Buckeye sighting at #NDiSTEM2025

Where else can you salsa your way to science communication but #NDiSTEM2025 ?

Buckeye sighting at #NDiSTEM25 #SACNAS25

Some results of #Melissa passing over #Jamaica this afternoon.

Jamaica waiting for #melissa

Woke up thinking of #melissa and bro-in-law in Jamaica. Stay safe @barrsteve.bsky.social Stay safe, everyone.

Attending #ASHG25? Learn how @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators are improving polygenic risk prediction in diverse populations by visiting these talks and posters docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Effects of the #governmentshutdown, now in day 15 #ASHG25

I wore this at a local grocery store recently. A cashier across the store pointed at me and yelled “yes you do!” Turns out her daughter has a #PhD and just landed her first faculty position at a university whose #NIH funding was being withheld. Real jobs and real science are being lost really fast.

The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/

1/ Troubling trend 3️⃣ during today's #ACIP (and last one for now) Pseudoepi Knowing juuuust enough epidemiology to be dangerous while not knowing enough to complete the thought

Getting caught up on my #vaccines the day of the Senate health committee hearing and the eve of the CDC ACIP meeting.

Don’t I know it…

This is a key point--terminations have hit every corner of the country. See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.

Will the ripple reach Ohio terminated grants???

Once again from my brilliant and talented (and anonymous) colleague, some dramatic moments from today's hearing:

⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants. It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates. Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.

Save #NIH #NoKings in research funding! #NoKingsDay

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

One of our supplements is in there. ☹️

Ohio is going to lose a lot of #NIH funding and real jobs if the terminations continue and the proposed budget cut becomes reality. www.cleveland.com/politics/202...

Another #NIH grant terminated. This was a supplement. I am now 0/3.

I feel you affected #NSF grantees (coming from an affected #NIH grantee).

🚨 The NIH’s sweeping cuts of research grants are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., @raelnb.bsky.social and I found. At least 43% of organizations that had grants terminated are public universities. About 40% are in states Trump won in November. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Harder and harder to do when the NIH grant terminations keep rolling in. Second one for me in two weeks.

Marie Vibbert, a webmaster at Case Western, was told to take down the pages of DEI-related scholarships. She refused. I am proud to know her, and if the day came for me, I hope I would be half as courageous. www.ideastream.org/government-p...

"I'm very angry about it, and people are like, ‘Oh gosh, you're so brave.’ And I'm like, 'This isn't that brave,'” Vibbert said. “It's not like someone's holding a gun to our head. They're holding money to our head. And we've got to stop caving for something as unimportant as your bottom line.”

For the win!

As we traverse the new academic landscape can someone please tell me the difference between compromise and capitulation? I see schools capitulating to government and now see administrators requiring the same from their faculty. Due process is dying from the head down.

#Handsoff in CLE!

Substitute PREP for MOSAIC and you’ve got the exact same email we received today. Below is what was shared by one of our PREP directors with past and present PREP mentors. Provides just a tiny peek into the impact that this, and programs like it, have had on the best and brightest.

In other bad news, PREP was officially terminated today. Our highly successful post-baccalaureate research education program, associated with almost 50 PhD or MD/PhD graduates and counting, was NIH-supported for 18 years. Future American scientists have been lost in this hostile government takeover.

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

My understanding is that the end goal of this resource is to track more than research and to capture all we have lost as a result of the GOP’s dismantling of the federal government. They’re relying on information from communities impacted, so please share widely theresearchwelost.com

Suddenly feeling the urge to understand advocacy with respect to NIH funding? Want to channel that energy into service for science? Consider throwing your name into the 2025 nomination for #ASHG 's various 2026 committees, including Government & Public Advocacy at apply.ashg.org/a/page/commi...

We rally at noon here in Cleveland! #standupforscience #standupforscience2025

ASHG is deeply troubled by the recent layoffs at a number of agencies. The impact on scientific progress and innovation is profound and alarming. Read our statement: www.ashg.org/publications...

📍Ohio protests, so far! Keep checking events.Pol-Rev.com for more listings, they are being added all the time. Nationwide protests THIS MONDAY, Feb. 17th, #NoKingsDay. We the people are pissed! Find a protest at > events.pol-rev.com 🇺🇸 Where will we see you? #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #Ohio

ASHG is concerned about the cuts to NIH-funded research support, its impacts on biomedical research, and the effect on local, state, and national economies. We join our advocacy partners to ensure essential progress is not stalled. Read our statement: www.ashg.org/publications... #ASHG

These views are my own as a citizen in the state of Pennsylvania and do not reflect the views of my employer. I personally cannot stress enough that this severe NIH cut will have a devastating impact on both rural and urban communities in red and blue states alike. The cut will lead to:

NOT OK: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I've seen lists of private companies that have scaled back or cancelled programs even slightly related to DEI. Anyone making a list of universities doing the same thing? If not, I'll start with the University of North Carolina and its sister universities: avlwatchdog.org/trump-mandat...

Heads up--if you are working on a grant, check that your NOFO hasn't been "early expired". Also, grants.gov is wonky. And, this:

Et tu, HHMI?

Hello—I am looking for first person essays by scientists and doctors that are relevant to the news to run in Slate. Pitches and submissions: [email protected]

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

An excellent (that is to say, accurate) post about some of the shit that is happening. I’m leaving the fucking curse words in. Worth a read and a good reminder at the end.

I cannot comprehend how in my lifetime we went from the eradication of smallpox to the presumed confirmation of an anti-vaxxer to head HHS.

Several Graduate T32s (G-RISE, IMSD, Bridges to the Doctorate) and the MARC T34 (for undergraduates) training grants now have expiration dates of today, 1/30/2025.