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Samarth Hegde

@samhegde.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein college of Medicine | Postdoc, Merad Lab (Sinai) | PhD, DeNardo lab (WashU) | systems myeloid immunology and gene regulation www.samhegdelab.org www.fundnyscience.org

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
Several reports this wknd of Trump and Vought trying to impose control over NIH grants—that is, politicizing US cancer and dementia cure research. Big picture: that is just the same unitary executive logic they tried to impose on NIH months ago via regulation. We need to strike back at the root…
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
While I would love it if we get rid of all large money in politics, I’ll take some large money™️ fighting for sanity. We desperately need the Science Victory Fund in today’s climate 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. 1 in 5 people gone from NIH. More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC. Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ. ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
ourpublicservice.org
The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/09/2026
Pete Hegseth wants to take money from patient-saving NIH funds to fund war. From saving lives to ending them. Sign our petition to Congress to stop Hegseth: tr.ee/ddtqh4
The graphic contains a photo of SpongeBob reading a letter. The graphic reads: "Me learning the Department of War is trying to divert billions of dollars from the NIH to supplement their budget."
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.
nature.com
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The agreement "signed by Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Robert Kadlec at the Defense Department" ... "could allow the Defense Department to go around Congress and gain access to billions of dollars meant for infectious disease research" and involve ~$2 billion of NIAID's budget (!!!). 🎁
nytimes.com
Pentagon Agreement With N.I.H. on Biodefense Draws Alarm From Democrats (Gift Article)
Under a new partnership, the Defense Department would play a larger role in biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Democrats warned it could allow a Pentagon cash grab.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NIH is planning on revoking eligibility for international students on visas for the K99/R00 pathway, a key program that supports postdocs in establishing their own labs www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
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NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
NEW: The Trump admin finalized a regulation which makes the largest changes to the student visa process in 50 years, along with changes to rules for exchange visitors and international journalists. 🧵on some of the most consequential changes set to go into effect in September.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Speaking of using your own words, don't forget that the NIH's RFI on limiting the number of RPG awards per PI/MPI is open for comment. I will remind you that the RPG designation includes everything from R03 ($50k direct, 2 y limit) to P01, huge U mechs and DPetc. rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a1f200c6e...
rfi.grants.nih.gov
Request For Information
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Long story from @aniloza.bsky.social at STAT on the proposed OMB regulations. www.statnews.com/2026/07/08/t... 1/2
statnews.com
Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court
The White House has proposed sweeping changes to the bedrock regulation undergirding all federal contracts, empowering the executive branch to direct research, terminate grants, and external scientifi...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/06/2026
The story of New York City is shaped by the story of its immigrant communities. Our Newest New Yorkers report explores the lives of the city's 3.1M immigrant residents — where they come from, the languages they speak, the neighborhoods they call home, and the communities they build every day.
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We up ! @darializaforny.bsky.social and the slate showing that @socialists.nyc muscle
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Democratic socialism is coming soon to a neighborhood near you. And I’ll make sure of it!” Quick interview with Hasan Piker at DSA election night party in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Scientific American has an outstanding article about what has been happening to our scientific research enterprise that is aimed at the lay public. Worth sharing widely. www.yahoo.com/news/science...
yahoo.com
America’s compact between science and politics is broken
Last year Christopher Reynolds started to worry that his space telescope was going to be killed. Eight teams of researchers pitched NASA their ideas; Reynolds, an astronomer at the University of Mary...
