Rebecca Heise, PhD

You are not alone in this NIH grant game Many years ago I started blogging about the NIH system of extramural grant award because of my own frustrations with the system, as it appeared to be to me. Over time, I realized that there were a …

You are not alone in this NIH grant game drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/y...

Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

An accurate and terrifying description from @chrischirp.bsky.social. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on #science and #academic freedom". #academicsky #medsky

Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.

I have gotten many emails from reu applicants. We will be extending our deadline for NSF Site: Mechanobiology at VCU and are hopeful to continue the site as planned

As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.

Less than 1 month left to apply to our NSF REU in #Mechanobiology More info and application link here : egr.vcu.edu/departments/bi…
Please share with your students! Richmond is lovely in the summer! #BME #BiomedicalSciences

an orange cat has an agitated and confused expression on his face, and part of a jacket on his neck

Seems like a nice day for running around screaming questions at each other that we know full well have no answers