Anthony Barente
@anthonybarente.bsky.social
PhD in Proteomics and Data Science from the University of Washington | Just trying to understand nature's little machines | He/Him
Signal: anthony.261
https://grant-watch.us
Signal: anthony.261
https://grant-watch.us
We are hoping that watching the number of overdue grants each month will give us insight into things like funding freezes. Below we see that almost 60% of Columbia's grants whose most recent funding period ended in March are overdue. More on that freeze here:
www.science.org/content/arti...
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May 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We are hoping that watching the number of overdue grants each month will give us insight into things like funding freezes. Below we see that almost 60% of Columbia's grants whose most recent funding period ended in March are overdue. More on that freeze here:
www.science.org/content/arti...
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www.science.org/content/arti...
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Delays at the NIH likely explain a lot of the 30-day overdue grants. But there are still substantially more primary grants at least 60 days overdue now than last May. We are concerned that many may be effectively terminated.
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May 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Delays at the NIH likely explain a lot of the 30-day overdue grants. But there are still substantially more primary grants at least 60 days overdue now than last May. We are concerned that many may be effectively terminated.
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A sizeable number of NIH grants are going multiple months without a new funding period arriving in RePORTER. The Grant Watch team has begun to track these overdue grants in an effort to shed further light on our broken system.
grant-watch.us/posts/tracki...
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May 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A sizeable number of NIH grants are going multiple months without a new funding period arriving in RePORTER. The Grant Watch team has begun to track these overdue grants in an effort to shed further light on our broken system.
grant-watch.us/posts/tracki...
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grant-watch.us/posts/tracki...
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The District Court of R.I. has ordered a preliminary injuction against the termination of $11 Billion in COVID-19 funding. An earlier TRO in this case resulted in 60-70 NIH grants being reinstated as well as numerous CDC grants.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69829...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69829...
May 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The District Court of R.I. has ordered a preliminary injuction against the termination of $11 Billion in COVID-19 funding. An earlier TRO in this case resulted in 60-70 NIH grants being reinstated as well as numerous CDC grants.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69829...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69829...
Just gonna keep posting about cases cause the action is so good. Plaintiffs in PFLAG v. Trump prodded HHS for more info on 215 terminated grants to see if any violated the injuction.
Within the last day, the Feds updated the number to 200 and reiterated that these were independent of EO 14187.
Within the last day, the Feds updated the number to 200 and reiterated that these were independent of EO 14187.
![A screenshot from the April 29th, 2025 archived version of the "Report to the President on Protecting Children from Surgical and Chemical Mutilation Executive Summary"
Relevant text:
Section 4 directs HHS to “immediately take appropriate steps to ensure that [medical] institutions receiving federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
HHS has eliminated 215 such grants, saving taxpayers over $477 million.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpo2sorx2p7jigkhgdoj4yd3/bafkreicqovo5lxrmsvo2t7m2iehcb664gkg7zec4obmhxe6msey4awizhy@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Just gonna keep posting about cases cause the action is so good. Plaintiffs in PFLAG v. Trump prodded HHS for more info on 215 terminated grants to see if any violated the injuction.
Within the last day, the Feds updated the number to 200 and reiterated that these were independent of EO 14187.
Within the last day, the Feds updated the number to 200 and reiterated that these were independent of EO 14187.
Financial entries in TAGGS do suggest that action was taken on these grants on 04/28 and 04/29. We often see this with known reinstatements.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Financial entries in TAGGS do suggest that action was taken on these grants on 04/28 and 04/29. We often see this with known reinstatements.
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The Feds again maintained that the terminations did not violate the court's order. Even so, they pointed out that the NIH took action this week to reinstate those grants. We will have to see if that is reflected on the TAGGS PDF tomorrow or RePORTER on Sunday.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Feds again maintained that the terminations did not violate the court's order. Even so, they pointed out that the NIH took action this week to reinstate those grants. We will have to see if that is reflected on the TAGGS PDF tomorrow or RePORTER on Sunday.
