witness.us/submit-nih-a... 🧪 #AHRQ #NIH

A dashboard summary from Grant Witness tracking AHRQ grant disruptions displays three key metric cards across the top: a total of 150 disrupted grants, 0 restored grants, and a total current loss from disrupted grants of $94.01M. Below the metrics, a table lists individual terminated grants, showing award numbers, titles, a current status of "Disrupted," a detailed status of "Terminated," first disruption dates around August 2025, and latest disruption dates in July 2026.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 22/07/2026

This continues the administration's war on DEI. AHRQ is required by Congress to study health delivery to minorities, women, children, and low-income and elderly populations. Exactly these grants are being killed. The best predictor of termination is having "equity" in a title or abstract. 🧪 #AHRQ

A table titled "Words most disproportionately common in terminated AHRQ grants" lists fifteen terms sorted by the percentage-point gap between their termination rates. The table includes columns for the term name, the number of terminated grants containing the term, remaining grants containing the term, and the percentage of grants containing that word that were terminated. Top terms include "equity" with 75 terminated grants and an 85.2% termination rate, "disparities" at 73.3%, "training" at 69.9%, "diverse" at 68.2%, and "faculty" with the highest termination rate listed at 95.8%.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 22/07/2026

For these grant recipients, terminations came after months - in some cases over a year - of silence. #AHRQ simply failed to renew annual budgets and left researchers hanging. Some are still waiting. Now years of research in healthcare effectiveness are cut off. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... 🧪

A dot plot titled "Terminated grants" maps each canceled grant as a single dot along a timeline from April 2025 to October 2029. A vertical dashed line around mid-2026 marks when termination letters were issued. Purple dots to the left of this line show when each grant's most recent budget period actually ended, peaking heavily between July and October 2025 to illustrate that most grants had budget renewals withheld months before being officially terminated. Teal dots to the right of the line stretch through late 2029, showing the originally planned project end dates cut short by the cancellations.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 04/07/2026

Woah! Pretty big tree limb just came down in Brooklyn Heights

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/06/2026

Where NSF is funding new awards, they are paying up front rather than making future commitments. It appears to be a clearing of the decks to enable shutting down disfavored directorates, shrinking the NSF, or diverting funds to other Presidential priorities. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

Grouped bar chart for fiscal years 2021 through 2026 comparing two values for NSF new awards: the total planned budget (red bars) and the amount actually obligated at the start of the award year (blue bars), measured in billions of dollars. Bars are displayed side by side for each year. Percentage labels above the blue bars show the ratio of same-year obligations to planned budget. From 2021 through 2024, the blue bar is well below the red and percentages range from 57% to 61%. In 2025, it is 55%, and both bars are much lower than prior years. In 2026, it is 75%, with far lower values than any other year.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/06/2026

NSF is spending more money servicing old grants than making new ones. As of the end of May, more funds flowed to old projects than new, for the first time in recent history. Much of this was for funds planned years ago for new supercomputing structure. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

Stacked bar chart of NSF obligations for fiscal years 2021 through 2026, measured in billions of dollars. Blue segments show obligations to awards made in the same fiscal year (new awards); red segments show obligations to awards made in earlier fiscal years (prior-year awards). Dollar amounts and percentages are labeled in white text inside each segment. From 2021 through 2025, new awards account for more than half of obligations each year. In 2026 the red segment exceeds the blue for the first time.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/06/2026

NSF is making awards at a rate 60-70% below its historic pace, but spending is a faster (but still anemic) 30-40% below. Why is this? First, NSF is *not* making bigger awards. In 2026 the average award size has shrunk by about $100,000 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

Dot plot of NSF award sizes for fiscal years 2021 through 2026 on a log scale from about $1,000 to $10 million. Each grey dot represents one award, arranged in a beeswarm pattern. A red horizontal bar marks the mean and a blue bar marks the median for each year, each labeled with a dollar value. 2026 is modestly different: In 2026 the mean falls to $560,000 from $680,000 in the prior year, and no awards above $30 million were made. The median rises to $443,000 from $383,000, and a spike of awards around $50,000 is missing from 2026 but present in other years.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 23/06/2026

We don't find patterns of targeting as we have for grant terminations. Researchers and topics of all stripes are harmed by sand in NIH's gears. A few institutes stand out, though. At the Fogarty Center, nearly half of renewals are overdue by more than 60 days. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪

A horizontal bar chart comparing the percentage of non-competing NIH grant continuations that are 60+ days overdue between fiscal years 2025 and 2026. The left panel shows FY 2025 (light blue bars) and the right panel shows FY 2026 (dark blue bars). The x-axis represents the percentage from 0% to 50%. The y-axis lists various NIH institutes and centers (e.g., FIC, NCCIH, NHLBI).

