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Exclusive: Confusion over new DEI language from NSF and NIH leads Williams College to be first institution to pause accepting any grants www.science.org/content/arti...

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man the Trump administration acknowledged was wrongly deported to El Salvador, is on his way back to the US, ABC News reported Friday

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‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social @cosig.net retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...

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$900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health, directed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

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UnitedHealth Group mistakenly sent us confidential talking points that were prepared for the company's shareholder meeting this week. @caseyross.bsky.social, @tarabannow.bsky.social, and I wrote about the document and how executives prepared to assuage investors. www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/u...

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Friends, I have news. It is very good news. You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid. jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

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BREAKING: The Florida higher education system Board of Governors rejects the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida president. Vote was 6 yes, 10 no.

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DOGE’s intense scrutiny of federal spending is forcing employees to spend hours justifying even the most basic purchases. New rules mandating review and approval by political appointees are leaving thousands of contracts and projects on ice for months.

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Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal. rdcu.be/eo3Hp

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New: Before April's earnings call, Elon Musk was in Palo Alto for a rare meeting at Tesla. He wanted a briefing on the effects of tariffs, alarming some execs because Trump had started implementing them in Feb. The incident showed just how checked out he had become. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

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EXCLUSIVE: @calleymeans, former wedding-dress entrepreneur, rose rapidly to become a #MAHA leader + top @SecKennedy advisor. A 6-month @vanityfair.com investigation raises Qs about whether he embellished his personal story + is pushing reforms that will benefit www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c... /1

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

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Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research. bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...

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LOL Here's Nathan Fielder on CNN this morning, completely committing to the bit, which includes him telling Pamela Brown that Wolf Blitzer is more important because his name is first on the show's title. "But you don‘t want to say to Wolf you can‘t... you don‘t want to say, 'oh, I don‘t want to.'"

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"Using cones, cars and sometimes themselves, residents have taken to blocking the Waymos from entering their company-funded parking lot, so much so that the company has called the cops on them a half dozen times." www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Francesca Gino: "I am deeply sad and disappointed that the University has concluded as it has. But now that this process is over, I am free to show why its conclusion is so clearly wrong. I will continue the fight and do everything in my power to right this wrong." www.linkedin.com/posts/france...

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smart story from @notusreports.bsky.social: RFK Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science. Its citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions. Seven don’t appear to exist at all. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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Big update to scienceimpacts.org: See the devastating impact of cancelled NIH grants across the country, and how losses at specific institutions ripple out to surrounding communities. This is all in addition to the future losses that would result from cutting funds for indirect costs of research.

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‘More of the same’: Journals, trade website refuse to correct critiques of @charlespiller.bsky.social book on Alzheimer’s fraud

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@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...

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RFK Jr. quietly signed off on some narrow CDC vaccine recommendations, but left RSV and new meningitis shots in limbo. Also, he told the Senate HELP committee that a Trump-appointed lawyer is the Acting Director of the CDC. That's apparently untrue. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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Kennedy unilaterally strikes healthy kids & healthy pregnant people from the list of people who should get Covid boosters per the #CDC's approved schedule. There's a process for doing this, but it was not followed. "He's overstepped his bounds," one expert told STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

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The Spencer Foundation normally hears from 500 scholars applying for grants. This year, it got 2,000. Philanthropies are facing a surge in demand in the wake of cuts to federal research subsidies. But they can't be a full replacement. @mkhaw.bsky.social reports: www.chronicle.com/article/as-t...

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Harvard university’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, decided this month to revoke Francesca Gino’s tenure and end her employment at Harvard Business School www.wgbh.org/news/educati...

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“Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out this week for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken.” www.science.org/content/arti...

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BREAKING: Judge Burroughs has granted Harvard's restraining order, barring the administration from terminating its foreign student population. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Want to know what's in the MAHA Report? @washingtonpost.com @fenitn.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social and Amudala Ajasa Walk through the Trump admin internal tensions and scientific contradictions, as well as landmark statements on food here: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

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⛔️ UPDATE: We obtained the full list of NIH terminations at Harvard. Lowlights: - 659 total grants at Harvard in the NIH-created list - $2.19 billion in total award value - $960 million in award remaining You can view them all using the "Harvard" tab on the airtable grant-watch.us/nih-data.html

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Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.

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In a lawsuit filed yesterday, a group of physicians and researchers argue that the termination of more than $800 million in LGBTQ+ research funding endangers lives: www.statnews.com/2025/05/21/l...

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The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.

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Heartbroken for my colleague @kgamarel.bsky.social After decades of NIH support, HIV research network gets funding back—but Kristi's study on trans youth of color is singled out & cut Essential research for most vulnerable—lost 🙏 Powerful reporting @stephaniemlee.bsky.social in @chronicle.com

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SCOOP: HIV scientists were given a choice by the National Institutes of Health: Eliminate a study of transgender youth, or lose a shot to recover larger grants that had been terminated. They chose the former. www.chronicle.com/article/an-n...

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⛔️ Big NIH update: We just learned of 726 more NIH grants that were terminated sometime over the past 2 months. A huge number of diversity supps, diversity F31s, and diversity training grants. See below ⤵️ View them here: grant-watch.us/nih-data.html h/t to @noamross.net for processing them.

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A crackdown on DEI at the University of Virginia shows how messy and complicated it can be to prove that DEI has been eliminated, especially when the college’s basic diversity ideals haven’t changed. New, from me and @katiemangan.bsky.social: www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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New from me @chronicle.com: A professor's account of what happened when, he says, he approached the University of California system's president before a commencement ceremony to register concern about the system's "repression of anti-genocide protesters."

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"Their message, sent last Thursday, noted that while the funding for the network’s leadership center had been reinstated, funding for its operations was still under review, so the ATN’s research could not yet begin." What if they still never get that money?

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SCOOP: HIV scientists were given a choice by the National Institutes of Health: Eliminate a study of transgender youth, or lose a shot to recover larger grants that had been terminated. They chose the former. www.chronicle.com/article/an-n...

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#Breaking: FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

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Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

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MUST-READ: Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic By MacKenzie Chung Fegan www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

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All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

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