Adam Saunders
@adamsaunders.bsky.social
Industry scientist, educator, and writer gathering wisdom from the living world.
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In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Better infrastructure = better results, better data, better science. Each dollar applied to indirect costs amplifies the effectiveness of every dollar spent on direct costs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csng...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csng...
Understanding the Real Costs of Research
YouTube video by NACUBO
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March 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Better infrastructure = better results, better data, better science. Each dollar applied to indirect costs amplifies the effectiveness of every dollar spent on direct costs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csng...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csng...
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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That is to say, building public trust with clear general-audience communication about the process of science and its results is important … but it cannot overcome a multibillion dollar organized effort to undermine public trust in science
February 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
That is to say, building public trust with clear general-audience communication about the process of science and its results is important … but it cannot overcome a multibillion dollar organized effort to undermine public trust in science
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Let's go @ascbiology.bsky.social #scientistsinaction #useyourvoice #leadership
find your representatives www.govtrack.us
Call daily!
find your representatives www.govtrack.us
Call daily!
February 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Let's go @ascbiology.bsky.social #scientistsinaction #useyourvoice #leadership
find your representatives www.govtrack.us
Call daily!
find your representatives www.govtrack.us
Call daily!
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Useful and great guidance and a script on how to contact your congressional representatives to advocate for federal scientific funding. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social!
If this is your battle, start here!
If this is your battle, start here!
Your Action Is Needed!
Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy
www.ascb.org/science-poli...
Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy
www.ascb.org/science-poli...
February 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Useful and great guidance and a script on how to contact your congressional representatives to advocate for federal scientific funding. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social!
If this is your battle, start here!
If this is your battle, start here!
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It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
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One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it.
#Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.
#Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.
US FDA drops web pages on improving clinical trial diversity
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies to test medicines and devices in diverse populations as part of a purge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at U.S. health agencies.
www.reuters.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it.
#Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.
#Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.
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The current Director of the National Institutes of Health, Monica Bertagnolli, is speaking out against the new administration's disruptive halt of numerous NIH activities. Post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/monica...
Monica Bertagnolli on LinkedIn: It is understandable that a new administration would pause some of the… | 37 comments
It is understandable that a new administration would pause some of the activities of an agency as new leaders are put in place and new priorities are set in… | 37 comments on LinkedIn
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January 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The current Director of the National Institutes of Health, Monica Bertagnolli, is speaking out against the new administration's disruptive halt of numerous NIH activities. Post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/monica...
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And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
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NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.
Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.
Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
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“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
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Yay #FluorescentFriday! A live #celegans hermaphrodite germline undergoing oogenesis with a fluorescent synaptonemal complex, a meiotic chromosome structure, marking the chromosomes in each nucleus. Movie taken by @cahooncori.bsky.social #meiosis4eva
November 15, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Yay #FluorescentFriday! A live #celegans hermaphrodite germline undergoing oogenesis with a fluorescent synaptonemal complex, a meiotic chromosome structure, marking the chromosomes in each nucleus. Movie taken by @cahooncori.bsky.social #meiosis4eva
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November 12, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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This is a good resource for undecided or unmotivated voters, or people talking with same: comprehensive analyses of what the 2024 election means for science, health care, technology, education, nuclear weapons and more (issues, not horse race nonsense) 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/report/how-t...
How the 2024 Presidential Election Will Shape Science, Health and the Environment
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris represent very different futures when it comes to science-related policy issues that deeply affect our lives. Scientific American has rounded up the U.S. presidential ca...
www.scientificamerican.com
October 29, 2024 at 11:44 AM
This is a good resource for undecided or unmotivated voters, or people talking with same: comprehensive analyses of what the 2024 election means for science, health care, technology, education, nuclear weapons and more (issues, not horse race nonsense) 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/report/how-t...
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Nature: "Trump repeatedly ignored research-informed knowledge...undermined national and global science and public-health agencies...denied climate science, lied about the federal response to hurricane forecasts...pulled the US out of the WHO in a pandemic" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The world needs a US president who respects evidence
As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off, the fate of US democracy, science and evidence-based policy hangs in the balance.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Nature: "Trump repeatedly ignored research-informed knowledge...undermined national and global science and public-health agencies...denied climate science, lied about the federal response to hurricane forecasts...pulled the US out of the WHO in a pandemic" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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An early study claiming that the risk of long COVID in kids is "strikingly low" has been retracted. New research shows that 10-20% of kids, or about 6 million in the U.S., have long COVID symptoms after infection. www.scientificamerican.com/article/long...
Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids. They Need Help.
Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants
www.scientificamerican.com
October 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
An early study claiming that the risk of long COVID in kids is "strikingly low" has been retracted. New research shows that 10-20% of kids, or about 6 million in the U.S., have long COVID symptoms after infection. www.scientificamerican.com/article/long...