This is like LA fires burning acres of neighborhoods only blowing through the careers of our scientists, researchers, investigators, civil servants. Devastation, losing so much so quickly. Be a wreck for a bit. Year of the Snake. Shed tears, old skin & be renewed with a fresh future. You will rise.
They fund my work on sex and gender impact on Alzheimer’s. And their grant mechanism I had hoped to apply for next is gone. We need universities with power to speak up.
Seeing the transphobia they are also doing under the guise of "protecting women", it kind of makes it clear what is going on here: anyone who is not a straight, cis, white, able, Christian-ish, wealthy man doesn't matter to them.
The irony is the sheer amount of WOMEN who voted and defended this buffoon. I’d say I feel sorry if some feel duped and didn’t think he’d do all this - but the writing was on the wall and we were all screaming that this would happen, systematically breaking down the very fabric of women’s health
This is devastating- women are not just ‘smaller men’ as the medical industry used to think of us, we have a totally different hormone profile, different cancers, different heart attack symptoms to name a few, our health needs have to be studied separately from men
If they conclude that the bulk of NIH spending is DEI related and must be dissolved they can then reroute the funds to themselves. This is a cash grab, pure and simple.
You are is a democratic county. Lazy people - those who didn’t vote - owe it to everyone else to stand up now and say YOU TRICKED US ALL - we will fight you all the way to the mid terms and then crush you
You will stand for nothing, give up immediately, and then sell out the vulnerable like useless, spineless cowards because that's what Democrats do and stand for
The right wing redefined “woke” and “critical race theory” as vague pejoratives that ignore their original definitions and the move had the exact effect they wanted. They are doing it again and if you’re splitting hairs on whether women can mathematically be DEI you are missing the point
In my job we’ve been told to stop all “DEI activities” and nobody has given me an answer when I ask what that means. That said, it’s not fair for someone else to have to interpret an EO. The vagueness is such a red flag
i wonder if people are gonna realize this is just the nazi book burnings again on any actual mainstream level or if its gonna be the middle class continuing to be boiled the way you would a frog
Feels Taliban like to me, men making rules and reducing women in order to feel powerful and significant.
Hoping, after the shock subsides, strong opposition leadership emerges to counter.
This is extra devastating bc it comes right on the heels of making some actual *strides* in terms of recognizing the need for a focus on women and women's needs in healthcare research. Fuck this administration
We have a new PI who just received a massive grant through this program to look at exactly how women’s brains respond differently to environmental stressors than male counterparts because we need to understand these baseline measures.
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THEY ARE ERASING US ALL.
You mean their bank accounts?
They didn’t throw 45 in prison for treason, I’m not optimistic they’ll grow a spine now…
There’s a reason conservatives love the uneducated and evangelicals who believe that misogyny is all part of God’s plan.
You smug piece of shit
Erasing everything but that which benefits the “straight”, white, Christian male.
I hate this place.
I wish people who had no idea what DEI means would stop acting like they have a clue.
Hoping, after the shock subsides, strong opposition leadership emerges to counter.
theyre controlled opposition
FFS
I'm trying to get my red state friends to lobby their congress members.
This is going to be a protacted fight.
It's coming to Canada soon.
I so feel your frustration.
http://orwh.od.nih.gov/our-work/annual-vivian-w-pinn-symposium
http://web.archive.org/web/20250107041020/http://orwh.od.nih.gov/research/funded-research-and-programs/funding-opportunities-and-notices
So what is this?