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jeremymberg.bsky.social • 18 hours ago

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/science/nih-research-funding-delays.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk4.qNQA.zVPAsVztAZ3p&smid=url-share

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amstermom.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It's bad karma to wish cancer on anyone, but if some of the Republican politicians come down with something that doesn't have a treatment because of games played over funding of the research, I will have a hard time drumming up sympathy.

jeremymberg.bsky.social•18 hours ago

“What is happening is that they’re basically blocking the process, just by an administrative, legal means, rather than by ordering staff not to make grants,” said Jeremy Berg, who directed the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the N.I.H. for eight years...

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jeremymberg.bsky.social•18 hours ago

...Portions of ... meetings that were once open ...have now been closed, the guidance said. As a result, review panels were being canceled en masse because of a failure to announce them to... the public who were barred from attending them anyway.

“It’s a Kafkaesque thing going on,” Dr. Berg said.

merz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

… The man, who equipped himself with many items for his journey, uses everything, no matter how valuable it is, to bribe the doorkeeper. The latter does indeed accept everything, but also adds: “I am accepting it only so you don’t think that you neglected something.”

karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social•17 hours ago

truly kafkaaesque

merz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Thank you for your work here, Jeremy, and @vscooper.micropopbio.org as well.

cave-malum.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Thank you speaking up & explaining to journalists and the public

nicoleackermans.bsky.social•16 hours ago

📌

noodle557.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Call your
Reps
BLUE OR RED
tell them to
UNITE
RED AND BLUE
OR
PERISH
WTF
are they doing
202-224-3121

oregonfan.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Fucking psycho death cultist fucks.

rankxiii.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Can't they just use an alternative communications channel?

goingforgood.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Thank you for speaking up about this in the NYT. Hopefully it continues to shed light on the systems at play that may not be obvious.

grocklin.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Thank you so much for this. Maybe research will be saved yet!!

laurakwhite.bsky.social•17 hours ago

“The people on the ground doing the work of the science are going to be the first to go, and that devastation may happen with just a delay of funding.”

There's a story here re: how university administration jobs being less vulnerable to funding delays than lab jobs encourages institutional inertia.

crankysocrates.bsky.social•17 hours ago

unclemoose51164.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The lengths I went to while my dad was dying from dementia…just to make sure his brain could be donated to a brain bank. It was his wish to contribute. PTA, school coach volunteer, county employee for 40 years, school board member, town board elected member…THAT is sacrifice. Now this…

jschuurmd.bsky.social•2 minutes ago

Why isn’t title “trump illegally defies court ruling, continuing to freeze congressionally appropriated NIH funding”
Why is @nytimes.com so afraid to call illegal actions illegal?!?!?

chasingmicrobes.bsky.social•17 hours ago

My brain read "now up on Federal Register"
and I was happy for 10 ms

lestatdelc.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Underscoring the issue of enforcement of court orders.

Trump/Musk are criminal fucks and the laws (and court rulings) don't enforce themselves.

diestrodelnorte.bsky.social•12 hours ago

You know what? When J.D. Vance or Elon Musk or any of the other clownrats running this administration have to go to China or Europe for their medical care, I hope the Chinese or European company with the treatment demands their entire fortune. All of it. Every single bond and penny.

famj.bsky.social•16 hours ago

And they can do this because they know they won't be held to account.

demophile.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Hallelujah!!!

connieb5er.bsky.social•9 hours ago

It’s a regime, not an administration

Stage a teach in. Take over some science lab and invite the public in

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