Tim Barnoud

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!

House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.

To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.

YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

U.S. health science is crumbling.

If Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, et al — all once associated with academic biomedicine — had a thimble of courage and integrity they’d speak up.

But silence. They must know their legacy is now darkness.

#ScienceMatters

UC says Trump's grant suspensions at UCLA total $584 million, a 'death knell' for research UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk and UC President James B. Milliken on Wednesday said that federal grants suspensions total $584 million to the campus and university leaders will negotiate with the Trump a...

UC reports today that $584 million in grant funding to UCLA has been suspended. This adds to months of delays, some previous cancellations, and uncertainty around fund disbursement even prior to the freeze. Where do we go from here
www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is a clear attempt to wind down the NIH. Stop new funding now, pocket rescission, choke off funds in FY26. Done.

Paylines suddenly go from 4% to 0%.

Wait. I assumed this was about the multi-year funding issue, but it's much, much worse than that.

Is this for real?

@drugmonkey.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social

A major NIH grant to study ways to restore hearing was terminated by the Trump administration bc it was awarded through a DEI initiative—to a researcher who qualified bc of his own hearing loss www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/h... @manorlaboratory.bsky.social

Put like this.....

Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications for the US agency, Nature has learnt.

go.nature.com/3TEw7GN

People who know me, know that I rarely curse or lose my temper, BUT THIS IS FUCKING INSANE! Let scientists do our fucking science without interference from some 21 year old frat boy named Big Balls.

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

I used the proteomics core at UAMS for a similar basic experiment and I had a great experience with them! Turnaround time 6-8 weeks and the price was reasonable.