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🚨PA colleagues: "Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania." "If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC Get out your Other Support and share that info!

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‼️ As of today, the NIH has re-closed the F31-Diversity Fellowship (after reversing the initial closure last week) along with other funding mechanisms. This is in direct opposition to a federal judge's decision to block Trump's DEI EO earlier today ‼️

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This will directly affect the future, & the present, of Pennsylvania & the country. Jonas Salk invented the Polio vaccine at Pitt. Pitt helped unlock DNA & pioneered organ transplants. Musk is offering a future where Americans are poorer, sicker, & less free. One word: NO www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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Did you know that (according to the 1431 trial record) Joan of Arc was not initially sentence to death as long as she did not relapse (return to wearing men's clothing)? It was only when she did that she was deemed a heretic and burned. Patron saint of "Death Before Detransition" 1/11

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

INBRE was one of the most supportive programs I participated in to become a successful scientist, and I was so worried about this happening. This is devastating.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump NLRB: -don’t do anything about non-compete clauses -allow all captive audience meetings -generally don’t do anything if you catch firms union busting -no college athlete unions

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

After Trump’s executive order laying off federal employees last week, Haskell Indian Nations University lost almost a third of its staff, leaving students without teachers.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone. “It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 839 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Allegory alert!

submitted 9 days ago • 224 comments

A lot of chronic illness is post viral. People are healthy until they get flu, mono, covid etc It only takes one infection to upend your life & leave you with severe disabilities RFK Jr says he wants to end chronic illness epidemic & yet will make avoiding viruses harder Get boosted. Wear a mask.

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

One place our government could save a lot of money is the billions given to Elon Musk's companies every year. abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

It’s only a matter of time…

submitted 11 days ago • 101 comments

Musk killed these people.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

One Google search could have prevented this. www.mpg.de/946921/1933-...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk "Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

I’d hate to be a municipal light pole in Philadelphia tonight

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

I have the Sunday scaries about whatever this administration is going to announce tomorrow

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 530 comments

We are getting reports that disabled employees of the federal government who have already established reasonable accommodations on the basis of disability will have to reapply for those accommodations, and that the agency head will make the final determination

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

This is because the foundations supplement rather than compose the public research infrastructure. Conflating private philanthropy with federal infrastructure support is like confusing road beautification with the federal highway system.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 15 days ago • 106 comments

If you are curious who will be hurt most by this, here are the top 20 institutions by annual NIH funding (all of whom I am sure take more than 50% of the funding as indirect support to sustain administration and facilities). Cue the lawyers... (data for FY 2023, from www.forbes.com/sites/michae...)

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

I want a cure. I’m watching the chance of one in my lifetime slip away.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

CDC Briefly Announces Spread Of Bird Flu From Cats To Humans

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

The impact of dropping the diversity focused NIH F31 graduate student fellowships from review drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2025/02/06/n...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Frankly, this hearing should be alarming to all biomedical researchers.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

On study section to review NIH fellowships next week and got a message yesterday that diversity submissions under PA-23-271 were being withdrawn. Feel so terrible for these trainees

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments