Robert Gregg
@doctorbobg.bsky.social
Professor and Lab Director @UMRobotics | Enhancing human ability with robotics, control systems, and prosthetics/orthotics
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🧪🛟🫁
Excellent reporting by @bruceylee.bsky.social in @forbes.com about the new NIH multi year funding policy decimating US biomedical research.
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
Excellent reporting by @bruceylee.bsky.social in @forbes.com about the new NIH multi year funding policy decimating US biomedical research.
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get
The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.
www.forbes.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🧪🛟🫁
Excellent reporting by @bruceylee.bsky.social in @forbes.com about the new NIH multi year funding policy decimating US biomedical research.
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
Excellent reporting by @bruceylee.bsky.social in @forbes.com about the new NIH multi year funding policy decimating US biomedical research.
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
I was supposed to serve on the BTSS study section today—nope. And my A1 application review was canceled last week, after the A0 application was also delayed earlier in the year. Winning!
NIH Study Sections are on hold...again. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/n...
NIH Study Sections are on hold…again.
The primary input to deciding on the merit of proposals submitted to the NIH for potential funding, as most of my remaining blog audience well knows, is the outcome of the initial peer-review proce…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I was supposed to serve on the BTSS study section today—nope. And my A1 application review was canceled last week, after the A0 application was also delayed earlier in the year. Winning!
I enjoyed sharing our latest work in my plenary talk this morning at the 2025 Modeling Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)! Had a great time at the conference too, thanks to the organizers.
October 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I enjoyed sharing our latest work in my plenary talk this morning at the 2025 Modeling Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)! Had a great time at the conference too, thanks to the organizers.
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Great demo from Boston Dynamics/Toyota Research Institute.
Other robots do manipulation (hand tasks) while people mess with them, but mostly while standing upright and still. Here it steps and crouches to pick up parts, combining locomotion with manipulation quite nicely.
youtu.be/HYwekersccY?...
Other robots do manipulation (hand tasks) while people mess with them, but mostly while standing upright and still. Here it steps and crouches to pick up parts, combining locomotion with manipulation quite nicely.
youtu.be/HYwekersccY?...
Getting a Leg up with End-to-end Neural Networks | Boston Dynamics
YouTube video by Boston Dynamics
youtu.be
August 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great demo from Boston Dynamics/Toyota Research Institute.
Other robots do manipulation (hand tasks) while people mess with them, but mostly while standing upright and still. Here it steps and crouches to pick up parts, combining locomotion with manipulation quite nicely.
youtu.be/HYwekersccY?...
Other robots do manipulation (hand tasks) while people mess with them, but mostly while standing upright and still. Here it steps and crouches to pick up parts, combining locomotion with manipulation quite nicely.
youtu.be/HYwekersccY?...
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Trump tries to put federally funded science under full ruling party political control. Hard to see how the U.S. maintains any global competitiveness in science in this scenario.
August 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump tries to put federally funded science under full ruling party political control. Hard to see how the U.S. maintains any global competitiveness in science in this scenario.
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Yep, it's Fustilarian Friday again.
Defunding Terry Tao to own the libs.
Defunding Terry Tao to own the libs.
NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA
Move follows Trump administration finding that school didn’t effectively combat antisemitism
www.science.org
August 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Yep, it's Fustilarian Friday again.
Defunding Terry Tao to own the libs.
Defunding Terry Tao to own the libs.
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🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!
Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).
"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.
ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.
Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).
"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.
ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.
Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!
Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).
"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.
ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.
Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).
"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.
ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.
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‼️🚨‼️ Russel Vought just locked up the entirety of the remaining extramural NIH budget for this fiscal year, and part of intramural. $15 billion. ~a third of the NIH budget. THIS IS AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT.
All $$ is iced except intramural salaries, admin expenses, and clinical center. NO MORE GRANTS.
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All $$ is iced except intramural salaries, admin expenses, and clinical center. NO MORE GRANTS.