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The final grant of the 6, 5K08HS029028-02, is a special case. I also don't think we detected that as a cancellation, because funding ran out on 03/31. It's unclear to me if the NIH was dragging its feet on renewal, but ultimately the next year was awarded on 04/22 or 04/23.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The final grant of the 6, 5K08HS029028-02, is a special case. I also don't think we detected that as a cancellation, because funding ran out on 03/31. It's unclear to me if the NIH was dragging its feet on renewal, but ultimately the next year was awarded on 04/22 or 04/23.
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Ultimately, in the Feds' view, they were compliant with the court's orders. But cancellations continued on 03/12, 03/13, and 03/21.
Again, the States viewed this as non-compliance and called the NIH on the potential cancellation of 6 grants. The NIH again reversed course and reinstated 5.
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Again, the States viewed this as non-compliance and called the NIH on the potential cancellation of 6 grants. The NIH again reversed course and reinstated 5.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ultimately, in the Feds' view, they were compliant with the court's orders. But cancellations continued on 03/12, 03/13, and 03/21.
Again, the States viewed this as non-compliance and called the NIH on the potential cancellation of 6 grants. The NIH again reversed course and reinstated 5.
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Again, the States viewed this as non-compliance and called the NIH on the potential cancellation of 6 grants. The NIH again reversed course and reinstated 5.
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A bit of background. On Feb. 28th, while a TRO was still in effect and right before the Feb. 28th preliminary injuction, the NIH terminated a grant to Seattle Children's Hospital. The States were granted expedited discovery to investigate and the NIH reversed course by reinstating the grant.
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May 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A bit of background. On Feb. 28th, while a TRO was still in effect and right before the Feb. 28th preliminary injuction, the NIH terminated a grant to Seattle Children's Hospital. The States were granted expedited discovery to investigate and the NIH reversed course by reinstating the grant.
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I know a lot is going on the news right now, but it is worth having some success stories to digest. This is preliminary, but as of 2025-04-13 I believe there is evidence for 57 COVID-19 related grant reinstatements linked to the April 5 COLORADO v HHS TRO. More are likely happening this week.
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I know a lot is going on the news right now, but it is worth having some success stories to digest. This is preliminary, but as of 2025-04-13 I believe there is evidence for 57 COVID-19 related grant reinstatements linked to the April 5 COLORADO v HHS TRO. More are likely happening this week.
Updated!
(5UM1TR004409-02)
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April 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Updated!
(5UM1TR004409-02)
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Every time I see a cancellation screwing with something for kids, I get especially irate. On April 1st, HHS canceled a grant for PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs which funded a program geared towards teaching high school student's how to be health science communicators.
April 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Every time I see a cancellation screwing with something for kids, I get especially irate. On April 1st, HHS canceled a grant for PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs which funded a program geared towards teaching high school student's how to be health science communicators.
I definitely missed the Post Award Action Type being added to terminated grants in RePORTER. It doesn't seem to be a field returned from the API, so not sure how it is populated. It's also a bit laggy since this is from the University of Utah grant that they confirmed was re-instated.
April 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I definitely missed the Post Award Action Type being added to terminated grants in RePORTER. It doesn't seem to be a field returned from the API, so not sure how it is populated. It's also a bit laggy since this is from the University of Utah grant that they confirmed was re-instated.
Sorry, bit late on this. On 2025-03-17 taggs.hhs.gov posted an updated list of 208 NIH grants which were officially terminated. Just wanted to note that this mostly includes grants terminated before 03-13 and likely misses around 100 from the end of last week.
web.archive.org/web/20250319...
web.archive.org/web/20250319...
March 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Sorry, bit late on this. On 2025-03-17 taggs.hhs.gov posted an updated list of 208 NIH grants which were officially terminated. Just wanted to note that this mostly includes grants terminated before 03-13 and likely misses around 100 from the end of last week.
web.archive.org/web/20250319...
web.archive.org/web/20250319...
