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Andrew Bennett (he/him) @arbennett.bsky.social · Feb 22

There's always the burnt out Old Spanish Trail Motel: maps.app.goo.gl/76v7Leq9gh1V...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Feb 17

Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾
tucson.com/opinion/colu...

Local opinion: Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future

The cuts are leading us down a path that will cede the United States' world leadership in science, medicine and health.

tucson.com

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · Feb 10

How much will your state lose with the new NIH indirect funding cap?

(From James S Murphy at Education Reform Now, link to article in 1st reply.)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 8

US military budget: $850 billion

US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion

That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.

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Andrew Bennett (he/him) @arbennett.bsky.social · Feb 8

Sure thing - go for it!

Andrew Bennett (he/him) @arbennett.bsky.social · Feb 8

Important thread - if you want to calculate for your own institution I made a little webapp: arbennett.github.io/nih_overhead...

Results for University of Arizona:

Screenshot of example of the NIH Overhead Rate Impact Calculator for University of Arizona.

Total NIH Funding: 218588000
Current Overhead Rate: 53.5%

Financial Impact Analysis
When current level of direct costs are maintained

Calculated as:

directCosts = totalFunding / (1+oldRate)

newTotalFunding = directCosts * (1+newRate)

loss = newTotalFunding - directCosts
New Total NIH Funding

$163,762,997
New Overhead Amount (15%)

$21,360,391
Total Loss

$54,825,003
When current overhead is reallocated to direct costs (unlikely)

Calculated as: loss = total * ((1 - 1/oldRate) - 1 - 1/newRate)

Or in simplified terms: loss = (total/newRate) - (total/oldRate)
Current Overhead Amount

$76,185,394
New Overhead Amount (15%)

$28,511,478
Total Loss

$47,673,916

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Feb 8

The most recent executive order to gut existing and future NIH research will have a huge impact on universities, communities, and their local economies across the U.S. if it's allowed to move forward www.science.org/cont...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Feb 6

Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · Feb 1

You’re worried about tomato prices.

Wait till Trump’s Mexico tariffs raise your tomato prices.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 2

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

www.nytimes.com

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · Jan 29

Not shutting up about how the impoundment/"funding freeze" constitutional crisis was a campaign promise that Trump made back in 2023 (if not earlier). This is not a surprise, why aren't Democrats prepared?

www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/age...

Agenda47: Using Impoundment to Cut Waste, Stop Inflation, and Crush the Deep State | Donald J. Trump For President 2024

I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings. This will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly ...

www.donaldjtrump.com

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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · Jan 23

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

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CarbonPlan @carbonplan.org · Aug 9

We compared risk analysis results from two private firms for a sample of 342 addresses, looking at fire risk in CA and flood risk in NY. We can’t say one company is more right than the other. But we can say their results don’t always match. (2/8) carbonplan.org/research/cli...

Climate risk companies don’t always agree – CarbonPlan

A comparison of address-level fire and flood risk assessments.

carbonplan.org

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · May 3

JFC, this photo of a pro-Palestinian student protestor at the University of Mississippi with a jeering crowd of white boys in the background thedmonline.com/may-2nd-pro-...

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · Mar 4

New: The U.S. Supreme Court is seeking $19.4 million to bolster security for the nine justices and assign protection of their homes to its own police force rather than the U.S. Marshals Service, citing "evolving" risks faced by the top judicial body.

US Supreme Court seeks security funding to protect justices, homes

The U.S. Supreme Court is seeking $19.4 million in federal funds to bolster security for the nine justices and assign protection of their homes to its own police force rather than the U.S. Marshals Service, citing "evolving" risks faced by the nation's top judicial body.

www.reuters.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 4

The Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump could remain on Colorado’s primary ballot, rejecting a challenge to his eligibility for another term that could have upended the 2024 race. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03...

A card reads: "Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Remain on Ballot. The justices ruled that the 14th Amendment did not allow Colorado to bar the former president from the state’s primary ballot. The justices offered different reasons, but the decision was unanimous."

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Nov 16

Paleoclimate graduate students! Applications are now OPEN for the summer 2024 paleoCAMP! Come be part of an amazing two week intensive paleoclimate summer school! paleoclimate.camp/apply (colleagues, please share and RT widely, here and on other platforms)

Application — paleoCAMP

paleoclimate.camp

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Nov 13

I know people get pissy at politicians for continuously messaging that the next presidential election is the “most important election of our lifetime,” but I mean, I’m sorry, it does feel like a lot of recent history has been building to 2024, I dunno what to tell you

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