Heather Pierce
@heatherhpierce.bsky.social
Senior Director for Science Policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges. When biomedical research intersects with federal agencies and institutional policies, I’m there.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-h-pierce/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-h-pierce/
Looking forward to this event and to joining these august speakers on stage to discuss trust in science with Holden Thorpe from @science.org and Ashley Velie from @60minutes.bsky.social. See you in San Antonio at #AAMC25.
The #AAMC25 plenary stage is set:
🎤 Vivek Murthy: Leadership in uncertain times
🎤 Julie Freischlag, David Skorton, + Michael Waldrum w/ Linsey Davis: AAMC Leadership Plenary
🎤 Holden Thorp + Ashley Velie: Storytelling & trust in science
Register Now:
🎤 Vivek Murthy: Leadership in uncertain times
🎤 Julie Freischlag, David Skorton, + Michael Waldrum w/ Linsey Davis: AAMC Leadership Plenary
🎤 Holden Thorp + Ashley Velie: Storytelling & trust in science
Register Now:
Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting
cvent.me
October 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Looking forward to this event and to joining these august speakers on stage to discuss trust in science with Holden Thorpe from @science.org and Ashley Velie from @60minutes.bsky.social. See you in San Antonio at #AAMC25.
Yesterday’s executive order on federal grantmaking threatens the future of peer review and science-driven funding decisions. Our statement is here. www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
AAMC Statement on Executive Order on Federal Grantmaking
AAMC expresses concern over new executive order making detrimental changes to how federal grants are reviewed, awarded, and terminated.
www.aamc.org
August 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yesterday’s executive order on federal grantmaking threatens the future of peer review and science-driven funding decisions. Our statement is here. www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
The @aamctoday.bsky.social joined with the other leading higher education associations to ask the NIH Director, "in the spirit of consistency and fairness" to reinstate all grants that were terminated as a result of directives found to be unlawful.
www.aamc.org/media/85166/...
www.aamc.org/media/85166/...
Client Challenge
www.aamc.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The @aamctoday.bsky.social joined with the other leading higher education associations to ask the NIH Director, "in the spirit of consistency and fairness" to reinstate all grants that were terminated as a result of directives found to be unlawful.
www.aamc.org/media/85166/...
www.aamc.org/media/85166/...
Reposted by Heather Pierce
@aamctoday.bsky.social and partners sent a letter to NIH Director Bhattacharya requesting the reinstatement of all terminated NIH grants under agency directives found by a federal court to be unlawful. These grants save lives and advance scientific progress. www.aamc.org/media/85166/...
www.aamc.org
July 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
@aamctoday.bsky.social and partners sent a letter to NIH Director Bhattacharya requesting the reinstatement of all terminated NIH grants under agency directives found by a federal court to be unlawful. These grants save lives and advance scientific progress. www.aamc.org/media/85166/...
Reposted by Heather Pierce
My colleague @heatherhpierce.bsky.social spoke with @cnn.com about "existential threats" to academic medicine posed by proposed federal funding cuts, which would worsen the physician shortage, hinder scientific progress, and diminish the quality of patient care. www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
Research cuts pose ‘existential threat’ to academic medicine and put nation’s health at risk, new report says | CNN
Federal research funding cuts pose an “existential threat” to academic medicine that will have repercussions for patient care in the US, according to a new report from the Association of American Medi...
www.cnn.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My colleague @heatherhpierce.bsky.social spoke with @cnn.com about "existential threats" to academic medicine posed by proposed federal funding cuts, which would worsen the physician shortage, hinder scientific progress, and diminish the quality of patient care. www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
New from @newsweek.com - I discuss AAMC’s new report on the threats to all of academic medicine. Thanks to Alexis Kayser for the conversation. www.newsweek.com/aamc-directo...
AAMC director on NIH cuts: "Health will suffer"
Inside the high-stakes Jenga game between hospital chiefs and HHS.
www.newsweek.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New from @newsweek.com - I discuss AAMC’s new report on the threats to all of academic medicine. Thanks to Alexis Kayser for the conversation. www.newsweek.com/aamc-directo...
The AAMC released on May 6 an analysis of terminated NIH grants. As of May 5, U.S. institutions have lost $1.9 billion in funding across 777 terminated NIH grants this year, including 245 R01 grants and over 100 active clinical trials spanning a broad range of diseases. www.aamc.org/media/83356/...
