Jana M. Iverson, Ph.D.

Dear Director Bhattacharya: I neglected to include a couple of important points in my earlier email. First, I am glad that you raised the issues about the liver toxicity of acetaminophen. Acetaminophen is an important drug because it is a useful analgesic and antipyretic without the bleeding risks of NSAIDs such as aspirin and naproxen. However, the liver toxicity effects are quite important. It is one of the leading causes of serious acute liver injury in the United States, particularly when taken at high doses. Moreover, it is unusual for a widely used drug in that its mechanism of action is not well established. It is believed to act by inhibiting cyclooxygenase specifically in the brain, but it has not been possible to demonstrate this conclusively.

A follow-up email to Director Bhattacharya

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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

Extensive story from ProPublica about HHS staffing cuts.

Outstanding reporting and a lot to digest.

projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

Applications open next week for the 2026 TIGRR workshop! 👏Learn more about the Jan 5-9th grant writing workshop located in South Carolina today!

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It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA.

The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.

We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.

https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

"We call on members of Congress from both parties who care about their constituents to defend NIH’s critical role in lifesaving research."

NEW op ed published today by Carol Greider, Nobel Laureate, Argye Hillis, Neurologist @ John Hopkins, & Todd Wolfson, Anthropologist @ Rutgers & AAUP President.

TIGRR 2026 applications open July 1st! 🚨This workshop, designed for early-career investigators, offers one-on-one mentorship, expert guidance, and a proven path to research funding success! 👏

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I just signed the public support letter for these NIH scientists. They are speaking up against a very large political current moving against them, and they need as much vocal support as is possible to garner.

🚨 (Easy) action alert!

Please read and SHARE this open letter to say: "This new EO weaponizes language about science reform, and we do not stand for it."

Especially important for #metascience folks to do so. I'm grateful for @briannosek.bsky.social's and others' leadership as early signatories.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Just a reminder - last day to submit a comment to keep political appointees from making NIH funding decisions n’at

Comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

The State of Natural Language Sampling in Autism Research: A Scoping Review - Samantha N Plate, 2025 Background and aims Caregiver reports and standardized assessments have been the primary methods used to study language development in autism. However, these fo...

New paper by my wonderful PhD student!!

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Robert Prevost @drprevost JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others ncronline.org/node/292716 via @NCRonline

From the account of the new Pope.

New Pope has a Twitter account and this was the last thing he sent

For those with despair about today's extreme proposed funding cuts for NIH, NSF, NASA, NOAA, etc... remember:

CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS

Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.

Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.

Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research Initiative | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Still fuming about that press conference. The way RFK Jr. talks about autism is not just scientifically wrong—it’s deeply offensive.

Calling autistic kids "damaged" or implying they’ve been "lost" or "stolen" doesn’t just spread misinformation—it dehumanizes real people.

Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science

Great thread here for jr. faculty navigating the tenure process in "these times." Document all your successes and make sure your chair/PTR committee knows about them too. Show how you are doing what you can to stay research-active.

DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.

DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.

with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Revoking Congressionally appropriated funds based on political ideology is not just undemocratic, it's illegal. It's a gross misuse of American tax dollars, and it recklessly endangers everyone.

Grateful to my colleagues for standing against this. Enough is enough.

Nearly 2,000 top researchers call on Trump administration to halt ‘assault’ on science Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.

Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.

www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...

OPINION: Why you do everything right and it still ends up wrong In 2015, I graduated college with a degree in psychology and I wanted to conduct research to reduce health disparities. First, I needed more research experience if I wanted to

I wrote an op-ed about my experience as an early career researcher right now… TLDR, it’s pretty rough out there guys

Thank you to @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social for inspiring the piece and to ABQ Journal for publishing

Sargent College Team Helps Design New Middlesex Jail Unit for Incarcerated Older Adults Faculty advise on a wide range of issues, from accessible furniture to treatment, education, and training

My amazing colleagues are doing this excellent work.

www.bu.edu/articles/202...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

This from Princeton's president has been out for a few days. It's a fine statement of what's at risk and a good call for resistance.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trying to track canceled grants, Jeremy has one of the tickers. 🧪🩺

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means.

He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education.

This is eugenics.