Also worth mentioning that Russell Vought’s ex-wife credits their daughter’s life to a medicine developed through NIH funding, which they wouldn’t have even been able to afford without NIH funded research trials. This should come up in every conversation with him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

26/27: Disability access is about human access, it's about universal access, and god fuck it, it's for YOU. Not "even if you're trans." It's just for you, because you're as human as the polio survivors and MD havers and all the other folks who fought this battle.

Congress has given NIH a CR budget that is the same as last year. It is literally *illegal* to underspend that budget.

Cutting by 35% is wrong, it will hurt science, and it's made up.

NIHers should stand up.
Say the contract cuts are bogus.

What the FDA will likely do is produce *something* - just not a vax that includes strains chosen based on the committee & WHO's reasoned input.

🔹️They'll throw darts at a board, & the vax won't be a good match (it's tough to get it right even *with* annual input), but folks will think "see,...

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Decreasing indirects absolutely does not do that, and it will harm our ability to do research on myriad ways. You are simply very, very wrong.

Also, while I wouldn't defend irresponsible/power-hungry admins, I also wouldn't defend irresponsible/power-hungry faculty, who are more common than I could have guessed before I was a faculty member myself.

Since you are behind an anonymous handle, I can't compare our experiences. I didn't say that deans don't wield power. But you paint with a very broad brush. External review for accreditation, e.g., is typically done by faculty - experts from other institutions. Deans are typically also faculty.

If the dean and other administrators at your university aren't accountable to others (president, trustees, faculty council, external accreditation bodies), your uni is very poorly governed and I'm sorry to hear that. I've worked at 5 R1 universities and have not seen deans recklessly wielding power.

Institutions vary in how much power deans have, but indirects aren't the dean's slush fund - they have to cover infrastructure like buildings, electricity, police services, etc. And I may refer to "my grants" but they are definitely my institution's; if I leave, they don't have to let me take them.

This sounds like a misunderstanding of terminology. Federal grants aren't made to individuals (usually), they are made to institutions. I am the PI of multiple grants but the money, even the direct costs, isn't granted to me directly. Indirect costs are entirely different.