Anandi Krishnan

Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me.

1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies?

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Thanks, @maxkozlov.bsky.social .

I will go further. This deranged activist was also known for criticizing NIH Director Francis Collins during the Obama administration when he felt that Collins was making decisions not aligned with the best interests of the NIH.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

these $$$ could have funded biomedical research, including some of the 1000+ NIH grant proposals that were found to be highly meritorious in peer review

the payoff for that investment would be immediate ($2.63 per USD) and sustained (education, training, discoveries, careers)

House passes budget bill to end partial government shutdown The measure funds most of the federal government through Sept. 30, while providing the Department of Homeland Security with short-term funding for two weeks. Lawmakers will return to negotiate potenti...

NEW: The House passed a bill to end the partial government shutdown Tuesday afternoon, cleared by a bipartisan vote under the insistence of President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/4qgEm9M

Update from Catie Edmondson

Update:

"Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five [bills and] a stopgap measure to fund the DHS for two weeks while they continue negotiating guardrails to rein in immigration agents."

#ICE #DHS

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD Larry Summers is not only pals with Epstein but also can't write a coherent email

Friends, it’s time to let that imposter syndrome go. Former Harvard president and former secretary of the treasury Larry Summers can’t even write a coherent email. Plus, his bestie was a pedophile sex trafficker. And the sex trafficker’s other bestie is president.

You deserve that promotion!

NIH Study Section Watch Day 1: No communication about rescheduling.

long time no see, Svasti! great to connect here.

'Born Poor’ in America, They're Now Fighting to Shake Poverty’s Lingering Impact | FRONTLINE Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

Odd or jarring as it might be for some in my professional community, this brilliant @pbs.org documntary echoes aspects of my bkgrnd.

Science was the path for me & that was entirely fortuitous.

Hope many of you find a chance to watch this & think on how (& to whom) we open doors of opportunity!

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NIH's updated multi-year payout policy (funding all years of a grant upfront vs. annually) could dramatically reduce new R01s available. While total awards are "catching up," the impact on new investigators remains concerning. With budget negotiations underway, now's the time to contact your reps!

I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know.
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YouTube video by Big Ten Conference We Are Here | Driving Health, Opportunity & Stronger Communities

This ad for us scientists and educators from the Big Ten Academic Alliance is nicely done!

Share widely please - not just in reposts but also in speaking with members of your community.

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

😀😍 How are we middle class Indians if we dont get the Costco cake?!

Congrats to the Maliks!

@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease.

Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...

Plz RT

Few examples:

1) understand where the payline is and what score compression looks like. I suspect a 1 will be required. Maybe 1 or 2 apps will be funded per SS.
2) be kind to ESI/NI and other discriminated groups
3) maybe drop the whole "this is an A1 but I'm going to pretend it's not" approach.

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social

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

First highlight...

Senator Capito started of the discussion saying that the bill contains AN INCREASE for NIH.

The details are not available, but the bill will be released ofter the hearing.

This is not a done-deal, but it does show where the Senate is on a bipartisan basis.

STAT: Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts / OMB directive sets up a clash with Congress

bit.ly/4lU5Lgw

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

Funding policy for 2025 from NCI. Was just released: 4 percentile…maybe!
www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

Join the 22,339 people who have joined to support our NIH colleagues. Let's get this to 50,000 RT

I urge others to similarly support our patriots at NIH who use their training and talents to improve human health and position the US as the world’s leader in biomedical discovery, innovation and technology development 🙏

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Graphical abstract depicting diverse types of ticks on a phylogenetic tree

Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs

In case you hadn't noticed:

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article) An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Yeah, about that letter "signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official and was sent on April 11 as promised”?

And then you told us to fuck ourselves?

Yeah, that wasn't a real letter. We didn't mean it.

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net