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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
JUST IN: Harvard has designated its newly filed suit against the Trump administration as related to one filed earlier in April by Harvard professors. So, it will be initially assigned to the same judge, Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee. Doc: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
As of today, the NIH is saying it will deny funds to institutions that have any DEI programs.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
I talked to a student yesterday about a conversation she had with a program officer, who told her--NIH will fund research on "health disparities" but not "health equity." At first that seemed odd. Then I remembered--a disparity frame makes White people *less* willing to care about unequal health. 1/
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
Columbia’s reward for bending over backward to comply is *checks notes*
$700 million in more funding freezes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Looking forward to whatever double speak word salad they come up with to say this is about efficiency.
5. Ensures that scientific findings are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes & that scientists are allowed to speak freely with ethics guidelines and without censorship.
6. Upholds a commitment to equity.
7. Safeguards global collaborations.
3. Required honesty & transparency—scientists had to report errors on record, give proper credit, and accurately present their findings.
4. Created a council of experts to handle issues like misconduct, bias, and political pressure.
To be clear, we’re saying goodbye to an NIH scientific integrity policy that:
1. Protected science from political interference.
2. Let scientists do their work without fear of punishment or pressure.
Trump admin just forced NIH to rescind its scientific integrity policy… straight out of the playbook of authoritarian regimes. When fascists gain power, they don’t ban science outright—they bend it to their will. Here, “aligned” science is *controlled science*.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
Same, about 2.5-3 weeks
All of them...
The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
