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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thinking about the future of HHS? Give this blueprint from @academyhealth.bsky.social a look and share your thoughts. #HHS #AHRQ #Healthcare #blueprint blueprint.academyhealth.org
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Modernizing Federal Health Evidence: The Blueprint
A practical plan to protect the federal research, tracking, and data behind health decisions, so decision-makers have evidence they can trust.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not sure it was a great life decision to write law review articles about matters that are as fresh as today's headlines. But, in any event, here's an updated version of my slush funds piece: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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"Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse
If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good read. Thanks for writing it.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy Sunday beaches!
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On my way home from the gym I saw this dog wandering the neighborhood, so I took an hour wandering with him to find the right house. Along the way, Bentley and I met a lot of nice neighbors that brought out water and didn’t mind so much when he ate the cat’s food.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is so, so true.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And as we reported last year, foreign food inspections plummeted to a historic low after the Trump administration took over due to staffing cuts at the FDA. Food safety experts told us, “It’s only a matter of time before people die." www.propublica.org/article/fore...
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The posts on here versus linking are really really different. I’m not sure which is more effective.
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Empowering Main St. Before Wall St. @rchady.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Although Congress appropriated $345:million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Trump effectively shut it down. It's credited with saving thousands of lives and billions of dollars by improving medical practice over 27 years. #AHRQ
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Trump has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcare
The agency, which has been key to improving patient safety, has been shut down by the Trump administration through cuts to funding.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
unfortunate, for sure. AHRQ served a specific purpose - health services research - and without it researchers across the US are facing the same situation.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Received my first half million dollar grant rejection. Our lab identified major #healthcare service issues that cost lives and healthcare dollars in #SouthCarolina, but #AHRQ no longer funds healthcare research so we applied elsewhere. We lost, but so did patients, families and healthcare staff.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
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Trump administration has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcare
Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I look forward to reading it!
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thank you for sharing
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
With context on the terminations at AHRQ from @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/07/22/a...
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Federal health quality research grants worth $109 million ended early
At least 78 AHRQ grants worth $200 million have been affected by "non-award" notices; it's estimated those grants had $109.2 million in funding remaining.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Maybe @maddow.bsky.social @standupforscience.net @nytimes.com will discuss it
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For some weird reason, the Trump Administration is cancelling healthcare improvement grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. #AHRQ I don’t understand why this is not national news. #AHRQ #AHRQcide #healthcare #HHS www.linkedin.com/posts/seanbr...
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#ahrqcide #ahrq #ahrq | Sean B.
Another example of #AHRQcide, where the Trump Administration is for some weird reason cancelling healthcare improvement grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. #AHRQ I don’t under...
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🚨Researchers across the country are receiving official notices that AHRQ is ending (healthcare) grants. #healthcare open.substack.com/pub/ahsituat...
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AHRQ Has Begun Canceling Research Grants. Here's What We Know.
Researchers across the country have begun receiving official notices from AHRQ informing them that continuation funding for their grants will not be awarded.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If we need a real news story tonight, it’s that Agency for #Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) improvement grants across the United States are being cancelled in mass today by the Trump Administration.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our voting systems are secure; researchers and experts have examined them. This is all just political BS.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I joined @oliviaoftroye.com to talk about the proposed rule that would destroy US science. Listen in and act before Monday night.
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 11/07/2026
🚨Deadline: THIS Monday, 11:59 p.m. ET. Trump White House OMB Director Russ Vought's latest proposal could quietly change who decides what scientific research gets funded. Scientists are sounding the alarm. Your public comment to OMB could make a difference. @seanbruna.bsky.social More here!👇
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🚨 LIVE Saturday Covfefe Special Edition: The White House Rule You Need to Know About Before Monday
Scientists are sounding the alarm. Here's what's at stake, and why you still have time to act.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s never a good sign when a senior NIH official cancels a keynote after the program has been printed.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One week it’s presenting on threats to democracy and the dismantling of AHRQ, the next presenting findings for the AIMAhead AI in healthcare conference. #AHRQ #MedicalAnthropology #AIMAhead #AI #healthcare
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This was a good workshop about democracy and health.#Anthropology #AHRQ #Geneva
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just this one?
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We should value teaching more
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
👏👏👏
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The OMB and the Politicization of Science www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The OMB and the Politicization of Science | NEJM
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If you have an uplifting work about Democracy and/or any aspect of U.S. Healthcare, please share it in the comments. We *all* need empowering reading lists these days. If you are at the #WHO or #UN, it has been a lifelong dream to tour the facilities. Please DM me if that’s possible.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'm preparing to travel to Geneva to talk about #Democracy and Health Services Research Infrastructure and the proposed closure of the #HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality #AHRQ by the current administration. #HSR #Anthropology #Healthcare #Democracy #SwissNSF #CharredHotdog
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the *only* federal agency that studies the health care system and prioritizes patient safety. #AHRQ #Healthcare #PatientSafety
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
All of these practices are to shut down university based science, not just grant reviews. All of it threatens our research infrastructure and national security.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I never met Raúl in person but we would DM in twitter and sky years ago before I left my former university. He was also supportive and encouraging.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
AS PROMISED: Stop Vought. Save Science. The @standupforscience.net action center is live: fight2win.standupforscience.net REGISTER for our Emergency Science Meeting (6/2, 4pm et), Call and email Congress, and leave your public comment all in one place! #standupforscience #TakeActionNow
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I think a lot of us thought that at some point. Probably during a faculty meeting.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I’m interested in reading it in our lab.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3
Screen grab of an NIH grants checklist showing the first question is: "1. Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?"
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you care about #healthcare, read this then call your senator to support #AHRQ. Learn more @academyhealth.bsky.social rollcall.com/2026/04/07/n...
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‘Nobody answers’: The unraveling of a patient care research agency
A small federal agency responsible for studying how health care works for patients is largely dormant despite receiving millions of dollars from Congress for research into antibiotic resistance, healt...
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is way way waaaay more than a government shutdown. This is a purposeful gutting. The grant office went from a staff of 40 to 1. Take a look at AcademyHealth updates.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Was that an AI review? I’ve been seeing rather odd reviewer comments lately.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’m not sure that page is updated - I believe it is from September 2025. And I don’t think any of those updated items from Sept 2025 were ever funded at any amount.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
My Saturday morning reading
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This means that the United States does not have an agency funding or supporting healthcare at the point of care. If you work in healthcare, you should be outraged, share this, contact you Senator and Representative, and ask your org or institutional leadership to make a formal statement.
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Sean Bruna @seanbruna.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So from what I understand, *ALL* #AHRQ NOFOS are now terminated. None active, none forecasted. The administration effectively “quiet” shutdown the entire Agency… #AHRQ #HHS #HSR #Healthcare
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