“My biggest fear is we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”

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africa is heavily dependent on foreign health aid. but the brutal loss of billions due to the freeze on U.S. aid has spurred calls for African self-reliance. i tried to piece together how the dependency arose, whether it can be broken, and the solutions:

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Tariffs imposed yesterday could hit researchers by raising prices for scientific equipment. My latest for Science:
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The Trump administration says it is "not possible" for it to comply with a court order to release hundreds of millions of dollars in aid funds by midnight tonight.

This and more in Science's Trump Tracker:
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The chaos at USAID has left many clinical trials in limbo. We spoke to the researchers now scrambling to protect the staff and volunteers involved.
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Are you an NIH funded researcher with a frozen grant or contract? Find me on Signal: meredithwadman.13

Last night, President Donald Trump’s administration announced it is immediately cutting by roughly half the so-called indirect cost payments that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes to universities, hospitals, and research institutes.

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“It’s sad and incomprehensible that things have come to this.”
—Rachel Baggaley, HIV specialist and former team lead for testing, prevention, and populations in the Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI programs at WHO

Our piece on how the USAID freeze has affected research:
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“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”

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Gender pay gap research wins economics nobel @NewsfromScience

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Today's #ScienceAdviser kicks off with this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (of course), but there's lots of other great stuff from Science and science in there! Be sure to check all of it out: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Isaiah Hankel, CEO of Cheeky Scientist, is circulating a statement about our story. Just addressing the allegation it was "solicited by one of [CS's] competitors" for now:

No. It's a journalistic article based on independent reporting, customer interviews, and more: www.science.org/content/arti...

Some of its customers are $thousands$ in debt for services they say they haven't used and didn't want. Cheeky Scientist pays its salespeople well, though: $150K average, with "stars" earning $250K+, according to this job ad. Commission structure "rewards top performers."

I'm still interested in hearing from anyone who has had the 'non-disparagement' section of their contract enforced, or has been threatened with enforcement of that section. You can reach me at coffordwrites[at]gmail[dot]com

Careers firm Cheeky Scientist offers to help you transition from academia to industry. The catch? You might be looking at thousands of dollars of debt for services you don't want. I took a look at the company's practices for Science www.science.org/content/arti...

Beginning today, I'm covering a maternity leave as a senior editor at BioSpace. If there's something going on in biotech or pharma that I should know about, you can find me at shawna.williams at biospace.com.

An immune-suppressing antibody could help ensure that life-saving transplants aren't rejected by the people that desperately needed them. That story and more from Science and science in today's #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

A new Nat Med study that analyzed cognitive problems in more than 1,800 people bolsters the idea that blood clots contribute to Long Covid. Caveats are that this is in unvaccinated patients hospitalized early in the pandemic. More at Science Mag: www.science.org/content/arti...

Calling PhD students and recent grads: Have you had experience with The Cheeky Scientist? If so, please email me at the address below. And please share with your grad colleagues! Thanks.

This is a fantastic read. Naomi Klein (the good one) on Naomi Wolf (the bad one) and how her doppelgänger turned into a right-wing conspiracy theorist. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/a...

For more on the technique – known as DIANA and which neuroscientists immediately started trying to replicate when the paper came out last October – see www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion...

Just out: Expression of concern for 2022 paper describing breakthrough in neuronal imaging. It seems “the methods described in the paper are inadequate to allow reproduction [and] the results may have been biased by subjective data collection.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...