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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 2h

NIH cuts save $9-10B short-term, but they’re killing 202K jobs & $46B in red-state economies (TX, FL, OH). $8T healthcare disaster loom, no cancer/Alzheimer’s cures, pricier drugs. Scientists fleeing to China? Bad deal. Fight for NIH!
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

#AmericaFirst

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 5h

Anything from NIH?

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 5h

I can confirm EPA notices of upcoming RIFs

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 8h

RIF UPDATE:

We @standupforscience.bsky.social are in communication with our network. So far, we have not heard of any actual RIFs, only Russ’ tweet.

To press—we will send a release and facilitate interviews if we do hear abt them taking place.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 9h

Given his distaste for the NIH, I'd be amazed if he doesn't take this opportunity to absolutely destroy it.

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 9h

Russell Vought has announced that "mass firings [RIFs] have begun."

Lawless. The RIFs in the spring were illegal, as Judge Illston outlined. Yes, the conservative SCOTUS supermajority lawlessly signed off. But the Calvinball Court is not doing law.

Congress can stop this. A thread: 1/

'RIFs have begun.' Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

www.pbs.org

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 1d

If I'm doing this in a meeting, I'm trying desperately to control the almost overwhelming urge to get up and shout "WTF ARE YOU LOT RAMBLING ON ABOUT"

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 1d

So, let me get this straight. The kids who were circumcised got autism because they were given Tylenol?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a brick house with the words hi there above him .

ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a brick house with the words hi there above him .

media.tenor.com

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds cheesy, but the only thing keeping me sane right now is burying myself in data and writing. You just have to keep on grinding.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 4d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 7d

5. I don't know that US will ever be a stable place for science again. I know that sounds nihilistic but the 50% of the country that voted for Trump is not going anywhere and they appear to be ok with blowing up the entire research infrastructure for shits and giggles.

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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 7d

A couple of related-unrelated thoughts that have swirling in my head:

1. This is a bad time to become a new PI in the US. Probably the worst since WWII. If you're negotiating for a position, know your road is way harder than it was for the people on your TT committee. Negotiate accordingly.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting “The compact asks universities…to require undergraduate applicants to take the SAT or ACT.” I’m not sure the white supremacists of the regime are going to like where this goes.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 9d

This is Russ Vought's wet dream playing out in real time. Pray for the NIH.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 9d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 10d

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates...now that it is white folks being affected drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/l...

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates…now that it is white folks being affected

Mike Lauer, prior head of the Office of Extramural Research at the NIH, has been quoted in a recent Nature news bit by Max Kozlov on the Fiscal Year 2025 grant funding picture. Kozlov writes, in pa…

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 10d

Going to use this for the next lab meeting.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he would meet with top U.S. military leaders on Tuesday and that he would fire any of them on the spot if he didn't like them.

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www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Trump says he will fire U.S. military leaders if he doesn't like them

President Donald Trump said he would meet with top U.S. military leaders on Tuesday and that he would fire any of them on the spot if he didn't like them.

www.reuters.com

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 11d

4014 fewer grants funded in FY25. Did I read that right?

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11d

Here are the results in terms of the number of projects.

The number of funded projects in FY2025 is 4014 fewer than the number for FY2024.

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A grant showing the number of projects funded for FY2021 through FY2025. The number for FY2025 lagged behind and did not catch up with 4014 fewer projects funded in FY2025 compared with FY2024.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 11d

Weak

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11d

Ezra Klein’s moral collapse is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen in politics

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 14d

“Solved a self imposed crisis meant to harm science with a solution that also harms science, just not quite as much” is a bit unwieldy for a headline.

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 14d

"near miracle"

Is it though??

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14d

New article from the Washington Post

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NIH pulled off a ‘near miracle.’ Scientists say there’s still a problem.

The National Institutes of Health is on track to give away all of its grant money to labs, but research on cancer, aging and diabetes is still being left behind.

wapo.st

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 14d

For example: of the 26 most recent NIGMS, R35 NGAs, 9 appear to be MYF. By my count, instead of 26 awards, NIGMS could have funded 62.

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 14d

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:

They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.

DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 15d

Correct read. Schumer just finding a way to support the CR.

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