Dana Crawford
@caturdna.bsky.social
Human genetics. And cats. Opinions are my own. Meow.
Where else can you salsa your way to science communication but #NDiSTEM2025 ?
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Where else can you salsa your way to science communication but #NDiSTEM2025 ?
Buckeye sighting at #NDiSTEM25 #SACNAS25
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Buckeye sighting at #NDiSTEM25 #SACNAS25
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Woke up thinking of #melissa and bro-in-law in Jamaica. Stay safe @barrsteve.bsky.social Stay safe, everyone.
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Woke up thinking of #melissa and bro-in-law in Jamaica. Stay safe @barrsteve.bsky.social Stay safe, everyone.
Reposted by Dana Crawford
Attending #ASHG25? Learn how @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators are improving polygenic risk prediction in diverse populations by visiting these talks and posters docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ASHG 2025 PRIMED Abstracts
docs.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Attending #ASHG25? Learn how @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators are improving polygenic risk prediction in diverse populations by visiting these talks and posters docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Effects of the #governmentshutdown, now in day 15 #ASHG25
October 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Effects of the #governmentshutdown, now in day 15 #ASHG25
I wore this at a local grocery store recently. A cashier across the store pointed at me and yelled “yes you do!” Turns out her daughter has a #PhD and just landed her first faculty position at a university whose #NIH funding was being withheld. Real jobs and real science are being lost really fast.
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/
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Troubling trend 3️⃣ during today's #ACIP (and last one for now)
Pseudoepi
Knowing juuuust enough epidemiology to be dangerous while not knowing enough to complete the thought
Troubling trend 3️⃣ during today's #ACIP (and last one for now)
Pseudoepi
Knowing juuuust enough epidemiology to be dangerous while not knowing enough to complete the thought
a cartoon of spongebob reading a book called smarticle particle
Alt: a cartoon of spongebob reading a book called smarticle particle
media.tenor.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Troubling trend 3️⃣ during today's #ACIP (and last one for now)
Pseudoepi
Knowing juuuust enough epidemiology to be dangerous while not knowing enough to complete the thought
Troubling trend 3️⃣ during today's #ACIP (and last one for now)
Pseudoepi
Knowing juuuust enough epidemiology to be dangerous while not knowing enough to complete the thought
Don’t I know it…
This is scant comfort to NIH-funded researchers.
It would take many months or more than a year to re-file cases in Federal Claims Court, win them, and get grant money back.
It's also expensive. Lawyers fees add up.
The practical result is that all of this research is gone.
What a waste.
It would take many months or more than a year to re-file cases in Federal Claims Court, win them, and get grant money back.
It's also expensive. Lawyers fees add up.
The practical result is that all of this research is gone.
What a waste.
TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
August 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Don’t I know it…
Reposted by Dana Crawford
This is a key point--terminations have hit every corner of the country.
See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us
Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.
See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us
Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.
August 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is a key point--terminations have hit every corner of the country.
See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us
Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.
See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us
Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.
Will the ripple reach Ohio terminated grants???
A lawsuit in California with a request for a TRO on NIH terminations to the University of California.
Ruling expected early in the upcoming week.
#RippleEffect
www.courthousenews.com/uc-researche...
Ruling expected early in the upcoming week.
#RippleEffect
www.courthousenews.com/uc-researche...
UC researchers ask judge to halt Trump termination of federal grants
While not issuing a decision from the bench on the researchers' bid for a temporary restraining order, the judge expressed profound concern about the administration's wholesale cancelation of research...
www.courthousenews.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Will the ripple reach Ohio terminated grants???
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Once again from my brilliant and talented (and anonymous) colleague, some dramatic moments from today's hearing:
June 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Once again from my brilliant and talented (and anonymous) colleague, some dramatic moments from today's hearing:
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⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases
There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants.
It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates.
Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.
There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants.
It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates.
Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.
June 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases
There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants.
It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates.
Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.
There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants.
It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates.
Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.
June 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Dana Crawford
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
One of our supplements is in there. ☹️
⛔️ Big NIH update:
We just learned of 726 more NIH grants that were terminated sometime over the past 2 months.
A huge number of diversity supps, diversity F31s, and diversity training grants. See below ⤵️
View them here: grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
h/t to @noamross.net for processing them.
We just learned of 726 more NIH grants that were terminated sometime over the past 2 months.
A huge number of diversity supps, diversity F31s, and diversity training grants. See below ⤵️
View them here: grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
h/t to @noamross.net for processing them.
May 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
One of our supplements is in there. ☹️
Ohio is going to lose a lot of #NIH funding and real jobs if the terminations continue and the proposed budget cut becomes reality. www.cleveland.com/politics/202...
Ohio agencies, universities lose millions in health research funding: What’s at stake?
Scientists warn of job losses, fewer young scientists and economic impact government-funded research fuels the economy locally and nationally.
www.cleveland.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ohio is going to lose a lot of #NIH funding and real jobs if the terminations continue and the proposed budget cut becomes reality. www.cleveland.com/politics/202...
🙏 We need your help 🙏
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Reposted by Dana Crawford
🚨 The NIH’s sweeping cuts of research grants are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., @raelnb.bsky.social and I found.
At least 43% of organizations that had grants terminated are public universities.
About 40% are in states Trump won in November.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
At least 43% of organizations that had grants terminated are public universities.
About 40% are in states Trump won in November.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump - KFF Health News
A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically. Of the organizations that had grants cut in the first month, about 40% ar...
kffhealthnews.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🚨 The NIH’s sweeping cuts of research grants are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., @raelnb.bsky.social and I found.
At least 43% of organizations that had grants terminated are public universities.
About 40% are in states Trump won in November.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
At least 43% of organizations that had grants terminated are public universities.
About 40% are in states Trump won in November.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Harder and harder to do when the NIH grant terminations keep rolling in. Second one for me in two weeks.
April 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Harder and harder to do when the NIH grant terminations keep rolling in. Second one for me in two weeks.