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🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!

Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).

"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.

ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE

Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

Coming up in just a few weeks! @karlakaun.bsky.social and colleagues have great things in store. Prizes available for trainee presentations. Spots are still available, so please consider attending! Looking forward to chatting about growing and connecting addiction neuroscience in the area.

Republicans brush aside Trump plan to slash NIH funding - Roll Call Despite criticism of accusations of sexual harassment, controversial research, lawmakers say a 40 percent cut at the agency is too much.

Interesting

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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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So, it seems that the conclusions are:

(1) The communications around this policy have been atrociously bad;

(2) NIH leadership includes some people with strong opinions about animal-based research who aspire to reduce or eliminate the use of animals, but realize that this would be foolish now.

Was just pointed to this newly posted clarification language about animal models in NIH research grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

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This rescission package passed the Senate. It must pass the House. The deadline is tomorrow.

We hear the House has scheduled its vote for tomorrow. Johnson has little room for error!

Call your Reps and ask them to delay, and to vote no. If this passes it will make #NIH budget cuts more likely.

📣PROTEST ALERT!📍Pittsburgh, join us TUESDAY, JULY 15 at Forbes & Bigelow blvd for a rally & march!

Trump & fossil fuel execs arrive at Carnegie Mellon for Energy & AI Summit, using CMU to boost their image while selling out PA’s future.

Students & locals say: not on our campus, not in our name.

Tapping the sign that says “NSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovation”

Notice about new policy on animal research is now posted on NIH website: grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Confusing to me is that it says "all new Notices of Funding Opportunity" - are the parent R01 and R21s PARs impacted?

Here is a good link to watch the meeting and COMMENT

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14

This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

Nature: US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

DO NOT GIVE UP!

Our advocacy is working.

A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.

Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Is it just me or do others find it super hypocritical that health agency officials (HHS/FDA/NIH) have suddenly become anti-animal research activists for "ethical reasons" while being quiet about, if not actively promoting, more consumption of red meat, tallow and other forms of animal fat and flesh?

don't be fooled that this NIH effort is only about NOFO - listen to minute 21-22 "they are working tirelessly" to "phase out" "existing" funding www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

🧪 After the workshop on 7/7, the FDA and NIH are asking for public comments on implementing novel methodologies and other strategies to reduce the use of animal testing by 7/14:

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

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🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.

Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.

See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.

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Journalist freaks out researchers because of incomplete understanding of how NIH works The socials blew up yesterday over a recent article in Drug Discovery & Development posted by Brian Buntz. With good reason. The subhead reads “NIH announces end to funding for animal-onl…

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NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

This link is making the rounds in my frantic network of biologists and it desperately needs context. NIH has NOT announced plans to eliminate animal research, but we have real and urgent concerns about the future of animal research.🧪
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...

Good news - it appears that the requirement for non-animal models is at the NOFO level. This just means NIH can't solicit for only animal research grants - other approaches must be considered. This is actually a totally reasonable policy!

Public comment on this new "no animal only studies" is open here:

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

It closes next Monday.

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

This will devastate all of my colleagues that do neuroscience in mice. Drugs don't always translate from mouse to human, But 90% of our genes are shared. They allow recordings and manipulations that cannot be done in humans. We will cede discovery to Europe and China with this unnecessary handicap.

MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."

After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young:

"This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."

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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.

NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.

📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social

Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

The same National Science Foundation that the President’s budget wants to cut in half. In half! We should triple it.

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
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