Jana M. Iverson, Ph.D.
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A follow-up email to Director Bhattacharya
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September 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A follow-up email to Director Bhattacharya
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Extensive story from ProPublica about HHS staffing cuts.
Outstanding reporting and a lot to digest.
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
Outstanding reporting and a lot to digest.
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
projects.propublica.org
August 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Extensive story from ProPublica about HHS staffing cuts.
Outstanding reporting and a lot to digest.
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
Outstanding reporting and a lot to digest.
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
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Applications open next week for the 2026 TIGRR workshop! 👏Learn more about the Jan 5-9th grant writing workshop located in South Carolina today!
medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
June 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Applications open next week for the 2026 TIGRR workshop! 👏Learn more about the Jan 5-9th grant writing workshop located in South Carolina today!
medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
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It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA.
The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.
We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.
The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.
We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
go.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy
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"We call on members of Congress from both parties who care about their constituents to defend NIH’s critical role in lifesaving research."
NEW op ed published today by Carol Greider, Nobel Laureate, Argye Hillis, Neurologist @ John Hopkins, & Todd Wolfson, Anthropologist @ Rutgers & AAUP President.
NEW op ed published today by Carol Greider, Nobel Laureate, Argye Hillis, Neurologist @ John Hopkins, & Todd Wolfson, Anthropologist @ Rutgers & AAUP President.
www.usnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"We call on members of Congress from both parties who care about their constituents to defend NIH’s critical role in lifesaving research."
NEW op ed published today by Carol Greider, Nobel Laureate, Argye Hillis, Neurologist @ John Hopkins, & Todd Wolfson, Anthropologist @ Rutgers & AAUP President.
NEW op ed published today by Carol Greider, Nobel Laureate, Argye Hillis, Neurologist @ John Hopkins, & Todd Wolfson, Anthropologist @ Rutgers & AAUP President.
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TIGRR 2026 applications open July 1st! 🚨This workshop, designed for early-career investigators, offers one-on-one mentorship, expert guidance, and a proven path to research funding success! 👏
🔗Learn more: medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
🔗Learn more: medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
May 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
TIGRR 2026 applications open July 1st! 🚨This workshop, designed for early-career investigators, offers one-on-one mentorship, expert guidance, and a proven path to research funding success! 👏
🔗Learn more: medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
🔗Learn more: medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...
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I just signed the public support letter for these NIH scientists. They are speaking up against a very large political current moving against them, and they need as much vocal support as is possible to garner.
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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I just signed the public support letter for these NIH scientists. They are speaking up against a very large political current moving against them, and they need as much vocal support as is possible to garner.
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🚨 (Easy) action alert!
Please read and SHARE this open letter to say: "This new EO weaponizes language about science reform, and we do not stand for it."
Especially important for #metascience folks to do so. I'm grateful for @briannosek.bsky.social's and others' leadership as early signatories.
Please read and SHARE this open letter to say: "This new EO weaponizes language about science reform, and we do not stand for it."
Especially important for #metascience folks to do so. I'm grateful for @briannosek.bsky.social's and others' leadership as early signatories.
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
actionnetwork.org
May 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🚨 (Easy) action alert!
Please read and SHARE this open letter to say: "This new EO weaponizes language about science reform, and we do not stand for it."
Especially important for #metascience folks to do so. I'm grateful for @briannosek.bsky.social's and others' leadership as early signatories.
Please read and SHARE this open letter to say: "This new EO weaponizes language about science reform, and we do not stand for it."
Especially important for #metascience folks to do so. I'm grateful for @briannosek.bsky.social's and others' leadership as early signatories.
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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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Just a reminder - last day to submit a comment to keep political appointees from making NIH funding decisions n’at
Comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just a reminder - last day to submit a comment to keep political appointees from making NIH funding decisions n’at
Comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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From the account of the new Pope.
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
From the account of the new Pope.