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Scientist Network for Advancing Policy @snapcoalition.org · 16/06/2026
Join SNAP and @protectdemocracy.org to learn about how to write a public comment for the proposed OMB rule! Wednesday, June 17th at 5:30 p.m. ET Registration link here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SciPol #ECRs #science
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Sofia de Oliveira, Ph.D. @sdeoliveira.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📣This is bigger than science ⚠️ Please help us reach non-scientists: share this on Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, neighborhood groups, Search OMB-2026-0034 on Regulations.gov Comment by July 13 ⌛ #ScienceMatters #PublicHealth #FederalFunding #CommunityMatters #SpeakUp
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
LFGK!!! What a year New Yawk is having
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/06/2026
We need YOU to take action by leaving a public comment, calling your members of Congress, and telling everyone you know about this OMB Rule. SUFS Action Center here: fight2win.standupforscience.net
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/06/2026
Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience
The graphic displays an image of the SUFS Foundation logo, a hand holding pen, and hands over a type writer. The graphic reads: "The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments, Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO. BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: This is an opportunity to tell YOUR government that the OMB-2026-0034 "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" is wrong. https://zurl.co/XgyzA "
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Very cool and moving @nature.com mini-doc on work being done in the immunoprevention space at @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social spearheaded by @miriammerad.bsky.social + @tommarron.bsky.social 👇 *Interception of cancer will rely on targeting inflammation*
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
standupforscience.foundation
How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title
Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)
standupforscience.foundation
The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title
Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🌟 In a month, the Hegde Laboratory opens at @einsteinmededu.bsky.social . While this marks the culmination of more than a decade of collaborative research with exceptional mentorship, it also represents an exciting new chapter in our collective quest for the development of next-gen myeloid drugs.
Logo for Hegde lab of Reactive Myeloid Cell Biology, consisting of a two cells outlined in black, one round and one ameboid, with pink and brown bokehs in background.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/06/2026
What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/oCIDw #OMB
The graphic contains a photo of the White House, the red Stand Up for Science logo, and a news clipping reading: "White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants. These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque". The graphic reads: "TOMORROW 4PM ET/1PM PT, All welcome for the SUFS, EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING, VIRTUAL AND ACCESSIBLE, What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? REGISTER HERE: https://zurl.co/oCIDw OR LINK IN BIO".
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/05/2026
"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yea this is the endgame.
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Jordan Williams (she/her) @jolybdenum.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Seriously, this webinar is going to be amazing. Anyone is welcome to attend, please share widely!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold
US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/05/2026
The research that led to this miracle drug started more than five decades (!) ago. Basic science research has massive payoffs but they are often very long-term. As a society, we invest in basic research for our kids and grandkids.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
NAACP Calls on Black Athletes & Fans to Withhold Athletic and Financial Support of Public Schools in States Attacking Black Voting Rights

The NAACP today is launching the “Out of Bounds” campaign, a national call for Black athletes, families, fans, alumni, and consumers to withhold athletic and financial support from public universities in states that have moved to limit, weaken, or erase Black voting representation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted what was left of the Voting Rights Act The NAACP identified eight priority states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Georgia — and targeted flagship public athletic programs generating more than $100 million in annual revenue that continue to recruit Black athletes while their state governments dismantle the political power of Black communities.What these states have done is not a policy disagreement. It is a sprint to erase Black political power,” said Derrick Johnson, National President & CEO, NAACP. “These actions happened in days, in some cases in hours, of a Supreme Court ruling that gives extremist lawmakers a playbook to erode Black representation. The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice. Out of Bounds is our answer: we are naming the contradiction, and we are calling on Black athletes, families, fans, and consumers to act on it. The same power that built these programs can be redirected. And it will be.”

The economic stakes of the campaign are significant. The flagship universities in the eight targeted states collectively generate billions of dollars in annual athletic revenue.
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Nature @nature.com · 06/05/2026
The abrupt termination last year of thousands of research grants by the US NIH didn’t affect all groups of scientists equitably. A survey suggests that it disproportionately hit researchers from under-represented groups. go.nature.com/4tffr8c
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NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists
A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration.
