yes 💯 -- i want a breakdown of how many of those fs and k99s are diversity/mosaic awards.. im guessing most 😔

There are lots of ways for individuals and institutions to step in and support here - everything from filing formal appeals to offering bridge funding to organizing happy hours. Do what you can as often as you can!

Each of those F31 awards represents months (sometimes years!) of work collecting preliminary data and preparing an application. It seems especially cruel to pull the rug out from under young scientists, just as they are deciding what to do after graduation.

But there's a catch - if you normalize these data to the total number of R01s and F31s awarded in 2023, the story changes: a greater *percentage* of the trainee awards have been cancelled as compared to non-trainee awards.

At first glance, it looks like most terminated grants from the NIH are R01s, which are awarded to established scientists to fund the work of their labs. The next most common grant category is the F31, a training grant supporting the professional development of outstanding graduate students.

Thanks to the excellent work of @scott-delaney.bsky.social and @noamross.net , we can explore the disproportionate burden trainees are experiencing re: cancelled grants.

did they receive any info on the fate of those applications? my mosaic k99 was in that section ❤️‍🩹