The impacts are becoming apparent as institutes settle on new “paylines,” or the portion of peer-reviewed grants that meet the cutoff for funding. The dramatic drop at NCI is likely to result in “substantial loss of Pis and staff,” NCI Deputy Dir. Douglas Lowy recently told an advisory board. 3/n

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🧵 3/3 Bottom line for 🧪: The last remaining fight over the Billionaires' Bill is this week (*right now*) and in the House. The fight for science funding in FY26 starts *next week* in the House and will continue during the summer. So: don't lose hope...it's a *summer-long* fight for science!

The "Big Beautiful Bill" isn’t the federal budget—it’s a reconciliation bill focused on tax cuts. The real FY26 funding decisions for NIH, NSF, and more are happening now in Congress. www.ascb.org/science-poli...

Call your legislators to stop slashing the budget of federal funded research in the “Big Beautiful Bill”. Find numbers @5calls.org

The proposed budget slashes NIH by ~40%, devastating medical research, clinical trials, treatment breakthroughs—life-saving work. Thousands of lives at risk for tax cuts for the rich? NO THANKS. Tell your senators to oppose the cuts HERE: zurl.co/qiKdX zurl.co/RCR0y #CutsCostLives

New report from Bernie Sanders, ranking member on the HELP committee www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u... Lots of substance in here. Some highlights... 1/n

Bad, bad news for health and research in the US. Cuts to NIH are devastating

“If Harvard had not taken this stand,…it would have been nearly impossible for other institutions to do so.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

It happened to a loved one today 😭, a person who worked tirelessly to protect you and me. This is the thanks they get

Very excited and grateful to get this opportunity to study new aspects of TDP-43 with @nicolasluxfawzi.bsky.social @ayalalab.bsky.social and Jeetain Mittal!

On March 14, Senate passed the Continuing Resolution cutting CDMRP funds. It’s devastating to scientific progress and neurodegenerative disease research including ALS. Ask the Department of Defense and Congress to restore funding for ALS CDMRP funds: alsnetwork.quorum.us/campaign/11362…

Scenes from the incredible turnout today at Berkeley's @standupforscience.bsky.social rally. @tedmiguel.bsky.social, @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, and dozens of researchers, elected officials, and citizens defended science and the jobs, health benefits, and progress it creates for all Americans.

Yay signs in #standupforscience2025

Today is the day. #standupforscience2025 Protect research, science saves lives www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

If you are in St Louis this weekend, join MO Jobs with Justice to support federal workers

If you’re in DC, the slate of speakers for this event on Friday is solid. I’ll be there.

🧪 Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota - time to get organizing, it is not too late! Let's get this in all 50 states!

Hey Michiganders, This Friday in Lansing many scientists and concerned citizens will gather to stand up for science at noon. Come and show that Michiganders support science, and value the constitutional rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

Just a reminder! Friday morning! Hope to see many of my Philly folk there!

📢 Atlanta! Time to stand up for science! Why? Because science is for everyone. Join us on 3/7 from 12-4 at Liberty Plaza- Georgia State Capital @standupforscience.bsky.social

Connecticut friends -- we're one week away! I hope to see you at the Capitol in Hartford on March 7. Let's bring some light to these dark times and stand up for science. @standupforscience.bsky.social @mcdb-yale.bsky.social

Joining the DC or your local Stand Up for Science event, or just want to learn how scientists can safely engage in advocacy? ☀️ Join this Union of Concerned Scientists event tonight from 8:00–9:30 p.m. ET - secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-02-26... *not a sponsored post, just sharing out of interest!

There’s a branch of this (unaffiliated, but same message) being planned at RIT in Rochester , NY (3 hours from our capital in Albany) so that the density of students in western New York can also take part. 12pm walkout!

Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research

Help our Science friends out if you are in these cities please!

Jefferson City, MO March 7, 1-4pm Protect Research, Science Saves Lives

In January, we were closer than ever before to finding life changing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The funding stoppage has slowed this progress.

Stand up for Science: March 7 🧪 standupforscience2025.org

☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Illinois! Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Kansas! Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

@standupforscience.bsky.social repost! #standupforsciemce #sciencenotsilence #waronscience

For decades, the U.S. has funded science, then left scientists to direct their own work. Science has flourished, and the country has benefited. Now the government is testing just how much it can renegotiate that relationship, @katherinejwu.com writes:

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

📣 DC friends - please consider supporting this rally on Wednesday, February 19th!

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

Fighting to stop what's happening is profoundly patriotic, profoundly American. And We the People are mobilizing on March 7 to stand up for science. To be light in the darkness. @standupforscience.bsky.social

The sheer incompetence in the way all of this is being done is my only hope that some of this can be undone. We’re going to a town hall for our congressman to raise some hell. I’m tired of going to voicemail

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

(Sorry I took a brief timeout for uncontrollable weeping) In other NIH news, I have heard from multiple sources that NIH plans to fire most, if not all, probationary employees this afternoon. The numbers I am hearing are >5000. Lots of folks extramural staff, intramural scientists, etc.

We should all be taking to the streets. March 7. DC, state capitols, other big cities. Go to the website and sign up. Honestly, what the hell else will it take?

Take action for science. Great to see my favorite scientific society give us the tools we need. Another tool is the 5 Calls app that identifies the members of congress & provides top issues & a script along with phone numbers 🧪 5calls.org

NIH-funded research is at risk. Cuts to federal funding could harm science and the economy. Contact Congress now to protect research. Every call matters. Find your reps at govtrack.us and speak up today. #FundScience www.ascb.org/science-poli...

Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026

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