🇺🇸 These dedicated public servants risked their careers to deliver an urgent message. 🚨 While the 1st amendment grants them the right to speak on matters of public concern, their protection is not guaranteed under an administration hostile to free speech. Please take the time to listen and boost 🔥

“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.” - @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career... #neuroskyence

No 14-year-old should be tried as an adult. None. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults: Cuellar Davis (NC) Gillen Golden Lee (NV) Min Perez Vindman Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science: mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...

So... where to go from here??? CONGRESS 👏 HAS 👏 POWER Laws from Congress can help override this SCOTUS mess. ☎️ So tell your Senator to support Sen Baldwin's amendment to restore terminated NSF grants (or Durbin's for NIH) 🐘 *Especially* if you have a Repub Senator. More context here:

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists! #HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

Great breakdown of the SCOTUS shadow docket ruling on NIH grants terminations by @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. Even though SCOTUS ruled that the grant recipients would likely succeed, they allowed the NIH to continue terminating the grants for now. My brain hurts from this one.

This SCOTUS decision is not just about what words we can and cannot say in our grants. This ruling will destroy the careers of many scientists, and it will hit trainees and early career researchers the hardest. The future of scientific training and research innovation is at stake.

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

On today’s SCOTUS decision — “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” Justice Jackson wrote. “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.” — Justice Jackson’s dissent. #NIH #StandUpForScience

Full order is here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... SCOTUS stays (i.e., pauses) Judge Young's order insofar as it vacated (and thus reinstated) NIH grant terminations. SCOTUS left in place the rest of Judge Young's order, which means NIH can't terminate more grants in the same way.

Deadline extended www.instagram.com/p/DNd-PdvyU3F/

👍 An appeals court ruled today to **uphold** an order blocking grant terminations for U of California researchers So good news for UC folks. Could also mean the case will soon end up at the Supreme Court (along with one that’s pending there now for NIH terminations).

This! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Here is the Priorities document (long thread) 1/n

Today, Bhattacharya sent a document entitled "NIH Priorities and Internal Review of Intramural and Extramural Programs" to Institute and Center Directors and other leaders. I am trying to get a clean copy. These "Priorities" will likely be "Agency Priorities" for grant funding and termination.

STAT has a new multi-dimensional story up www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/i... 1/5

New filing: "Massachusetts v. Kennedy, Jr. (NIH Grant Terminations)" Doc #176: Memorandum of Law Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69843493

We're hiring!!! Princeton Psych has an Assistant Prof search in cog neuro (joint with @princetonneuro.bsky.social). Apply apply apply! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

The UAW/ACLU/APHA are seeking details on NIH grant applications that were delayed or withdrawn. The previous deadline of August 4 has been extended to August 25. I’ll include screenshots of FAQs in the replies. Please share widely! www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

This is an important story that highlights 2 impending dangers to science: 1) Shadow docket SCOTUS ruling that will likely re-terminate grants due to being “DEI” (they aren’t tho). 2) Plan to re-terminate grants come Oct. 1 (FY 26) And a 3rd: pocket recission Aug. 16 Call yer Congressfolks.

There's a lot of stuff going on this week, so I want to remind everyone that there's still the threat of a pocket recission as early as next week. Whether or not it happens, we've been working frantically at the NIH to spend down lab funds and get out grants. This chaos is not good for science.

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 11! MAKE A CALL MONDAY! I think we can all agree that it is time for ALL members of congress—right and left—to locate their spines and use them! ☎️ Call your legislators and tell them to STAND UP for science! 🔗 tinyurl.com/k6twua23 #31Days

Translation for 🧪 folks: Vought has been illegally covering up how he’s withholding appropriated $ from NIH, NSF, etc., an appeals court ruled. The illegal coverup here = hiding data on how OMB/Vought is sending $ to agencies (called “apportionments”)

This is important and time sensitive. SCOTUS will soon be deciding on the shadow docket whether NIH grants will be re-terminated. If they stay Judge Young’s ruling, NIH will be further hindered from funding important science. Stop the Stay.

200 days in, checking in on HHMI funding opportunities: Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program - not accepting applications Gilliam Fellows Program - not accepting applications Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program - not accepting applications Investigator Program - not accepting applications

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/

ASCB and fellow science groups urged SCOTUS not to block a ruling that reinstated NIH diversity grants, warning that continued terminations harm scientists and halt critical biomedical research. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

On Aug. 1, ASM & partner societies filed an expanded amicus brief with SCOTUS to defend scientific integrity & protect early-career researchers. The brief highlights the harm caused by NIH grant terminations, including canceling the MOSAIC program. asm.org/press-releas...

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 4! We are welcoming our legislators home for recess! Use this link to call your legislators. Put in your info, answer the call to your phone, and follow the script for your 3 calls! act.standupforscience.net/call_campaig... #31Days

🧪 How will Supreme Court decide on grant terminations? Lots of nail-biting now as SCOTUS decides on a "shadow docket" case for NIH terminations. As of today, all back-and-forth replies have been filed: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?... So now, it's a waiting game....

A Supreme Court stay on the APHA v NIH and Mass v Kennedy ruling will hurt all NIH science and all scientists. It will be another hit to America as a leader in biomedical research. Most of all, it will kill cures. Make sure the Supreme Court knows we are watching.

Some sweet people have been sending physical cards and letters to the Bethesda Declaration signers. This is so kind and meaningful. It would be GREAT if they received more. Cards can be sent to Ian Morgan NIGMS 45 Center Dr, MSC 6200 Bethesda, MD 20892-6200 Ian will share them with the signers.

The Trump admin has asked SCOTUS to greenlight NIH’s purge of critical medical research on cancer, Alzheimer's disease, veterans' health, diabetes & more. We're fighting back to protect science & public health—and urging SCOTUS to deny that request. Read our filing: protdem.org/4mmFgA7

This August, we’re turning concern into collective action and you’re invited. Our founder & executive director @cdelawalla.bsky.social breaks it down here 👇 youtu.be/AaYs9Il9Hy0?... We’ve got the tools, training, & community to make it easy. Links in thread to get involved!

NEW: some tough NSF litigation news-- Judge Cronan (Trump appointee) in NY v NSF (16 states challenging NSF grant terminations) just denied Plaintiffs' motion for prelim injunction. Says Tucker Act likely requires claims to be filed in Fed Claims Court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Incredibly well reported deep dive on NIH and health disparities research in STAT. 🧵 www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n... 1/31

Lawmakers to NIH: Use it or lose it. 14 Republican Senators—including key appropriators—are urging the White House to release NIH FY25 funds without delay, warning that stalled spending could harm future research budgets. Read more: www.ascb.org/science-poli...

The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray. "Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.

Public pressure works. The Senate proposed FY26 funding for the NIH that is being voted on today includes a $400 million increase. Keep up the great work everyone, call your house representatives and make sure this passes through the full Senate.

🌵🏜️🌵 New preprint! How do people learn from ambiguous feedback, like whether someone is laughing *with* you 😆 or *at* you 😏? A very fun collab w/ the brilliant @rbhui.bsky.social A brief thread...👇 📖 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!! Message from ACLU team below: 1/n

🧪 A court has ruled some #NIH grant terminations for disfavored topics were illegal, but the legal case is ongoing. APHA & UAW are collecting information on affected grants & applications. If you are a member and your work was impacted, please fill out the link below (due 8/4) #AcademicSky #MedSky 🛟

1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...