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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12h
this matters
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧: the incomparable @andykroll.bsky.social explains how one man (not DJT, not Elon Musk, not Pete or Kash or Marco...) is behind so much of what the second Trump administration has done. He's a bureaucrat named Russell Vought — the Shadow President www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...
A graphic showing the top of Russ Vought's head and the Paper Trail logo
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Northwestern Wrongly Fired Gender Center Chief, Ill. Jury Told www.law360.com/articles/253... (The case is Abtahi v. Northwestern University, case number 2025-L-009013, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois)
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Northwestern Wrongly Fired Gender Center Chief, Ill. Jury Told - Law360
Northwestern University illegally fired its former gender and sexuality center director for criticizing its decision to remove resources from the center's website in an email to colleagues that leaked...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's September 30, end of the federal government's fiscal year. Happy #FOIA day to all who celebrate. Let's make those numbers, #FOIA officers!
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please disregard now #RAdminSky
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That's Mikael Meyers @saintarray.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I work in IT. In my office, all of the other techs use ChatGPT regularly. I do not. Imo, Chad Gibbidy hasn’t made them any more efficent than they were before nor faster than me. They mostly use it in order to respond to emails by making their natural assholery sound less assholery.
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading and writing (and collecting data) is exactly what I think #highered is about #AcademicFreedom
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026
Democrats control state government in Minnesota but they are still cutting public higher education funding: www.highereddive.com/news/univers...
highereddive.com
University of Minnesota eyes $225M in budget cuts
Senior leaders attributed its financial woes to “shifting enrollment trends, unpredictable state and federal funding, and rising costs.”
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026
FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#RAdminSky
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Statement from @murray.senate.gov and the Senate Appropriations committee about Vought takeover plan. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
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Senator Murray on Trump’s Latest Plan to Politicize Lifesaving NIH Research | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Collins issues statement on rumors of Executive Order taking control of NIH funding - please keep pressure on. There can be no trust here but it is also the case that she should hear that this statement will be welcomed if it is accompanied by action www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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Sen. Collins: OMB Should Not Be Involved in Agency Decisions on Grant Awards | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants" [everybody up in arms, as they should be, but for those who have been paying close attention, this has pretty much already happened - the realization just hasn't sunk in yet] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another 1A challenge to grant terminations filed #researchimprovesyourlife #NIH
science.org
Researchers file First Amendment challenge to NIH grant screening
Lawsuit argues that Trump policy of purging politically sensitive terms from research projects violates free speech
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Duke and UNC under investigation for failure to disclose #ResearchSecurity
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U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of State Open Foreign Funding Investigations into Duke University and the University of North Dakota
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of State (State) opened foreign funding investigations.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whether it’s universities trying to hire more women and Black people or Kash Patel trying to hire more people who have engaged in bestiality, both sides have taken controversial approaches to increasing diversity.
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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A North Carolina professor in the 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey: "I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” Here are more voices from the region: 1/x lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...
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University faculty in the South report culture of fear, doxxing and threats • Louisiana Illuminator
A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 10/09/2026
Judge Declares West Point Faculty Gag Order Unconstitutional bit.ly/4A4fxnN
West Point cadets, dressed in gray jackets and white pants. Several cadets are out of focus in the foreground of the image, to the left.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026
This video on the rise of Trump's "shadow president" is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Russ Vought, most of which had not been previously reported:
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026
The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.
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Nature @nature.com · 04/09/2026
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. go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
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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 Defence.
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Join @aaup.org - @aft.org next Thursday @ 7 PM EST as we resist Compact 2.0, the Trump administration's latest attempt at partisan control of higher education rutgersaaup.org/compact2
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everything the gov’t puts out—ends up in a law suit…
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hellabores92.bsky.social @hellabores92.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congress already appropriated funds to the NIH for specific projects. The defense department cannot divert these funds from the NIH. As taxpayers, we should know what interagency agreements have been made. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Pentagon sought to divert NIH funds for defense use, top House Appropriations Democrat says
The Pentagon is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster the agency’s budget, according to the top Democrat on the House Appropria…
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Whaaaaatttt? @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another day, another Dan Ariely journal article retraction @chronicle.com #researchmisconduct
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The college of engineering at GMU, where I work (in another unit), has seen a 90% drop in graduate enrollment, where previously 75% of students were international. This is going to do real long term harm to the local economy, not to mention the short term loss to the school.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 29/08/2026
Caturday be with you
My cat sitting in her window
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Feds are reviewing PI pubs and affiliations and Unis are buying similar tools to screen PIs: Dimensions, StriderIntel, ARGUS. Nondisclosures will be discovered. #researchsecurity
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can you terminate my grant after it’s awarded bc of a change in agency priorities? No bc violates spending clause says J. Talwani in Mass DC case www.courtlistener.com/docket/70622...
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State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1:25-cv-11816 - CourtListener.com
Docket for State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1:25-cv-11816 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#Harvard lay offs con't #RAdminSky
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Dozens of College Staff Laid Off as FAS Restructuring Continues | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences directly laid off roughly 13 percent of College staff covered by last week’s restructuring in its largest wave of job changes yet, according to a document obtain...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Note: “Letters of collaboration should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate or provide material support as described in the application and should not contain endorsements or additional information about or evaluations of the proposed project. “
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NSF grantmaking update Three weeks ago (6/28) New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg. Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg. Now (7/20) New grants: 2850/6,397 — 44.6% of avg. Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg. Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
NSF cumulative new awards, shows FY26 behind paceNSF cumulative obligations
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Does anyone really care about Florida or Texas IHEs at this point other than their employees and students? If state govt wants to trash institutes and force mass exodus of human capital- I say go ahead and self-destruct. The rest of the country is happy to take their best.
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Justice Thomas, no one wants to read 91 pages of dissent (Trump v. Barbara). Thank you, America
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Great webinar! TU
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...
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Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves
Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is f**king crazy
science.org
New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Alert COGR members: a 90 page draft letter to OMB is available online to members now cogr.edu #RAdminSky
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Home Page | COGR
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is called foreign influence folks #ResearchSecurity
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2026
Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes theonion.com/study-97-of-average-am…
Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A statement from the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the proposed OMB regulations. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/3
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Sen. Collins Asks OMB to Withdraw Parts of Grant Rule, Extend Comment Period | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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NotAnInfluencer @scigeek69.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
OMB-2026-0034 NPRM: Impact Report #RAdminSky www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/07/2026
The Trump admin is doubling down on its intention to destroy American science. Scientific expertise – not politicians – should be in charge of our science. We need everyone in this fight. Take action against the OMB proposal here:  zurl.co/k2Cj5 Article: zurl.co/F5zCu
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Trump administration stands by controversial OMB proposal despite growing resistance
White House denies requests to extend public comment deadline on its plan to give political appointees control over science funding
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