“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research.” scim.ag/3Gz4VWW

Important update about local impacts of funding cuts.

Depressing but compelling...

Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together.

scienceimpacts.org

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Fellowship opportunities are back up at NIH, but check carefully as some institutes are not included (eg, NIMH).

NIH APPLICANTS:

Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification.

Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE.

You have been warned.

An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1

Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a blueprint for potentially life-saving, gene-editing Crispr therapies. www.wired.com/story/a-baby...

☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️

🫵 WHO: You + all our friends

🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.

🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community

🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th

🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

I wrote up an FAQ about the recent federal grant cuts. A few points: 🧵

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

I wrote about the National Institutes of Health and the various serious and unserious proposals for NIH reform that have been floating around. It is important to understand how this agency actually functions and point criticism at the right problems. A short 🧵: