Thank you, @rwjf.org ! www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Senator Baldwin raised concern about the NIH MYF “policy” as discussion begins on Senate Labor, HHS, & Ed appropriations bill - bipartisan push back in the bill. They got the message.

More about the “policy” that isn’t a policy. Most ICs haven’t updated their funding policy websites, but NCI describes the “recently implemented” MYF requirement in their July 23rd update to explain the lack of payline (but essentially 4th percentile)

"That new policy is the 'multi-year funding' policy." But there is no FY25 "policy"-just FY26 CJ: "The FY 2026 request will continue the FY 2025 NIH policy of allocating half of the budget for competing RPGs for awards that fully fund their outyear commitments as part of the initial grant awards."

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

An extra 15 days to comment on the administration’s effort to “allow agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions” (& replace with those aligned with administration priorities) - comments now due by 6/7/25

Just a reminder - last day to submit a comment to keep political appointees from making NIH funding decisions n’at Comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

NCI lowered paylines by 2 points (to 7th/13th percentile) for May Council: “Considering the significant budget reductions proposed for FY 2026 … NCI’s funding strategy for FY2025 is to support current research activities, while reducing future-year budget requirements.”

Interesting. NHLBI is issuing its own funding opportunities outside the NIH Guide to Grants & Contracts. (full funding opportunity announcement: nhlbi-ai.org/sites/defaul... )

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

All NIH no-cost extensions require prior approval now

This is bad. Partial list - check the status of all data repositories you need for research: DASH N3C DANDI Brain Image Library Cancer Imaging Archive BioData Catalyst Ntl Sleep Research Ntl AD Coord Center SEA-AD Brain Cell Atlas EPAAD CHILDES HuBMAP NIDDK Central Rep SenNet CURE-ID NeMO MMHCdb

In advance of mass firings, administration rescinded NIH Scientific Integrity Policy preventing political interference & ensuring accountability, transparency, scientifically qualified hires, free flow of scientific information, protection of whistleblowers, etc. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

So American victory in the Revolutionary War was in part due to George Washington’s vaccine mandate (& he shuts down the herd immunity approach) …

Looks like the NIH has quietly updated the parent T32 NOFO, issued Nov 15, 2024, to remove all mention of & requirements for "diversity" (since they apparently still cannot issue new NOFOs - NIH Guide has not been updated since Jan 22, except for rogue F&A Notice). Data tables updated March 18, 2025

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

“This assault [on universities] is part of a broader endeavor, an attempt to take over every key institution in America and make each a vehicle to impose right-wing ideology. If they have to sacrifice cures for disease, so be it.”🚨 1/ @paulwaldman.bsky.social 💯 gets it. paulwaldman.substack...

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Decentralizing the NIH.

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

Read every word of this article to see what the Trump folks are doing to the good civil servants at NIH -- and to the important work that protects all of our health. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

@altnih4science.bsky.social Does the NIH need to announce Asynchronous Electronic Discussions (AED) in the Federal Register? If not, could this be used to continue reviewing applications so at least paylists are ready when Councils can resume? (yes, I’m old) public.csr.nih.gov/sites/defaul...

No surprise, Pitt is being responsible: people move across country/globe, rearrange their lives for several years for this. Fed $$ funding PhD research could be gone before year’s end. Yes, human & economic health will suffer. Country needs to wake up that this is real! And unfathomable waste!

#Breaking - Federal judge extends restraining order on Trump administration’s cap on NIH indirect costs

A Boston federal judge on Friday extended her hold on a Trump administration proposal to slash reimbursements from the NIH for research grant costs, a move colleges, hospitals and other institutions have said would wreak havoc on scientific research. www.law360.com/artic...

Does Congress even remember that it has the power of the purse? www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

Catch-22: NIH funding freeze supposedly lifted but grant review panels can't meet unless they publish a public notice. And Trump order bars agency from posting a notice. More on the Trump Tracker. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

NIH cannot make awards if it cannot publicly announce its study section and Council meetings in the Federal Register.

Checking in with sources this morning... The total from NIH was apparently slightly more than 1500 people (out of 5200 HHS Department-wide) 1/n

NIH IC Directors being fired

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

Ah - so AI didn’t hallucinate the “study” described in the “NIH” Notice on F&A costs … it failed to cite a Heritage Foundation report that was the source of those statements.

Jeremy concurs - no need to lose more sleep, but still lots to do to keep Congress from enacting Project 2025 efforts to bring down research university system

For comparison, here is an actual NIH Notice (with CDC & FDA) related to F&A costs (from 2009 - 1 of only 3 Notices about F&A rates in the entire Guide!): grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

And, it’s the only item in the NIH Guide since the communication ban on Jan 22. Seems the NIH still can’t issue public notices, which tech teens forgot. Feeling like this abrupt cut won’t be immediately enforceable, but F&A rates could still be tweaked by this Congress (reconciliation, FY26)

@jeremymberg.bsky.social @archstreet.bsky.social Both the Notice & especially the X announcement were clearly written not by anyone at NIH but by DOGE - and AI! (look at that “study”!) I have never seen an NIH Notice like this. Could tech teen ignorance & AI hallucinations tank this in court?