‪Mark Histed‬‬ ‪@markhisted.org‬‬
What can you do? Speak out on social media, on local news, TV&radio— you can do that in your personal capacity. They did it by a series of Fri. night news dumps [&having an impossibly short deadline for submission of apps, as if they had predetermined candidates].

‪Mark Histed‬‬ ‪@markhisted.org‬‬
Curing cancer is hard! We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.

Jeremy Berg
‪@jeremymberg.bsky.social‬‬
These timelines are absurd & wanting to take on one of these positions under the present circumstances is problematic, but NIH needs qualified applicants to apply. Please consider applying, even if you are unsure you would accept the position if offered.

‪Jeremy Berg‬‬
The National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD), Fogarty International Center (FIC) & the National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health (NCCIH) Applications for NIMH are due by Friday. The remaining 5 NIGMS, NICHD, NICDR, NHGRI, and NLM are due 11/21

‪@chrisgeidner.bsky.social‬‬
BREAKING: Cornell University caved [to the US administration]. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

NIH director Bhattacharya wants to diversify who receives funding—including geographically. He said “we need to have a lot more tolerance… that the top scientists who controlled the ideas in their fields may be wrong. We need other ideas—& food is medicine might be one of them—to have support.”

In August, the President issued an executive order directing “senior appointees” to take charge of awarding, or denying, new grants. “Grants should be given to a broad range of recipients rather than to a select group of repeat players,” the order said.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

If the current top research institutions all refuse to sign, but up-and-coming colleges do, and the administration makes good on its promises to reward signatories, the compact could start to shift billions in research funding from the haves to the have-nots.

These 9 universities either rejected the compact or gave noncommittal responses, while a few other relatively unknown, non-research-intensive institutions have publicly expressed interest in signing.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

NIH director Bhattacharya wants to diversify who receives funding—including geographically. He said “we need to have a lot more tolerance… that the top scientists who controlled the ideas in their fields may be wrong. We need other ideas—& food is medicine might be one of them—to have support.”

In August, the President issued an executive order directing “senior appointees” to take charge of awarding, or denying, new grants. “Grants should be given to a broad range of recipients rather than to a select group of repeat players,” the order said.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

If the current top research institutions all refuse to sign, but up-and-coming colleges do, and the administration makes good on its promises to reward signatories, the compact could start to shift billions in research funding from the haves to the have-nots.

These 9 universities either rejected the compact or gave noncommittal responses, while a few other relatively unknown, non-research-intensive institutions have publicly expressed interest in signing.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

NIH director Bhattacharya wants to diversify who receives funding—including geographically. He said “we need to have a lot more tolerance… that the top scientists who controlled the ideas in their fields may be wrong. We need other ideas—& food is medicine might be one of them—to have support.”

In August, the President issued an executive order directing “senior appointees” to take charge of awarding, or denying, new grants. “Discretionary grants should be given to a broad range of recipients rather than to a select group of repeat players.”
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...