Across almost all institutes, the rate of overdue renewals is notably higher in FY 2026 compared to FY 2025. In FY 2026, the Fogarty International Center (FIC) shows the highest rate, with over 40% of renewals more than 60 days overdue, followed by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 22/06/2026

www.nbc.com/saturday-nig...

Phil Hartman from a 1992 SNL sketch about driving directions in New England, saying "Can't get there from here."

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 21/06/2026

The kicker in this article is a particularly chilling indicator how far censorship has already advanced.

“I think everybody probably in writing their proposals knew to sanitize their language proactively,” said Kate Zinsser, a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, who was not affected by the cancellations but is planning to attend the conference and has been in contact with the cancelled researchers. “But these are not radical sessions, these are seemingly run-of-the-mill research presentations that are receiving this kind of scrutiny and censoring.”

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/06/2026

I was struck when I corrected data for inflation and population growth. In no way is Trump policy a correction of some overreach. The Biden years were middling for science funding in the 21st century. This is retrenchment to a time before most Americans were born. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... 🧪

$A line graph titled "Cumulative NSF Funds Awarded Per Capita (2024 dollars) by Day of Fiscal Year" shows inflation-adjusted per-capita NSF funding from October to September. A color-coded legend groups lines by decade from the 1960s through the 2020s. A thick bright red line labeled "2026" runs far below all other years, reaching only about $3–4 per person by mid-June. Year-end labels on the right show FY2024 in teal at the top (around $23 per capita), FY2025 in dark red (around $17), and "1987" in green (around $15). A red dot marks the FY2027 President\'s Budget Request at roughly $11 per capita, with "1973" in gold labeled as the closest historical year-end value. "1969" in brown at the very bottom (around $5) marks the historical year most closely matching FY2026's current pace.$

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 09/06/2026

NSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪

A line graph titled "Cumulative Number of Awards" tracking National Science Foundation (NSF) award dates from October through September across multiple fiscal years (FY 2021 to FY 2026). The x-axis shows months, and the y-axis shows the number of awards up to 11,000.

Lines for FY 2021 through FY 2024 cluster closely together, steadily climbing over the year to peak between 10,000 and 11,500 awards. The line for FY 2025 is noticeably lower, peaking under 9,000 awards.

The line for the current year, FY 2026 (shown in red), sits drastically lower than all previous years, tracking below 2,000 awards. A vertical line marks "June 3," where a pop-up box displays data for that date: FY 2021: 4,594; FY 2022: 4,983; FY 2023: 4,606; FY 2024: 4,234; FY 2025: 2,615; and FY 2026: 1,471. Past the June 3 vertical line, the red FY 2026 line completely flattens out, stopping abruptly at a dashed vertical line.

A close-up, cropped view of the bottom right section of the cumulative awards graph, focusing on the May to June timeline for the current fiscal year. The thick red line representing FY 2026 awards climbs at a slight, steady upward slope throughout May, crosses the solid vertical line marking early June, and then immediately goes completely flat, forming a straight horizontal line that terminates at a vertical dashed line.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/05/2026

HHS is firing people it tried to get rid of and couldn't last year. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

According to Decker’s email, HHS is sending the following number of RIF notices to the following component agencies:

Administration for Children and Families – 3
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – 2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – 6
Food and Drug Administration – 4
Health Resources and Services Administration – 5
National Institutes of Health – 43
Office of the Secretary – 14
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – 1

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 18/05/2026

The team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social on what Congress needs to do to make the 2027 appropriations bill stick and not let the administration run rampant abusing the budget and government agencies www.cbpp.org/blog/congres...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 24/04/2026

In a fit of their characteristic radical transparency, HHS just removed the dollar amounts from their (woefully incomplete) list of terminated grants. HHS version: taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data... Comparison with last week: www.diffchecker.com/word-pdf-com... Wayback: web.archive.org/web/20260000...

Table from a page of HHS's list of terminated grants from 04/17/2026. The dollar amounts of the amount obligated, spent, and recovered are highlighted in red to indicate they have been removed.

