If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at [email protected] or DM for Signal
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How can we discuss a coup so calmly is the real question? I never imagined the fall of democracy would be discussed so thoroughly as it was actually happening. Did they get fired, or did they get a head start? A warning shot if you will.
It’s insane that Trump want to stop all information from the CDC. We have a bird flu epidemic and small bits of info is out there. That means if we have any medical outbreak no one will be told about it. What evil person would do that? Wonder if North Dakota has a serious problem that impact revenue
I look forward to your article about this. Ohio received $1 BILLION dollars in NIH funded research in 2023. I'd be interested to know what our 2 new senators have to say about it.
Thank you for reporting on this vitally important issue for us all! (My daughter is getting her PhD and works in medical research and I’m concerned for her, not to mention the entire country and world.)
Please find out how this affect NIH #braininitiative project. Its work is soo important. Not my project but friend #johnngai ran it before it was an #NIH project
We all are potential patients in our lifetime including MAGAts because medical research will benefit everyone regardless of political party affiliation. Dumb MAGAts don’t see the picture. I am so frustrated.
Thank you! On other platforms I see a lot of misinformation on travels, general public seems to think these travels are luxury vacations, informing them abt the importance of travels & tight & very limited budget involved would be very helpful.
Not impacted just yet, but nervous for the future. I work at a university & the lab I'm in is fully funded by the NIH. We are up for renewal this spring. Without it I'm not sure if I would still have a job by the end of the year. I'm the sole breadwinner & insurance carrier for my house too....
Thank you for doing this. I'm a NIH Bethesda clinical trial patient in year ten. Our doctor there is world-renowned in this rare cancer. Our providers deserve much better.
The trickle-down is real. I am a PhD candidate in this cycle communicated with by an institution I applied for and interviewed with. going to unfortunately be taking a far lesser number of candidates than intended out of caution (2/3 less) and no longer having on campus recruitment day for anyone.
I work in the medical device industry, I will be curious to see how this impacts the industry. Many companies file daily reports with the FDA & need the automated responses for their own records. Even a day or two down causes a BIG backlog.
This is rough. I have a child that’s a first-year neuroscience major, who is fortunate enough to already be working in research- which is what she hopes to do for a career.
Please be sure to report all federal employees still using or implementing DEIA to the Office of Personnel Management at [email protected]. PLEASE don’t SEND USELESS EMAILS, I implore you.
My daughter & I are physicians. This travel & communication pause & withdrawal from the WHO are absurd. We have a couple human bird flu cases, but no human to human transmission yet. What do we do if there's a epidemic? We won't know. DT is not equipped to handle this crisis. Let's follow @ other.
Everyone impacted should call their reps, if they are republicans even better. Go to https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-state/ and tell them how many jobs they just jeopardized. Then ask them if they are for Americans losing jobs?
I'm not sure that the broader public recognizes this freeze impacts many, many more people than career civil servants at NIH and PhDs at elite research institutions. It will impact those who live in college towns and those who hope to become the first person in their family to go to college.
It is also impacting scientists and clinicians at companies developing drugs and devices that often hold regularly scheduled teleconferences with staff at the FDA and The NIH. Yes, it's a blow to academic scientists, but also to companies, especially start-ups.
University of Alabama biomedical research. My daughter does research and is a statistician. I hope this doesn't affect her important work? This work is necessary to know the different medical heart machines that can be improved upon. She does work in pediatrics as well.
This is because federal research grants also come with an "indirect" cost allocation, which provides an important source of funding for Universities to keep the lights on and pay living wages in staff jobs that support the mission of educating.
My daughter is set to be the first phd in our family & now she’s terrified there won’t be funding available to make it possible. To say we’re nervous for her is an understatement.
Indirect funds from research grants have become an essential way to balance the budget at public universities that have continued to endure budget cuts enacted by state legislatures (read: every public universityin the U.S.).
NIH grants also provide research assistantships that offset tuition and living expenses for students, without which many would not be able to attend. This is especially true for my students at the University of Montana, where many come from rural communities and are first gen college students.
In my day, I could not have afforded graduate school without a USPHS predoctoral fellowship and an NIH postdoctoral research fellowship, working down the hall from Jonas Salk. Of course, the new admin doesn't believe in vaccines now. Disgusting and scary.
I was a 100 percent NIH funded research coordinator at a major medical center university for five years. These people have no idea how many people it takes to advance drug discoveries
Even before this, we have to have a food pantry on our campus for students and even post-docs because the stipends and salaries do not cover the cost of living here. I don’t think people realize how precarious academic research was already and how the loss of NIH grants will affect us.
All public education will be under direct attack. At the university level the push will be the same as at k-12 ... a push to get students into private Christian colleges.
This is going to impact pharma funded research as well. The US is going to lose its status as a world leader in clinical research if we don't get a handle on this ridiculous behavior quickly.
The US gained its status as a world leader in research from the scientists who came here fleeing fascist governments. We’re watching that legacy being squandered by men whose singular achievement is to have created nothing.
Well it makes sense as we change over to a fascist country unfortunately. I certainly don't know what else to call it already. And this is only the beginning
The 1A will be the first target, news and information suffer.
Then we’ll not know when they eliminate the 2A, collecting fire arms without a warrant.
Or anything for that matter.
1A the most important “A”,
in my 1A protected opinion.
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Absolutely! He’s arming his own Forces so he doesn’t need to depend on loyal AMERICAN military personnel to enforce his edicts that would be considered illegal but for his ROGUE SCOTUS that has given him “immunity” & thus, permission to wreak havoc on any individual or organization that angers him.
We are applying again in February. I guess my job of research scientist in medical research depending from grantswill become even more stressfull and competitive. Need to talk.
The researchers should move their work overseas for 4 years. Have sympathetic billionaires lease them lab space. Also the thought occurs; what will big Pharm do without free of charge government drug research?
I have a close friend: Latina, naturalized, University Professor in KY. She posted about this topic today. I went to her Facebook page to send her your link. But she had deleted Facebook. I sent her your link in a text. But the deletion is so telling. She was bold and then, I suspect, silenced.
I was supposed to attend a virtual conference with the FDA about gene therapy development. This public talk was cancelled. This seminar would have brought together regulators, industry, and scientists together to discuss gene therapy development which is currently amazing technology.
One of my friends has run a group for people with NUT Carcinoma in Facebook. Today her group was suspended due to “impersonation” activity. Any chance it’s connected to this? She’s devastated because so many rely on that group
In addition to chatting to sympathetic press, please call your Senators and Representatives and tell them how this so-called pause affects you, your institution and your state.
My husband and I just signed up for an NIH study for caregivers of those with Lewy Body Dementia. I can't get ahold of anyone to find out the status of the study.
This “pause” is effecting other Departments as well. There was a long-planned Department of Veterans Affairs conference (AFCEA IT Summit) that has been cancelled due to VA folks being told they can’t discuss VA business. There are multiple instances of this happening and each costs taxpayers.
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Then we’ll not know when they eliminate the 2A, collecting fire arms without a warrant.
Or anything for that matter.
1A the most important “A”,
in my 1A protected opinion.
🤨
We will be persecuted.
Say were you on ‘Twitter’?
Seems I’ve seen ya before.