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Clinical research professional; friend to birds; I’ll bring dessert.
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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.

https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
February 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Institutions already subsidize IDCs at a high rate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNc...

And in a lot more depth:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
Understanding the Real Costs of Research
YouTube video by AAMCtoday
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.

GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.

Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
February 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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My story is here, do read it (writing that is my day job 😅): www.science.org/content/arti...
Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Georgia is using leaked reports as an excuse to replace community health oversight professionals with anti-abortion extremists.
meidasnews.com/news/georgia...
Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths
The heartbreaking story of Amber Thurman was first reported in ProPublica earlier this year
meidasnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM