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A source close to the situation confirmed that study sections are continuing to be cancelled. On the chopping block this week: developmental brain disorders, mechanisms of cancer therapy, and neurotoxicology of alcohol. For some labs, this was the last chance to get funding or they’ll shut down.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

submitted 5 days ago • 1010 comments

Judge orders nationwide preliminary injunction of anti-DEI executive orders. "Plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

submitted 16 days ago • 112 comments

“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This whole piece is a fucking banger @edgeofsports.bsky.social “Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they’d show more fight.”

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

For example, when NIH (but really the administration) says they want their indirect costs back, universities should tell them to fuck off.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

submitted 8 days ago • 91 comments

I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer! The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join #psychjobs #neurojobs

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Weds at noon at the HHS building! Be there! I need catchy sign ideas...so far I'm not feeling very creative. Here's my draft: - [graph: x axis = days since Jan 20 | y axis = # of reckless EOs] Pro: statistical regression Anti: social regression If you understand this sign, thank a scientist! -

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 11 days ago • 382 comments

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

submitted 12 days ago • 92 comments

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 12 days ago • 90 comments

Academics need unions with strong contracts to protect our rights, because the government won’t anymore.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is the same guy who was impeached twice and tried to overthrow the government. He doesn’t care about your lawsuits. Hopefully they work and are effective, but we need more ways to fight.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to use my anger for good, I wrote about how some people have reacted to indirect rates being slashed. I borrowed from the writing on "reactionary centrists," a term I first head from @michaelhobbes.bsky.social but that was coined by @aaronhuertas.bsky.social medium.com/@lluaces/the...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

This comment on the NYT site sounds spot-on, and it is why I disagree with my colleagues who say: "We'll know more in a few weeks, let's wait and see how things shake down before we take any action.": "As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: ...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

My feed is overwhelmed with scientists right now calling out the catastrophic consequences of the NIH indirect cost order from last night. If those same people aren't also speaking out against the anti-trans, anti-DEI, anti-immigrant orders...we are lost. The only path forward is solidarity.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Us DEI folks have been ready. Now that it’s clear he’s coming for all of science, we need all hands on deck. No more “trying to navigate this new path”.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This admin’s actions make more sense if you believe that they are sadistic. They don’t have a good reason for being against DEI. It’s just a low hanging fruit for them to squash, when their goal is to chop up the whole tree because the tree told them COVID is bad and masks saved lives.

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Yes thehill.com/homenews/sen...

submitted 22 days ago • 375 comments

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

submitted 23 days ago • 1478 comments

Just received this email (received 3:25 pm ET), from the NSF director, informing that DOJ has interpreted the temporary restraining order on the funding freeze as applying to “all NSF award recipients.” Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

From inside HHS, a court order sent around this morning telling agencies they can’t pause spending:

submitted 25 days ago • 41 comments

MAGA thinks federal employees are lazy and incompetent. So just act lazy and incompetent…. “Huh. I’m not sure how to scrub all this DEI info. Jim might know. But he’s not in until after president’s day.”

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

submitted 27 days ago • 73 comments

Badass www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Current guidance from Stanford leadership regarding OMB memo:

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Do our NIH grants come from congressional priorities? For example, if the NIH BRAIN initiative is directly funded by congress, does that mean D-SPAN F99/K00s are safe?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

You're just about to see your university administration's true colors. When this will about basic human rights, there was silence and maybe an insipid email about needing to listen to each other. Now that research dollars are involved, the alarm bells are sounding with no contingency plan.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment