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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Jul 31

CLS thanks Senator Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov for championing the provision we requested to limit multi-year awards at NIH!!!!

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Jul 24

In June, CLS predicted that success rates would PLUMMET if NIH implemented multiyear funding.

NCI just confirmed.

9% down to 4%!!!!

#MathIsntHard

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Jun 6

Today CLS brings attention to a sleeper cell proposal in the President's NIH Budget for FY26: Multi-Year Awards.

Read our statement to learn why this "nothing to see here" boring-sounding proposal would actually be DEVASTATING to research.

www.coalitionforlifesciences.org/cls-objects-...

CLS Objects to Multi-Year Funding Proposal - The Coalition for the Life Sciences

The President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 includes a seemingly innocuous proposal to transition up to half of research projects grants to "multiyear funding." CLS predicts application success rates ...

www.coalitionforlifesciences.org

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · May 29

1 Concrete Way to Fight: submit a comment on the regulations implementing Schedule F.

They want to make our public health experts into political position.

Hands off our science!

www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · May 29

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨

Friday, May 30th at 3pm

Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.

We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · May 28

You can add your comments at: www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · May 28

Today CLS objected to the proposed politicization of staff positions at US Science Agencies, particularly program managers whose expertise is critical to a strong and vibrant innovation ecosystem.

#ScheduleF

www.coalitionforlifesciences.org

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · May 6

Proud to stand with our member @asm.org correcting the record on this LIFESAVING research.

Pausing Research Not a Path to Better Biosafety & Biosecurity

The American Society for Microbiology is committed to ensuring that scientific research is conducted adhering to strict standards for biosafety and biosecurity.

asm.org

Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Apr 28

CLS stormed Capitol Hill Thursday, delivering our message of the terrible consequences from abrupt terminations of grants.

www.coalitionforlifesciences.org/cls-calls-on...

@needhibhalla.bsky.social @johandelsman.bsky.social

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Apr 28

THIS!

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 28

Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment...

www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations

Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.

www.cbsnews.com

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · Apr 24

Pauses, interruptions and rescissions of research funds are slowing work that is vital for developing lifesaving treatments for chronic and infectious diseases. ASBMB is a member of @c4lifesciences.bsky.social, which calls on the administration to restore funding.
➡️Read CLS' letter: bit.ly/4jmyRDL.

A 3D illustration of a ribosome translating messenger RNA into a polypeptide chain with text that reads advocacy.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 25

Super grateful for the staffers, including Kaitlyn Kelly in @schiff.senate.gov’s office, who took the time to meet with me and other members of the @c4lifesciences.bsky.social to discuss the cuts to federal funding of science and biomedical research.

Me standing in front of the American flag, the POW MIA flag and the flag of California state

Me standing next to the sign indicating Senator Adam Schiff’s office in Washington DC

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · Apr 24

Join ASCB on May 7 for “Bridging the Gap: The State of Public Engagement in Science”—a webinar on building trust, connecting with communities, and communicating science effectively. Register: www.ascb.org/ascb-meeting... #CellBiology

Bridging the Gap: The State of Public Engagement in Science - ASCB

How can cell biologists effectively engage the public and policymakers in an era of misinformation and scientific skepticism? Join Jenny Luray (Research!America) and Fanuel Muindi (Northeastern Univer...

www.ascb.org

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Apr 17

MAKE NO MISTAKE.

When the Administration puts the Drug Addiction and Mental Health Institutes into a Behavioral Health Institute .....

They are classifying addiction and mental illness as moral weaknesses, not neurological conditions.

This is going backwards.

#MedicalModel

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is bleak. A database of cancelled NIH grants.

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Apr 17

Need an easy way to understand the Proposed Reorganization of NIH. Here you go!

chatgpt.com/s/m_680132c8...

NIH Reorganization Plan 2026

chatgpt.com

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Apr 15

Abrupt termination of research doesn't stop waste, it CREATES waste! We call on @hhsgov.govmirrors.com to restore the funding without delay! #Cuts2Science

CLS Calls on the Trump Administration to Restore Research Funding - The Coalition for the Life Sciences

On April 14, 2025, CLS Chair Jo Handelsman and Exec Director Adrienne Hallett sent a letter outlining the tremendous consequences of terminating research and asking that it be reinstated.

www.coalitionforlifesciences.org

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Apr 1

HHS funded researchers!

Head over to LinkedIn and give a recommendation for your program officers, your scientific review officers, your intramural collaborators.

It will take you one minute but it could make a difference in their careers.

#solidarity

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Mar 21

Please contribute to any and all datasets being compiled! Data is power.

#fedworkers #federalworkers #grants #federalcontractors | Abigail André | 136 comments

End of week Federal Cuts Tracker Map updates. Here's a progress report: We have been flooded with offers of help, suggestions to make the forms and map… | 136 comments on LinkedIn

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Mar 16

Honoring Ms Lowey for her decades of support for life sciences. May her memory be a blessing.

Nita Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87

A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

www.nytimes.com

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Jack Lee @jackjlee.bsky.social · Mar 4

Working on a story for @sfchronicle.com about the administration's impacts to science, including #NIH and #NSF funding. Hoping to chat with early-career scientists, especially grad students and postdocs, about how you've been affected. Thanks!

Signal: jacklee.55

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Mar 2

NIH website and all of its subsites are down.

NSF and CDC remain up.

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Mar 1

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Coalition for Life Sciences @c4lifesciences.bsky.social · Mar 1

Hearing that many scientists fear speaking out ... for good reason.

Health and science reporters, I have a board FULL of life scientists who would be happy to go on the record. Any time, any (science) topic.

#Cuts2Science

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 26

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion...
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

Multimillion-dollar Biden-era COVID-19 vax project halted by Trump’s HHS

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paused a $240 million contract to create a new coronavirus vaccine.

www.aol.com

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