The general vibe we are getting across #NIH institutes is deeply bleak — that the agency is nearly, if not already dead.
Top people are leaving or have left. Nearly everyone's looking for other jobs. People still care about what NIH was, but are growing resigned to its death.
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Top people are leaving or have left. Nearly everyone's looking for other jobs. People still care about what NIH was, but are growing resigned to its death.
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Is anyone mapping the research diaspora?
it does not matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYmaZqkmNGY
Harsh, I know, but important research MUST CONTINUE.
Go where you are wanted.
It sucks to be America right now.
Even if tRUmp dropped out today, the damage will take YEARS to undo.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lkski5kamk2i
Dark times are ahead.
Not everyone is going to make it.
FIGHT or FLIGHT
This is where we are NOW.
The uncertainty has brought everything to a screeching halt.
Even grants that were scored as fundable have been delayed.
You simply can’t do science like this.
Too much planning is required. This isn’t coding.
The scientific method is the only means that we have found to determine reality: Objective truth. This runs afoul of several millennia of control over people.
She was so nice throughout our chat. I hope she’s been doing okay these days. Her work mattered a lot.
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doing that....
That's one reason why the NIH diversity push was so important: it expanded the talent pool to look like America.
Science is not only about COVID & mRNA vaccine. Stop listening to self-serving politicians.
Republicans get cancer & disease too, duh.
(cont...)
Gutting its best, ousting federal workers, removing top military, getting our allies to abandon us.
It's isolation tactics.
Fixing just the damage done since Jan 20 would take years. Maybe a decade. The program staff, SROs, and brilliant talent is not coming back.
It’s an incalculable tragedy in real time.
Even PhD candidates. Why would you come here to study if the government can through you in jail over protesting? Revoke your visa at will without due process?
they are already preparing incentives for you in france.
just a few wealthy a-holes with power have denigrated the valuable work you do.
(and also, living in one country all your life is boring.)
just one example: https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/03/brain-drain-to-paris-france-courts-us-scientists-unhappy-with-trump/
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Please enter your ZIP code and CONTACT. Tell them you are a constituent and you want them to vote to impeach.
"I don't know [how many others are thinking about leaving] but I am.
Folks in high leadership positions left a couple of weeks ago.
It's a total shitshow."
BUT idgaf about my career as much as my soul hurts for losing everything we have gained in HIV research. By knowing what will happen to my pts who
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00754-4
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we’re using them to educate the public on we’re losing every day.
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DO NOT DO THEIR DIRTY WORK FOR THEM.
THEIR ACTIONS ARE ILLEGAL!