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“[Vought’s] footnote stipulated that the agency’s funding for the remainder of the fiscal year could only go to staff salaries and expenses, not to new grants or certain grants that are up for renewal. Most NIH-funded research is done by outside scientists at labs across the country.”
no words
no words
July 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
‼️🚨‼️ Russel Vought just locked up the entirety of the remaining extramural NIH budget for this fiscal year, and part of intramural. $15 billion. ~a third of the NIH budget. THIS IS AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT.
All $$ is iced except intramural salaries, admin expenses, and clinical center. NO MORE GRANTS.
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All $$ is iced except intramural salaries, admin expenses, and clinical center. NO MORE GRANTS.
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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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Good grief, the US National Cancer Institute projects it will fund only one in 25 RO1 grant applications in 2026. This is massively defunding cancer research. Despicable vandalism. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
July 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Good grief, the US National Cancer Institute projects it will fund only one in 25 RO1 grant applications in 2026. This is massively defunding cancer research. Despicable vandalism. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
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NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.
July 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.
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📣 CALL TO ACTION -
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
July 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
📣 CALL TO ACTION -
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
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Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
1/n
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
1/n
July 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
1/n
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
1/n
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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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Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies
NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24
NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24
July 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies
NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24
NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24
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US NIH to cap publisher fees for federally funded research by 2026 reut.rs/4kyoTiH
US NIH to cap publisher fees for federally funded research by 2026
The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it plans to implement a policy that caps how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research publicly accessible.
reut.rs
July 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
US NIH to cap publisher fees for federally funded research by 2026 reut.rs/4kyoTiH
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Read this thread, watch the segment and share. As a comms manager for an org that supports cancer centers, I’ve been consumed by these budget cuts and their impacts since January. I hope this helps people who aren’t immersed in this day to day start to understand what’s happening — and fight it.
June 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Read this thread, watch the segment and share. As a comms manager for an org that supports cancer centers, I’ve been consumed by these budget cuts and their impacts since January. I hope this helps people who aren’t immersed in this day to day start to understand what’s happening — and fight it.
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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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"[The House letter] called on appropriations leadership to provide 'at least $51.3 billion' for the NIH’s foundational work in FY 2026. The House recommendation aligns with the FY 2026 funding recommendation set forth by the AAMC-convened Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research."
Bipartisan letters from over 200 legislators urging "strong and sustained funding" for the NIH make me cautiously optimistic.
www.aamc.org/advocacy-pol...
www.aamc.org/advocacy-pol...
House, Senate Members Send Letters in Support of NIH Funding
Members of the House and Senate sent letters to appropriations leadership in support of NIH funding.
www.aamc.org
June 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
"[The House letter] called on appropriations leadership to provide 'at least $51.3 billion' for the NIH’s foundational work in FY 2026. The House recommendation aligns with the FY 2026 funding recommendation set forth by the AAMC-convened Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research."
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I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...
Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ‘bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze
The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…
www.chicagotribune.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...
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May 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Ugh they are taking away the one COVID vaccine that doesn’t render me useless for 24-48 hours.
Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year.
As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor.
Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...
As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor.
Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...
May 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ugh they are taking away the one COVID vaccine that doesn’t render me useless for 24-48 hours.
Carl makes an excellent point that peer review has already been done for canceled grants, so the science quality has already been vetted.
3. Where allowable by foundation charter etc, philanthropic organizations should seriously consider spending down endowments given the extraordinary ROI now and the fact that the future value of funding is sorely diminished by the Trump administration's wholesale attack on science infrastructure.
May 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Carl makes an excellent point that peer review has already been done for canceled grants, so the science quality has already been vetted.
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Breaking: NSF will pause the 15% indirect cost cap until June 13 in order to proceed to a summary judgment, thereby avoiding a preliminary hearing. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70143...
Notice - Other – #50 in Association of American Universities v. National Science Foundation (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-11231) – CourtListener.com
Notice - Other
www.courtlistener.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Breaking: NSF will pause the 15% indirect cost cap until June 13 in order to proceed to a summary judgment, thereby avoiding a preliminary hearing. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70143...