'If this keeps up, it would be really devastating' "Academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts... Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students..amid uncertainty about federal science funding." #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

📣 Last call for applications! Deadline 30.04.25

Hamburg researchers scanned 44 Long COVID patients and found severe shrinkage in key brainstem-cerebellum bridges. These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Coincidentally, the $45 billion to be spent on concentration camps happens to be the size of the NIH budget.

Bumping this post for anyone who missed it yesterday and needs tigris this weekend!

This AI generated forest is really not keeping up with what real trees can do for me yet.

The photo at the right is actually the more hopeful one, because it was taken after liberation.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US

Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov. Mike DeWine.

Former President of my current University. I’ve never felt so much fear in University spaces in my 25 year career. As an 80s kid, it feels at least a little bit like how I imagined people might feel (and behave) in Soviet Russia.

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

Take it from people inside #NIH: If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead. Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪

This is a lie. Social Security is even more efficient than the private sector. It's a political tool they're wielding to destroy Social Security. "Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

This Wednesday at 12pm ET, I'll be giving a FREE 3-hour webinar on "Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in #rstats" Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl! Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

This is a war on science, an illegal attack on functioning government, and it is racism. Real students, current and future research professionals -- working on the pressing issues of the day, for government and society -- which any functioning modern democracy needs, having their careers cut off. /5

Looking forward to receiving your submissions! ⭐ Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025

“The president has completely stopped funding for research that discovers cures for diseases that devastate families across the country, like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, all so he can give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations… crushing families’ hopes and dreams of having cures.”

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

The powerful thing about this website issue is that it is very easy for the judge to verify compliance. That's very different for impoundment. The Trump admin can hold up payments and that's hard to check. But websites? We can all tell if the website has been restored.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is the way.

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

US military budget: $850 billion US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

As a hospital based cancer registrar, it is my job to collect the data that cancer researchers use and is also used to provide cancer statistics. SEER, which falls under the NIH umbrella provides many of our manuals and databases that we use daily to do our jobs. 1/2

I am working on a difficult cancer case and need guidance normally provided by submitting a question to Ask a SEER registrar. The website states “Answers are not being sent out at this time. You may continue to submit questions.” This disruption thrust upon NIH is more far reaching than most know.

House Science & Tech Committee meeting starting now. youtu.be/8HN1MjPHTfA

George W Bush politicized sciencd to a shocking degree, but when Rep Toomey & the religious right attacked NIH grants based on this *exact* keyword search strategy, W’s NIH director defended every grant on the list. www.nature.com/articles/nm0... journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.

This happened to me too just now. Anyone else having trouble getting in to NIH eRACommons? I only use login.gov so am not sure alternative logins are working?

I’m feeling sick. BRFSS is one of the most basic public health survey datasets. There is no conceivable reason to take it down.

More than 60 German universities and research outfits are announcing that they will end their activities on twitter. Including my alma mater, the University of Münster. HT @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

Hey PhD students with demography/population health training! The Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social is hiring multiple postdoc positions for next year. Apply to come work in the coolest pop center around (not that I'm biased or anything)! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

Interesting. "The more gender equal a country is, the more likely women are to be more left-wing than men in their political ideology." Thanks for sharing.

@socimages.bsky.social our team has been creating some of these biscale maps. Here we looked at blood pressure inequalities by neighborhood in Cleveland. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29764

Dr. Adebambo and I collected some stories of things that happen in health care. Each author is courageous. The E-book is free if you're at a Springer Link school. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Are there any critical-cultural-social ageing/gerontology starter packs? I can only find very services/health care focused ones @socbarb.bsky.social @sallychivers.bsky.social @dianateggi.bsky.social @lizbaz.bsky.social @nicoledalmer.bsky.social @cassie-phoenix.bsky.social @merryngott.bsky.social ???