New F99/K00 funding opportunity released! files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

IMPORTANT: The OPM is proposing new NDAs for federal workers that could silence scientists and hide data. This threatens science journalism & public transparency. Keep scientific data accessible. Comment by June 26. www.regulations.gov/search?filte....

People who’ve been complacent suddenly being alarmed with the newest NIH suggested changes feels a lot like a “then they came for me” situation

It's out! Are you nervous about rebuilding government capacity to do anything beyond corporate giveaways and/or fascism? Then you care about civil service hiring dysfunction & the ron swanson-pilled mythologies that made it like this. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... aulawreview.org/blog/federal...

New NIH-funded opportunity! 🧬 TEAMS (Together Everyone Achieves More in Science) is now accepting applications. Training for early-career biomedical researchers in team leadership, mentorship & collaboration. 📅 Deadline: June 14 🔗 urmc.rochester.edu/teams-mentorship-grant-fellowship

Any public comment on a proposed regulation, event short and anonymous saying you don't like it/like it, helps. For those wanting to provide something deeper, I saw this resource and really liked it, from the PDF linked on here: www.peer-center.org/research/vir...

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

In this newsletter I outline important actions to take. 1. Submit a comment opposing the rule change. 2. Contact state legislators to ensure states are engaged with the impact at the state and local level. 3. Contact members of Congress. 4. Spread awareness. This rundown is a great source:

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Please take a few minutes and file a comment against this terrible new plan - not just for science, but for every funding agency in the US. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

The NIH has canceled 48 early career training funding opportunities in the last year. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/scientific...

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

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LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

very nice to see the chemists get a moment in this article about daraxonrasib, Revolution Medicines' pancreatic cancer compound: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/h... #chemsky

A new poll finds that 72% of Americans — including 55% of Trump voters — agree there is too much money in politics. How do we get that money out? Montana (and now Hawaii) could have the answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

lol, they gave Artemis II astronaut (and Philadelphia sports fan) Christina Koch an astronaut Gritty

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

SEPA R25, to support educational activities that increase understanding of biomedical research among pre-college (pre-kindergarten to grade12) individuals, and to encourage awareness of and continued interest in careers in (STEM) is published. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it. Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it. Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

Here's a big one from NIH. It remains Trump admin policy to - Cap indirects at 15% (repeatedly rebuffed by courts and Congress) - Multi-year fund *all* grants. As a reminder, this has the effect of dramatically decreasing the total number of labs and projects supported by the government.

For those involved in assembling Clinical Trial applications to NIH, there is a new RFI out. While some simplification may be okay, the devil is in the details. Applications should have sufficient information for review panels and NIH staff to understand. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

I'm sure folks have thoughts..... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.

Writing is thinking.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Federal science workforce in 2025: NSF down over 30% USGS, NOAA, and NIH down 20% DOE down 17% NIST down 15% NASA down 12% By comparison, the total federal civilian workforce was down approximately 10% last year. www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...

💔 On Valentines Day 2025 the federal government fired recently hired and promoted public servants. A number of probationary employees created a survey to understand the harms to these workers and America broadly. Link to the survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You may have heard it before, but let me repeat: repetition of statements makes people more likely to rate them as true (even if they are false, and even if you knew they were false initially). Thanks for the talk, @lkfazio.bsky.social !

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

pretty stunning chart

“Taken together, these two policies create a structure in which dissent becomes professionally costly, alignment becomes professionally necessary, and the space for honest scientific judgment quietly contracts.” open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

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Of so many things to be infuriated about, this is perhaps my biggest gripe. Pancreatic cancer patients, who face a future without hope, are being denied a potential game-changing therapy www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

Congressional Republicans are going to deprive D.C. of $700 million in revenue and repeal a local program projected to reduce child poverty by 20 percent, solely to spite District residents and make us suffer. They’re also throwing our tax filing into utter chaos. This is a disaster.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

OPM proposes regulations to strip MSPB of jurisdiction over RIFs and suitability determinations. The result would be that no impartial body could ever hear a RIF.

@protectdemocracy.org has launched a really cool Civil Service Archive that tracks documents related to changes of the civil service since January 2025. civilservicearchive.org

Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️

OPM releases the text of the final rule for Schedule Policy/Career. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

And one reason that federal funding agencies became such a huge target in Project 2025 were the evidence-based efforts that were (slowly) shifting policies so that this public good would actually fund scientific research that included and benefitted all Americans, not just white cis men 🧪

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability