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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
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Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
May 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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High school teachers! 🔭🧪🎢 Want to do real astronomy research with NASA astronomers? The application for NITARP for 2026 is now available! It's available at our website:
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(thread with a bit more information follows)
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(thread with a bit more information follows)
NITARP - NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program
NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program
nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu
May 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
High school teachers! 🔭🧪🎢 Want to do real astronomy research with NASA astronomers? The application for NITARP for 2026 is now available! It's available at our website:
nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu
(thread with a bit more information follows)
nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu
(thread with a bit more information follows)
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May 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I’m not so cheerful, because I believe strongly that pathogen research should be based on public health need & evidence-based risk-benefit assessments. Experimental research can’t be replaced with AI & it needs to continue safely & securely. But this EO isn’t about that.
May 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I’m not so cheerful, because I believe strongly that pathogen research should be based on public health need & evidence-based risk-benefit assessments. Experimental research can’t be replaced with AI & it needs to continue safely & securely. But this EO isn’t about that.
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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...
www.thecrimson.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
April 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Had a conversation with a MAGA supporter who didn't know when the news reports Trump is freezing federal grants to Universities, they mean scientific research. Grants = Scientific Research! Can we please make that more clear to people! #biosky #sciencesky #RNAsky
April 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Had a conversation with a MAGA supporter who didn't know when the news reports Trump is freezing federal grants to Universities, they mean scientific research. Grants = Scientific Research! Can we please make that more clear to people! #biosky #sciencesky #RNAsky
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People don't want factory jobs; They want the LABOR UNION protections, salary, benefits, insurance, safety, and shared profits that we unknowingly yet nostalgically & exclusively associate with manufacturing.
No reason that service and information economy jobs can't be unionized at 1960s levels.
No reason that service and information economy jobs can't be unionized at 1960s levels.
April 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
People don't want factory jobs; They want the LABOR UNION protections, salary, benefits, insurance, safety, and shared profits that we unknowingly yet nostalgically & exclusively associate with manufacturing.
No reason that service and information economy jobs can't be unionized at 1960s levels.
No reason that service and information economy jobs can't be unionized at 1960s levels.
Someone needs to invent a laser pointer that works on an led screen
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Someone needs to invent a laser pointer that works on an led screen
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At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
April 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
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NIH slashes overheads, fires directors and staff, freezes funds, halts trials, interrupts research, stalls grant review, and terminates 100s of grants on infectious disease, vaccines, mRNA, DEI, LGBTQ health.
NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
April 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
NIH slashes overheads, fires directors and staff, freezes funds, halts trials, interrupts research, stalls grant review, and terminates 100s of grants on infectious disease, vaccines, mRNA, DEI, LGBTQ health.
NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Need help with non-model microbes? We’ve got your back.
Get access to free strains, data & a shot at $1,000 for @iGEM 2025. Apply by 5/4! portal.cultivarium.org/igem-2025
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Get access to free strains, data & a shot at $1,000 for @iGEM 2025. Apply by 5/4! portal.cultivarium.org/igem-2025
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Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
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White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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When you’re a reporter who’s been included in a Cabinet group chat about bombing Yemen
March 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
When you’re a reporter who’s been included in a Cabinet group chat about bombing Yemen
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We need to organize--let’s help each other.
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
March 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We need to organize--let’s help each other.
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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 6:19 AM
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
RNA
xkcd.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late.
Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.
Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.
Stand Up And Be Counted
www.science.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late.
Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.
Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.
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This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...