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Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise.

This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
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Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr. What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?

I wrote about the private, intimate, often ridiculous agonies of working for a man who think you’re a monster nymag.com/intelligence...

Suspended FEMA workers who criticized Trump administration got their jobs back — until DHS leaders found out | CNN Politics In a dramatic about-face, the Trump administration on Monday re-suspended more than a dozen FEMA employees mere hours after CNN broke the news that they’d been reinstated to the agency following a thr...

This is truly unbelievable.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/p...

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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command

The new face of CDC's public health emergency response is someone who:

-- Promoted hydroxychloroquine & ivermectin as COVID-19 remedies
-- Eliminated vaccine promotion campaigns in Louisiana
-- Believes COVID-19 vaccines cause significant bodily injury

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

For some research studies the optimal sample size should be estimated at 0

here is a much better and 100x more correct article than this crap. it’s even properly fact checked

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Confirmation of the new triage line at 65-70% of proposals. Introduction of a new “competitive but ND” class to permit exception pay pickups.

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We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.

A quieter, more dispersed version of DOGE began to emerge, its members plugging away at fairly specific policy areas with whatever authority and resources they had left. Forty-five DOGE employees remain as of October, a White House shutdown plan revealed, plus dozens more who have transitioned to working for an agency full-time. Atop the GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, Gruenbaum is striking deals with tech companies for the widespread implementation of AI throughout the federal government. Gruenbaum, who declined to comment on his role, also contributed to the so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Education” that most universities have resisted signing and is now in Israel implementing the administration’s Gaza peace plan.

DOGE is down to about 45 employees, but others have burrowed their way into government agencies as full time employees. Some are helping Vought's efforts to downsize the government. Others are implementing private AI across government.

CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended full-time telework agreements for reasonable accommodations, employees say.

CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs. It’s the latest twist in an ongoing ordeal for federal workers with disabilities. www.statnews.com/2025/11/21/c...

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

No more paylines at the NIH
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Changing the basic scientific functioning of the CDC undermines the safety of our children. The post on the CDC website is a dangerous and unprecedented departure from the CDC’s longstanding commitment to communicating evidence-based public health information.

Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism.

www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

i must admit, watching RFK Jr. burn down all those years of hard work on CDC's website for nothing has not been great for my mental health

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RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.

Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”

Note the language in second photo.

As anticipated, NIH is going to use the NIH Director's "Unified Strategy" (which does not include much actual strategy) to justify renegotiation of aims.

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HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.

On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.

But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.

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Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891

The next online installment of ESTIMATE: The Reduced Form is coming on Dec 11-12. I've continued to unify and expand regression-based methods to apply to exit, non-binary treatments, DDD, discrete outcomes, and more.

All proceeds to the MSU economics PhD program.

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An infographic about the CDC Mutual Aid Fund, including data as of November 11th: 480 applications received since April 2025, with an 800% increase from August-October. More than $100K raised, most of which has already been distributed. We're raising our fundraising goal to $250K by the end of the year.

CDC Mutual Aid Fund passed two milestones this month:
1. We have raised (and will fully distribute) over $100K to fired and furloughed CDC employees since April, thanks to our generous donors.
2. We have had an *800% increase in applications for assistance* since August.
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Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.

Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.