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📣 Calling all addiction neuroscience trainees! 📣 💊 Are you interested in a seminar focused exclusively on addiction? 🤝 Do you want to connect with peers from around the world? 🇪🇸 Interested in going to Spain? The 2026 Neurobiology of Drug Addiction GRS is the meeting for you! Space is limited!

The #BethesdaDeclaration stories are now up on the front pages of both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Thanks again to the brave folks at NIH who stood up and worked together to make this happen. 1/n

New York Times article on NSF www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1/2

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📣 Calling all addiction neuroscience trainees! 📣 💊 Are you interested in a seminar focused exclusively on addiction? 🤝 Do you want to connect with peers from around the world? 🇪🇸 Interested in going to Spain? The 2026 Neurobiology of Drug Addiction GRS is the meeting for you! Space is limited!

Sobering analysis by @nature.com on the Trump administration's NIH cuts. ~ 800 research projects have been terminated with research on HIV/AIDS, health disparities, transgender health, vaccines and COVID-19 being hit hardest, with some labs forced to close entirely. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well, here it is. Trump and Musk are turning #NIH into a garbage rightwing thinktank, just as we said. They’re forcing down junk science on us with your tax dollars. This is a deep shame for America and for scientists everywhere. 1/3

I don’t usually plan my conference outfits in advance, but if you’re going to @rsaofficial.bsky.social be on the lookout for my symposium fit

"It’s kind of a textbook case of arbitrary and capricious.” A lawsuit alleges that NIH didn't follow proper procedure and was unconstitutionally vague when abruptly terminating >600 grants. My story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Powerful new Washington Post story up... wapo.st/426d9fT (Gift link) 1/n

Why is Trump going after US science? What's the endgame for these attacks? Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities. "It's bad, folks." New contributed post at our blog. Please share it w/ your 🧪 colleagues.

I wrote a piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen... With the fate of NIH-funded research uncertain, it is extra important that the work we do now is most likely to benefit everyone. Adhering to SABV in the lab and in grant & paper review is the right thing to do.

Bluetorial: The announcement to move scientific review out of the institutes and centers into the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and its potential consequences

The SRO move is designed to look plausible. Looks like another "NIH" statement passed down by the Trump/MAGA political appointees. (We hear that DOGE people are showing up at #NIH meetings, like Soviet apparatchiks, to monitor NIH leaders.) This move is to harm NIH. Why? See below in thread:

Excellent coverage from Nature about LGBT+, gender identity, and DEI grants termination. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

A source close to the situation confirmed that study sections are continuing to be cancelled. On the chopping block this week: developmental brain disorders, mechanisms of cancer therapy, and neurotoxicology of alcohol. For some labs, this was the last chance to get funding or they’ll shut down.

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether. https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq

Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year. @altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots. If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼‍🔬🧑‍🔬

I think it's also fundamentally wrong to frame these as savings. They are cuts. They have serious long term (and in some cases immediate) consequences. If you stop buying food you have "saved" money but you are now starving

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.