In a rare move, a bipartisan group of US senators passed legislation prohibiting the Trump administration from dismantling a multimillion-dollar research project studying ocean currents and climate change impacts. But many other programs crucial to understanding climate change remain at risk.

This week @ucs.org launches a new interactive tool on the staggering 574 attacks on science so far under the Trump Administration. It's hard to convey the full scope and severity of what's happening but this tool helps us make sense of it and what we can all do about it: www.attacksonscience.org

Both of these were shown in the House Science hearing today - one by @georgewhitesides.bsky.social (Dem) and one by McCormick (Rep). You can guess who showed which graph.

Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

New @nberpubs: "Before the Exodus? Young Scientists and the Future of US Science" www.nber.org/papers/w3533... "The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21 percentage points" 😔

Update: The flag on Princeton's grants was removed on June 4, around the same time NSF got this letter from Democrats on the House Science Committee, demanding details. democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

AHRQ is a no-brainer for anyone interested in better, cheaper healthcare. Congress agrees and has funded it accordingly, but Trump & OMB are hellbent on killing it. New AHRQ awards by fiscal year: FY24: 317 (pre-Trump) FY25: 6 FY26: 0 See more of our curves here: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

Second time this week that I’m aware of that a news story made a federal funding agency cave and restart a grant process.

A new proposed rule on federal grantmaking — across agencies, this is much broader than research awards — just dropped. Screenshot from page 48 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

When the Great Defunding started in 2025, the European Union introduced a "bold" program to attract top scientists from the US, funded at the tune of about ~$500 million spread over 3-5 years. In 2024, the NIH allocated almost twice as that per week.

My co-authors and I surveyed international grad students and postdocs, asking them if they would have come to study in the US if they'd known about the current wave of restrictions on international students. About half said no. MIT is already down 20%, more to come. www.iza.org/publications...

MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

The Division of Earth Sciences postdoc fellowship solicitation "has been archived and will not have a competition this fall,” an NSF spokesperson confirmed to Eos. eos.org/research-and...

NYU caved and ended care and they're still being hit with a grand jury subpoena. It's incredibly clear that no amount of preemptive compliance will stop this attack. You either fight or you will be destroyed by this administration. Caving will not save you.

The Trump administration is downsizing US science by historic margins — but it's not just via funding or workforce cuts. Our new @nature.com analysis reveals the government has cut more than 100 scientific advisory panels across major agencies. w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social

The past 15 months have marked a dark chapter in US science; one that will require significant effort to repair. But I'm not interested in duct tape and bandaid solutions. Our system had problems before Jan 20th, 2025. So, @standupforscience.net is doing what we do best: TAKING ACTION. 1/7

One of the more concerning details has to do with NSB being blocked from overseeing and advising NSF, particularly on budget details. cf. reporting in Science www.science.org/content/arti...

My story on the NSB terminations:

We are excited to sponsor the “Future of Public Research for Behavioral Sciences” Town Hall hosted by NIH Alumni & Bethesda Declaration Signers including Saturday, April 25th, 10am, in Chicago following Society for Behavioral Medicine Meeting (SBM) www.27unihted.org/events/futur...

Major update from #SCIMaP, including * Impact analysis of White House's FY 2027 proposed cuts to NIH and NSF. * Fact sheets showing impacts in Congressional districts. * New analysis on how baseline science funding benefits the economy and jobs in local communities. More via scienceimpacts.org

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

Finally something we agree on.

Oh. My. God. Jay Bhattacharya has truly decimated opportunities for early career scientists; I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize just how bad. What a catastrophic failure of leadership. This thread is truly one of the scariest things I’ve seen in a long time. Jay is dismantling US science 😢

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

HHS just published an update to its Scientific Integrity Policy. Notably, it has removed the concept of political interference, and no longer calls it out as something specifically to be prevented. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... (deletions in red, insertions in green)

Straight from the horse's mouth: If Trump's proposed $5B cut to NIH were enacted in FY27, the number of new NIH research grants would drop **47%** To be clear, this is from a document justifying the request. It's what they *want*. They think this is good. officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/FY27/br...

The administration seeks to eliminate the National Science Foundation's main funding social science research. You can take action today to defend it. Short post with tools, inspired @marthastarr.bsky.social https://aaronsojourner.offprint.app/a/3mjkbiw7op623-defend-nsf-social-science-funding

Roughly half of STEM PhD students in the U.S. are international students. 75% of them stay in the U.S. long term after graduating to contribute their skills to U.S. scientific research and development. Cutting international student visas hurts U.S. science now and long into the future.

We're over half way through the Fed fiscal year. AHRQ FY26 appropriation: $345M Amount obligated to date: $0 New AHRQ funding curves up at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... AHRQ supports work to lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes. This is what Trump is unlawfully gutting.

Last year the GRFP was initially cut in half, to 1,000 awards, amid rumors of a massive cut. This year the agency is facing a similar, 55% cut from the White House and headwinds in awarding grants. Despite that, on Sunday, it offered a record 2,599 GRFP awards. My story on the surprising news:

The results are shown for fiscal years 2020 through 2026 (to date). The big jumps in fiscal years 2020 and 2021 are large COVID-related grants that were fully funded. 4/6

Now that my standard funding curves are updated weekly automatically on grant-witness.us (grant-witness.us/funding_curv...), I have been working on some other important items to track. One is the amount of funding committed to multi-year grants. 1/6

See also reporting by Science's staff:

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Giving folks a sense of what the cuts to NSF funding in the 2027 President's Budget Request actually looks like. Note the significant cuts across domains--even to research security! STEM and NCSES aren't captured for prior years, so they appear to be cuts, even though they are not.

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more.

Okay, NSF is for some reason under an appendix, but they do have directorate-level numbers. Cuts pretty much across the board, including zeroing out SBE? which I suppose is what would happen with a 54% cut. Also worth looking at those FY26 estimates... www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

This team used Grant Witness data for these analyses. To see every single one of these grants--along with thousands of others that were disrupted in some other way--you can view them all here: grant-witness.us/nih-data.html

Different case, different year, and I'm no longer at Harvard. But I stand by this statement and feel the same today as Harvard gets sued again.

Whole bunch of lawyers reading up on collateral estoppel right now.

This plot from @drugmonkey.bsky.social shows how the number of *new* NIH fellowships to Black investigators plummeted last year. And it's only half the story. The other half is that *existing* fellowship grants to POC investigators were also *terminated* at disproportionate rates.

Johns Hopkins' Carl Latkin has data from ~ 500 participants in an HIV study sitting in the cloud unanalyzed after NIH shut off his funding. "Right now I cannot, in good faith, encourage the best and the brightest students to go into a career of NIH-funded research," he told @aniloza.bsky.social

Iris Smith, a staff scientist at Cleveland Clinic, had high hopes for studying endometriosis, a disease that has defined her own life. But NIH cancelled her funding, and her employment contract will expire at the end of March. "This can’t be how it ends,” said Smith, who's figuring out next steps.

When NIH terminated a grant for Northwestern's Minoli Perera to study responses to clopidogrel, a blood thinner, in Puerto Ricans, $250,000 "might as well have been flushed down the toilet, because you built all of this to do nothing with it,” she told me. “I find it just sickening to think about.”