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I wonder how long it will be before my local university is next to lose their funding. Our town will be devastated if so, on top of the cuts to NIH funding.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University, official says
The administration of President Donald Trump plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University over what it calls antisemitism on campus, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday, but the university said it had not yet been formally notified.
www.reuters.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I wonder how long it will be before my local university is next to lose their funding. Our town will be devastated if so, on top of the cuts to NIH funding.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Kennedy Remains Quiet on 10,000 Jobs Lost at HHS @apnews.com's insightful reporting: Kennedy with no public explanation & right-hand guy Casey Means denying NIH funding cuts. Could this possibly mean they do not know what they've done? Radical transparency or radical...not sure how to fill that in!
Kennedy Remains Quiet on 10,000 Jobs Lost at HHS
Kennedy's silence is prompting questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike
www.medpagetoday.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Kennedy Remains Quiet on 10,000 Jobs Lost at HHS @apnews.com's insightful reporting: Kennedy with no public explanation & right-hand guy Casey Means denying NIH funding cuts. Could this possibly mean they do not know what they've done? Radical transparency or radical...not sure how to fill that in!
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Right before RFK announced disastrous cuts to HHS, major health data repositories were "marked for review." Archivists say this data is often impossible to save www.404media.co/nih-archives...
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
www.404media.co
April 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Right before RFK announced disastrous cuts to HHS, major health data repositories were "marked for review." Archivists say this data is often impossible to save www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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Scientists sue NIH, HHS, RFK Jr. over termination of research grants
Scientists sue NIH, HHS, RFK Jr. over termination of research grants
Researchers who had millions of dollars' worth of grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health are suing the federal government.
abcnews.go.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Scientists sue NIH, HHS, RFK Jr. over termination of research grants
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this really represents a disaster for the US.
Further 35% cuts for CDC, NIH, FDA, Medicaid & Medicare
Further 35% cuts for CDC, NIH, FDA, Medicaid & Medicare
April 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
this really represents a disaster for the US.
Further 35% cuts for CDC, NIH, FDA, Medicaid & Medicare
Further 35% cuts for CDC, NIH, FDA, Medicaid & Medicare
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After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
Neuroscience institutes tells 10 scientists placed on leave it’s working on a “long-term” solution to officially reinstating them
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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What we're seeing at NIH and so many other gov agencies is the No Personnel Policy.
Without staff knowing supplies are low or equipment broken, the public doesn't either, and plays into the DOGE "savings" bullshit.
H/T @theprospect.bsky.social
prospect.org/politics/202...
Without staff knowing supplies are low or equipment broken, the public doesn't either, and plays into the DOGE "savings" bullshit.
H/T @theprospect.bsky.social
prospect.org/politics/202...
No Personnel Is Policy
The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
prospect.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What we're seeing at NIH and so many other gov agencies is the No Personnel Policy.
Without staff knowing supplies are low or equipment broken, the public doesn't either, and plays into the DOGE "savings" bullshit.
H/T @theprospect.bsky.social
prospect.org/politics/202...
Without staff knowing supplies are low or equipment broken, the public doesn't either, and plays into the DOGE "savings" bullshit.
H/T @theprospect.bsky.social
prospect.org/politics/202...
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Reach out to your Senators with your concerns and suggestions.
HELP committee… www.help.senate.gov/about/members
HELP committee… www.help.senate.gov/about/members
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Reach out to your Senators with your concerns and suggestions.
HELP committee… www.help.senate.gov/about/members
HELP committee… www.help.senate.gov/about/members
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Comments regarding NIH announcing what was already obvious regarding diversity considerations...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The NIH just officially killed diversity statements in its grant applications
"I think we will lose a lot as an agency," an agency employee told Mother Jones.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Comments regarding NIH announcing what was already obvious regarding diversity considerations...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Exclusive: Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by NIAID, including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. scim.ag/4iVm7mY
Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research
Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics
scim.ag
March 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Exclusive: Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by NIAID, including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. scim.ag/4iVm7mY
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants about COVID-19, leaving long COVID funding in limbo, according to a new internal guidance document I obtained.
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grant funds are no longer necessary,” it says.
We published the full document in my latest for @nature.com:
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grant funds are no longer necessary,” it says.
We published the full document in my latest for @nature.com:
Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal
Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants about COVID-19, leaving long COVID funding in limbo, according to a new internal guidance document I obtained.
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grant funds are no longer necessary,” it says.
We published the full document in my latest for @nature.com:
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grant funds are no longer necessary,” it says.
We published the full document in my latest for @nature.com:
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The people who provide healthcare are being squeezed - just like the public.
From the perspective of those of us who work in the ER, the collapse is already happening.
From the perspective of those of us who work in the ER, the collapse is already happening.
my wife works at a nonprofit hospital and they're absolute getting fucked by these cuts, to the point where there's mass layoffs (possibly including her)
we are genuinely looking at the real potential for U.S. healthcare collapse and that's just...not mentioned in a healthcare thread? At all?
we are genuinely looking at the real potential for U.S. healthcare collapse and that's just...not mentioned in a healthcare thread? At all?
March 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The people who provide healthcare are being squeezed - just like the public.
From the perspective of those of us who work in the ER, the collapse is already happening.
From the perspective of those of us who work in the ER, the collapse is already happening.
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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.
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.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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.
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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Beautiful, powerful letter
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
Agreed. We are speaking up where we can.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty The Attack on American Education, from our Perspective as Teachers College Faculty March 19, 2025 We are a group of Teachers College facult...
docs.google.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Beautiful, powerful letter
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
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Let’s show up! We have to let Trump and his enablers know that we are not going to put up with the disrespect and dismantling of our constitution & country!!! Stand up!!
March 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.
With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close
Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.
www.npr.org
March 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.
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By gutting the Department of Education, President Trump is again trying to undermine Congress' authority — this time putting the education and civil rights of millions of students at risk.
Congress must take action.
Congress must take action.
Trump’s Attack on the Department of Education, Explained | ACLU
The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of Education offices and firing half of its workforce.
www.aclu.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
By gutting the Department of Education, President Trump is again trying to undermine Congress' authority — this time putting the education and civil rights of millions of students at risk.
Congress must take action.
Congress must take action.
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BREAKING: Flanked by students and educators, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives reut.rs/4kNfaq7
Trump signs order aimed at dismantling US Department of Education
Flanked by students and educators, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives.
reut.rs
March 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
BREAKING: Flanked by students and educators, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives reut.rs/4kNfaq7
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CALL TO SC residents!!! I have sent letters to my local reps in SC, State Senator Richard Cash and State Representative April Cromer, about their DEI bill. I also included information on this bill's effects on poor/rural white communities. Send letters: find them at www.scstatehouse.gov/index.php
South Carolina Legislature Online
www.scstatehouse.gov
March 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
CALL TO SC residents!!! I have sent letters to my local reps in SC, State Senator Richard Cash and State Representative April Cromer, about their DEI bill. I also included information on this bill's effects on poor/rural white communities. Send letters: find them at www.scstatehouse.gov/index.php
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BREAKING NEWS: The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by nearly half.
Trump signs order aiming to close the Education Department
The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by half.
www.npr.org
March 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by nearly half.
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this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news