After a hiatus, some competitive National Institute of Aging awards have started showing up in RePORTER. 12 with an award notice date on or after March 11.
March 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
After a hiatus, some competitive National Institute of Aging awards have started showing up in RePORTER. 12 with an award notice date on or after March 11.
Absolutely what I expected from this town
March 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Absolutely what I expected from this town
Beagan ceòl bhon fheasgar seo airson Là Fhèill Pàdraig. Great music and a great time at #TheBurren in #Boston for #SaintPatricksDay.
Slán abhaile agus oidhche mhath a chàirdean. Good night to you all.
Slán abhaile agus oidhche mhath a chàirdean. Good night to you all.
March 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Beagan ceòl bhon fheasgar seo airson Là Fhèill Pàdraig. Great music and a great time at #TheBurren in #Boston for #SaintPatricksDay.
Slán abhaile agus oidhche mhath a chàirdean. Good night to you all.
Slán abhaile agus oidhche mhath a chàirdean. Good night to you all.
In order to enrich for changes related to cuts, I first focused on entries where the Project End Date and the Award Amount are curtailed. This gives about 17 results for this week with a couple of the mouse studies that were targeted by the WH popping up.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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March 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In order to enrich for changes related to cuts, I first focused on entries where the Project End Date and the Award Amount are curtailed. This gives about 17 results for this week with a couple of the mouse studies that were targeted by the WH popping up.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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This is about $1.1 Billion in unrenewed funding, if the project was funded at the same level as the previous fiscal year. This is up from around $0.5 Billion over the last few years.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is about $1.1 Billion in unrenewed funding, if the project was funded at the same level as the previous fiscal year. This is up from around $0.5 Billion over the last few years.
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Trying to get a core set of plots started which I can auto-generate weekly to track the state of RePORTER. Here I was looking at the number of non-competitive project numbers who were missing any renewals at the second week of March each year. Up to 1553 this year compared to 667 last year.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Trying to get a core set of plots started which I can auto-generate weekly to track the state of RePORTER. Here I was looking at the number of non-competitive project numbers who were missing any renewals at the second week of March each year. Up to 1553 this year compared to 667 last year.
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Interesting thread. So when I see records listed with direct costs of $1 in RePORTER, this is likely that the budget period passed without any funds being used?
March 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Interesting thread. So when I see records listed with direct costs of $1 in RePORTER, this is likely that the budget period passed without any funds being used?
Other data might be interesting especially across time and many files. Like this entry for 5R01ES030616-05 in the 2025-01-06 data whose project and budget end date changed from the end of 2025 to the end of FISCAL year 2025. This is health disparities research at Columbia so it caught my eye.
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March 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Other data might be interesting especially across time and many files. Like this entry for 5R01ES030616-05 in the 2025-01-06 data whose project and budget end date changed from the end of 2025 to the end of FISCAL year 2025. This is health disparities research at Columbia so it caught my eye.
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Taking data from 2025-01-06 as an example, most changes in the database will be super innocuous and probably should be de-duplicated. Like I am going to track a fair amount of promotions. Congrats to Prof. Jason Radley!
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March 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Taking data from 2025-01-06 as an example, most changes in the database will be super innocuous and probably should be de-duplicated. Like I am going to track a fair amount of promotions. Congrats to Prof. Jason Radley!
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I am an industry scientist and also a parent, so free time is super limited. Thus, I am taking the project super slow. Right now, my changelog is basically a local git repo tracking a series of pretty JSON. Clunky but useful. Hopefully by the end of this week or next it will be a nice DB.
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March 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I am an industry scientist and also a parent, so free time is super limited. Thus, I am taking the project super slow. Right now, my changelog is basically a local git repo tracking a series of pretty JSON. Clunky but useful. Hopefully by the end of this week or next it will be a nice DB.
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