@amyaconroy.bsky.social
Professor, behavioral scientist, prior biomedical engineer, proud Californian, global health advocate. I was off social media until now.
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Thanks to the corrupt (and stolen) SCOTUS, if the US gov't stiffs you, you'll have to take it up with the Court of Federal Claims. And this is essentially an arm of the Trump Administration. When we wake up and will take back all that has been stolen from us?
2️⃣ SCOTUS is seemingly pushing *all* grant termination litigation to the Court of Federal Claims.
This is expensive and time consuming, and some plaintiffs may give up.
But if they don't, they may face even more political hackery. Trump has appointed 10 of the CFC's 16 active judges.
This is expensive and time consuming, and some plaintiffs may give up.
But if they don't, they may face even more political hackery. Trump has appointed 10 of the CFC's 16 active judges.
August 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thanks to the corrupt (and stolen) SCOTUS, if the US gov't stiffs you, you'll have to take it up with the Court of Federal Claims. And this is essentially an arm of the Trump Administration. When we wake up and will take back all that has been stolen from us?
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The Trump admin just asked the Supreme Court to let NIH cancel $783M in diversity-related research grants, after a federal judge ruled the cuts illegal and discriminatory.
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow N.I.H. to Cut D.E.I.-Related Grants
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The Trump admin just asked the Supreme Court to let NIH cancel $783M in diversity-related research grants, after a federal judge ruled the cuts illegal and discriminatory.
Ridiculous that we have to rely on the courts to prevent deaths from infectious diseases.
BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public.
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Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ridiculous that we have to rely on the courts to prevent deaths from infectious diseases.
Pure cruelty. "By attacking Medicaid directly, which provides health care coverage for 40% of people living with HIV in the United States, our entire domestic response to the epidemic will be destabilized. "
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CUTS KILL: House Passes Deadly Reconciliation Bill Cutting Access to Healthcare & Decimating the Nation’s HIV Response
Today, by a narrow margin, the US House of Representatives forced through the Trump Administration’s domestic policy bill, a final hurdle in passing a reconciliation package that will rob…
savehivfunding.org
July 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Pure cruelty. "By attacking Medicaid directly, which provides health care coverage for 40% of people living with HIV in the United States, our entire domestic response to the epidemic will be destabilized. "
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The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today.
It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.
Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.
Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech.
I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵
I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today.
It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.
Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.
Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
This is false. Our trials have been halted and participants have been dropped. We wrote the NIH director to explain this disconnect and have yet to hear back. Go to grant-watch.us and see for yourself.
Thanks @maxkozlov.bsky.social for reporting facts
Thanks @maxkozlov.bsky.social for reporting facts
June 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is false. Our trials have been halted and participants have been dropped. We wrote the NIH director to explain this disconnect and have yet to hear back. Go to grant-watch.us and see for yourself.
Thanks @maxkozlov.bsky.social for reporting facts
Thanks @maxkozlov.bsky.social for reporting facts
We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.
Of course people aren’t dying. When you don’t track it.
The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
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Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
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June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Of course people aren’t dying. When you don’t track it.
The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
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🚨BREAKING: In a huge win for public health and democracy, a federal court ruled that the NIH’s ideological purge of life-saving research grants is unlawful.
Today, the rule of law prevailed — and science, once again, belongs to everyone.
Today, the rule of law prevailed — and science, once again, belongs to everyone.
June 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a huge win for public health and democracy, a federal court ruled that the NIH’s ideological purge of life-saving research grants is unlawful.
Today, the rule of law prevailed — and science, once again, belongs to everyone.
Today, the rule of law prevailed — and science, once again, belongs to everyone.
Um, sorry. We've been developing interventions to address disparities and those trials were DOGE-d. This adds fuel to the fire.
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“Health disparities research is an expensive parrot squawking the same things heard for years, telling us where disparities exist and why, but not much else,” Jerel Ezell writes.
Opinion | The One Area Where Trump’s N.I.H. Cuts Might Actually Make Sense
Health disparities research needs a reboot.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Um, sorry. We've been developing interventions to address disparities and those trials were DOGE-d. This adds fuel to the fire.
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If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
June 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
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An incredible interactive look at the thousands of NIH grants and billions of dollars cut — and the real people, both researchers and patients, behind them.
Bravo @anniewaldman.bsky.social et al at @propublica.org
Bravo @anniewaldman.bsky.social et al at @propublica.org
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
An incredible interactive look at the thousands of NIH grants and billions of dollars cut — and the real people, both researchers and patients, behind them.
Bravo @anniewaldman.bsky.social et al at @propublica.org
Bravo @anniewaldman.bsky.social et al at @propublica.org
I can vouch for this team of researchers. Share your story with a 5 minute survey. The impacts of terminated NIH grants are real!