May 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The AAMC released on May 6 an analysis of terminated NIH grants. As of May 5, U.S. institutions have lost $1.9 billion in funding across 777 terminated NIH grants this year, including 245 R01 grants and over 100 active clinical trials spanning a broad range of diseases. www.aamc.org/media/83356/...
Reposted by Heather Pierce
What's next after a judge blocked NIH from slashing overhead payments? The government has other options even if it doesn't appeal. Read our analysis: | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Can NIH overturn a court order blocking it from slashing overhead payments? Unlikely, one expert says
An attorney explains where the government erred—and how it could still shrink payments to universities
www.science.org
March 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What's next after a judge blocked NIH from slashing overhead payments? The government has other options even if it doesn't appeal. Read our analysis: | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Although a federal court has blocked the F&A rate cut for now, cancelled NIH grants and missed funding cycles put the future of research at risk. Glad to talk with @juliangill.bsky.social at @houstonchronicle.com about the impact in Texas and beyond.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
How Trump cuts are stunting the growth of Baylor's medical school
Baylor College of Medicine's uncertainty over health research funding is prompting the school to scale back research and reduce its incoming class size.
www.houstonchronicle.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Although a federal court has blocked the F&A rate cut for now, cancelled NIH grants and missed funding cycles put the future of research at risk. Glad to talk with @juliangill.bsky.social at @houstonchronicle.com about the impact in Texas and beyond.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Reposted by Heather Pierce
Marie Sklodowska Curie was the first woman to receive a #NobelPrize and the first person to receive the honor twice.
In 2017, #ScienceBooks explored the dynamics that established Curie as “the most iconic of all female scientists.” #WomenInScienceDay
In 2017, #ScienceBooks explored the dynamics that established Curie as “the most iconic of all female scientists.” #WomenInScienceDay
The making and remaking of Marie Curie
The famous physicist's legacy looms large 150 years after her birth
scim.ag
February 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Marie Sklodowska Curie was the first woman to receive a #NobelPrize and the first person to receive the honor twice.
In 2017, #ScienceBooks explored the dynamics that established Curie as “the most iconic of all female scientists.” #WomenInScienceDay
In 2017, #ScienceBooks explored the dynamics that established Curie as “the most iconic of all female scientists.” #WomenInScienceDay
Reposted by Heather Pierce
A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...
Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide
A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...
Last night a federal judge issued a nationwide temporary restraining order preventing NIH from implementing a change to the reimbursement of F&A costs. This would have been a devastating cut, resulting in immediate harm - to all of us. This is why AAMC took action.
www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
AAMC Lawsuit Results in Nationwide Temporary Restraining Order on Proposed Drastic Cuts to NIH Funding
Judge grants restraining order after lawsuit led by the AAMC, challenging the legality of the administration’s plan to make cuts to federally funded research.
www.aamc.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Last night a federal judge issued a nationwide temporary restraining order preventing NIH from implementing a change to the reimbursement of F&A costs. This would have been a devastating cut, resulting in immediate harm - to all of us. This is why AAMC took action.
www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
Reposted by Heather Pierce
At least temporarily staving off what many saw as a crushing blow to U.S. biomedical research, a federal judge has suspended a plan by the Trump administration to slash billions of dollars in payments from the NIH that now go to universities to cover the overhead costs of research. scim.ag/40T7g5q
Judges suspend NIH plan to slash payments and order health agencies to restore web pages
Lawsuits argued that cutting “indirect cost” rate would have “devastating” impact on research
scim.ag
February 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
At least temporarily staving off what many saw as a crushing blow to U.S. biomedical research, a federal judge has suspended a plan by the Trump administration to slash billions of dollars in payments from the NIH that now go to universities to cover the overhead costs of research. scim.ag/40T7g5q
Reposted by Heather Pierce
STAT’s @katiepalmer.bsky.social documents whet feels very palpable to me: Science and med 🧬🧪twitter moving rapidly to Blue Sky social. Happy to see so many former connections here. www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b...
Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here's why
#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.
www.statnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
STAT’s @katiepalmer.bsky.social documents whet feels very palpable to me: Science and med 🧬🧪twitter moving rapidly to Blue Sky social. Happy to see so many former connections here. www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b...
What I valued about Twitter was how, through carefully curating my Follows, my feed became the Who’s Who, the What’s What, and the What Do I Need to Know of science policy, science discovery, and science journalism. Hoping to recreate that here over time.
November 21, 2024 at 1:01 PM
What I valued about Twitter was how, through carefully curating my Follows, my feed became the Who’s Who, the What’s What, and the What Do I Need to Know of science policy, science discovery, and science journalism. Hoping to recreate that here over time.