Julie Ostrander
jostrander.bsky.social
Julie Ostrander
@jostrander.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Reposted by Julie Ostrander
NIH has terminated at least 565 previously awarded training grants, fellowships, and early career awards so far this year, and they've awarded 1,100 fewer new ones.

That's ~1,600 fewer grants supporting new scientists than we'd have had if just a few thousand more folks voted for Harris over Trump.
May 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Julie Ostrander
The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23.

Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
www.federalregister.gov
April 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Could you please share with me?
April 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm ready!
March 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Sounds delicious, please share the recipe!!
March 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Reposted by Julie Ostrander
Please call your Congressmen today to tell them that you support children's cancer research and not to cut Dept of Defense CDMRP funding for cancer research. Vote No on the job-killing, kid-killing Continuing Resolution (CR) tomorrow. Also breast cancer, prostate cancer, Parkinson’s research, etc.
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM