Discriminatory censorship of science NIH is worsening disparities in the workforce and will worsen disparities in health. substack.com/@27unihted/n...

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Members of Congress calling out the blatantly unlawful proposed OMB rule on federal grantmaking. Let’s keep the pressure on! thehill.com/newsletters/...

“the view that grantmaking should serve to advance the President’s political and policy preferences whether or not those align with congressional intent, the public good, or merit, wholly subject to the unreviewable and unaccountable whims of political actors in the executive branch.” Great piece 🧪

And we’re seeing exactly how this will all play out in real time with the screwworms, reflecting pool algae, vaccines… nothing good can come of this.

If you are preparing a comment for the OMB rule and want some inspiration - here is a deep dive on how peer review has been politicized. Piece by current and former NIH staff. 27unihted.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Yet another editorial is out speaking against the OMB rules proposed for federal funding. One of the most prestigious journals for clinical studies published this editorial st noon www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Kudos to this Seattle teacher taking the vital message of the need for research funding to her high school students and colleagues. Simply appalling that mere mention of DEI should mean cancellation of funds to educate our youth. Let’s hope more of our great educators can carry her message forward.

Seen at #ENDO2026!

THIS is the insidious part that most people either don’t know or under-estimate. This whole OMB gambit is not about controlling science. It is about destroying the system. jmwidder.substack.com/p/renewing-t...

This past week of science has been like drinking from a firehose. From grant deadlines to OMB, from the ADA and @sekahn.bsky.social to screwworms… Here’s an essay from my perspective. 🧪 #AcademicSky #ScienceCommunication

Excellent perspective from inside the conference center at the #ADA2026 last week. 🧪 www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

In a rough week of science, I did have some highlights from my trip to New Orleans. An art vending machine. These will continue to make me smile daily! #academicsky

Please read the latest editorial out by Dr. Kahn, and comment on the proposed OMB rules. 🧪

Well done editorial from the Diabetes Care Editorial team on how Vought's proposed rule will disrupt science in the U.S. Please read and share! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

This week of science has been such a rollercoaster: ❤️Submitted an exciting grant ❤️‍🩹May not ever get the score ❤️My trainees’ 1st R01 was funded ❤️‍🩹OMB rules could cancel it ❤️Attended a (usually great) meeting 💔My colleagues are escorted out ❤️and my promotion & tenure have been approved 🧪 #AcademicSky

We published an article written by a number of current and former peer review workers in their personal capacities outlining the changes to peer review at the NIH over the last 18 months. It’s a great resource, and we’re grateful to the authors who wrote it! open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

Shame on the American Diabetes Association- ejecting scientists from the meeting for distributing copies of an editorial critical of NIH funding cuts. Kudos to these scientists for standing up for science and resisting censorship 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Now to go check the IDweek code of conduct page…

#StandUpForScience at #ADA! Today and tomorrow during the Presidential Addresses at 9:45am. Audience members stand throughout the talk. 🧪

"We have been witnessing significant changes imposed on NIH since the start of this administration. The changes seem to be accelerating and occurring across the whole of NIH, without exception, thus impacting biomedical innovation in diabetes care and across every disease."

My brave colleagues were removed from the conference I’m attending. For passing out copies of an editorial in an ADA journal. 🧪 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Something that’s been difficult while writing about NIH cuts is that we won’t see the full impact of them for years, if not decades But the termination of an infectious disease network preceding the recent Ebola outbreak offers a view into some of what was lost: www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/n...

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

A thread on responding to the OMB RFI. Do not obey in advance. Make your voices heard!

ALRIGHT SCIENCE ACTIVISTS! Here is what to expect in the next couple days from @standupforscience.net: ✨ Our organizational comment on OMB-2025-0034 ✨ A tutorial on HOW to make a good comment for orgs and individuals ✨ Emergency Meeting Recording!! ✨ Wide press/media coverage

🧪Sarah Trimmer on LinkedIn has created a Google Drive that helps explain what the new OMB proposal is and what we can do about it www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Think the proposed OMB rules only affect scientific research? Nope. These rule will apply to all federal grants. That includes Medicaid, education, transportation… So much of the federal money sent back to states is delivered in the form of grants. This will impact most everything.

Some political person from HHS who clearly doesn’t know which way is up, is reviewing NIH grants and making absurd suggested changes. This is on top of a set of discriminatory changes required by NIH. www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited to share this news! #nutrition #academicsky 🧪

As I’m feverishly working to submit my first R01 since Feb 2025 (for reasons), sitting on 3 very well-scored grants with no NOA, reading this almost broke me last night. What is even the point? All this signals is a lack of transparency in who will get funded.

At the @nihvigils.bsky.social this morning, I spoke about how Congress direct agency prioritizes. The executive branch can only direct priorities within the boundaries set by Congress. They can override them.

Yup. Still waiting on my 6th percentile submitted in 2024. Our labs are surviving on fumes.

Great coverage on a really well done report on how the Trump administration has weakened addiction science, putting people at risk. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"the greatest danger that faces higher education... is this transactional tendency ... an exchange that ultimately is economic and not what education should be, which is transformational." Excellent interview with Ken Burns, Hampshire College alum. #AcademicSky www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...

Read. Sign. 👇

Thank you @scifri.bsky.social and @kemidoll.bsky.social! Was listening to this in the car today with my 12 yo son. He asked so many questions we kept pausing to talk about it. Such a great discussion on racism, racism in healthcare, and believing women. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/gyn...

Has anyone read these books by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social? I’m about to finish the 1st for the third time. I’ve started the 2nd once but had to go back to the first again. Just so much depth here. I want to be sure I get I all. At this rate I’ll never get to the 3rd. Am I the only one? #BookSky

The #science on vaccines and even food safety felt like settled fact. Certainties For centuries we debated the ideas underlying these ‘truths.’ Science helped us to understand the invisible. But ‘settled’ may be more fragile than we knew. 🧪 #AcademicSky kristenboylephd.com/all-that-we-...

We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now! New editorial in Diabetes Care is on point. We must stand up for science. 🧪 #Diabetes diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

I'll be attending #Nutrition2026! Join me July 25-28 in Washington, DC. My postdoc will be presenting his research developing a hepatic stellate cell model from infant umbilical cord #StemCells! Key registration dates below. 🧪 #NutritionResearch #AcademicSky

News this week highlighted a drastic slowdown in #NIH funding of new grants. I’ve been working on this piece to capture what this instability looks like, from my perspective as an NIH‑funded scientist trying to keep our lab, and people, going. 🧪 #AcademicSky kristenboylephd.com/when-excelle...

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It's a good day! 🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #NIH

I’ve started a newsletter as a place to gather my science essays: Quiet Science. Once a month, with links and reflection. No noise, just science. 🧪 #AcademicSky #Science Quiet Science, Vol. 1: A Place to Pause kristens-newsletter-7bce6f.beehiiv.com/p/quiet-scie...

Excited we got to see #Messi play today! Did not disappoint.

So excited! We received a pilot grant to study umbilical cord #stemcells from infants with sex chromosome aneuploidy. After 9 months of IRB, developing instructions for parent-led collection, consenting, and waiting for birth… we received our first cord in the mail today. Let’s culture! 🧪

Early last year, we had a 6th %ile NIH grant go unfunded. With that and everything else, I had to take a long break. I submitted little things: revisions and local stuff. But I definitely took a big break. Today, I’m finally working big on a new submission. Here we go! #AcademicSky

I want to respond thoughtfully to this. These essays come out of the urgency of the time to write honestly about how science actually works: acknowledging the humanity and the uncertainty. I’m grateful they resonated. #AcademicSky