Matt Hocking

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-...

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

I signed this and urge others to consider:

A broad group of National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants have taken action with the "Bethesda Declaration" that targets the NIH and HHS Leadership. Join these courageous professionals by adding your name now. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

Look at these cuts that will devastate med/behavioral health research, severely limit mental health services, & end educational programming.
YOU help STOP these cuts by flooding Congress using the link below.
This is for ANYONE to do, so please spread the word!!
www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.

www.notus.org/health-scien...

Trump admin just released proposed budget. Science gets eviscerated:

NIH slashed by 43%.

CDC slashed by 55%

NIMHD, Fogarty, NCCIH, and NINR defunded entirely.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Riding the high of #SPPAC2025, making a starter pack—but am also at the airport and am missing so many! Please chime in for an add! #ThisIsPedsPsych

Congratulations to Amanda Swartz on her first oral presentation at The Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference! #SPPAC2025
She presented her work on the sibling relationship quality of survivors of childhood cancer. Tremendous job representing the lab!

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We need to involve them in the changes that we want to see in the world—and support them to achieve their goals and aspirations. 8/8

I am so impressed with and grateful to my son and his classmates for their willingness to use their voice and advocate for an important issue.

It’s an important reminder that our children are (mostly) paying attention to what we say and the values we demonstrate on a daily basis. 7/

The students presented statistics on the economic benefits of NIH funding to our state of Pennsylvania and how educational institutions that rely on NIH funding are some of the biggest employers in the state. 6/

He told the Senator and his office about my lab’s research, the importance of its outcomes for the people in my lab and the survivors it will help, and how the spending freeze has disrupted our work. 5/

My son’s group met with Senator Dave McCormick and his office. My son suggested the group talk with Senator McCormick about the NIH budget cuts and spending freeze.
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This week, my 15 year-old son visited Washington, D.C. for a school trip. During the trip, he and his classmates had the opportunity to meet with an elected representative for their community and discuss an issue.
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The last few weeks our family has been talking over dinner about NIH funding cuts, the disruption to my research that helps pediatric cancer survivors thrive, and the potential economic impact on our state and country.
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Every day through our actions and words we teach our children about who we are, what we value, and what we stand for.
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Thank you for this resource. BMHO should have met 1/27-1/28 but was canceled.

A conceptual illustration of worried scientists at computers. Hedline reads: I'm an NIH-funded researcher, drowning in uncertainty

"How do you strategize around an unpredictable funding landscape?" #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4gPIkBz

The lab’s high point this week: Manali Zope gave her 1st talk at the 2025 Annual Conference for the International Neuropsychological Society! She presented on the role of neighborhood opportunity and cognitive function in the social function of kids with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Terrific talk!

Hey - please help save jobs and lives!
Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk!

Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally.

click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

Research institutes (universities, medical research centers, other research centers) are among the largest employers in both red and blue states.

Cutting indirects is catastrophic for employment.

2024 data: worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...
Map from 2017: www.usnews.com/news/best-st...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

In Pennsylvania-

NIH FUNDING:
$2.23 Billion

JOBS SUPPORTED:
21,784

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$5.23 Billion

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...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Universities fear Trump is using lucrative research grants as leverage to dismantle their DEI programs Trump's executive orders seem to be part of a plan to leverage NIH and other grants to force universities to end DEI programs

ICYMI: Reposting this story we wrote that analyzes the playbook of how the Trump administration is weaponizing laws, looking to triple any penalties, and using the government to create an "enemies list" of universities and other organizations that have opposed him.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

This is very sad. I have trained several folks through the NIH diversity supplement mechanism.

And now poof! it is gone.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

This is very troubling on many levels. Large scale, this will cause significant delays in scientific funding and advancement. Small scale, a grant that I worked on for 9 months was scheduled for review next week. Get your institutions advocating now!
www.science.org/content/arti...

Inter-rater Agreement in Multi-informant Reports of Psychosocial Functioning of Pediatric Brain and Solid Tumor Survivors - Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings Objectives: For pediatric cancer survivors in the post-treatment, school-reintegration period, integrating multi-informant reports and promoting a mutual clinician–family–school understanding of the c...

Congrats to Manali Zope on her 1st first-author paper just published in Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings! Here we highlight the importance of multi-informant reports of psychological function in survivors of #ChildhoodCancer.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I asked grad students in class yesterday how many were seriously reconsidering a career in academia given the Trump cabinet. 80% raised their hands.

I fear we're going to lose scientific workforce as a result of this administration.