“As federal workers, we have a front-row seat to the harm a lawless administration inflicts on the American public. On January 7, 2025, that harm yet again took its most devastating form in the murder of Renee Good…”

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NIH is losing so may good people. First they were fired or RIFd or pressured to retire early.

Now they are leaving because “no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity.”

Proud to know these brave scientists!

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In researching this piece, I was genuinely shocked and deeply concerned at just how many people with ties to the Brownstone Institute have been given scientific roles by this administration.

Trump's NIH canceled a study on how structural racism adds to genetic risk in kidney disease, saying it “didn’t show a sufficient return on investment.”

To Robert Sanchez, this showed "how some in this country devalued my life and the lives of people in my community." www.ajkd.org/article/S027...

Now a national news story as it must be, @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social placed on admin leave; not a household name for her title but should be for her courage to speak out in *her personal capacity* in defense of NIH's mission via The Bethesda Declaration and beyond.

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Today @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social was placed on administrative leave from her position at the NIDDK, NIH. We are extremely concerned and horrified at the actions of this adminstration and the NIH. Dr. Norton has been speaking out in her personal capacity about destruction occurring at the NIH.

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NIDDK Program Officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , Bethesda Declaration signer and outspoken advocate for science in the interests of the public not the politicians, was placed on administrative leave today. No reason was given. 1/4 www.instagram.com/reel/DRA3e8-...

Stand with science, stand up for democracy, stand with Jenna. This is not okay, and this cannot be the norm!

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.

They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.

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In June 2025 - key demographic data about race, ethnicity, language access, and a range of other factors were removed from CMS -2728 forms without any opportunity for public input. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
This will imperil health and our efforts to improve kidney #health for all.

On 20 March 2025, Trump’s NIH terminated a grant exploring structural racism as a second hit on APOL1 in kidney disease.

The majority of the patients on the study’s stakeholder advisory board heard this as: ‘Your life does not matter to us’.

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Little attention has been given to the effect of NIH research terminations on people who stand to benefit most from scientific discoveries: the patients, care partners and community leaders.

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>2,100 research projects funded by the NIH were terminated in 2025...In this comment, patients, care partners, and scientists share our perspective about what's at stake...and why advocacy is essential to our path forward @natureportfolio.nature.com @apha.org @aclu.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...