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It's not just Northwestern and Harvard, I have gotten credible (confidential) reports from several other schools (including state schools) that the NIH is defaulting on federal commitments there too. Seems like there may be a big story here for an investigative reporter willing to take it on

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I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

submitted 22 hours ago • 604 comments

Wrote this the day after the election. Unfortunately, it aged well.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

What an absolute dick. This is the job he was elected to do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

[nodding]

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Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 2 days ago • 418 comments

House Republicans smuggled this👇attack on the federal judiciary into their reconciliation bill. Courts rarely require plaintiffs to post security, so this provision, if passed into law, would render a vast number of existing judgments—including Boasberg's contempt order—effectively unenforceable.

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

These “deficit hawks” spent weeks harrumphing about deficits (not to mention years yelling at us about it), said over and over again they wouldn’t vote to increase debt, got nothing, then voted to add like $5 trillion dollars in borrowing. Just ridiculous human beings

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

submitted 4 days ago • 125 comments

This is why it's so damaging for the media to keep calling illegally withholding congressionally appropriated, contractually obligated funds as "cuts", which implies some rational and legitimate budgetary process.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

To be clear, these kinds of breakthroughs are going to come to a screeching halt with the current NIH funding cuts. This new treatment is only possible because of decades of basic research. What might be possible 20 years from now if we don't destroy basic research? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Same. Our NIH research includes (or included, past tense) research on place-based risk factors for dementia, impacts of school segregation on heart disease, and health impacts of pandemic policies. The last is notably ironic: one study assesses how COVID school closures worsened kids' mental health!

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Just said goodbye to my NIH MIRA award. Really hurts to see the word “terminated” in writing. Even worse to see it next to the F31 awarded to a fantastic PhD student in my lab @aybv.bsky.social. I REFUSE to let this stop us!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research with lots of commercial and defense applications that no one in their right mind would shutter.

submitted 10 days ago • 168 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 10 days ago • 611 comments

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

submitted 11 days ago • 410 comments

For those confused by the China tariff news: • Trump caved and got zero in return • No manufacturing moved back to the USA • 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans • 90 day pause still causes uncertainty • Trump lost all negotiating leverage

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

submitted 13 days ago • 1532 comments

Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

submitted 13 days ago • 199 comments

The Administration has arrested a judge in WI and a mayor in NJ, and is threatening to arrest federal lawmakers. In any other country we would say the strongman's security forces are locking up political opponents. We need to treat it exactly that way here. www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

Heading to New Castle today. People in towns like this could never skip 45/46 shifts and be invisible to those who hired them. Sen Fetterman is not working and we can’t be afraid to say that if we want to convince people who do work that we will fight for them.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

submitted 15 days ago • 1064 comments

ICE just arrested the ELECTED MAYOR OF NEWARK NJ for engaging in his constitutionally protected right to protest. This is F*ed.

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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

submitted 16 days ago • 161 comments

Yeah, take that, you freeloading newborns.

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

The new NIH director said grants “canceled because they’re DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion]-based science … [which does] not actually have anything to do with promoting the health of the American people” www.science.org/content/arti... So let’s take a quick look at some of his past papers… 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

The Monday letter took an explicitly ideological tone, writing that Harvard had benefited from the American 'free-market system you teach your students to despise.' McMahon also blasted Harvard for its association with prominent Democrats...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

In which the Senate-confirmed director of the National Institutes of Health - talks down to the highly experienced @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social - says "it's not me personally" who cancels agency grants - claims @nature.com is spreading rumors, hours before he confirms said rumors

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

It’s a difficult time for young men, growing up in a culture that no longer provides them with strong role models like Robert Wadlow, the fat biker twins, or the Indian guy with the long fingernails

submitted 21 days ago • 107 comments

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.

submitted 22 days ago • 113 comments

"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%." Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly this is just incredible content.

submitted 24 days ago • 335 comments

May Day rally with Bernie Sanders

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"Of the 1,500 postdoctoral researchers at Penn, 1,000 signed authorization cards in support of forming Research Associates and Postdocs United, according to the group." @rapup-uaw.bsky.social www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Now we have the answer. The original story was legit then Bezos backed down.

submitted 26 days ago • 2372 comments

We see you Kennesaw State University Faculty Senate! 1st in the South to pass a resolution establishing a mutual defense compact w/ other institutions. "Whereas, Faculty members must organize to effectively counter political attacks on higher education & defend #academicfreedom..." #defendhighered

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Dear Tenured Facility, Over the past 100 days my career trajectory has turned into a question mark. At best, the TT job market just got even crazier, at worst there won’t be research career options in the US when I finish my PhD. It took me a while to find my path and I love being a scientist. 1/x

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

This entire thread

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