Kristina Legget

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5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling.

thehill.com/regulation/c...

I have no (printable) words...

Great new paper out from our MD/PhD student @keithdodd.bsky.social on the cool fMRI denoising tool he developed! 🥳

If you've ever *benefitted* from NIH research (big population), CALL YOUR SENATOR now to let them know.

⏰ Tmrw morning, Senate appropriators will mark up NIH's FY26 budget.

Personal examples help.

My own case: decades of *sustained* investment in NIH-funded cancer research saved my life.

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THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!

PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!

Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.

This. Is. Already. How. It. Works.

Ready for the Colfax Marathon relay this morning!

Well-reaearched and accurate report for the Senate HELP committee by the Sanders team

www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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Great turnout at the Capitol building in Denver today! 😊

Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies

Guardian story about Federal Register issue is up.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

I’m going for relentless optimism myself…seems the only way forward!

Indirect Costs at NIH . . . I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

Great analysis of the indirect cost rate announcement by @stuartbuck.bsky.social

This is just getting ridiculous…

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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

I’m gonna need to do some deep breathing into a paper bag with all this nonsense… 😬

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Frontiers | Predicting conversion to psychosis using machine learning: response to Cannon

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

I’m excited to report that our paper, entitled “Predicting Conversion to Psychosis Using Machine Learning: Response to Cannon” has been accepted to Frontiers in Psychiatry! Thank you to our NAPLS collaborators!

Is drinking alcohol ever good for you? Here's what the science says. If you're confused, you're not alone.

This is a pretty good piece about the latest discussion on the risks of alcohol use. But one thing that this entire discussion fails to factor is the positive utility that many gain from drinking. I'd much rather enjoy 30 more years drinking wine every day than 32 miserable years with no wine.

Hi #ACNP2024! This is my 12th (!!) ACNP and I’m looking forward to heading to the warmth in AZ tomorrow 😊 My lab focuses on 🧠 goings-on in eating behaviors and obesity, with a side of sex diffs and mental health. I have a poster on Mon on exercise effects on brain response to food, so come say hi!