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Cell biologist and administrator Car guy My opinions only Go Birds
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Brittany Page
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There really is a tweet for everything
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Drug Monkey
about 18 hours ago
āThe chaos of 2025 has been replaced with coordinated, systematic, institutionalized destruction in 2026. ā
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Joshua Weitz
3 days ago
Checked out, out of touch, and disengaged with its mission and people is not the leadership America needs from the Sec. of HHS: š
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Kennedy Shows Minimal Engagement With Vast Health Portfolio
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We are moving into a new scary era as scientists
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/well/ada-conference-diabetes-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.jcvl.8Hh3cvDvu31a&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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OMB is Waging a Disinformation Campaign
They are Lying About the Reasons for Changing OMBās Federal Financial Assistance Rule
https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/omb-is-waging-a-disinformation-campaign?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6018767&post_id=200622353&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2sltnk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
7 days ago
I have often been critical of the leadership
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but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment
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Katie Mack
12 days ago
Itās truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD
7 days ago
Grant application reviewers would also be allowed to consider an applicantās activities outside science, including advocacy and organizational affiliations. That provision is a āreally severe attack on First Amendment activities,ā Delawalla says.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD
7 days ago
āIt is catastrophic,ā says Colette Delawalla, founder and CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group Stand Up for Science. āAnd I do not use that word lightly.ā
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White House move to step up political role in US research sparks alarm
An Office of Management and Budget proposal would insert political oversight into federal grant decisions, downgrade peer review, and expose all grants to termination without cause
https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/omb-federal-research-grants-peer-review-political-appointee/104/web/2026/06
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What brainiac decided to paint the reflecting pool almost black? There is a reason why pools arenāt painted black.
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Sarah Milstein
9 days ago
I deeply regret reading this piece--but also feel compelled to point out that it contains this absolutely spectacular example of Both Sides-ing it. An NYT all-timer "influencers who are accused of human trafficking and rape" are "functionally equivalent" to feminists
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Matthew Cortland (they)
9 days ago
1/ š§µ OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it' I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.
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Mark Chadbourn
10 days ago
The US military has now murdered 200 people in small boats in the waters off South America. Local fishing communities have been upended.
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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/world/americas/us-boat-strikes-colombia-ecuador.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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"If you wanted to cripple science research and were disappointed that Congress continued to fund it, this is the sort of document you would produce."
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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/
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Annika Barber
10 days ago
Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone š§Ŗ What's the problem?
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/
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āPeer review, open competition, and institutional autonomy were the pillars of that system. This proposed rule dismantles all threeā
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12 days ago
Summary of Key Changes in OMBās Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science.
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Summary of Key Changes in OMBās Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed
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Iām doomed
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Late-life cynical distrust, risk of incident dementia, and mortality in a population-based cohort | Neurology
Objective:We investigated the association between late-life cynical distrust and incident dementia and mortality (mean follow-up times of 8.4 and 10.4 years, respectively) in the Cardiovascular Risk F...
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000000528
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Craig Kaplan
13 days ago
From
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- excerpts that need to be read immediately 1/
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Kristian G. Andersen
13 days ago
Our NIH-funded research - including as part of CREID - developed, deployed, and established capacity for many of the core tools and countermeasures used during outbreaks. Diagnostics, sequencing, monoclonals and vaccines. As we're facing a new foe with none of those, all that work, defunded. Gone.
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13 days ago
This is exactly it. Ask them if their kids are too soft and weak to learn about real American history. Ask them why they're so triggered by trans people existing. Ask them if they need a safe space from rainbows.
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Karolina Heyduk
13 days ago
Wanna hear a funny joke? Purchasing office: "Are there any royalties associated with this manuscript being published?"
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AZ Faust
13 days ago
Yes, I'm very depressed at the moment but that's only because everything in US science is worse than we think it is.
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Lincoln Michel
13 days ago
lol I thought this was going to be about the more understandable but still fraught debates about removing offensive language in older books. But they're just stuffing them with new pop culture references?
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BWJones
13 days ago
How could they have missed the efforts of my friend Jess Wade in ensuring women are represented on Wikipedia?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Wade
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Nate Brought
13 days ago
Remember when we used to laugh at the Russians and North Koreans for shit like this?
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Maybe the US should not have pulled out of WHO. We generally led the response to these outbreaks.