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New Pope has a Twitter account and this was the last thing he sent
May 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New Pope has a Twitter account and this was the last thing he sent
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For those with despair about today's extreme proposed funding cuts for NIH, NSF, NASA, NOAA, etc... remember:
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
NIH was the most extreme:
Trump in 2017: "Please cut NIH's budget by -22%" (yellow bars below)
Republican House: "Nah health research is important...let's increase it by +3%!"
Republican Senate: "How about +6%??"
Final Congress: "Actually...let's do +9%!!"
ww2.aip.org/fyi/fy2025-n...
Trump in 2017: "Please cut NIH's budget by -22%" (yellow bars below)
Republican House: "Nah health research is important...let's increase it by +3%!"
Republican Senate: "How about +6%??"
Final Congress: "Actually...let's do +9%!!"
ww2.aip.org/fyi/fy2025-n...
May 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
For those with despair about today's extreme proposed funding cuts for NIH, NSF, NASA, NOAA, etc... remember:
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research Initiative | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research Initiative
The newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists (160 members and counting) today issued a statement in response to remarks and actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department...
www.eurekalert.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research Initiative | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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Still fuming about that press conference. The way RFK Jr. talks about autism is not just scientifically wrong—it’s deeply offensive.
Calling autistic kids "damaged" or implying they’ve been "lost" or "stolen" doesn’t just spread misinformation—it dehumanizes real people.
Calling autistic kids "damaged" or implying they’ve been "lost" or "stolen" doesn’t just spread misinformation—it dehumanizes real people.
April 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Still fuming about that press conference. The way RFK Jr. talks about autism is not just scientifically wrong—it’s deeply offensive.
Calling autistic kids "damaged" or implying they’ve been "lost" or "stolen" doesn’t just spread misinformation—it dehumanizes real people.
Calling autistic kids "damaged" or implying they’ve been "lost" or "stolen" doesn’t just spread misinformation—it dehumanizes real people.
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Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science
April 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science
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Great thread here for jr. faculty navigating the tenure process in "these times." Document all your successes and make sure your chair/PTR committee knows about them too. Show how you are doing what you can to stay research-active.
While this sounds awful here is some advice - and just my 2 cents worth. As a younger PI make sure any of your successes are seen by your colleagues. Even if it isn't your style, if you can get a blurb on the departmental or University website about your publication - make that happen. /7
April 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Great thread here for jr. faculty navigating the tenure process in "these times." Document all your successes and make sure your chair/PTR committee knows about them too. Show how you are doing what you can to stay research-active.
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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
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Revoking Congressionally appropriated funds based on political ideology is not just undemocratic, it's illegal. It's a gross misuse of American tax dollars, and it recklessly endangers everyone.
Grateful to my colleagues for standing against this. Enough is enough.
Grateful to my colleagues for standing against this. Enough is enough.
April 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Revoking Congressionally appropriated funds based on political ideology is not just undemocratic, it's illegal. It's a gross misuse of American tax dollars, and it recklessly endangers everyone.
Grateful to my colleagues for standing against this. Enough is enough.
Grateful to my colleagues for standing against this. Enough is enough.
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Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
Nearly 2,000 top researchers call on Trump administration to halt ‘assault’ on science
Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.
www.statnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
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I wrote an op-ed about my experience as an early career researcher right now… TLDR, it’s pretty rough out there guys
Thank you to @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social for inspiring the piece and to ABQ Journal for publishing
Thank you to @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social for inspiring the piece and to ABQ Journal for publishing
OPINION: Why you do everything right and it still ends up wrong
In 2015, I graduated college with a degree in psychology and I wanted to conduct research to reduce health disparities. First, I needed more research experience if I wanted to
www.abqjournal.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I wrote an op-ed about my experience as an early career researcher right now… TLDR, it’s pretty rough out there guys
Thank you to @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social for inspiring the piece and to ABQ Journal for publishing
Thank you to @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social for inspiring the piece and to ABQ Journal for publishing