Jonah Meyerhoff, PhD

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Also a restoration of Trevor Project involvement in 988 and a 15M increase in 988 budget.

Pass this!

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Kornfield, PhD, on receiving the 2025 Rising Star Award from the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions! @isrii.bsky.social

💬 Click below to see what else our CBITs team is up to at ISRII 2025:
cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.

"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.

So, while paying off my student loans should be a thrilling day, it isn't. I am so angry and so sad about the lack of prospects and pathways that were the entire purpose of the NIH Loan Repayment Program.

Placing American science on the chopping block, cutting off opportunities for advancement, and strangling funding will have devastating consequences. We know this.

Without investment in early scientific careers, we will have fewer health innovations & treatments for the things that make us sick, shorten life, or make living less enjoyable.

It is surreal to write this, as I watch the path for early career researchers be systematically dismantled. I am heartbroken (and angered!) by what promises to be an incalculable loss for early career scientists, but more importantly for the world.

It's strange, as of today my student loans are officially paid off. This is entirely thanks to the NIH Loan Repayment Program -- an incredible mechanism to help early career scientists stay in publicly funded biomedical research. I am so grateful have received these awards. they were life changing.

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature

At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.

Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”

Contact your reps: www.congress.gov/members/find...

Without funds, projects with huge potential to improve people’s lives will be forced to end. Leaving real people without innovative treatments. Our study, building/piloting an automated safety planing service with & for young people experiencing suicidal thoughts & behaviors will run out of money.

Gosh this is so awful.

Protect 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth The federal government has proposed eliminating all federal funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services – a program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBT...

Another action item, a petition:

Shameful. Here’s a petition shared by the @trevorproject.bsky.social CEO on LinkedIn.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

Happy to share the letter I sent to my reps via DM if you want to use it as a base for your own letter.

Also, the inflammatory language of the SAMHSA press release is enough to boil my blood. www.samhsa.gov/about/news-a...

Contact your rep: www.congress.gov/members/find...

It's no secret that this admin has been awful & vindictive to the LGBTQ+ community, but officially removing the Trevor Project from the 988 infrastructure is a new low.

You can still reach the Trevor proj. directly (call: 1-866-488-7386; text: 678-678).

There is no excuse for this abuse.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!

PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!

Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

It's 2p here in Boston, and we're back on the record in the NIH grant terminations case.

It's possible Judge Young could issue some sort of ruling here in the next few minutes, or he could provide more context for case management going forward.

Stay tuned.

More complete analysis of NIH outlays (or lack thereof) from grant-watch.us

grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at
grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis.

Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.

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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

It is impossible to make a “deal” with people who lie, move the goalposts, and explicitly state their intent to bring universities “to their knees”.

The “deal” that Americans have with each other is called the US Constitution.

We need THAT deal to be enforced. We do not need other “deals“.

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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No surprises here, but the details are about as disgusting as you could imagine. Nothing like the polar opposite of scientific inquiry masquerading as objectivity.

“we’re not doing science — we’re doing politics, and we’re engaging in censorship”

This was a fun time! Join for next year’s academy and put together your own Implementation Research Logic Model (and actually learn how/why)