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Heads up, everyone. We are about to start asking for donations. Crack open that wallet and help us save science. (You’ve been warned) #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

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Outstanding data visualization showing the severe impact of the illegal NIH freeze at the state level.

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Principal researchers inside and outside academia: do you know groups self-organizing to protect academic science in the US? How can we connect and mobilize? Could you share your thoughts? 🧬🔬🔭🧪🧠🤖

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And these 2 PhD students are ready to go, the 3 other scientists are cranking and we love them 🥺♥️, but we NEED more support! From volunteers, to org support, we’re calling on the scientific community! JOIN US! SEE YOU IN DC Y’ALL 🫡 @standupforscience.bsky.social

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I've spent the day working with Reporter data... differences in number of funded applications from 1/20/24-2/21/24 and 1/20/25-2/21/25 by state. This is the picture (happy to share code):

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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 12 hours ago • 75 comments

A very nice thread on measurement, and how any quantitative measure relies on subjective, qualitative inferences and decisions about what we're measuring and how.

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NIH continues to fund non-competing awards...except for guess who? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/n...

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This article provides a helpful summary and @katiew.bsky.social is quoted!!

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Thanks @murray.senate.gov

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Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

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@carlbergstrom.com

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DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

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NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)

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Amplifying this resource among the #impsci community.

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If anyone has been in touch with press covering the NIH situation broadly (firings, funding freeze etc), please encourage them to cover the sinister way in which HHS is preventing grant review and funding from happening, by blocking posting to the Federal Register.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

As @jeremymberg.bsky.social correctly assessed at the time, the NIH memo that slashed overhead rates came from Trump/Musk, not anyone within the organization.

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The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else. For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right? But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B. Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.

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41/47 (87%) of NIH study sections are cancelled this week Frustrating to see all this good research stalled (& not funded) You can search for study sections that ‘did not meet as scheduled’ here with ones with * ⤵️ www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

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Thinking about this body of research in light of what's happening in Washington. Job loss has substantial effects not only on the individuals, but also on the families and communities surrounding them. These political games will ruin so many people's lives. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Thanks for the info from reviewers... All 8 CSR study section meeting scheduled today have been cancelled (due to the Federal Register announcement issue). Some reviewers are finding out that their meetings are cancelled when they are notified by the travel agency that their tickets are cancelled.

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My research group is well funded, and I'm terrified. All scientific labs run on slim margins, typically 12-24 months from running out of $. NIH is not reviewing proposals right now- the wave of labs shutting down is looming closer. All scientists are anticipating a major precipice. Options? 1/5

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HEY! ARE YOU A NEUROSCIENTIST THAT WILL BE ATTENDING OUR RALLY IN DC???? Comment or DM me! #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social

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This is very important and concerning. The NIH funding freeze is still in place. NIH can't issue new awards if proposals aren't approved by Council. OMB is using a technical work around to prevent these meetings from happening. NIH can't post meetings, so they can't actually have them.

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I reached out to all of my legal contacts again this morning...

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Very important to get this word out!

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I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

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Our ARM study section was just cancelled. It was supposed to meet tomorrow. Told it would be rescheduled later in the year, no further information.

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And don't forget every method of identifying CRs is itself a measurement process that comes with assumptions about reliability and error rates. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Exactly, what's always bugged me about this discourse is that if you compare the Most Online fringes of the left and the right, the right is far worse! Democrats are adding letters to "LGBT" while Republicans are planning a coup.

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ATTENTION: I will buy dinner for anyone who can secure me a Very Fabulous Science Positive Drag Queen ™️ to speak/preform/etc. at the DC rally!

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I fear it is time for me to be earnest on social media. We've had several complaints about how holding the protest on a Friday means fewer people will be able to attend. I understand that for some people this is quite true (e.g., ER docs). But if we don't put our science down for a day...

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This one absolutely breaks my heart. The NIH post baccalaureate IRTA program lets our youngest and most creative minds come together to understand the potential impact of a career dedicated to scientific discovery. It sets trainees on a future not only of science but of service.

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