Table from a page of HHS's list of terminated grants from 04/24/2026. The dollar amounts of the amount obligated, spent, and recovered are blank, with blue highlighting indicated that this is a change from the previous version.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 24/04/2026

Weird! Just last week he emailed all his employees a new Scientific Integrity Policy that removed political interference as a thing to worry about at all! www.diffchecker.com/word-pdf-com...

Side-by-side diff of HHS Scientific Integrity policy, with the old version on the left highlighting text that was removed: "Political interference is inappropriately shaping or interfering in the conduct, management, communication, or use of science for political advantage or such that it undermines impartiality, nonpartisanship, or professional judgment."

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 22/04/2026

"Instead of canceling grants en masse, as the N.I.H. did in the first year of this Trump presidency, it is now vetting them before approval with a 'computational text analysis tool' that scans for terms including 'racism,' 'gender' and 'vaccination refusal'..." 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

A line graph titled "N.I.H. Funds Fewer New and Competitive Grants," showing the cumulative number of grant awards by fiscal year. The gray line representing the 2021-2024 average shows the highest cumulative number of awards. The light blue line for 2025 follows a similar trajectory but remains significantly below the 2021-2024 average. The dark blue line for 2026 shows a much slower pace of awards, trailing drastically behind both the 2025 and 2021-2024 benchmarks as of April.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 16/04/2026

The webpage appears not to have been updated to reflect the policy change yet: www.hhs.gov/programs/res...

Test from webpage: "Protecting Scientific Processes. This section prohibits political interference and other inappropriate influence, requires reasonable efforts to ensure the fidelity of the scientific record, and requires research integrity and responsible conduct of research." "Political" is highlighted in green to indicate it is still there.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 16/04/2026

Other changes include various policies driven by both positive science reform and the weaponized version of it represented by the "Gold Standard Science" executive order.

Text, all highlighted in green to indicate insertion:

2. Support the publication of raw data and code that contributes to research outcomes in publicly accessible repositories where feasible and consistent with applicable security, privacy, and confidentiality requirements and encourage clear, detailed reporting of methodologies.
3. Support practices that enhance the falsifiability of hypotheses, such as pre-registration of study protocols, use of appropriate control groups, and transparent reporting of all results, including null or negative findings. Falsifiable hypotheses are those that can be tested and potentially disproven through empirical evidence.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 16/04/2026

HHS just published an update to its Scientific Integrity Policy. Notably, it has removed the concept of political interference, and no longer calls it out as something specifically to be prevented. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... (deletions in red, insertions in green)

Highlighted in red: "Political interference is inappropriately shaping or interfering in the conduct, management, communication, or use of science for political advantage or such that it undermines impartiality, nonpartisanship, or professional judgement"

"HHS works to promote a culture of scientific integrity by creating an empowering environment for innovation and protecting scientists and the process of science from inappropriate interference. Scientific findings and products must not be suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and must not be subjected to political interference or inappropriate influence. The responsible and ethical conduct of research and other scientific activities requires an environment that is safe and free from harassment and discrimination" Highlighted in red are "suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes", "subjected to political interference", and "inappropriate influence."

Text, with "political" highlighted in red to indicate removal:

I. Protecting Scientific Processes
Scientific integrity fosters "honest scientific investigation, open discussion, refined understanding, and a firm commitment to evidence" (OSTP 2010). It also enables consideration and documentation of differing scientific opinions. Practices that support scientific integrity may include peer review and open science.
Science, and public trust in science, thrives in an environment that prevents political interference and inappropriate influence from impacting scientific data and analyses and their use in decision making.
It is the policy of HHS to:
1. Prohibit political interference or other inappropriate influence in the design, proposal, conduct, review, management, evaluation, communication about, and use of scientific activities and scientific information.
Prohibit inappropriate restrictions on resources and capacity that limit and reduce the availability of science and scientific products (e.g., manuscripts for scientific journals, presentations for workshops, conferences, and symposia) outside of normal budgetary or priority-setting processes or without scientific, legal, or security justification.
3. Require that leadership and management ensure that covered individuals engaged in scientific activities can conduct their work objectively, free from political interference or other inappropriate influence, and free from retaliation.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 16/04/2026

A text I wrote the other day:

An infinite number of monkeys could not produce this sentence: "While receiving a McDonald’s food delivery to the Oval Office, the president told reporters that he posted a photo that depicted him as a robed, Jesus-like figure because he thought it had depicted him as a physician."

