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submitted 5 hours ago • 63 comments

Important less talked about narrative here: NIH intramural program and clinical trials and patient care also taking a huge hit - NIH has always treated rare genetic diseases and cases that can’t be treated elsewhere and conducted trials. Now all are frozen & patients are suffering. 😭💔

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Despite court order, NIH grants remain frozen. Newly awarded grants, grants with fundable scores, & funds for a new budget cycle of a current project are all FROZEN🥶 and not being released. US research is being choked to death & is on life support right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 153 comments

"Every criticism, no matter how valid, will be used by the Administration to service these goals. It will not be used to shift money from what we individually think is a waste towards what we like. It will be used to just cut." #SciSky #BioSky #NIH

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Called my reps! Did you?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

UPDATE: The NSF graduate fellows' (GRFP) email address ([email protected]) just said that: "Award announcements are still scheduled for the spring although a specific date has yet to be disclosed." But still makes me wary that NSF's main FAQ didn't say that directly...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Even as they push back against Trump, US universities must step in and protect early career researchers! Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What the shit "For FY26 we are told about plans to reduce the NSF budget by 50%-75% - such reduction will mean no new awards for at least a year, elimination of divisions, merging of programs." nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Nice to see how this project developed through the years & published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by Saheli Saha et al from @iamsamayp.bsky.social group 👏 Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

submitted 7 days ago • 57 comments

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

submitted 7 days ago • 294 comments

Grief. There’s no better word for what I’m feeling now. Grief. Knowing that my life’s work is seen as frivolous and unimportant. A line in a ledger to be crossed out, by a 19-year-old kid named BigBalls.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

submitted 7 days ago • 402 comments

Another completely private philanthropic organization kneels in fealty to the regime.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Another consequence from Trump's attack on science : Vanderbilt has temporarily paused graduate student admissions. Current graduate students and faculty raised alarm about research funding, doctoral stipends, visas and career opportunities vanderbilthustler.com/2025/02/15/g...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

"This feels like the early days of the pandemic, except there's less I can do about it", a colleague told me yesterday. Yep. One thing you can do is outreach. My sense is that the majority of the country doesn't yet understand the scale or the stakes of what is happening. We have to tell them:

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

The head of the food division at the US Food and Drug Administration has quit in protest over sweeping staff cuts that he warns will hamper the agency’s ability to protect public health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

A teacher emailed me & said "My scientist didn't reply to me. My scientists ALWAYS reply to me! What the heck!". I was like "Well. Science is kinda crumbling. Friends/colleagues are losing their jobs or at least funding, & some are being told to cease all outside communications". She hadn't heard.

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

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 8 days ago • 12 comments

Professors please pull up a chair. I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government. At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)

submitted 8 days ago • 91 comments

This is a good summary of some of the horrific "staff reductions" that have gone on across CDC and NIH. 1/3

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm. This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country. RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

One of the many, many “pauses” and cancellations devastating our next generation of researchers. “The NIH Intramural Program has paused the recruitment of IRTAs, CRTAs, and Visiting Fellows in all training programs pending guidance from Health and Human Services. Check back daily for updates.”

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

#f1b70f

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

A quick summary from the end of another long day... Some, but not all, tenure track investigators within their first 2 years did receive termination emails. I have not yet been able to determine why some did and not others. Even with one branch, there was variability. 1/n

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Attending #BPS2025? Want to know more about tangible steps you can take to challenge the attacks on science in the U.S.? Please attend an Emergency Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday at 1:30! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @blackinbiophys.bsky.social Please spread the word!

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

On January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my 55 years,” says Beth Pratt, a regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, who lives near Yosemite and is working on a book called “Yosemite Wildlife.” “Just to want to gut the Park Service? I don’t understand it.”

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Organizers of USAID-funded studies are grappling with ethical responsibilities to trial participants and collaborators. scim.ag/41eXg7J

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Bluetorial: The rationale for the “NIH” indirect cost “plan” is based on misunderstood (unintentional or intentional) accounting and math The value of real government transparency

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Symbiotic #bacteria ride along with single-celled #protists in ocean's upper layer phys.org/news/2025-02... #Symbionts of predatory protists are widespread in the oceans and related to animal pathogens www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 14 days ago • 108 comments

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

submitted 14 days ago • 373 comments

I see the same thing for the IMSD, MARC, G-RISE and Bridges to Doctorate programs, but unfortunately the link to NIH's interest in diversity is still inactive (see ex grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...) 🧪

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🧪Surprise, I'm back with another #breakingnews request. If you work in biomedical research (infectious disease, chronic disease, food safety, drug safety, vaccines, etc.), I'd love to hear (very soon) about how you think your field will fare under RFK's leadership of HHS. Please share widely!

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

Relieved that the MOSAIC K99/R00 grants.gov page is no longer expired (updated today), and it sounds like people are able to submit apps again 🧪

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social Please share widely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

If you read one thing about the current chaos happening in US science and “indirect congrats” this one is really good and well- explained. Things are dire 👇

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help. 1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting: 60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!) 2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Again if you are at an institution that relies on NIH funding, in a state that either is or isn’t on this lawsuit, I’d love to hear how the next few days shake out. Signal is davelevitan.26, can remain anonymous.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

And now back to our regularly scheduled $hitshow The dismantling of NIH programs to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce and the abhorrent treatment of talented young scientists

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments