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Heads up! APA is urging anyone who cares about health and science to let their reps/senators know now that they should oppose the admin's murder budget.

Easy to do here: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

APA is plugged in. If they say NOW, listen! #StandUpForScience

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.

The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.

Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.

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FDA to cut Covid booster access, excluding in-home carers By restricting vaccinations, "the FDA creates a dangerous public health gap."

Caregivers to disabled people and aging adults (who do not have certain health conditions) will not be able to get the Covid booster in the future under new rules, putting people they care for at risk. New from me at @motherjones.com

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My research to prevent diabetes in Latinos isn't woke. It's efficient. Hispanic/Latino people face significantly higher rates of type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic white people — especially here in Texas.

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NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.

NIH cancels grant to re-interview Black & lower-income white Americans from Nat'l Survey of American Life (NSAL), to study factors contributing to higher risk of Alzheimer’s dis. & related dementias in these pops.

NSAL the only nat'lly representative sample of the mental hlth of Black Americans. 🛟

The American Diabetes Association issued a statement regarding NIH's discontinuation of the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study:

"Eliminating funding means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention."

diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...

Fentanyl is a safe and effective medication when used as prescribed by a medical professional and it is a vital medication for many disabled and chronically ill Americans

Inter library Loan.

They are coming for inter library loan.

Sweet Jesus.

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Missed this story last night portending something bad for AHRQ

AHRQ fills a hugely important void in the medical and health care research space: it funds work that doesn't map cleanly to a disease, body part, or special population (e.g., older Americans)

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Interesting read and a reminder why we should preferably publish in society journals. Now the large publishers make huge profits on our publicly funded scientific work. Profits that could also go back to the scientific society (and not shareholders).

Gosh I hope so much that this is true!!! Thank you for all your efforts!!

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

The largest private employer in Baltimore just lost $800 million in federal contracts and grants. This recession is going to be a doozy.

Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday

Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem...

MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t...

NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga...

RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%...

Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat...

WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...

I don’t think that would even be helpful. The info on other support is what it is - you can’t really fudge the name of a grant. I guess if you had enough pubs you might be able to massage a biosketch but you can’t really change the titles of pubs and/or still make sense of contributions to science

Former director Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers Francis Collins, former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, announced Saturday that he has retired

Francis Collins, former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, announced Saturday that he has retired

www.statnews.com/2025/03/01/n...

Many academics admit that the number of nonfaculty staff has grown to uncomfortable levels. A recent report showed that Stanford has roughly one administrator for every student—an unflattering statistic that calls into question higher ed’s priorities. But administrators have proliferated in part because of government requirements that won’t disappear with a funding cap. Universities receiving grants, for instance, must comply with important but costly regulations to protect the safety of human subjects as well as data privacy. On the other side of the balance sheet, cutting university funding affects more than academics. Research institutions can be local economic engines, creating jobs and driving innovation. The University of Alabama, the state’s largest employer, received $334 million in NIH funds in 2024 alone. Capping indirect costs at 15% would cost it around $70 million a year, shrinking its economic footprint.

A professor of public policy ought to know that Stanford has so many "administrators" because research staff FUNDED BY NIH are included in the definition. We went through this discussion several years ago. www.wsj.com/opinion/high...

Oh good and bummer. I’m waiting for an IC to reschedule one I’m on. Still holding hope for rescheduled ACs

Undergraduate research opportunities are incredibly valuable, both for the students and for the progress of the work. And having undergraduate research experience is a massive help for grad school admission. REU cancellations harm students’ preparedness & career prospects, and slow research progress

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

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U.S. weighs destroying $500 million in stockpiled covid tests The government is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households and has been considering destroying 160 million tests.

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away.

Covidtests.gov

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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu.

www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

This person has been pulling down gobs of stuff from NCES

mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/11...

It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Excited to see this resource: Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 #datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. See lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02... #publichealth