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 08/04/2026

We've released a major update to our #NIH tracking at Grant Witness. We now publish a complete, multi-source history of events to track the complex administrative and legal history of each grant. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

Screen shot of part of an award's event history with sources:

2025-05-26: Award termination date in TAGGS PDF (TAGGS PDF)
2025-05-27: 'TERMINATED' action added (HHS TAGGS)
2025-05-27: End date cut off from 2026-05-31 to 2025-08-31 (USAspending awards)
2025-05-31: Other amendment (USAspending File C)
2025-06-03: Grant marked as terminated (RePORTER website)
2025-06-13: Added to TAGGS PDF of terminations (TAGGS PDF)
2025-06-18: Court-ordered reinstatement (MA v. RFK ) (Court case)
2025-06-18: Court-ordered reinstatement (APHA v. NIH ) (Court case)
2025-06-30: End date extended from 2025-05-31 to 2026-05-31 (USAspending File C)
2025-07-03: Removed from TAGGS PDF of terminations (TAGGS PDF)

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 03/04/2026

Going for an H.P. Lovecraft or maybe Old Gods of Appalacia vibe here

Indeed, among roughly two dozen workers and regulars interviewed this week at Rome’s three Waffle House locations, none said they were aware of anyone traveling to the 24-hour restaurants by paranormal means, despite their reputation as powerful magnets for the sort of idiosyncratic characters who tend to surf the psychic fringes of the American South.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/03/2026

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/03/2026

Lots of neat stuff in March's @ropensci.org update, including: - O nosso guia agora é trilíngue (Inglês, Espanhol e *Português*)! - @mpadge.bsky.social's {pkgmatch} is now run on all submissions to help find reviewers and discover prior art in similar packages! ropensci.org/blog/2026/03... #rstats

Screenshot of a GitHub issue thread demonstrating our review bot listing the most similar packages to a submission

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 07/03/2026

I'm better at math than slogans

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 25/02/2026

Various forms of this problem remain huge obstacles in many of the projects I work on, and typically a frontier LLM using the power of a city block solves like 30% of it and adds an extra 10% in fixing what it did wrong.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 17/02/2026

Getting there! actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

A progress bar showing that 153 letters have been sent, 47 more to go until a goal of 200

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 13/02/2026

Judge Manish Shah issues a temporary restraining order for yesterday's terminations of CDC grants to four states to be treated as null and void. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The balance of equities and public interest favor plaintiffs because the public interest is not harmed by temporarily enjoining arbitrary and capricious and unlawful agency action.

Therefore, it is ordered that:

1. Defendants, their officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and all those in active concert or participation with defendants are temporarily restrained from implementing agency guidance or directives to identify and terminate public-health grants awarded to plaintiffs, including their instrumentalities, subdivisions, and any bona fide fiscal agents of plaintiffs or their instrumentalities and subdivisions, based on undisclosed agency priorities.

2. Defendants, their officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and all those in active concert or participation with defendants, shall immediately treat any actions taken to implement or enforce directives to identify and terminate public-health grants awarded to plaintiffs based on undisclosed agency priorities, as null, void, and rescinded.

3. Defendants' counsel shall provide written notice of this Order to defendants, their officers, agents, employees, and any other persons in active concert or participation with them in the award and funding of public-health grants awarded to plaintiffs.

4. No security is necessary to secure this Temporary Restraining Order.

5. This Temporary Restraining Order is entered at 4:45 p.m. on February 12, 2026, and shall remain in effect for 14 days.

ENTER:

Date: February 12, 2026

Manish S. Shah

United States District Judge

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 05/02/2026

That said, NSF did obligate almost all of the 2025/2026 account in 2025.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 03/02/2026

This death by a thousand cuts - deep cuts - is how the administration is halting innovation for better health and new cures in America. www.cancerhealth.com/article/nih-...

Work in Brugge’s lab slowed significantly last year. In April, her $7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health was frozen, along with virtually all other federal money awarded to Harvard researchers.

The Trump administration said it was withholding the funds over the university’s handling of antisemitism on campus.

Some of Brugge’s lab staff lost federal fellowships that funded their work. Brugge told others funded through the NIH grant that she couldn’t guarantee their salaries. In all, Brugge lost seven of her 18 lab employees.

In September, the funding for the NIH grant was restored. But in the intervening months, the Trump administration said Brugge and other Harvard researchers needn’t bother applying for the next round of multiyear grants.

A federal judge lifted that ban, but Brugge had missed the deadline to apply for renewal. So her current funding will end in August.

