Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund.
Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars).
Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science.
To what end?
Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.
The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.
The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.
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22% fewer NIH grants
I wrote about the private, intimate, often ridiculous agonies of working for a man who think you’re a monster nymag.com/intelligence...
US colleges see 17% drop in newly enrolled international students, report finds reut.rs/47XVtWL
February 5 Lawyer, National Security Division: Bondi signaled the Foreign Agents Registration Act would be enforced only in very limited circumstances after the Justice Department had done a lot over the last decade to give it teeth. At its core, FARA is a transparency statute, to let the American public know when foreign actors engage in political activities or try to influence U.S. discourse. If you're concerned about foreign money and influence in politics, it's a bad time to go dark.
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let.
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Jenna Norton, an outspoken signer of the Bethesda Declaration. was welcomed back to work by being placed on Administrative Leave (for No Disciplinary Reason).
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Can confirm! As of 2pm today I am on “non disciplinary” admin leave. I was given no reason. I was told it came down from HHS. I was given the name of an HHS attorney I could contact with questions. Haven’t gotten there. Will be updating!
#DynamicsClub in November - SfN: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶 will share his work with Nir Grossman on bifurcation dynamics underlying falling asleep (PMID: 41152637) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nov 20 (Thursday) at 3pm PT / 6pm ET
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@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
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And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
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this is indeed a direct response to that person who said we should abandon trans folk because “ppl won’t die on that hill, it’s not a winning political strategy”
Me. I will die on that hill. We leave nobody on the tracks.
Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."
Tweet from Monica Venzke that shows a giant poster of Donald Trump being hung outside the Labor Department headquarters. "He hung a big photo of himself on the side of Labor, which is quite literally the only time he's ever been on the side of Labor"
Tweet from the @USDOL accountant has three pictures of posters hung outside DOL headquarters, including one of Trump and one of Teddy Roosevelt, as well as a giant flag.
Nothing says democracy like agitprop.
Teddy - who believed in breaking trusts, not the working man - must be turning in his grave.
Yes I would quite seriously love to join. Please let me know!
Would love to do this but I live in DC! Can we send it to other state reps?
A government agency bragged about destroying posters protected by the First Amendment.
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Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker
Oh my god, Russell Vought is a straight up sociopath. There is no rationale for this than a profound sadism. And this man calls himself a Christian. Like Torquemada I guess. How did he get to be so damaged? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences
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NIH budgets are complicated because NIH funding varies from year to year, but they need to support projects that typically last at least 5 years (good science takes a while!). The sudden departure from the longstanding year by year model, and the budgetary chaos that will ensue, is bad.
