Caitlin S., PhD

#NIH Institute and Center Director Perspectives on Implementing the NIH Unified Funding Strategy
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Well, f*ck.

Make America Dumb Again.

BTW...

Hegesth went to Princeton and Harvard.
Trump went to University of Pennsylvania
Bessent went to Yale
JD Vance went to Yale Law
RFK Jr. went to Harvard
Burgum went to Stanford
Wright went to MIT

Globetrotters x Scooby Doo was my jam!

That's a buzzard.

Is that a buzzard waiting to collect a carcass?

Columbia alumna here. I've never felt more patriotic and American than when exercising my First Amendment rights against sh!t like this. And it's sh!t.

God, that Pho looks f-ing awesome.

Everyone should watch this.

..."a fundamental questioning of the compact between government and science that has sustained American research since Vannevar Bush’s endless frontier."

"The 2025 funding cuts aren’t routine budget tightening. They’re not temporary political fluctuations that will reverse with the next election. They represent something different: ..."

"The American model—long programs, low stipends, no benefits, complete PI control—isn’t universal. It’s a choice, defended by inertia & rationalized by those who succeeded within it. Other countries produce excellent science without requiring graduate students to work for below-minimum-wage wages."

This, this, this! This is so important. Every researcher and administrator needs to pay attention to this. How many pending proposals does your institution have right now? What will you do if they don't get funded soon or ever? Do you have a plan?

#SciPol #RAdmin #FundUSscience

via @nature.com

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.

New: Despite Congress' rejection of the Trump administration's cuts, OMB has been throttling funding to agencies like NIH and NASA. These restrictions, on top of the 6-week government shutdown, have stopped projects and slowed new grants.

Story w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social

Below Minimum Wage: The System We Built and the System We're Losing Two years before the Berlin Wall fell.

"That’s the logic of exploitation: those who benefit from it don’t experience its costs, so they have no incentive to change it. And those who bear the costs have no power to change it. The system perpetuates." - Jim Olds

sciencepolicyinsider.substack.com/p/below-mini...

Having worked at NSF 10 years ago, this is not surprising at all. I bet this really hasn't changed much over the years they've been trying to effectively do BI. Hence the need for orgs like @arisimpacts.bsky.social.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on His Mission to Rebuild Public Trust in the NIH and CDC He discusses "DEI" research, campus funding freezes, ACIP, and the path forward for the nation's public health infrastructure

The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread.

🧵1/19

If the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal goes through, I'll be very worried about the future of @tcmtv.bsky.social and some other channels. Let's hope the people fighting it win. Very disappointed @netflix.com walked away. #TCMparty

🚨NOT GOOD: Nonpartisan CBO confirms Trump’s policies, including Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill championed during last night’s State of the Union, will DRIVE UP the debt significantly—raising America's debt-to-GDP ratio to 175% of GDP by 2056.

I need a drink. #DOE

⬆️👍

Yup. See: today's NSB meeting.

New energy department science advisory committee reflects Trump’s AI push DOE’s 21-member Office of Science Advisory Committee is well-qualified but lacks disciplinary breadth, observers say

"Nuclear physicists and environmental researchers are absent, as are accelerator physicists, even though the majority of DOE’s major scientific facilities, such as x-ray source and neutron sources, are based on particle accelerators."

Ya'll need to pay attention. #NSF

(1) I never said staff should be screaming (though some are, in their own way)
and
(2) The second part is the whole point. We'll be lucky if directorates get to spend $3.9B on basic research in their disciplines (under close watch). The rest will be spent on "Frontier Initiatives" in AI and quantum.

I went and peeked at the Bad Place so you don't have to. #USDA

I sat down with Dr. Jenna Norton, an NIH employee & my guest at the People’s State of the Union. She was put on leave by the Trump Admin after speaking truth to power.

Dr. Norton told me Trump’s actions risked creating a super-bug that would endanger us all.

Because everyone should be screaming and they're not.

Feeling emotional today about what (it seems like) is happening at #NSF ...especially after that #NSB meeting.

Anyone else in Research #RAdmin or #RDevelopment feel like you can't keep up? Somehow it feels like there's more to keep track of now than a year ago.