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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9d

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety

Who knows what will happen now

Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18d

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS

Comment period ends September 29th

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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Aug 30

Interesting news about grants to prevent mass violence being canceled in MN and elsewhere. "Not all ...have been canceled. Asked about two grants awarded to the sheriff’s office in Palm Beach County, Florida – where Mar-a-Lago is located – a sheriff’s office spokesperson said the grants are active."

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 25

WARNING WARNING WARNING

#ResearchAdmini

I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Aug 21

All true but still probably a better outcome than we could have expected. This is what good news looks like for scientists these days...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

I have a first serious attempt to estimate the consequences of multi-year funding for July.

For new R01s, the amount of additional expenditure was

$135 M

The number of additional R01s that could have been funded is

182

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is an important point about the NIH's new multi-year funding model that many PIs (even some senior ones) aren't aware of:

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

Same as always. The funds are committed but the institution only gets them as reimbursements when they are spent. Since "NIH" is now comfortable terminating grants (and this could get worse after October 1st with the new Executive Order, there isn't much real benefit to institutions or PIs.

hanseatic.bsky.social @hanseatic.bsky.social · Aug 14

Is there any more clarity on how the multi-year funding works? Are PIs just getting the funds obligated or are they actually getting all the funding up front?

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Chris Smith @chriscrsmith.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hello bluesky community!

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Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jul 31

Disregard my question, and see: bsky.app/profile/davi...

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 31

The formal provision was adopted as an amendment.

Bill text will be updated later with it:

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here's the provision to block multi-year funding:

(the bill text PDF will later be updated with this as an adopted amendment: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...)

Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jul 31

Was there actually any discussion of such an amendment in committee today?

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jul 31

There was also some mention of the bill containing some kind of effort to stop the forward-funding policy but the statement I heard was very vague. Anyone have any idea what that was about?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 28

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
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Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget

NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jul 14

My quote of the day is a bit longer: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - A Defense of Beanbag Genetics

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks for the info. Fingers crossed!

Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jul 11

Anyone know if NIH T funding mechanisms are still comatose?

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Tyler Kent @tylervkent.bsky.social · Jul 10

Excellent work out from postdoc Remi Ketchum in @samurscicop.bsky.social's lab 👊🔥🦟

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Jul 10

Signatures of soft selective sweeps predominate in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.06.663360v1

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jul 4

I heard it in the wind, and I saw it in the sky. I thought it was the end...

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4th Of July

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Save Health Research @savehealthresearch.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you to Natalie for being a voice for thousands of clinical trial patients who are not receiving the care they were promised. This is powerful.

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Dr.Dr. Helene Andrews-Polymenis @hpolymenis.bsky.social · Jun 18

I applied for this trial. This could EASILY have been me. Or someone else you know.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 18

Powerful story from Carolyn Johnson at the Washington Post...

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His custom cancer therapy is in an NIH freezer. He may not get it in time.

The purge of probationary federal workers included skilled lab personnel who would have finalized a customized cell immunotherapy for cancer patients.

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jun 10

The (old) NIH made some recent-ish changes that address this somewhat, but I don't think it can be fully addressed unless more $ (higher grant success rates) is part of the solution. Anyway none of this matters because the whole system has just been nuked and the consequences will be catastrophic.

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yes that is clearly true, but it is absolutely clear that low success rates (which are about to get WAY) lower, play a big role in this.

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jun 10

Bingo.

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · Jun 10

So by extension, when NSF grant success rates drop from ~25% to 7% after the coming budget cut there will be no move towards even more risk-averse science. Good to know!

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jun 9

‘Dire implications’: Duke University president warns of ‘likely’ layoffs due to federal funding cuts www.wbtw.com/news/state-r...

‘Dire implications’: Duke University president warns of ‘likely’ layoffs due to federal funding cuts

“We will, for the foreseeable future, have to be smaller – and do our work with fewer people.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

Washington Post story about #BethesdaDeclaration

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NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling.

More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

www.washingtonpost.com

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