Timothy Meeker

This is a critical divide that will propel the US into fascism.

Keep thinking about this... Johnny Mnemonic... Neuromancer... where's cool ICE T?

We've never been the smartest. This kind of destruction is welcomed by communities that have felt left behind since the mid-60s. They want everyone to suffer like they feel everyone has made them suffer. Especially experts who they feel ruined their lives during COVID and with too many regulations.

Currently, I just wish I knew whether or not to write grants, cause I have a lot of data to analyze and publish, but my time keeps being dominated by work that is likely meaningless. If it makes the most sense to pretend federal funding is gone, then I would like to focus on state funding.

Yeah. I totally feel that. The persistence of panic and severe depression is palpable. I think it is best to focus on what can be done, if there is anything good that can come out of this situation and fight for that; and obstruct or resign when you believe you have been pushed past your limit.

Science does not exist in a vacuum. At the current rate, a lot of science will not exist at all in the good old USA.

Imagine the new cancers we'll have to study in 10 years... wait what?!? They're already here?

Me too! But the NIH!

Microplastics and PFOS? Maybe the petroleum and chemical companies will have the mustard to oppose him?

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This is why I opened BlueSky today. Great news!!

The issue is I have one voice, one vote, and about $300k in debt between student loans and mortgage. Money is speech now. Rather than discussing what process and what speech can face an illegal executive, there needs to be enforcement of court rulings or consequences. No consequences, who cares?

$171 million per year worth.

Any opinion on postdoc diversity supplement preparation... or should I advise my student to shoot for RLK NRSA?

I think a general annual public accounting released by each institution would be sufficient.

I'll await your proposal getting accepted by Trump's NIH... you know the guy who doesn't pay contractors. Sometimes, it is more about what we can do than what is fair. My mother was an RN and we had to be homeless for a year after she broke her back at work... twice... don't tell me about unfair

When Americans shoot themselves in the foot, they kill a lot of other people too. And not just in the health sphere. Climate, Education and FOOD.

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Yup, we are developing new sensors that can non-invasively scan brains at much lower costs. That work arose from quantum effects first seen in nanodiamonds.

Can only really do so on a lab-per-lab basis. For example, I plan to include a regulatory compliance/IRB person in my next R01, given it includes a complex clinical trial. You can't put a university grant manager on most types of grants. This extends to a lot of personnel. A janitor? No way.

Universities need to issue public accounts of where indirect cost dollars go (in dollars and cents in plain English). Lack of transparency is what makes this so successful. If an academic medical center is paying a hospital exorbitant overhead and fees for clinical services, that won't look good.

I remember when we at least pretended these were core U.S. of American values. The last 3 weeks have shown me they are not.

We should keep an eye open on government auctions

To be honest, it took me some instruction to understand how to calculate indirect for subawards. Does that mean maybe expertise is useful? Hmmm.... couldn't be

Being openly racist will very soon be a requirement.

Many people inside of academia are helping this process. Universities have been too tolerant of anti-science opinions for too long.

This will be a long process. 1) there will (hopefully) be lawsuits filed next week, 2) there will be momentary budget shortfalls to compensate for, and 3) no one is going to want to telegraph their legal strategy. Remember, the new NIH director candidate is a professor at Johns Hopkins.

I wonder if national labs will cut their rates as well; all of their indirect rates are north of 70%.

A majority of people who voted for this guy believe the vaccines caused more death than COVID. They are hopelessly brainwashed and now they're going to shorten everyone's life expectancy.

I mean, it's obvious, right? Th board saw an opening to reduce opportunities to people from backgrounds that are different from theirs. Wouldn't want any trouble makers questioning meritocracy.