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.

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.

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Kennedy Remains Quiet on 10,000 Jobs Lost at HHS Kennedy's silence is prompting questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike

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!

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."

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...

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.

Scientists sue NIH, HHS, RFK Jr. over termination of research grants

this really represents a disaster for the US.

Further 35% cuts for CDC, NIH, FDA, Medicaid & Medicare

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

After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

No Personnel Is Policy The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.

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
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Reach out to your Senators with your concerns and suggestions.

HELP committee… www.help.senate.gov/about/members

US Senator Cassidy calls on Kennedy to appear before Senate panel over health agency cuts The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will on April 10 hold a hearing on the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, its chairman Senator Bill Cassidy said in a statement.

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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.

Comments regarding NIH announcing what was already obvious regarding diversity considerations...

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Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics

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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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

#scpol

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.

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.

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.

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.

NEW: Baldwin, Welch Announce Forum on Devastating Trump Cuts at NIH Jeopardizing Cures for Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancers | U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Peter Welch (D-VT) announced that...

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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.

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

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

Trump signs order aiming to close the Education Department The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by half.

BREAKING NEWS: The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by nearly half.

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

After Columbia’s ‘nightmare,’ dozens more universities brace for Trump NIH cuts Threats to end funding over alleged antisemitism are rocking medical researchers—and stoking calls for legal action

After Columbia’s ‘nightmare,’ dozens more universities brace for Trump NIH cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Chilling to see this list of terminated NIH grants. Research on Alzheimer's, HIV, rare diseases, vaccines -- gone. Cancer centers closed, training grants & fellowships terminated. Young scientists stranded. Patients waiting for treatments that'll never come. Just sad.

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Studies terminated at NIH:
-On reducing asthma from mold
-On prenatal risks & screening
-On statins influence on dementia
-On the safety/risk of gender-affirming care
-On how Covid vax outcomes & disparities
-On improving HIV care
-Training programs for the next generation of scientists

At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...