Alexander Tsai, MD

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Unemployed Americans Endure Longer Job Searches in a Cooling Market The number of people unemployed for at least 27 weeks has topped 1.8 million: ‘I’m considering myself semiretired at this point.’

Great time for some NIH grant terminations
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

“The transition years are just going to be brutal.”
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Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

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BSG
Broadchurch
Vera
Luther
Office
Scrubs

I cant believe no one said Scrubs

Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.

Look this mfka
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...

Their NIH Grants Are Back. But Nothing Is Back to Normal. Researchers say that picking up where they left off is complicated — scientifically, financially, and logistically.

Via @stephaniemlee.bsky.social: "the NIH told [Tara] McKay that it would be restored, she said. But... her July 2 notice says that she is owed '$0.' The NIH’s reasoning: Her budget for the fiscal year had ended a few days prior, on June 30." www.chronicle.com/article/thei...

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Which of these three was the offending bit that was the occasion for the warning?
(Why didn't they just administratively reject the application? Yes I know count our lucky stars it was not administratively rejected)

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(b) Several DOIs presented as nonclickable URLs, e.g.
https: //dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb2509134

(c) URLs in institutional letterhead, e.g. www.massgeneral.org

Twitter hivemind: has anyone out there ever received a notice like this on their summary statement? We combed back through the entire application package and the only URLs are:

(a) One DOI presented as a clickable URL, e.g. dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...

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Brown University reaches agreement with Trump administration to restore federal research funding - The Boston Globe The deal settles three open investigations into the university, and does not require the Ivy League institution to admit any wrongdoing or make a payment to the federal government.

Every time an institution caves, it makes it harder for the others to stand strong
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

Hope and hype trump science again The ouster of Vinay Prasad at FDA over the Sarepta saga shows the people nominally in charge of the agency are not the ones making the decisions.

"Let his experience be a lesson to anyone who thinks agreeing on one issue with the folks running the Trump regime gives you operating room to make decisions that you think are in the best interests of patients and in line with the science" gooznews.substack.com/p/hope-and-h...

Oof sociology & poli sci
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Text of the call for New Editor of the Journal of Family Issues

The Journal of Family Issues (JFI) is seeking a new Editor. This is a great chance to revitalize JFI and help it expand its reach. Please share widely! #familysociology #sociology #familydemography

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Sage doesn’t pay the EIC? The EIC’s institution is supposed to pick up the tab? 😂

Fed Governors Could Break Ranks as Trump Intensifies Powell Pressure Possible dissents by Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman would mark the first time in three decades that more than one Fed governor dissented at a policy meeting.

Fed Governors, Trump’s Only 2 Appointees on the Rate-Setting Committee Who are Auditioning to be Powell Successor, Could Break Ranks as Trump Intensifies Powell Pressure www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Trump Administration Told Taiwan’s President to Avoid New York Stopover

Fk cowards
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

Trump Administration Freezes $108 Million in Funds to Duke University

That sound you hear is the collective shudder of thousands of contingent, untenured, soft-money faculty at academic medical centers nationwide who thought Trump was only going to go after universities
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

CLOWN CAR FKWITS

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“Communications” director communicating clearly and unambiguously

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

Fahhhhhk
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50,000 applications incoming

A Quiet Policy Shift That Could Devastate American Science Why NIH’s sudden move to multi-year grant funding should alarm every principal investigator and university

“Jay Bhattacharya defended this plan in a recent Senate hearing, saying it will allow for more flexibility ‘in the long run.’ But that long run is meaningless if we destroy the bridge that gets us there.”
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/a-quiet-po...

“increased academic collaboration across the region”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Friends don’t let friends publish in predatory journals

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

FAHK
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Senior faculty who got tenure and paid off mortgages during the era of 40th percentile paylines be like

“an octogenarian Air Force retiree who spent half a century in his nation’s service was not allowed to attend a party for a dog he essentially donated to the government and named after his dead wife”