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Ribosome rescue OG, Austinite, Bevo fan, aspiring foodie.
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"Other countries, including but not limited to China, have been investing and recruiting in science heavily in recent years, and the Trump administration's actions only aid these efforts to overtake the US," Berg says.
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This was the strategy for NIH, which has always had broad bipartisan support.
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Morning Memo is the only way I can start my day. Join if you can!
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No wonder he thinks NIH is inefficient.
He’s repeatedly on these big project grants writing one paper and that’s it, not a major collaborator on most papers supported by the grant.
#inefficiency is just that.
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US should nationalize SpaceX, full stop.
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I wish I had an R01 or had served on a study section so I could understand his perspective on NIH funding - wait, what?
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Everyone thought I was out of line being concerned that all my grants mention trans-translation.
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The people in power intend to completely annihilate scientific infrastructure, capacity, & research in the US. No institution will be spared if its mission is to advance science.
Everyone is already a target, whether you speak up or not. So, institutions, consider speaking up.
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One way for universities to recover some of the difference is to convert direct costs that are not charged indirect to those that are. For tuition this might be easy - pay students a higher stipend, which is subject to indirect, and have them pay their own tuition.
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And people in red states who rely on a lot of the funds that Elon Musk wants to cut are celebrating the richest man in the world taking away their social safety net.
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My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author Peter Hotez back in 2016: "the latest numbers from Texas indicate a serious downward trend in vaccine coverage to the point where there is a high risk that measles outbreaks will return."
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...