chrastil.bsky.social
spatial neuroscience researcher, associate professor at UC Irvine, creator of virtual environments, lover of mazes
faculty.sites.uci.edu/spatialneuro/
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Thanks! I don’t know the best move when the section is cancelled, do we resubmit or wait
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Thanks!
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Was HCMF canceled?
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We are looking! Both for temporary space just to finish up experiments and a long term solution
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Fortunately no one was hurt and we got out what we needed!
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They were preparing to replace the roof and then determined that it was structurally unsound. They added a bunch of support beams, so now it won't collapse but it means that we can't actually use the space to do our research
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It’s an NIA panel on career development and misc fellowships. It’s kind of random numbers that I can’t remember right now
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Search for impacts in your state (2023 data) www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Each university negotiates its own F&A rate with HHS/NIH. Here’s Cornell’s, which is 64%.
Harvard is 69%. Hopkins, Stanford, MIT, similar. Vanderbilt 58%.
A cut to 15% is massive and it is a message to universities: Trump controls you now.
finance.cornell.edu/capitalasset...
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“Education is dangerous – Every educated person is a future enemy.”
Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschall of Nazi Germany
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I am very happy to explain quite simply to any reporter or congress person why this is devastating
Bottom line: there are tons of costs shared between grants not attributable as the direct cost to a single grant, but essential to carrying out research. This removes support for all that
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It really looks like they're intentionally ceding our leadership in Science to China. Why, I don't know. But that's what will happen.
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8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.