Which ones are like that?

That is heartbreaking. I’m so sorry.

I am hopeful that this support will translate into meaningful change to protect and grow funding for research. The future of deaf children and their families depends on it. (16/16)

To me, one of the hardest parts is that there has long been bipartisan support for research—who wants deaf children suffer?? Science cannot be a partisan issue. I met with folks on both sides of the aisle on the Hill, and am grateful to see that there continues to be support for this work. (15/16)

We’re grateful our grant was reinstated, but the future remains uncertain. As @lizbettini.bsky.social says here, the uncertainty of funding makes planning and progress really challenging. (14/16)
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One of our partner sites is a small deaf-run nonprofit that serves deaf children had been on the ground working on data collection. Our grant was cut retroactively, and they had already incurred a month’s worth of expenses, which is an awful lot for a small nonprofit to float. (13/16)

The job market for scientists is incredibly tight even in good times, and even tighter now. These folks have very few choices and are now under/unemployed, leaving the field, or leaving the country. (12.5/16)

A ton of grant $$ supports early career researchers who don’t yet have stable positions and depend on grants. Even short pauses in funding can be career ending. After years of investment in doctoral training, losing them is devastating not only for the individuals but the American workforce.(12/16)

Michelle Koplitz had been funded by one of the pipeline grants, and when it was cut she was able to move onto our R01, only to lose this funding as well. Students on these pipeline grants have had to try to scramble to find other funding sources. These grants have not been reinstated. (11/16)

This was just one of several grants that hit deaf-related research. There’s a pipeline in Rochester of 5 grants supporting deaf scientists at every stage of learning: K-12, BA, MA, PhD, and postdoc. Four of these were also terminated. (10/16)

I was heading to Capitol Hill to a science fair on cancelled grants when we learned our grant was reinstated. Yay! But that’s not the end of the story. (9/16)

Thanks to the incredible network that is the Deaf community, we made it onto the APHA v. NIH legal case at the very last minute. The APHA won the case. (8/16)

It was caught in the DEIA cuts. We applied under a mechanism to increase participation in the scientific workforce. We qualified because most of the research team is deaf. That was crucial to this project—who better to assess language and communicate with families than deaf researchers. (7/16)

.@wyattehall.bsky.social led the effort to get an NIH R01 grant to tackle these problems. We spent the first year of the grant getting everything in place, and a week before we were set to go live, we found out the grant was terminated. (6/16)

We know language deprivation is preventable, but the early intervention landscape is a total jungle. Families have to make high stakes decisions with limited information and resources really fast. We need a solid evidence base to build strong systems to better support families. (5/16)

We know language deprivation happens, but we don’t have clinical diagnostic tools to identify it, and without those, we don’t have a clear idea of how often it happens. (4/16)