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"No vaccine exists. No therapy exists. The virus circulated undetected for six weeks. Cross-border spread is confirmed. Healthcare workers are dying."
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'Breakneck' Ebola epidemic in Congo outpaces world's response
In an Ebola outbreak, hours matter. Yet the response to the deadly and fast-spreading epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is weeks if not months behind - and missing thousands of people who m...
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/breakneck-ebola-epidemic-congo-outpaces-worlds-response-2026-05-27/
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Jeremy Berg
14 days ago
(1) Overall impact scores will be binned into THREE bins: Top 25%, 25-50%, and >50%. (2) Overall impact scores will be retained but will NOT BE SHARED with program officers, advisory councils, or institute/center/office (ICO) leadership. 2/3
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Milli Vanilli AKA the fraud lip syncers? I guess it's on point.
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Jeremy Berg
14 days ago
I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3
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Huh Kermit
ALT: Huh Kermit
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Jeremy Berg
14 days ago
NIMHD is barely functioning. They have made 3 new and competitive renewal grants thus far in FY2026. Sadly, I do not believe that moving these experienced staff from NIAID to NIMHD is intended to strengthen NIMHD, but rather is a cynical move to discourage the transferred staff. I hope I am wrong.
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Johns Hopkins University
15 days ago
NIH has allocated just 33% of its normal budget this year, putting critical medical breakthroughs at risk. Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels and University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod are calling on the government to release it before the damage becomes permanent.
https://bit.ly/4f3GuzR
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President Daniels in WSJ op-ed: Get the federal science money flowing
JHU president, University of Kansas chancellor urge federal agencies to release congressionally appropriated funds to fuel America's research engine
https://hub.jhu.edu/2026/05/21/daniels-girod-wall-street-journal-research-spending/
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Olga Nesterova
15 days ago
Ironic
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Don Moynihan
15 days ago
A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.
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Colin Carlson
about 2 months ago
Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is⦠hell is not hot enough
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Metabo_Dave
20 days ago
I heard that the the NIA is only moving grants forward with scores of 2%ile or less. I hope that's not true.
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Joshua Sharp
19 days ago
I've been dealing with this for months now. Our PO dropped this "clarification" as my center was preparing our RPPR, requiring us to completely blow up our publication list and giving us "solutions" that didn't work.
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Joshua Sharp
19 days ago
I'm sure our PO is doing his best to implement half-baked policy. But the part that actually offends me is the lie that this is just enforcement of already existing policy. No, it's not. It's new. It's a redefinition of what constitutes a "foreign component".
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David Benedict
19 days ago
There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
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Acting head of NIHās infectious disease institute reported to have stepped down
Jeffery Taubenberger, the acting head of the NIAID, the NIHās infectious disease institute, is reported to have stepped down.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/21/nih-niaid-jeffrey-taubenberger-exit/
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Sam
20 days ago
Itās funny how billionaires have cooked their brains so much that they think Nashville is on par with Shanghai
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You have until May 26
rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6998c3a23...
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Request For Information
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Jeremy Berg
21 days ago
New STAT story about delays in filling open NIH institute director positions.
www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/n...
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NIH behind in filling top roles, with 15 of 27 institutes led by acting directors
An NIH leadership vacuum has persisted for months, with 15 of the 27 institutes being led by acting directors.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/nih-leadership-questions-15-of-27-institutes-acting-directors/
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"Applications should be formatted as bullet points and will be capped at ~300 words." If this were widespread, I would be submitting SO MANY GRANTS.
www.biswasfamilyfoundation.org/science/fast...
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Biswas Family Foundation | Fast Grants Program
Fast grants to catalyze high-ambition pilot projects for early-career scientists or established researchers pivoting at the intersection of AI and health. Spring 2026 Application Cycle open now.
https://www.biswasfamilyfoundation.org/science/fast-grants
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Polymarket is going to have a field day with this
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
22 days ago
I've been assured that this is purely a humanities issues, & will never bedevil STEM. Hmm. As Shel Silverstein put it: The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea. He may catch all the others, but he wonāt catch me. No you wonāt catch me, old Slithergadee, you may catch all the others, but you wo-
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Jon Phillips
22 days ago
Paging Sir Chortlemuffin. Sir Edward Chortlemuffin to the white courtesy telephone. Thank you.
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Goldstein (2026 edition)
21 days ago
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
Amazing. Biggest fumble I've seen in a long time.
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