I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Meanwhile NIH reviewer training admonishes us that we may never, ever feed our assigned grants to AI. While in fact our grants all go into training a black box AI on our intellectual property…

The president's recent budget proposal calls for a 37% cut to #CancerResearch funding. If this proposal becomes law, it will have life-threatening consequences. That's why we're fighting back. Send a message to your members of Congress now urging them to reject these outrageous proposed cuts.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

"When the people in the world of biomedical research, let’s cut the technical language, disease cure research make sustained contact with the people in each of these dozen or so disease communities and help them understand what’s happening, that’s the point when I think everything will change."

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

Cassidy: Why did you cut research on ALS and alzheimers. RFKJ: The Chinese aren't spending a lot of money on DEI. We have not fired any working scientists. THIS IS A BALD-FACED LIE.

"The universities can’t say the grants have been canceled because they in fact have not been canceled. And they’re scared to say they’re not being paid because they’re hoping the White House or the NIH will relent." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

🚨🚨🚨 Four NIH institute directors have been removed from their posts and some offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, effective today. These institutes include NIAID (Jeanne Marrazzo), NIMHD (Eliseo Pérez-Stable), NICHD (Diana Bianchi), and NINR (Shannon Zenk).

ICYMI (especially if you work in Democratic politics): Cutting cancer research is one of the things Americans are most worried about. And one of the things they’ve heard the least about. According to polls from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social: 1/

Again, today would be an excellent day for Ivy League, Big Ten, & all the other chancellors & university presidents to start speaking loudly & collectively against the all-out existential crisis that this assault on US higher ed represents. The silence is deafening. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

If there is one thing scientists need to know right now it’s this. Every effort you make now has to be directed at reaching the average normal person. That means reaching off Bluesky. Hold local events, write local papers, get on local TV. Go to any space average people get info.

Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is a major NIH-supported hospital and research center in Seattle. And NIH funds many essential clinical trials that cannot be supported by the private sector. This is devastating.

This story is not just for us nerds. Find ways to connect with non-scientists. DNA diagnostics, ancestry, etc.

"PubMed is the backbone of biomedical research in the U.S....It's housed under the NIH and is essentially our national library for public health and medical research information. #cansky #medsky #NIH #Resist

Agreed! So many loose connections that I talk to do NOT understand what is happening. Scientists--please share how these cuts, website deletions, contract cancellations, etc are hurting you! #cansky #medsky #NIH #Resist

Graduate programs ceasing admissions in the US due to funding being cut off is going to cause a really interesting predicament for private industry when companies want to hire trained researchers in 4-5 years.

Yes, the NIH is *still* violating a court order and freezing funds for new and competitive awards. But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.

talking with reporters about the current chaos at the NIH, it's super clear how much of the convo is about HOW the NIH and federal funding of biomedical research works. Super grateful to the education I've received on twitter and from blogs, especially @drugmonkey.bsky.social's and physioproffe's

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻This. And is why it's so important for scientists to share their story with neighbors, parents in the school pick up line, etc #cansky #medsky #academicsky #NIH #Resist

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

Voters are freaked when they hear about Trump and Musk shutting down cancer research in the US. Even 71% of indy voters.

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

So true. My mother is being treated for non-hereditary breast cancer. She's taking estrogen blockers & progesterone blockers, the latter of which is potently anti-metastatic. Kamala Harris' mother became a citizen on a visa which involved research IDing & describing mammary hormone receptor cells.

Here's my story on why NIH intramural scientists are important. In the late 1960s, my mother was newly married, pregnant, and very excited to start a new family. Towards the end of her pregnancy, she contracted toxoplasmosis, which went unidentified by her OB. (1/5) #medsky #cansky #NIH #Resist

It's literally the first two rules. This line is key: "Institutions do not protect themselves." Choose an institution you care about and take its side. Publicly. Thank you to everyone who's done that for NIH.

This is terrifying.

Reminder no Councils = no $$ = no research. Advisory councils are a second level review of the results from the study sections. We need both to be happening! Keep calling your reps and telling your story! #cansky #medsky #academicresearch #NIH #resist

Share 👏Your 👏Story👏 #cansky #medsky #academicresearch #NIH #resist

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.

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

Attacks on cancer research, which is what is going on, resonate with everyone. Everyone in America, rural or urban, knows someone with cancer or worries about it themselves. Explain it to people who don’t care about science by talking about the outcomes, the cures for disease.

‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

Yes, more of this! We need scientists telling their stories to neighbors, parents at school pick up, etc. #cansky #academicresearch #NIH #resist

"Further, in some of the NIH’s institutes and centers, according to internal NIH correspondence reviewed by Popular Information, all grants have been frozen pending the creation of anti-DEI language that can be added to applications. " #cansky #medsky #academicresearch #NIH #resist

STAT story is up about study section restart. www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/s...

Fantastic call to action to scientists! Call your reps! And show up as a scientist- at your kid's PTA, when you talk to neighbors on your dog walk. Don't assume they know why your work is important. And don't assume that they don't care! #cansky #medsky #academicresearch #nih #resist

NEW: DOGE workers now have access to the NIH department known as the "wallet" of the entire organization. From @mattreynolds.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Keep calling your reps! www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

WBUR story up www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...

Excellent podcast that covers the NIH study section freezes and the assault on all of science! #cansky #medsky #academicresearch #NIH #resist

By FACA law, waivers of public notice will require presidential approval and publication of the reasoning in the Federal Register, so keep calling your reps! #cansky #academicresearch #medsky

The orders “will kill”, Wolfson said. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk are taking a sledgehammer to the greatest biomedical infrastructure in the world" to extend tax cuts,” Wolfson said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Great call to action from AACR. But please CALL your reps. It's fast and evidence suggests it is far more effective. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa... #NIH #resist #callyourreps

"Already, the meeting freeze has stalled about 16,000 grant applications vying for around $1.5 billion in NIH funding, one of the people who is familiar with the grant-making process said." Call Your Reps! #NIH #resist

Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov speaking about the blocks on NIH study sections via the Federal Register. I have been calling her office all week about this (as I'm certain others have as well!). Advocacy works! Keep up the pressure! www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

I'm a former policy wonk at a patient advocacy group and former statistician at the CDC. From listening to the conversations between my academic friends, it is clear you are saying things that policymakers and advocates need to hear and I'm hoping to help translate between the two!