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Friends of BLS has the best info we've seen on this. Check out their site.
Any questions? Let us know!
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Any questions? Let us know!
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Schedule Policy/Career Rule is a Threat to Federal Statistical Agencies. Take Action Today. — The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is very concerned about the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career Rule, a proposed change to federal employment policy....
www.friendsofbls.org
May 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Friends of BLS has the best info we've seen on this. Check out their site.
Any questions? Let us know!
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
Any questions? Let us know!
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
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All right, scientists. 🧪
The Trump administration is trying to break scientific expertise in the civil service. This will affect #NIH program staff. Red 🚨.
It's your job to submit comments by 5/23 saying that's a terrible idea!
This group has info: www.friendsofbls.org/comment-temp...
The Trump administration is trying to break scientific expertise in the civil service. This will affect #NIH program staff. Red 🚨.
It's your job to submit comments by 5/23 saying that's a terrible idea!
This group has info: www.friendsofbls.org/comment-temp...
![Comment Template
COMMENT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All submissions must include the agency name and docket number or RIN for this rulemaking. Please arrange and identify your comments on the regulatory text by subpart and section number; if your comments relate to the supplementary information, please refer to the heading and page number. All comments received will be posted publicly without change, including any personal information provided. To ensure that your comments will be considered, you must submit them on or prior to May 23, 2025 at online to the Federal Register. Before finalizing this rule, OPM will consider all comments within the scope of the regulations received on or before the closing date for comments. OPM may make changes to the final rule after considering the comments received.
COMMENT STARTER: The example below is meant to get you started with your own comment. Feel free to use it with only minimal changes, to go a different direction, or anything in between. Because OPM has to consider each comment, unique comments add value to the process but all comments relevant to the proposed rule and grounded in thoughtful analysis or real experience are helpful.
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RE: Public Comment in Response to Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service [Docket No. OPM–2025–0004]
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May 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
All right, scientists. 🧪
The Trump administration is trying to break scientific expertise in the civil service. This will affect #NIH program staff. Red 🚨.
It's your job to submit comments by 5/23 saying that's a terrible idea!
This group has info: www.friendsofbls.org/comment-temp...
The Trump administration is trying to break scientific expertise in the civil service. This will affect #NIH program staff. Red 🚨.
It's your job to submit comments by 5/23 saying that's a terrible idea!
This group has info: www.friendsofbls.org/comment-temp...
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Question for scientists 🧪:
There’s been a lot of criticism of NIH from rightwing hacks, often about how NIH doesn’t support high-risk work.
What are some examples of high-risk work NIH has supported recently? Please reply here, DM, or msg on Signal.
There’s been a lot of criticism of NIH from rightwing hacks, often about how NIH doesn’t support high-risk work.
What are some examples of high-risk work NIH has supported recently? Please reply here, DM, or msg on Signal.
April 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Question for scientists 🧪:
There’s been a lot of criticism of NIH from rightwing hacks, often about how NIH doesn’t support high-risk work.
What are some examples of high-risk work NIH has supported recently? Please reply here, DM, or msg on Signal.
There’s been a lot of criticism of NIH from rightwing hacks, often about how NIH doesn’t support high-risk work.
What are some examples of high-risk work NIH has supported recently? Please reply here, DM, or msg on Signal.
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I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
www.vindy.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
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"The memo suggests that (...) HHS has directed NIH to quickly terminate 945 specific grants—only some of which are in South Africa. Multiple researchers have told Science that their grants related to LGBT health inside the United States were also terminated today."
Nine hundred and forty-five.
Nine hundred and forty-five.
“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard
Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”
www.science.org
March 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"The memo suggests that (...) HHS has directed NIH to quickly terminate 945 specific grants—only some of which are in South Africa. Multiple researchers have told Science that their grants related to LGBT health inside the United States were also terminated today."
Nine hundred and forty-five.
Nine hundred and forty-five.
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In today’s episode, we speak with a former director of the NIH about the institutes’ future in the face of government cuts.
Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...
Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...
March 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
In today’s episode, we speak with a former director of the NIH about the institutes’ future in the face of government cuts.
Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...
Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...
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I'll keep reposting this one over and over
I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
www.vindy.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'll keep reposting this one over and over