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“What this does is discriminate against people who are underrepresented,” The reviewer added that evaluation for the general and diversity pools are the same. “I can’t stress enough that an undeserving grant “is not going to get funded, whether it’s diversity or not” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s...

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Hearing on NIH indirect cost cuts today (2/21) at 10am (EST). Judge Angel Kelley of U.S. District Court in Boston — Courtroom 8. Register for hearing audio here👇🏻 forms.mad.uscourts.gov/courtlist.html

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Here are some data documenting the funding "pause" pulled from NIH Reporter. Current results (FY25) (Red) are compared with results from FY21 (first year of Biden Administration) and FY24. Note that data from Reporter lag behind release of NoAs by ~1 week. I will be tracking this going forward.

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🇨🇦 Fast-track your computational biology/bioinformatics career in cancer research! 🇨🇦 The Lupien Lab is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Fellow in computational biology/bioinformatics ready for a challenge. Apply now: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Glad to see this post getting some traction, because the Federal Register is the WHOLE ballgame, folks. To drive this point home, a recent EO declares that all posts to FR now must be approved by the White House. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The press has a big role to play in shining light of what is going on...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Bring this to your senators and representatives! And House Democrats writ large democraticleader.house.gov/shareyourstory

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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...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

This is a reminder for myself as well as anyone else who needs it: amidst all this chaos and confusion, pick your lane. Find something to do that will provide agency, educate those in your community and push back against what is happening

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Recursion CEO Chris Gibson: Publicly funded research built the biopharma industry. Now it needs our help. Companies with resources must bridge the gap. 👏 $RXRX via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/n...

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BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

the version of record (VoR) of our most recent paper has been published @elife.bsky.social! 🎉🥳 🧪 elifesciences.org/articles/102...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Pretty sad. Just got the email that CZI is canceling the second round of Diversity Leadership Awards. Private industry will definitely not fill the hole that NIH and NSF are leaving. 😢💔

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A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

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 6 days ago • 9 comments

This is a set of super disappointing statements by some scientists, convinced that the dismantling of the scientific infrastructure is “collateral damage:” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/c...

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This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

All minority-serving institutions are being targeted, yes.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Though they're coming for CHIPS too, e.g. www.reuters.com/technology/t...

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Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions. They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion www.ed.gov/media/docume...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

hats off to my scientist friends who are getting promotion and recommendation letters out for our young and submitting reviews for manuscripts or grants on-time (I am using the Intermittent Freaking-Out protocol™️: 1 hour of doing real work followed by 30 min of reading the news/doomscrolling)

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 8 days ago • 710 comments

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where everyone cared about their job and serving others.

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grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 🧪

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

The immunology session at #SACB2025 continues with @adamlmaclean.bsky.social discussing cell-cell interactions in tumor metastasis

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BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston broadens block on Trump's NIH grant 15% overhead limit (indirect cost rates) to all recipients nationwide. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... #TROpalooza ain't done

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

And the final tally is in: we received more than 1,000 applications for this program. As our holistic, thorough, and rubric-driven selection process gets underway in earnest, I know one thing for certain: given funds and space, we could easily fill 10s of cohorts with exceptional students

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Watching (needed) energy, collaboration & collective effort about NIH indirect costs by institutions/societies & the difference in energy & collective efforts around rollback of DEI took me back to impetus to write "Make equity essential to expedite change in academia" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We have to keep yelling. It’s exhausting but every inch we manage to keep is going to make a huge difference to someone.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

If true, this is great. But keep pushing to make sure these grants are not only scored, but funded according to their scores and not simply scored and then discarded

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

We should talk more about where the US gov't gets huge value for taxpayer money. Take NIH study section: they get 25-30 expert PhD consultants to each spend 40-50 hours scrutinizing grant apps (incl 2 solid days of group discussion) and they pay them ~half of DC minimum hourly wage. And no coffee

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Also screwed are non-states, e.g. DC

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They’re counting on intricacies of indirect costs being too hard for general public to understand. The money they are cutting literally keeps the lights on in the buildings where our doctors are trained, our college students are educated, and the next generation of cancer treatments are discovered

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Someone might consider reminding Texas senators and congresspersons how much money the MD Anderson Cancer Center got from the NIH last year, and that their overhead rate is 62%. @mdanderson.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments