Kyle Wiley

Texas is poised to become the latest GOP state to exert control over university curriculum University boards appointed by the Texas governor soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs

“Political operatives have basically used their positions of power — political power, economic power — to demand that the institutions conform to their ideas. It’s an existential attack that higher ed is facing.”

— Isaac Kamola, director, AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.

“Importantly, under long-standing law and practice, NIH does not have the authority to arbitrarily terminate grants. Its funding decisions must be guided by congressional mandates, regulatory requirements, and scientific expertise, not vague and undefined criteria.”

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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Today in the USA, women are TWICE as likely to DIE giving birth than their mothers were a generation ago.
And TRUMP's War on Women continues with ending the landmark Women's Health Study: www.science.org/content/arti...

"Women" were on the forbidden word list. The Women's Health Initiative helped us understand Hormone Replacement Therapy. We had this study because NIH had frequently *left women out* of their studies.

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.

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Optimizing Psychological Health Across Perinatal Period: An Update on Maternal CV Health: Scientific Statement From AHA

#CardioSky #CardioObstetrics #JAHA
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.

At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our new book is out!! So excited to share this with the world. We hope you find it useful! Labor of love with the best co-author one could imagine.

These grants survived intense scientific competition and scrutiny by expert peer scientists. It’s a sham to suggest they are unworthy. Pure bigotry to revoke them.

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...

One way to keep people docile is to prevent researchers from collecting the data that might reveal the full scope of the harm that's being done (in this case, to pregnant and postpartum people and their infants).
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone.

“It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Um, guys...

NIH indirect costs were just capped at 15%

Until now, they've been ~50-70%

ie for every $1 from NIH funding, the university gets another $0.50-0.70 to keep on the💡

Will devastate Universities & Med Centers

h/t @surtlab.bsky.social @prasad.bsky.social

I will also be available at the upcoming HBA/AABA and SBSM meetings.

I'm very happy to meet with interested candidates via Zoom for informational interviews.

My lab studies the impact of social, political, and traumatic stress on maternal and child. Current projects are focused on biosocial approaches to maternal cardiovascular and mental health disparities at the U.S.-Mexico border.

I'm hiring a postdoc to join my new lab at UTEP. It's very difficult to focus on science these days, but I am excited to support a junior scholar looking to grow their research program. A full job description is linked. Please circulate with junior colleagues looking for a postdoc position.

Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications "How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?"

I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

Reading today: The Ted Cruz committee report targeting research that advances health/racial/environmental equity and justice funding to be cut from the NSF/NIH. An important read: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

NIH-funded research supports $5.8 billion in economic activity & nearly 30,000 jobs in Texas:

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

This is not hyperbole.

This is an unmitigated disaster for biomedical science and reflect how central to American life and productivity NIH funding is.

This funding drives the economy and contributes to the health and wellbeing of the entire country.

Association of Severe Maternal Morbidity With Subsequent Birth This cohort study analyzed the association between severe maternal morbidity occurring in a first childbirth and the probability of a subsequent birth among women in Sweden.

If mom🤰 or baby 👶 are not okay during birth - women less likely to have another child. 👩‍👩‍👦

Study finds severe maternal morbidity and adverse neonatal outcomes -stillbirth, very preterm birth, major malformation - resulted in lower subsequent birth rates.

#pregnancy
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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With the influx of new people, I continue to update this Starter Pack for #medanthro — it’s about 50% larger now than it was a month ago. Please let me know if you or someone you know should be added!