7. This order did not come out of nowhere. It was a core component of Lindsey Burke's Dept. of Education chapter in the Project 2025 report.
(Private foundations typically pay 10-15% overhead rates, and the logic of this comparison is made explicit in today's Supplemental Guidance from NIH.)
(Private foundations typically pay 10-15% overhead rates, and the logic of this comparison is made explicit in today's Supplemental Guidance from NIH.)
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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
Project 2025 page 355 quoted
"To correct course, l Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private organization to fund research efforts."
h/t @archstreet.bsky.social
https://fromthescienceclass.substack.com/p/biomedical-research-under-threat
These oligarchs stole the whole internet, all of the student data, and laid off education.
Poof. Gone. But you know what we still have Chat GPT! Yeah! So we can just replace everyone with that and -
Please unroll this thread, Thank you
2. will Marc Elias EVER get enough sleep?
Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital also has a 70% overhead
Musk is also working to install Reform (UK) and AdF in Europe to kill net zero.
Details on my timeline.
(1) Fracture ally relations? (2) Reduce gov effectiveness? (3) Destroy trust in institutions? (4) Weaken the economy? (5) Turn people & states against each other? (6) Undermine moral leadership? Hits 2-4, at least.
You won’t be safe opposing him, but you won’t be safe under him, either.
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.
They need the opposition to lean into that narrative — because it is, politically, elitist. It misdirects from the real damage it'll do.
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.
If so, you might want to do a bit more reading in history.
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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FWIW this feels uncharitable after a day of trying to convince my administration that caving on our diversity efforts was acquiescing to a movement to re-segregate the university.
(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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Tech's always pushed back against academic-based regulation, and kept favoring OTJ/vocational certificate-based training. Keeps staffing costs artificially lower than they "should" be. It's one of the reasons tech has the growth it does vs. other "pro" fields.
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
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-12-21/walmart-health-companies-and-universities-are-top-state-employers-study-finds
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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.