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NYC is a union town 💪🏽 #MayDay @spocuaw.bsky.social @rocsuaw.bsky.social @uawregion9a.bsky.social
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is ridiculous, you guys. No other sector wishes to have goodwill from the public while also NOT FIGHTING FOR THEMSELVES. This hubris is what bad actors exploited to get us into our current mess. IT IS TIME TO PAY YOUR SCIENCE ACTIVISM TAXES. 24 hours of civil service a year—minimum.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We need to prevent the loss of 150k jobs & $35B economy by stopping a top-line budget cut. We ALSO need to stop similar losses via: 1) Sneaky budget tricks like multiyear funding 2) Death by paperwork via the screening/renegotiation process and...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Upshot: 🟢 JB says scientist training is his #1 priority. 🔴 Yet, this fiscal year so far, training-related grants are down over 80% from expected levels. Guys, you can’t do science without scientists. JB gets an F (but not an F grant... ba-dum-tss) More funding curves at Grant Witness:
grant-witness.us
Grantmaking over Time for NIH – Grant Witness
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I was preparing for a talk I gave last evening to a lay audience and came up with this graphic to explain multi-year funding and why it leads to fewer competitive awards and funding investigators and projects. 6/8
A diagram showing that 24 annually funded grants becomes only 15 funded grants if 50% of the funds for competitive grants are used for multi-year funding.
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Believe them when they tell you what they believe in.
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This confirms my observations!! Single cell technology really helps! #orangecat #genius
Orange cat sitting on work laptop and
sleeping with head burrowed in green and yellow pillows.
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
How to disincentivize the already tired/frustrated reviewer pool further… Will do nothing but reduce quality and continuity of study sections.
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Had a great Northern NYC Heme club intro @newyorkbloodcenter.bsky.social ! Great talks across the spectrum of Heme cancer biology, Clonal hematopoiesis, blood cell development from new colleagues across NY :) @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @cdi-einstein.bsky.social @einsteincellbio.bsky.social
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
ALRIGHT TEAM! It’s time to spread this far and wide. This is for parents with young kids, disabled folks, people who have to work, those in the hospital, seniors in nursing homes, our friends in rural places! We believe in science, health, and democracy for EVERYONE!
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This plot from @drugmonkey.bsky.social shows how the number of *new* NIH fellowships to Black investigators plummeted last year. And it's only half the story. The other half is that *existing* fellowship grants to POC investigators were also *terminated* at disproportionate rates.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This Russell Vought, trying to usurp the power of the purse. Congress and the people have made it abundantly clear that they want to fund science. But Vought keeps trying to steal those funds. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
it feels like decades since the first Stand auto for Science protests ahead of this year’s protests tomorrow, I caught up with @cdelawalla.bsky.social to talk about what @standupforscience.bsky.social sees as its strategy as a fully formed organization www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s...
statnews.com
How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public
Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/03/2026
In just 3 days, the Take Back our Science Rally hits the streets in Washington DC and all across the country! Join at local rally, or if nothing's nearby, start your own pop-up rally. Details at zurl.co/BlOzn  #science #standupforscience #rally #March7 #FunScienceFact (1/2)
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New Yorkers, let your state senator + legislator know you want to support science research at NYS-level to protect other New Yorkers, grow our economy, and create jobs. *Every call/email matters!* Follow @fundnyscience.bsky.social @nycures.bsky.social for how-to 🔬🥼💲
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Heartened to see complementary action @nycures.bsky.social @uawregion9a.bsky.social @spocuaw.bsky.social @rocsuaw.bsky.social driving “bolstering biotech initiative” in NYS for FY26. We need to fight together for rational sustainable research funding given threats/cuts. #science #BBI #NYS
Panel of scientists, state legislators, and UAW region 9A representatives in front of projector at Sinai Goldwurm auditorium.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds. New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October. (h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Wrapping up #KSMyeloid26, enjoyed @tfabre.bsky.social rigorous + rational approach to classifying and targeting myeloid cells in fibrotic diseases. Look forward eagerly to testing their M.A.C.S approach built on scLAVI @mmschaefer.bsky.social
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