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Want to do something? Take action, below! You would think that our legislature would know about what's going on, but the truth is that they are not as well informed as you would expect. Let your reps and senators know you care about these issues! When we speak up, they are empowered to take action

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A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

submitted 39 days ago • 1130 comments

*Alzheimer’s related mechanism for funding- its funding payline is lower than expected based on last year, very significantly lower. The science itself is focused on improving drug delivery to the brain, not the biology/etc of the disease

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Read what he said. “I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation”. Then he repeatedly admonished the report for spreading a “rumor.” Hours later, he released the new policy.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Turned around? I had a grant that scored well enough I was pretty confident itd be funded at the end of January. But the govt started attacking NIH, canceled the mtg. Been in purgatory since. Found out today, proposal has no chance. Alzheimer’s work. Instead of “around”, we try “so very much worse”

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

⚖️ Terminated NIH grant litigation update: There's a hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction today at 11:30a EDT in Mass. v RFK et al, a case brought by some states against HHS. This is 1 of 2 diff. cases on this topic. I'll be live-tweeting it later this morning. Check back on this thread.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

My gov't is attacking me, attacking itself. Destroying the literal crown jewel of our country. An NIH budget cut of 44% will end the livelihoods of scientists across American. STEM and education will be crushed. We are watching the fall of a nation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...

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They are devastating science and medicine apple.news/AdYgdah06QEC...

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Keep sharing that clip! It’s spot on

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Science doesn’t PAUSE. If you don’t maintain - cell lines, reagents, genetic models - you lose - trained personnel, unique expertise, collaborators or cores - if those things get disrupted, it becomes 10x harder to build it back. Are we efficient yet? Definitely not safer or healthier

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Thread. Please stay on this case @beyer.house.gov.

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

Keep it up, Harvard! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/30/m...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

For universities with substantial NIH/NSF funding, they're already facing a significant budget cut. Reminder that both NSF and NIH spending are down 40-50% and the budget year ends in September. It's hard to know what the overall cut will be, but there will be one (even though this violates the law)

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Don't even want to post this, but here goes. The following grant opportunities are about to pulled. Given that NIH is moving to restrict new NOFOs to only 5 (5!!!) per institute, the chance these are reinstated is basically 0. One might ask why? Destroying NIH; crushing academic science

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

75% of America's population, AMAZING!! Here's one: $56M grant canceled >282,500 Narcan kits – 6 kits = 1 opioid ID death prevented. 87k opioid deaths 2024, poss. saved 47k ppl. So, 2025 = more opioid deaths. Actual statistic describes actual reality. Signed, someone qualified to discuss actual data

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Journals closing = not surprising. Things that don't help America: silencing scientists. Doesn't help anyone except ideologically-driven politicians who are apparently afraid of data, transparency, + peer review www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Open Enrollment in America: $1000/mo for way less coverage than last year (yay!). Also, the hospital you WORK AT is... not in-network. Enjoy 1+ hr drives to Boston + parking/gas with 3 kids. We spend 15-20k/yr on med care. If this country wants to be healthier, start with for-$ insurance schemes 1/5

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Want cancer? No? Then, support cancer research.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Cost-intensive fundamental research is unlikely to be replaced, policy experts warn. “No one has the capacity of the federal government,” Herd says. “You’re producing research, but you’re also training the next generation of scientists. Private industry can’t do that.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Want an explanation for the destruction of health and medicine in our country that's completely understandable? Send this far and wide! Please share!! Accurate, simple, and comprehensive, John Oliver describes what's happening to NIH (+others) and medicine better than I can youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Detailed article - read it, repost it, and use this information to help others understand. Call to action at the bottom. We need to AMPLIFY what's going on: keep making noise!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Sounds about right, and this does not even account for the individual impacts on research programs like mine. The amount of time that "crisis management" takes is ridiculous and maddening. We just want to WORK. That's it. Let us do our work.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Can confirm that our IMLS docs were removed after our grant was terminated. The whole awardee search functionality disappeared. Mess

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

I was so upset by this cut that I couldn’t bring myself to even post about it. Look!! Amazing news!! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

submitted 55 days ago • 15 comments

Updating dashboard this morning with new funding curves, the Barron's article (in Miscellaneous), and Excel files with the latest terminated grants (from the HHS TAGGS site). Looking at the latest terminated grants list was "interesting"... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/n

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments