Friends, it’s time to let that imposter syndrome go. Former Harvard president and former secretary of the treasury Larry Summers can’t even write a coherent email. Plus, his bestie was a pedophile sex trafficker. And the sex trafficker’s other bestie is president. You deserve that promotion!

NIH Study Section Watch Day 1: No communication about rescheduling.

Odd or jarring as it might be for some in my professional community, this brilliant @pbs.org documntary echoes aspects of my bkgrnd. Science was the path for me & that was entirely fortuitous. Hope many of you find a chance to watch this & think on how (& to whom) we open doors of opportunity!

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NIH's updated multi-year payout policy (funding all years of a grant upfront vs. annually) could dramatically reduce new R01s available. While total awards are "catching up," the impact on new investigators remains concerning. With budget negotiations underway, now's the time to contact your reps!

I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know. (continued)

This ad for us scientists and educators from the Big Ten Academic Alliance is nicely done! Share widely please - not just in reposts but also in speaking with members of your community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmc...

@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease. Details below careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa... Plz RT

Few examples: 1) understand where the payline is and what score compression looks like. I suspect a 1 will be required. Maybe 1 or 2 apps will be funded per SS. 2) be kind to ESI/NI and other discriminated groups 3) maybe drop the whole "this is an A1 but I'm going to pretend it's not" approach.

New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First highlight... Senator Capito started of the discussion saying that the bill contains AN INCREASE for NIH. The details are not available, but the bill will be released ofter the hearing. This is not a done-deal, but it does show where the Senate is on a bipartisan basis.

STAT: Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts / OMB directive sets up a clash with Congress bit.ly/4lU5Lgw

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

Funding policy for 2025 from NCI. Was just released: 4 percentile…maybe! www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

Join the 22,339 people who have joined to support our NIH colleagues. Let's get this to 50,000 RT

I urge others to similarly support our patriots at NIH who use their training and talents to improve human health and position the US as the world’s leader in biomedical discovery, innovation and technology development 🙏

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs

In case you hadn't noticed:

Yeah, about that letter "signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official and was sent on April 11 as promised”? And then you told us to fuck ourselves? Yeah, that wasn't a real letter. We didn't mean it.

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

I'm the new VP of WVU's Graduate Women Advocating Science and I'm on a mission! We want to host a speaker who can tell us about activism in STEM for underrepresented voices. Know anyone? My following is on the micro scale so any reposts are deeply appreciated ❤️ #womeninSTEM #diversityinSTEM #SciComm

Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

@Glaivy Batsuli (Stanford) & I are track chairs for the Basic Science (& possibly translational/laboratory) sessions for @THSNA 2026 www.thsna.org/web/ Know trainees or under-represented voices (including yourself!) we should consider? #thsna2026 #thrombosis #hemostasis DM or comment below!🙏

The UK Government Statistical Service is hiring a batch of stats folk. 15 Higher Statistical Officer 5 Senior Statistical Officer - National in Locations across UK. East Kilbride in Scotland. https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/ #rstats #statistics #jobs #civilservice

publichealth.realclearjournals.org/perspectives... I am no policy expert but this is one article that is seemingly connected to Dr. Bhattaracharya - and if so, it is worth an open discussion (and possibly feedback to him!) Thoughts?

How I will remember April Fools' Day 2025. Reckless. My heart is out for these dedicated folks at NIH, FDA and CDC www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...

This is why they've spent decades selling the myth that wealth is a proxy for work-ethic. Because that myth makes it easy to treat poverty as proof that someone isn't deserving of sympathy or support.

People let go everywhere you turn at NIH today, carrying in empty boxes. Both the people in the elevator with me. Multiple IC directors. The HR people who are supposed to process all the early retirements. All of the people who respond to data calls that we are legally required to answer.

1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

Thanks for this! I just called and chose 0 to talk to an operator. She sounded so pleased to hear from me and said she had a log right there and they’re sharing the numbers with the CEO. She told me she felt proud to work there. 🥹 CALL!! ☎️ #MomSky

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

My academic department (at Wesleyan University, CT, US) is searching for a one-year Visiting Professor position in Developmental Psychology. Great place to teach for a year! Apply here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

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!

Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪

Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t... #genomics #NIH #NHGRI

Grateful for new & old friends who keep me going in science despite many barriers! Thank you in particular to the #Hemostasis & #Thrombosis Research Society & the #Megs & #Platelets #GRC community for the sustaining relationships.

Some good news: BV study section is being rescheduled for end of March beginning of April, process just started. Fingers crossed!

I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE. Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!? secured.heritage.org/the-heritage... Please share with a friend or a thousand :)

Here it is...

Do Council meetings need to be announced in the Federal Register in the next two days in order to be held (and money disbursed) before the continuing resolution expires on March 14th?

From a few days earlier: www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

ATTENTION If anyone has a NoA from Year 1 and subsequent years that they are willing to share, please DM me.

Universities - but also journals, professional associations etc. Anytime you have a link to post on X you are encouraging people to use a site that systematically downgrades dissenting voices.

This, Ladies and Gentleman, is Dr. Dorothy Fink, the Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services, who first put the restriction on Federal Register postings by NIH on January 21, 2025...

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

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

Some good-ish news from NIH “Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again” As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

1. UPDATE The NIH is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about DEI, according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence. The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.

In 2022, I participated in the important NHGRI Workshop "Future Directions in Genomics & Health Equity Research". The program & accompanying materials were available online. They are now gone. This makes me so sad, especially for our wonderful colleagues at NIH who care about this work deeply.