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Help us document the impact of NIH grant terminations!
If you had a grant terminated, please check your email for a VERY BRIEF survey. If you did not lose a grant but want to help, please share widely with academic colleagues.
If you had a grant terminated, please check your email for a VERY BRIEF survey. If you did not lose a grant but want to help, please share widely with academic colleagues.
![Was your NIH-funded project terminated? check your email for a brief demographic survey. We are a team of researchers at UC San Diego, University of Maryland, Emory, and the University of North Carolina documenting the impact of NIH grant terminations. If you have not received a personalized email and want to be counted, please indicate your interest here [arrow indicating a QR code]. For additional questions please contact Rebecca Fielding-Miller at rfieldingmiller@health.ucsd.edu](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:npb3wu7atsn7io2chsgshyyo/bafkreieiowqjngr5zrrivzmg5wyfnsdjnszilu3gn6e2lfsp6uflbfqmyi@jpeg)
June 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I can vouch for this team of researchers. Share your story with a 5 minute survey. The impacts of terminated NIH grants are real!
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For anyone protesting this Saturday, be safe and civil. These are great suggestions for signs to make it clear that PROTEST is not REBELLION.
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The gov't doesn't have the exclusive power to (mis)interpret the law, the people can give it meaning too under the principle of popular sovereignty. The law doesn't treat protests ag immigration raids as a "rebellion" & I explain why (and provide signs!). youtu.be/bIEhD2hw2oM
Protest is Not Rebellion
YouTube video by Katherine Franke
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June 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
For anyone protesting this Saturday, be safe and civil. These are great suggestions for signs to make it clear that PROTEST is not REBELLION.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Shame on WAPO for calling this a 'rebellion'. That will just stir a police state response. This is scientists *standing up* for research ethics and human lives. Let's not let the norms slide here. None of this is normal.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling.
More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Shame on WAPO for calling this a 'rebellion'. That will just stir a police state response. This is scientists *standing up* for research ethics and human lives. Let's not let the norms slide here. None of this is normal.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Calling in the National Guard in LA to suppress protests against ICE arrests: yes we shd protest, but with awareness that this is part of the gov't's plan - provoking protests as a manufactured "crisis" that then necessitates a suspension of "normal law". youtu.be/MsuGWFgNg14
Is this the tipping point?
YouTube video by Katherine Franke
youtu.be
June 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Calling in the National Guard in LA to suppress protests against ICE arrests: yes we shd protest, but with awareness that this is part of the gov't's plan - provoking protests as a manufactured "crisis" that then necessitates a suspension of "normal law". youtu.be/MsuGWFgNg14
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June 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Fridays come with blood-shed these days. I am told the DOJ was at UCSF today, with an emergency meeting of the chancellors. Have a wonderful weekend ya'll!
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Next on the list for grants cancellation: California.
Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from CA. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, per @cnn.com.
Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from CA. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, per @cnn.com.
Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
www.cnn.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Fridays come with blood-shed these days. I am told the DOJ was at UCSF today, with an emergency meeting of the chancellors. Have a wonderful weekend ya'll!
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Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing.
That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪
That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪
NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing.
That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪
That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪
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“You can imagine how a participant from rural Africa is going to feel one day when they realize we have disappeared, we’ve gone back to the US and we’ve collected all this information about them.
There’s the potential for medical mistrust and anti-democratic beliefs to flourish.”
There’s the potential for medical mistrust and anti-democratic beliefs to flourish.”
NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“You can imagine how a participant from rural Africa is going to feel one day when they realize we have disappeared, we’ve gone back to the US and we’ve collected all this information about them.
There’s the potential for medical mistrust and anti-democratic beliefs to flourish.”
There’s the potential for medical mistrust and anti-democratic beliefs to flourish.”
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@amyaconroy.bsky.social minced no words when she described the impacts the NIH cuts to trials abroad will have.
“This trial is the product of five years of formative work that American taxpayers have invested in, and they will never know the results of this study that they’ve paid for.”
“This trial is the product of five years of formative work that American taxpayers have invested in, and they will never know the results of this study that they’ve paid for.”
NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@amyaconroy.bsky.social minced no words when she described the impacts the NIH cuts to trials abroad will have.
“This trial is the product of five years of formative work that American taxpayers have invested in, and they will never know the results of this study that they’ve paid for.”
“This trial is the product of five years of formative work that American taxpayers have invested in, and they will never know the results of this study that they’ve paid for.”
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NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo.
https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1
https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1
NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
go.nature.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo.
https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1
https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1