Brugge scrambled to secure private funding from foundations and philanthropists. She was then able to reinstate two positions for at least a year — but job applicants are wary.

Across the United States, the future of federal funding for cancer research is uncertain.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 03/02/2026

Ahead of today's hearing with NIH Director Bhattacharya, @sanders.senate.gov released a report on cuts to critical healthcare research. New NIH awards in key health areas were down 16% last year, cutting off innovation for new cures. Read the whole report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Figure 1: Declines in Awards for New Research Projects A line graph titled "New and Competitive Renewal Grants Issued by NIH, January-December, 2015-2025." The y-axis represents the number of grants ranging from 0 to 2,500, and the x-axis represents the years from 2015 to 2025.

The graph tracks four categories of medical research:

Cancer (Orange): Remains the highest funded category, generally fluctuating between 2,100 and 2,300 grants until 2024, followed by a sharp decline to just under 2,000 in 2025.

Heart Disease (Yellow): Stays relatively stable between 1,400 and 1,600 grants for most of the decade but shows a noticeable downward trend starting in 2023, ending near 1,300 in 2025.

Diabetes (Grey): Maintains a steady range between 1,000 and 1,250 grants, showing a slight peak in 2022 before declining to approximately 1,000 by 2025.

Alzheimer's (Blue): Shows the most significant change, starting as the lowest at 500 grants in 2015, steadily climbing to a peak of nearly 1,200 in 2022, and then experiencing a sharp drop to roughly 750 by 2025.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 21/01/2026

Shocking to account for what was nearly lost: - 417 programs to prevent suicide, 465 for alcohol, and 351 for HIV - 218 to help Americans with depression, 9 for schizophrenia - 573 program focused on rural areas. - Over 300 to support law enforcement dealing with mental health crises

A word cloud of terms from cancelled SAMHSA grants, with the largest terms being training, capacity, prescription, prevention, and disorder

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 18/12/2025

Today's list of HHS grant terminations includes 7 programs run by American Academy of Pediatrics that RFK Jr. killed out of spite. Programs to: - Reduce sudden infant sleep deaths - Screen newborns for hearing loss - Treat babies with birth defects 🧵

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 12/12/2025

It looks like they cut off everything under this program to pilot, what a f*cking surprise, a "Field-Initiated Approach to Addressing Racial Bias and Inequity in Child Welfare." apply07.grants.gov/apply/opport...

Child and family well-being for all families, including families most impacted by racial disparities, is the responsibility of equitable, diverse, and culturally competent systems and the community. The purpose of this NOFO is to fund grants that support the development, implementation, and evaluation of field-initiated approaches to addressing racial bias and inequity in child welfare; and improving the safety, stability, and well-being of families in
traditionally underserved communities.
As a field-based initiative, this funding opportunity will enable communities to design and lead targeted solutions to local issues of systemic disproportionality and inequitable access to services experienced by traditionally underserved communities at varying points across the child welfare continuum.
Grant recipients will utilize supporting data, and any pre-analysis if available, from their respective states or communities that describes the problem of inequity and racial bias as it exists in their community. The Children’s Bureau (CB) is open to the type of data submitted and encourages applicants to use the best information or evidence available. Recipients are encouraged to either establish partnerships to access needed data or to consider other publicly available data sources (i.e., Census, community organization data dashboards, etc.). Upon award, grant recipients will complete a thorough exploration or assessment that, at a minimum, involves a review of current practices, policies, and service delivery to the target population with input
from community members and families with lived child welfare experience. Ultimately, applicants will demonstrate readiness and a commitment to inclusive, co-designed solutions to address issues of racial bias and inequity in child welfare and reflect what communities say they need to thrive.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 12/12/2025

Just in time for the holidays, today's HHS dump of terminated grants lists a bunch of child welfare projects funded by the Administration for Children and Families' Children's Bureau. Programs across KS, KY, MN, NY, OR, CA, MD, DC, and IA. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

Screenshot showing a grid of terminated grants from the linked PDF

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 11/12/2025

The secret in @masalmon.eu's excellent post on metrics for #rstats package usage is that R-Universe collects all these measures for you!

A screen shot of the metrics on the R-Universe page for the 'curl' package, showing metrics such as GitHub stars, package dependencies, number of GitHub scripts, package downloads, and academic citations.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/12/2025

Ah the joys of informatics

Screenshot of spreadsheet with the word "Squirrel" spelled eight different ways.

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