8/ And, as someone who oversees #StructuralRacism research, I can tell you that every👏 single 👏 study 👏 in my portfolio that addressed structural racism was both rigorous and set up with testable hypotheses. And every single one was terminated.

6/ Jay made similar claims at the #NIH town hall: that research on redlining could be rigorous but research on #structuralracism is not, as if structural racism research doesn’t operationalized the concept via measurable components like redlining.

4/ He calls for a program to ensure grants go to researchers across the country (not just on the coasts), acknowledging the importance of having different perspectives in science. But he fails to realize the program he describes IS #DEI, & a similar program exists www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/DRC...

3/ Jay either does not understand or willfully mischaracterizes #DEI programs at #NIH. He describes them as only focusing on race, which is simply not true. See the (sadly now rescinded) Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

2/ I was disturbed to hear Jay take credit for (or propose as new) things that existed at #NIH well before he got there. Example: he claimed that he set up an appeals process for terminated grants. That process has existed for a looong time - we’ve just never needed to use it as such a huge scale.

“The Justice Department has contended to the university that the president, James E. Ryan, has not dismantled the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs and misrepresented the steps taken to end them.”