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We are a research team with the goal of understanding how inflammation affects the brain's vascular system in health and disease.
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Gentle reminder to encourage your friends and colleagues to come to Bluesky. It’s probably the best place to get news on what is happening in America.

Here’s our starter pack; you can send this link to others.
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March 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Three scientists who grew up in the Maine 🫎 woods—Maggie prevents obstetric complications, Simon studies stroke recovery, and Josie studies the pace of sleep, food, and exercise that prevents disease. None of it happens without NSF & NIH funding. 🧪🏠

www.pressherald.com/2025/03/02/s...
Standing up for science
Growing up in Bowdoinham in the ’80s and ’90s was a great place for a kid with a blossoming interest in science. During elementary school, we would go to the woods behind the school to learn about the...
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March 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Excited to be part of the Indianapolis Go Red for Women Luncheon today and have our research valued by the community! #AHA #research @americanheart.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Check out what GTC Board Members are doing behind the scenes! www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
NIH research saves lives in Indiana. Freezing it has consequences. | Opinion
Supporting the NIH is not a partisan issue; it is a profoundly human one.
www.indystar.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.

Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.

World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.

Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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"Memoli had no choice, he insisted: He was following the direction of three HHS officials—Dorothy Fink, then the acting secretary; Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff; and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy—who told him, in no uncertain terms, that the pause was to continue..."

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Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Despite court order, NIH grants remain frozen. Newly awarded grants, grants with fundable scores, & funds for a new budget cycle of a current project are all *FROZEN*🥶 and not being released. US research is being choked to death & is on life support right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
NIH is again throttling research funding in defiance of a federal court order
A freeze on "new and continuation awards" will "remain in place" pending DEI review, states a new internal memo.
www.motherjones.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Hey - please help save jobs and lives!
Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk!

Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally.

click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...
Tell Congress to Stop NIH Cuts
Please take 2 minutes today to ask Congress to take steps to stop funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The administration's proposed cuts to federal research funding, particul...
click.info.apa.org
February 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap.

Sign and Circulate.
Mobilize. Organize.

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This campaign needs you now
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
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February 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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‘Saved my life’: Alabama reacts to NIH funding cuts for biomedical research”

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‘Saved my life’: Alabama reacts to NIH funding cuts for biomedical research
NIH grants support research across Alabama, including work on heart health, kidney disease and diabetes.
www.al.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"’America's competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound,’ Owens says. ‘We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.’”

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers
The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disburse for costs such as equipment and administration.
www.npr.org
February 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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400,000 jobs at risk in red and blue states across the country.

“The N.I.H. funding also supports about 412,000 jobs, from research assistants to grant managers to people who dispose of toxic chemicals”
February 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold
February 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Please see a collective response from an esteemed group of leaders in the dementia field to the NYT article and book “doctored” by Charles Piller. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
February 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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When you’re a scientific researcher, you plan your NIH grant proposals months or years in advance. You can submit the most common type of grant to one of only three review periods per year-February, June, and October. Your life starts to take on a rhythm with those submission deadlines.
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM