Tim Barnoud
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🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
September 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
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U.S. health science is crumbling.
If Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, et al — all once associated with academic biomedicine — had a thimble of courage and integrity they’d speak up.
But silence. They must know their legacy is now darkness.
#ScienceMatters
If Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, et al — all once associated with academic biomedicine — had a thimble of courage and integrity they’d speak up.
But silence. They must know their legacy is now darkness.
#ScienceMatters
August 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
U.S. health science is crumbling.
If Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, et al — all once associated with academic biomedicine — had a thimble of courage and integrity they’d speak up.
But silence. They must know their legacy is now darkness.
#ScienceMatters
If Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, et al — all once associated with academic biomedicine — had a thimble of courage and integrity they’d speak up.
But silence. They must know their legacy is now darkness.
#ScienceMatters
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UC reports today that $584 million in grant funding to UCLA has been suspended. This adds to months of delays, some previous cancellations, and uncertainty around fund disbursement even prior to the freeze. Where do we go from here
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC says Trump's grant suspensions at UCLA total $584 million, a 'death knell' for research
UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk and UC President James B. Milliken on Wednesday said that federal grants suspensions total $584 million to the campus and university leaders will negotiate with the Trump a...
www.latimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
UC reports today that $584 million in grant funding to UCLA has been suspended. This adds to months of delays, some previous cancellations, and uncertainty around fund disbursement even prior to the freeze. Where do we go from here
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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This is a clear attempt to wind down the NIH. Stop new funding now, pocket rescission, choke off funds in FY26. Done.
July 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is a clear attempt to wind down the NIH. Stop new funding now, pocket rescission, choke off funds in FY26. Done.
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Paylines suddenly go from 4% to 0%.
NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year
Chokes off billions in research funding
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year
Chokes off billions in research funding
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding
The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.
www.wsj.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Paylines suddenly go from 4% to 0%.
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Wait. I assumed this was about the multi-year funding issue, but it's much, much worse than that.
Is this for real?
@drugmonkey.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
Is this for real?
@drugmonkey.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year
Chokes off billions in research funding
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year
Chokes off billions in research funding
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding
The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.
www.wsj.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Wait. I assumed this was about the multi-year funding issue, but it's much, much worse than that.
Is this for real?
@drugmonkey.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
Is this for real?
@drugmonkey.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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A major NIH grant to study ways to restore hearing was terminated by the Trump administration bc it was awarded through a DEI initiative—to a researcher who qualified bc of his own hearing loss www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/h... @manorlaboratory.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A major NIH grant to study ways to restore hearing was terminated by the Trump administration bc it was awarded through a DEI initiative—to a researcher who qualified bc of his own hearing loss www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/h... @manorlaboratory.bsky.social
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Put like this.....
4% payline demoralizing for reviewers - review 9 grants each taking 3-4hrs (total reviewed by all is 90) flying to DC, a hotel conference room to discuss the top half of grants (45) 15 min each, 3x a year for 4 yrs. Paid $300. 4% = maybe 3/90, 0-1 that you reviewed funded. I couldn’t.
July 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Put like this.....
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New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget
NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
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In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications for the US agency, Nature has learnt.
go.nature.com/3TEw7GN
go.nature.com/3TEw7GN
Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
go.nature.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications for the US agency, Nature has learnt.
go.nature.com/3TEw7GN
go.nature.com/3TEw7GN
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People who know me, know that I rarely curse or lose my temper, BUT THIS IS FUCKING INSANE! Let scientists do our fucking science without interference from some 21 year old frat boy named Big Balls.
At NIH, new fudging opportunities (NOFO) will need to be approved by DOGE. That should be a NOGO.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials will screen NIH funding opportunities
Staff at biomedical agency worry about political interference in setting priorities
www.science.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
People who know me, know that I rarely curse or lose my temper, BUT THIS IS FUCKING INSANE! Let scientists do our fucking science without interference from some 21 year old frat boy named Big Balls.
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UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR