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Cara Gonzalez Welker

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Assistant Professor at CU Boulder studying assistive devices at the intersection of biomechanics, haptics, and robotics.

186 Followers  |  64 Following  |  6 Posts  |  Joined: 13.10.2023  |  1.5565

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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.


https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4


20.02.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 238    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 21

This is incredibly upsetting. While the effects of these cancellations are clear to academics, we need to ensure that the wider public is not only aware of what's happening, but also understands how much damage this will cause to health and medical infrastructure, tech innovation, and higher ed.

19.02.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please do!

10.02.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Indirect Costs at NIH . . . I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

Relevant to this post with some analysis on the regulatory burden: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

09.02.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

01.02.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7725    πŸ” 4334    πŸ’¬ 575    πŸ“Œ 1644

Hahaha oh course evaluations

13.01.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Personally, I went to a conference in the middle of the semester this year, and it was much harder to deal with missing a week of teaching my class versus scheduling vacations around a summer conference

13.01.2024 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s Canada - it’s only -20 C here, downright balmy!

13.01.2024 06:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Brian! Excited to see one of these twitter alternatives gaining some traction!

07.12.2023 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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