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🆕 Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030 without stable PEPFAR programmes, expert policy analysis estimates. bit.ly/4ltNtTB

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#HandsOff Rochester, NY

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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

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Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.

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A huge loss at FDA. Peter Marks originated rhe Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures www.wsj.com/politics/top...

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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A "chilling" new level of political interference: NIH's solicitations for grant proposals will from now on be reviewed to check if they align with Trump's priorities. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @sarareardon.bsky.social)

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NEW: The University of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide, the president said in an email

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In bystander footage of an incident Monday, about a dozen RPD officers can be seen assisting federal immigration enforcement and handcuffing people on their behalf. That incident is now under investigation as a flagrant violation of the city's sanctuary city status. www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

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The toxic substance TCE, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems, including heart defects in babies, cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on It. @fastlerner.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social

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In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics www.science.org/content/arti... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... www.science.org/content/arti...

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Boards of Scientific Counselors help evaluate intramural intramural scientists. www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/n... 1/n

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Remember to wear green tomorrow in solidarity for public health! 🟩🟢🟩🟢🟩 #courageiscontagious

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Three researchers who served as scientific advisers to NIMH and one to NIDA were removed from their positions this week with no explanation. @callimcflurry.bsky.social and I reported for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: #neuroskyence 🧪 www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

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The threat hanging over South African HIV/AIDS researchers for the past week has become a reality: The Trump administration has begun terminating or putting on hold their grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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Are academic conferences in the US a thing of the past?

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Studies terminated at NIH: -On reducing asthma from mold -On prenatal risks & screening -On statins influence on dementia -On the safety/risk of gender-affirming care -On how Covid vax outcomes & disparities -On improving HIV care -Training programs for the next generation of scientists

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There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

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NEW: Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 51 comments

The Stand Up For Science rallies are tomorrow! With the attacks on science, this seems more important than ever. See how you can participate: standupforscience2025.org

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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Excellent piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social about Trump’s war on Universities. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Another NIH grant rescinded - The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669

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Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications. The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 39 days ago • 249 comments

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

submitted 39 days ago • 94 comments

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 43 days ago • 45 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.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

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"assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs" good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

submitted 56 days ago • 253 comments

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 60 days ago • 268 comments

Announcemets on Fridays are meant to fly under the radar. Cutting NIH indirect rates to 15% signal the beginning of the end for a strong US biomedical research enterprise. We need to form strong partnerships with foundations/philantropy and pharma and circle the wagons grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Reducing the indirect rate on NIH grants to 15% will kill biomedical and health research in the US. I'm not exaggerating here. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

submitted 60 days ago • 21 comments

I’m getting confirmation that #NIH grants that focused on improving health for #LGBT people are being defunded and ordered to stop immediately.

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This is highly concerning.

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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

submitted 76 days ago • 51 comments

I’m hearing that all NIH study sections were just cancelled indefinitely. If NIH grant programs are stopped like this, academic medical centers are going to be crippled. Maybe that’s the goal, which is even scarier.

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In a prospective observational study of genetic carriers with and at risk for Parkinson’s disease, most elected for the return of individual results. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Should this be standard practice?

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