We’re hiring a 2-year Postdoc @ USC Gero School! Lead NIH-funded qualitative + community-engaged research on dementia care, neurology referrals, and medication management. 🧩 Implementation science 💬 Qual methods 🌎 Spanish proficiency highly desirable shorturl.at/kMt3n #PostdocJobs

NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.

Our newest article on opioid use trajectories among patients with low back pain is finally out!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Also check out further commentary through this editorial on the article: buff.ly/qn2xJWr @michelleskeller.bsky.social The implementation of #Deprescribing needs to be equitable across ALL populations.

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists. Hospital network will invest $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge,’ by @jenniferyang.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Our new editorial in JAMA Network Open: Lower rates of high-risk med use in minoritized Medicare beneficiaries may reflect access barriers, not better care. Highlights urgent need for equity in deprescribing practices & alternatives to PIMs. With @uressien.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Dr. @ashwinkotwalmd.bsky.social shares insights on #SocialPrescribing in the March-April 2025 edition of Generations Today by the American Society on Aging. Now featured on the Generations landing page! generations.asaging.org/social-presc... #Geriatrics #Aging

It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter. Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations... Another obscenity...

My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April

Good to see this Nature piece highlighting #resistance to the Trump assault on research, knowledge, & education: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: NIH CSR meeting notices in the Federal Register will restart tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/4). The first notice is for 4 CSR meetings in late March and early April. 3 special emphasis panels, 1 for kidney disease. This is the first such notice since January 21.

Calling #deprescribing researchers! The journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology is accepting submissions for its special issue on deprescribing! Submit your deprescribing research before June 1st, 2025. For more info on the special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal. Or if you have any other good stories.

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...

The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?

What is your pace of aging? A new @nature.com feature on molecular clocks by gets into the issues surrounding these tests (can is really can't) nature.com/articles/d41... by @heidiledford.bsky.social

NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled. Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

IMPORTANT Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities... Please share!

Some good-ish news from NIH “Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again” As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

In my latest article for @science.org, I reflect on the current challenges faced by early-career researchers, including delays in grant reviews, uncertainty around NIH funding freezes and changes, and the critical need for continued support and advocacy. www.science.org/content/arti...

ATTENTION: If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date. I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter. DM me if you wish or just reply

“Medical and journalism organizations, medical journals, and concerned citizens are mobilizing to make the missing information available... Still, experts are concerned that even as many CDC.gov pages are restored by the agency, they may not be updated in the future to reflect the latest science.”

So many #Deprescribing guidelines currently in development worldwide 🌎: ➡️ Diuretic Deprescribing ➡️ Statin Deprescribing ➡️ Antidepressant Deprescribing ➡️ Gabapentinoid Deprescribing Keep your eyes peeled for updates on our Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) page! 👀 buff.ly/3tkhsqH

Many more pieces like this could be written to show the impact of sustained federal investment in US biomedical research. This one has a great table highlighting the role of NIH funding in some of our greatest gains against chronic disease in the past 80 years. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is incredible. It’s the ‘pale blue dot’ of genome plots. Just as Voyager 1’s photo reminded us how tiny and temporary Earth is, this image reminds us that humans (like every other species) are only a temporary and tiny part of life’s expanse 🧪🐞🍄🦠🦍🌼

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

My LinkedIn feed is a bloodbath of federal scientists looking for work 😟

Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

Thanks for the info from reviewers... All 8 CSR study section meeting scheduled today have been cancelled (due to the Federal Register announcement issue). Some reviewers are finding out that their meetings are cancelled when they are notified by the travel agency that their tickets are cancelled.

Not only did @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social cancel their diversity scholar research grants, they stripped their lead PO for DEI efforts of his title.

I was supposed to have an NIH study section (KEDD) tomorrow, but it was "postponed TBD" today at 3 PM Eastern. Yesterday, individuals who were going to travel for the in-person meeting were told not to travel. Just confirming firsthand that the madness continues.

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

The "schedule" of upcoming National Advisory Council meetings (based on posted dates) No special meetings have been posted. These meetings must be announced at least 15 days in advance in the Federal Register Once communications and Federal Register posting bans are lifted these may change...

“We’re cutting off our hand to spite our face" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.

For folks in DC with animal pals

ATTENTION If you are on a study section that was scheduled to meet, please post or DM me with information regarding: 1. The name of the study section 2. The scheduled date 3. Whether the meeting actually occurred THANK YOU