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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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moriartylab.bsky.social
Brutal.

That's twice the 2024 federal budget for research in Canada.

Like eliminating two Canadas' worth of research and researchers.
February 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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NSF employees explained to @dangaristo.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social that they've been instructed to search for specific language — such as "women" and "people of color" — in abstracts and titles of grants to flag.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Screenshot of text from Nature article that reads: "Around 10,000 research grants have been flagged for review and distributed to various programme directors. Grants in one area of science are being distributed to directors in a separate area of science. For instance, the geosciences division is examining grants from the division of social, behavioural and economic sciences. The grants are being reviewed independently by two staff members instructed to indicate any potential violations of Trump's orders. They will submit their reviews in a spreadsheet by 5 p.m. today. Nature has seen the criteria for flagging grants, which call for programme officers to look for "broadening participation" language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs, including illegal DEl". "To see 'women' and 'woman' and 'people of colour' showing up on a spreadsheet over and over and over and over — that was a gut punch," says one NSF employee. Action for grants can include cancelling, archiving or modifying them, with a deadline of 7 February. A team of five to eight NSF staff members will then review any revised grants, which will on to the Office of the Director for approval."
February 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM