Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.
https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4
This is incredibly upsetting. While the effects of these cancellations are clear to academics, we need to ensure that the wider public is not only aware of what's happening, but also understands how much damage this will cause to health and medical infrastructure, tech innovation, and higher ed.
Please do!
Relevant to this post with some analysis on the regulatory burden: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Hahaha oh course evaluations
Personally, I went to a conference in the middle of the semester this year, and it was much harder to deal with missing a week of teaching my class versus scheduling vacations around a summer conference
That’s Canada - it’s only -20 C here, downright balmy!
Thanks Brian! Excited to see one of these twitter alternatives gaining some traction!
