Dana Crawford

Buckeye sighting at #NDiSTEM2025

Where else can you salsa your way to science communication but #NDiSTEM2025 ?

Paper plate with two buckeyes and a cocholaye truffle at NDiSTEM SACNAS 2025 conference.

Buckeye sighting at #NDiSTEM25 #SACNAS25

Some results of #Melissa passing over #Jamaica this afternoon.

Jamaica waiting for #melissa

Woke up thinking of #melissa and bro-in-law in Jamaica. Stay safe @barrsteve.bsky.social Stay safe, everyone.

Replying to my reply to make it clear that I am genuinely interested in how the termination of the diversity mechanism has impacted F31s (that is, I am not against this mechanism…)

How many of the “missing” F31s were from the terminated diversity mechanism?

ASHG 2025 PRIMED Abstracts

Attending #ASHG25? Learn how @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators are improving polygenic risk prediction in diverse populations by visiting these talks and posters docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Effects of the #governmentshutdown, now in day 15 #ASHG25

Unbelievable. What a missed opportunity for all those involved.

I wore this at a local grocery store recently. A cashier across the store pointed at me and yelled “yes you do!” Turns out her daughter has a #PhD and just landed her first faculty position at a university whose #NIH funding was being withheld. Real jobs and real science are being lost really fast.

The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/

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Troubling trend 3️⃣ during today's #ACIP (and last one for now)

Pseudoepi
Knowing juuuust enough epidemiology to be dangerous while not knowing enough to complete the thought

Woman’s arms showing band-aids after receiving vaccinations.

Getting caught up on my #vaccines the day of the Senate health committee hearing and the eve of the CDC ACIP meeting.

Don’t I know it…

This is a key point--terminations have hit every corner of the country.

See, e.g., the map below from our homepage at grant-witness.us

Awful lotta orange and yellow in Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio. Even Missouri. UAB alone has lost over $18M in funds it was previously awarded.

Will the ripple reach Ohio terminated grants???

Once again from my brilliant and talented (and anonymous) colleague, some dramatic moments from today's hearing:

⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases

There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants.

It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates.

Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.

Save #NIH #NoKings in research funding! #NoKingsDay

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

One of our supplements is in there. ☹️

Ohio agencies, universities lose millions in health research funding: What’s at stake? Scientists warn of job losses, fewer young scientists and economic impact government-funded research fuels the economy locally and nationally.

Ohio is going to lose a lot of #NIH funding and real jobs if the terminations continue and the proposed budget cut becomes reality. www.cleveland.com/politics/202...

Another #NIH grant terminated. This was a supplement. I am now 0/3.

Oh, no—so sorry to hear. Did you just receive this notice recently? Asking for a friend with a similar (but different IC) supplement….

I feel you affected #NSF grantees (coming from an affected #NIH grantee).

Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump - KFF Health News A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically. Of the organizations that had grants cut in the first month, about 40% ar...

🚨 The NIH’s sweeping cuts of research grants are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., @raelnb.bsky.social and I found.

At least 43% of organizations that had grants terminated are public universities.

About 40% are in states Trump won in November.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Dove chocolate foil message “Embrace optimism.”

Harder and harder to do when the NIH grant terminations keep rolling in. Second one for me in two weeks.

Webmaster told to remove DEI pages from CWRU site. She refused A Case Western Reserve University webmaster said she refused to pull pages regarding diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships. She posted about it on Facebook and said the university threatened to...

Marie Vibbert, a webmaster at Case Western, was told to take down the pages of DEI-related scholarships.

She refused.

I am proud to know her, and if the day came for me, I hope I would be half as courageous.

www.ideastream.org/government-p...