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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 13

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

www.science.org

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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · Apr 28

📣 Last call for applications! Deadline 30.04.25

Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · Apr 22

DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰

CALL FOR EDITORS
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (LLCS) Journal

1. Associate Editor (Health & Population Sciences)
2. Associate Editor (Statistical Sciences & Methodology)
3. Study Profiles Editor

Deadline for applications: 30.04.25

www.slls.org.uk/pages/opport...

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hamburg researchers scanned 44 Long COVID patients and found severe shrinkage in key brainstem-cerebellum bridges.

These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brainstem Reduction and Deformation in the 4th Ventricle Cerebellar Peduncles in Long COVID Patients: Insights into Neuroinflammatory Sequelae and "Broken Bridge Syndrome"

Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS), also known as Long COVID, is characterized by persistent and often debilitating neurological sequelae, including fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, motor deficits, and autonomi...

www.medrxiv.org

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Apr 8

Coincidentally, the $45 billion to be spent on concentration camps happens to be the size of the NIH budget.

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Apr 8

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state

in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention

A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

www.nytimes.com

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Apr 6

Bumping this post for anyone who missed it yesterday and needs tigris this weekend!

Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Apr 5

Users of the tigris / tidycensus #rstats packages:

The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday.

(Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!)

I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and everything should work.

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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Mar 29

This AI generated forest is really not keeping up with what real trees can do for me yet.

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · Mar 27

The photo at the right is actually the more hopeful one, because it was taken after liberation.

Screengrab of a selfie video recorded by US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, in front of barracks in CECOT, a forced-labor prison in El Salvador, from which the country's totalitarian president has promised no one will ever be freed, and to which the Trump administration has deported Venezuelan refugees who had been granted asylum by the United States.

"Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high, in a barracks in the Buchenwald concentration camp." Photograph by Donald R. Ornitz, 23 April 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mary Dickinson. https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa11068
Presented here by me as fair use, without consultation with anyone at the Museum.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 21

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US

Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig

www.theguardian.com

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · Mar 19

Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov. Mike DeWine.

Ohio Republican lawmakers reject proposed cigarette tax increase to pay for child tax credit • Ohio Capital Journal

Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov.…

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Mar 15

Former President of my current University. I’ve never felt so much fear in University spaces in my 25 year career. As an 80s kid, it feels at least a little bit like how I imagined people might feel (and behave) in Soviet Russia.

Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Mar 15

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · Mar 15

Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Mar 14

Take it from people inside #NIH:

If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead.

Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪

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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Mar 10

Weather improves I'm paddling this route in my kayak.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Mar 2

This is a lie. Social Security is even more efficient than the private sector. It's a political tool they're wielding to destroy Social Security. "Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

The reality is that ‘fraud’ is almost non-existent in Social Security. An examination of data from 2015 to 2021 shows that after accounting for overpayments and underpayments, and the recovery of overpayments, the loss rate is around .001%. As a point of comparison, the 2021 average retail shrink in the private sector, due to administrative errors, vendor fraud, shoplifting, and return fraud, was 1.44%.

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Feb 24

This Wednesday at 12pm ET, I'll be giving a FREE 3-hour webinar on "Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in #rstats"

Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl!

Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · Feb 22

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short.

www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

Press Release | Press Office | SSA

2025 Press Releases

www.ssa.gov

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Feb 23

This is a war on science, an illegal attack on functioning government, and it is racism. Real students, current and future research professionals -- working on the pressing issues of the day, for government and society -- which any functioning modern democracy needs, having their careers cut off.
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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · Feb 17

Looking forward to receiving your submissions! ⭐

Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025

Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) @sllshome.bsky.social · Jan 22

📣SLLS 2025 CONFERENCE - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!

Life Course Transitions and Patterns: Stronger Evidence for Better Policies
University of Fribourg, Switzerland / 8-10 September

We look forward to receiving your submissions! 😀

Submission Deadline: 14/03/25

www.sllsconference.com/callforabstr...

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Feb 15

“The president has completely stopped funding for research that discovers cures for diseases that devastate families across the country, like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, all so he can give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations… crushing families’ hopes and dreams of having cures.”

NIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 Billion

After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases.

www.nytimes.com

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · Feb 12

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 12

The powerful thing about this website issue is that it is very easy for the judge to verify compliance.

That's very different for impoundment. The Trump admin can hold up payments and that's hard to check.

But websites? We can all tell if the website has been restored.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Feb 12

Less than two hours until the deadline and all of these pages are still down:
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Removal of pages from CDC website brings confusion, dismay

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Feb 11

So excited to read this!

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Feb 11

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · Feb 11

This is the way.

CK Craven @ckcraven.bsky.social · Feb 11

The attorneys general for Iowa, Missouri & all other state, red or blue, that did not join the lawsuit filed by 22 AGs this morning to stop the chopping of NIH funds, need to join the suit *now*. Because a judge temporarily halted the cuts. Rally all to call state AG! Demand to join the lawsuit