5. Other schools may have even higher overhead rates. Harvard's is around 69%.
This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more.
Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.
This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more.
Universities cannot function with this scale of cut.
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It’s because their base of mean spirited, angry, frightened want universities gutted.
Lower/low/no taxes is a stated goal.
Diminished/destroyed administrative state/regulatory bodies are another stated goal.
You don’t need one for the other.
The incubators (benchtop, cabinet, or walk-in), low-temp freezers, sterile environments, sterilizing equipment, specialized imaging systems, myriad centrifuges, etc cost incomparably more to maintain than office machinery (which labs also have)
lost jobs & lost lives
Staggering
Cutting it to 15% across the board will DESTROY many research centers. Pathetic.
Oh - and illegal.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
(Private foundations typically pay 10-15% overhead rates, and the logic of this comparison is made explicit in today's Supplemental Guidance from NIH.)
I did not have "slashing indirect costs" on my dystopian bingo card.
Who knew that diabetes and cancer were part of the “leftist agendas”? 🤦♂️
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-24-110.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawITuRRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdrVUEUMrxpYrZbKC4Ru8fWHI6RDTKVoQwtNGomYMbr_8jPaSIwLZK7-1A_aem_MS1EJORAynP_PDivGU4OpQ
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
https://osp.finance.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/office-for-sponsored-programs/files/harvard_medical_school_rate_agreement_2024.pdf?m=1721143495
https://bsky.app/profile/jeremymberg.bsky.social/post/3lhmvkyjvwk2b
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/nih-slashes-indirect-costs-on-all-grants-to-15-percent-trump/
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
h/t @archstreet.bsky.social
2. will Marc Elias EVER get enough sleep?
Musk is also working to install Reform (UK) and AdF in Europe to kill net zero.
Details on my timeline.
They only have concerns about destroying intellectuals.
It's about controlling the narrative and further blurring the line between truth and lies, at least as policy goes.
being able to destroy things gives these empty-headed fools a sense of supreme power. Of course, they have no power on their own... to create, to build, to have a great idea. That, and trying to be more powerful than death.
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/trump-s-withdrawal-from-who-other-health-related-changes
Trump doesn’t understand anti biotic resistance!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-antibiotics-coronavirus-white-house-briefing-brilliant-enemy-genius-idiot-a9460636.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00385-9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
Further, Great Barrington Declaration co-author, Trump's pick for NIH head, while having a self-effacing demeanor, is out for blood for perceived issues of censorship. Between him and Bobby, Fauci really needs to leave the country.
Same deregulation narrative they've pushed since Reagan.
It’s an apartheid ethnostate.
This Trump regime is attacking America on multiple fronts.
Putin's Puppet is trying to destroy everything @ America
Mump want to drown govt, institute martial law & remake society from the ground up
if that sounds apocalyptic to ppl that's only because they haven't been paying attention to who these ppl are & who they work for
No wonder those countries keep up with larger ones even though they have smaller populations.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-nih-pick-launched-controversial-scientific-journal/
But all the things they are destroying are things that have made America great.
It is tragically, horribly, unbelievably ironic.
But even so an educated population is a potentially critical population and they don't want that.
Wrecking the US research establishment is criminal and the mark of traitors.
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The question is how can move forward in solidarity?
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(All new grants) and (existing IHE grants)?
Or
(All new grants and all existing grants) to IHEs?
Or all current and new grants of all kinds?
Eat into endowments.
Specifically *reject applications from any student who supports Trump, or has connections to junior GOP* to become fierce, concentrated, islands of progressive resistance and science.
May their kids go to brain-rotting Turning Point Cult Centres, and face a lifetime of irrelevance.
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They're intoxicated by their powers and don't think beyond a few numbers. A former French PM once said:
« Don’t see a conspiracy where stupidity is enough. A conspiracy requires rare intelligence, but stupidity is common.”
It should be true of lunatic fuckery
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What can they think will remain but what is brutish, meager, and corrupt?
How many studies can’t complete bc of this cut?
How much science moves to more science friendly countries?
Imagine their surprise when next year all those $1 million projects become $1.5 million projects, mysteriously.
And how much money do these morons think goes into DEI efforts? If it costs anything it’s gotta be a fraction of a percent of their budgets.
https://bsky.app/profile/bilboyaga.bsky.social/post/3laonec443k25
(I apologize for my ignorant questions. I'm just trying to understand)
That grant receives 55% overhead from Jan 1, 2024 to Feb 6, 2025, and receives 15% from Feb 7, 2025 to Dec 31, 2026.
The frog may end up cooked anyway, but at least it won’t die in a slow boil.
2. They don’t care. Leopards, faces, etc.
But also, in places like Idaho & Nebraska the U isn't as reseat intensive, but provides functions that no one else does
But 15% is equally so.
At the moment, it is crickets. This is dreadful.
even less when they lose the tax-exempt status for their endownments, right?
I was being a little facetious. Everybody knows IDCs are necessary. But I listened to too many university bureaucrats lecture me on how that 50% chunk they were taking was for my own good. And, as I said, with an NIH grant it’s moot.