All in all, this update reveals a number of issues to be concerned about:
(1) Slow pace of grant making, particularly for new and competitive renewal grants
(2) OMB apportionment delays as a possible cause
(3) Slow pace of institutional training grants
(4) Increased use of multiyear funding
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
Are they playing for a major budget reduction in the next Fiscal Year?
NIAAA is starting to concern me drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/n...
NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
Update to https://scienceimpacts.org to include terminated grants
Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).
scienceimpacts.org
Please comment. It's super easy and can have a big impact.
New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.
So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:
NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase
Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:
💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.
📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.
Thanks for articulating something I’ve been struggling with as well. Let his incompetence stand on its own.
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Someone just sent me this and I cannot support it enough: the creation of the California Institute for Scientific Research (CISR) to offset the orange monster's destruction of federal research. sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/trump-g...
The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
There is a debate in the addiction field about the affect regulation hypothesis. So let's see what ya got! Papers in favor, papers opposed. Thanks @jonasdora.bsky.social @kevinmking.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social @drandreahoward.bsky.social @jtwaddell7.bsky.social for being Guest Editors.
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Though all of scientific research is sitting under the gun, the most vulnerable among us are our postdocs. The nations 72,000 postdocs often go unnoticed in national discourse but are essential to the American research enterprise across all disciplines. www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p...
Not sure how up-to-date this is. Someone I know who was let go is still listed as an employee.
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
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I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
As of today, at least 73 study sections have not met. If they review 50 applications, plus 30 triaged, 10% funding rate = 8 grants per SS.
That's 584 fundable grants on hold. Probably 5000 researchers affected in those teams composed of our best and brightest.
SABOTAGE.
alright, we're gonna kick this series off with a fucking bang. my first story in the DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS series comes from nate brought, director of the executive secretariat at the national institutes of health, and you're going to want to hear what he has to say.
Trend reversal. During the first six weeks of the year... showing a $2B short fall
Take a look at this chart. That gap, shown by the red arrow, is two billion dollars in grants that have not gone out the door.
Now, study sections can't meet till late March. The gap will grow.
(from the piece by @maxkozlov.bsky.social )
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
Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why.
How has Trump responded?
By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.
