The Committee has withdrawn its request! Which suggests that even a little bit of pushback really matters
How can HIV science resist assaults on our field?
✅ Rely on our home-grown movements
✅ Do not comply in advance
✅ Retain precise language
✅ Use our collective power
✅ Dual job: sustain science & secure safe human bodies
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I would advise them to wait to submit. Given F and Ks have been pulled due to: diversity mechanism, place of performance (e.g. South Africa), or verboten topics. See Stephanie Lee's piece and ask buddies - grants are going missing at multiple moments of the cascade. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Colleagues at APHA, ACLU, Protect Democracy, and Ctr for Science in Public Interest showing us how to #ScienceInAmerica 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
Last Friday, 1,000 more NIH biomedical research projects were defunded with no notice
Here’s a word cloud of canceled grants, based on their titles
Ah yes, pinpointing how men use rape, assault, and psychological terror towards pregnant people is scary for this administration. Because "protecting women" in no way means: keeping them alive, sane, or able to safely parent.
Most US universities are treating students with patronizing silence or "business-as-usual" platitudes (or banning their collective action altogether).
But what could it look like to work alongside early-career colleagues? I'll tell you: it feels essential and inspiring!
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
Standing Up gives purpose in times of uncertainty. 👇🏼
The moral injury of doing nothing in the face of cruelty is great. Peaceful protest is the refuel we need. #SciencenotSilence @standupforscience.bsky.social
I'll be Standing Up for Science tomorrow with some protest crafts. Get in dorks!
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BREAKING - ILLEGAL FOREIGN AID FREEZE
At oral argument on the preliminary injunction in AIDS Vaccine v. State, Judge Ali orders the Trump administration to pay all plaintiffs' invoices and letters of credit draw-down requests for work completed before Feb. 13 (approx. $2B) by 6pm Monday March 10
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
My student has a fundable NRSA and they have not received any communication since Councils and Federal Register has been shuttered. Should they reach out to someone different from PO?
UNC erased portions of the undergrad curriculum focused on equity to "be compliant" with executive orders. Let's see how university administrators backtrack now that constitutional rights are a thing again.
So many scientists are staying quiet. Proud to work alongside @rebeccafieldingmiller.com who says it like it is.
See you in Raleigh on Mon @ 2:30 (also featured in every state capitol near you)
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❗#USAID Temporary Restraining Order issued:
"All USAID employees currently on administrative leave shall be reinstated until [Feb 14] ... no additional employees shall be placed on administrative leave before that date. No USAID employees shall be evacuated from their host countries"
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...
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
Check this interpretation by legal scholar Wittes - he seems to think it doesn't matter whether agencies were defendants or not. bsky.app/profile/benj...
This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.
Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.
State capture corrodes all of society, not just certain targeted institutions. It devolves economies and increases waste. State capture only ends once citizens push back - like the courageous federal workers who have been holding the line all week.
Now what will scientists do?
US institutions are being seized through "state capture".
State capture is systematic corruption by unelected civilians taking control of public institutions. The goal is to erode public interest for personal gain. 🧵
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I am with dozens of Utah scientists, healthcare providers, and educators who urge Senators Lee and Curtis to vote no on RFK’s dangerous nomination. The health of Utahns and Americans is at risk. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
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