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Jarcy Zee

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(she/her) Asst Prof of Biostatistics @UPenn DBEI and @CHOP. Survival, observational, and high-dimensional data methods and kidney disease researcher. Views are my own. www.zeelab.org

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Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

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June 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

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June 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM

Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

Great idea! Reposting with Alt Text.

This order states Schedule Policy/Career employees:

"are required to faithfully implement administration policies to the best of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath and the vesting of executive authority solely in the President. Failure to do so is grounds for dismissal."

It also states that:

"the President will make the final decision about which positions go into Schedule Policy/Career."

And "guidance about positions agencies should consider in their Schedule Policy/Career positions" includes those with:

"Substantive participation and discretionary authority in agency grantmaking, such as the substantive exercise of discretion in the drafting of funding opportunity announcements, evaluation of grant applications, or recommending or selecting grant recipients. Grantmaking is an important form of policymaking, so employees with a substantive discretionary role in how federal funding gets allocated may occupy policymaking positions."

This indicates that all involved in all grantmaking are considered policymaking positions and that the President can dictate whether those individuals' actions are aligned with their policies -- no matter who the President is or their party affiliation. Those involved in grantmaking should be nonpartisan career civil servants with appropriate expertise and experience to write funding announcements, evaluate grant applications, and recommend grant funding to achieve the missions of their agencies. They should not have to live in fear that their positions would be at risk if their expert-driven, rigorous decision-making is not consistent with one person's opinions. Adoption of this Proposed Rule will have dire consequences on our country's ability to conduct the best research, educate the best trainees, build the best infrastructure, and provide the best services.

April 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM

Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

Borrowed from @sciencelizard.bsky.social so figured I'd also share for others wanting ideas. Here's mine.

Several paragraphs of text quoting from the Office of Personnel Management's Proposed Rule on Improving Performance, Accountability, and Responsiveness in the Civil Service and expressing criticisms specifically about the dangers of considering all involved with grantmaking as policymakers beholden to the President.

April 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM

Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

Source for recent information about NIH! Check it out! 👇

March 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

Here's the form letter I got re:NIH funding cuts/blockages. Probably because I chose "health" in the drop-down menu 😒

March 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM

Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

#standupforscience2025 Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social

Crowd of many people with signs at Philadelphia City Hall to Stand up for Science

March 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM

Jarcy Zee

@jarcyzphd.bsky.social

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 by zeelab.org member @super-jrub.bsky.social! CLUstering Structured laSSO (CLUSSO) is a new statistical method for using pathomics data to predict outcomes, motivated by kidney biopsy images which have differing numbers of glomeruli, tubules, etc, resulting in unbalanced data.