For some weird reason, the Trump Administration is cancelling healthcare improvement grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. #AHRQ I don’t understand why this is not national news. #AHRQ #AHRQcide #healthcare #HHS www.linkedin.com/posts/seanbr...

🚨Researchers across the country are receiving official notices that AHRQ is ending (healthcare) grants. #healthcare open.substack.com/pub/ahsituat...

If we need a real news story tonight, it’s that Agency for #Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) improvement grants across the United States are being cancelled in mass today by the Trump Administration.

Our voting systems are secure; researchers and experts have examined them. This is all just political BS.

This talk is politicizing some inverted data over other. And this is all during his first administration. If there was an issue, which there isn’t, he should blame the appointees he hired.

I joined @oliviaoftroye.com to talk about the proposed rule that would destroy US science. Listen in and act before Monday night.

🚨Deadline: THIS Monday, 11:59 p.m. ET. Trump White House OMB Director Russ Vought's latest proposal could quietly change who decides what scientific research gets funded. Scientists are sounding the alarm. Your public comment to OMB could make a difference. @seanbruna.bsky.social More here!👇

"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"

It’s never a good sign when a senior NIH official cancels a keynote after the program has been printed.

One week it’s presenting on threats to democracy and the dismantling of AHRQ, the next presenting findings for the AIMAhead AI in healthcare conference. #AHRQ #MedicalAnthropology #AIMAhead #AI #healthcare

This was a good workshop about democracy and health.#Anthropology #AHRQ #Geneva

We should value teaching more

The OMB and the Politicization of Science www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I'm preparing to travel to Geneva to talk about #Democracy and Health Services Research Infrastructure and the proposed closure of the #HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality #AHRQ by the current administration. #HSR #Anthropology #Healthcare #Democracy #SwissNSF #CharredHotdog

A reminder that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the *only* federal agency that studies the health care system and prioritizes patient safety. #AHRQ #Healthcare #PatientSafety

I never met Raúl in person but we would DM in twitter and sky years ago before I left my former university. He was also supportive and encouraging.

AS PROMISED: Stop Vought. Save Science. The @standupforscience.net action center is live: fight2win.standupforscience.net REGISTER for our Emergency Science Meeting (6/2, 4pm et), Call and email Congress, and leave your public comment all in one place! #standupforscience #TakeActionNow

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

If you care about #healthcare, read this then call your senator to support #AHRQ. Learn more @academyhealth.bsky.social rollcall.com/2026/04/07/n...

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So from what I understand, *ALL* #AHRQ NOFOS are now terminated. None active, none forecasted. The administration effectively “quiet” shutdown the entire Agency… #AHRQ #HHS #HSR #Healthcare

Many of the leading healthcare safety and quality researchers in the world are based in the US... which is why it pains me to see so many cancelled funding opportunities from the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ( #AHRQ).

Open Access from Human Organization: Hack the Anthropologist: Translating Source Code, Adapting Research Ethics by Timothy Gitzen doi.org/10.1080/0018... @timgitzen.bsky.social #SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization

What’s happening in #ELP? F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Join us on Feb. 16 for a free webinar, Imagining Anthropological Futures with AI: Opportunities and Pressures on the Field Hosted by Matt Artz with presenters Kate Sieck, Sean Bruna, & Kiran Jayaram Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #SfAA #AppliedAnthropology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

#Charleston stands with #Minneapolis.

My heart is broken, and I’m outraged by the murder of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and VA worker, at the hands of federal agents. I love our country; I served our country, and I know we are better than this. It’s time for Congress to step up and hold our leaders accountable.

After decades of service to our country, a career that started as a Navy pilot and finished as a three star admiral, I was removed from my position without cause. I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do — and I am not done serving. Join my team at nancylacore.com

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

The new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.

Confirmed case of Measles at Clemson University Over 500 cases of Measles in South Carolina SCGOP finding out the hard way what happens when you let anti-science anti-intellectual conspiracy theorists determine your public health policy.

The Senate passing the science minibus is a good thing.

Academia is such a strange institution. Do good for society, they say, when you leave to work for a President of the United States. Followed by come back or resign, so we can open your line.

Really interesting survey about science. More than eight-in-ten Americans (84%), including Dem/Rep, say government investments in scientific research aimed at advancing knowledge are worthwhile, while only 15% say they are not worth the investments.

What are we watching in healthcare in 2026? The destruction of our U.S. research infrastructure...

Name corrected; the numbers are still horrific. I don’t think people understand that #AHRQ #HHS agency that funds hands on research to make healthcare cheaper and safer - like enhancing the process to sterilize surgical instruments or fighting hospital acquired infections - is getting gutted.

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Hey @nytimes.com you misspelled Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Spent much of today finding grant opportunities that are a perfect match for my research but no longer exist (ie #AHRQ grants), then tried to make fresh pasta with powdered sugar. Hashtag winning.

A excellent analysis of a horrific act.

We need the arc of justice to swing a little faster.

A self driving electric wheelchair at SEATAC stranded its passenger when it got stuck behind… a napkin. #Disability On the way back to the base, it got stuck behind a bucket.

Haven’t posted in a while. Happy Sunday Beaches.

I am honored to serve on the inaugural Board of Directors of the Organization for Latino Health Advocacy (OLHA), a national nonprofit dedicated to elevating the voices of Latino communities in research and public health policy development. LatinoHealthAdvocacy.org #PublicHealth

The health research community is facing a critical moment. We can’t stay on the sidelines. I’m sharing how @AcademyHealth.bsky.social is responding—and how you can help defend essential research.

AHRQ is more than a funder—it’s a catalyst for smarter, safer, more responsive health system transformation. With possible changes to federal agencies ahead, AHRQ’s important work is at risk. Learn how you can take action here: buff.ly/szp9ezP

New article: Building a public-private partnership to confront the emergency department boarding crisis #EmergencyMedicine #AHRQ #HHS academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...