Jeremy Berg

@gregggonsalves.bsky.social , @jeremymberg.bsky.social , and @antifaspecops.bsky.social discuss how politicizing science prevents research and development from helping the United States and the entire planet. Make America Indispensable Again. #defendresearch #defenddata

Wow. He really is the least racist person I have ever heard of...

My quote of the day

I think as a leader, you just take accountability. That's what leadership is. Leadership is taking accountability yourself and holding others to the same standard, regardless of what's going on.

Jason Kelce

YouTube video by A Theory Podcast Episode 2 - "Political Science"

It was an honor to be joined by @jeremymberg.bsky.social and @gregggonsalves.bsky.social to discuss the national security risks of politicizing science.

Episode 2, "Political Science," is out now!

youtu.be/pD6v4QJTPlk

American Society for Cell Biology newsletter piece about the grant termination lawsuit and SCOTUS.

www.ascb.org/society-news...

YouTube video by A Theory Podcast Episode 2 - "Political Science"

Great conversation with @antifaspecops.bsky.social and @gregggonsalves.bsky.social about the politicization of science.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD6v...

Jay Bhattacharya: the man still putting the air quotes in “NIH Director”

This assumed he will meet with real reporter. He terminated his interview with Jocelyn Kaiser after 20 confrontational minutes.

www.science.org/content/arti...

You SHOULDN'T pretend... He is demonstrating that you CAN pretend...

Moi?

Thank you

I honestly can't tell if he is a liar or if he doesn't understand what is happening at NIH where others (DOGE, Memoli, other political appointees?) are implementing policies without regard to what he says.

Of course, these are not mutually exclusive.

Yep. It was definitely POs and not DOGE or political appointees at NIH...

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After working on retraction policy issues for the last week or so, I felt that I needed to seek clarification from NIH Director Bhattacharya on these issues.

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A bar graph showing fewer 2-year and 3-year R01s and more 4-year R01 awards for fiscal year 2025 compared with fiscal years 2022-2024.

Multi-year funding update.

Here is a comparison of multi-year funded R01s for 2002-2025. There have been 57 4-year R01s funded in FY2025, all but one in July.

I only aim to do this and days that end in "y"...

Yes. Typo fixed. Also, this is NIH data. New plots to follow. Also updated in dashboard.

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This plots are posted and available on my dashboard.

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Fraction of grant budget, just competitive renewal awards.

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Fraction of grant budget, just new awards.

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