Karen Gutzman

Please keep writing (and sharing) these emails if only because after reading, we will all learn about things we didn't catch happening during these chaotic months.

Cover of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'" with emails from Jeremy M. Berg to NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya.

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available...

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

Ed. Dept. Moves Millions From MSIs to HBCUs Days after declaring funds for minority-serving institutions illegal, the Trump administration strips it from the colleges that enroll more than half of the country’s students of color.

“It’s great when HBCUs and [tribal colleges] receive more funding,” ... “But it is simultaneously really terrible to take funding from minority-serving institutions over all, which do so much work, not only for people of color, but so many other groups as well.”

www.chronicle.com/article/ed-d...

NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo, Lisa Matthias, Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Heal…

Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom

💥RECAP: RFK Jr.’s MAHA report on children’s health. A thread of highlights (nightmares):

Full report here, for the brave:
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Health Equity: Are We There Yet? | Circulation

"Everyone pays for health inequities; we can do better." - Dr. Clyde Yancy

doi.org/10.1161/CIRC...

US funding freeze threatens biomedical research Federal funding is crucial for producing cutting-edge scientific, technological, and clinical breakthroughs, allowing universities to cover salaries, purchase reagents and equipment, and enroll patien...

US funding freeze threatens biomedical research | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...

ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷‍♀️

"On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...

Trump Administration Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand In an “A.I. Action Plan,” the White House outlined steps it said would promote American dominance in the fast-growing technology.

Breaking News: The Trump administration announced that the U.S. will take a relaxed approach to regulating the A.I. industry, and said that a federal framework should remove mentions of DEI and climate change.

WHITE HOUSE UNVEILS AMERICA'S AI ACTION PLAN WASHINGTON, DC – The White House today released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January executive

Then this:

"Led by the Department of Commerce (DOC) through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change."

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

This article is about a library catalog (in beta) that returned zero results for searches on “Gaza war” or “Tulsa Race Massacre.” b/c it uses a 3rd party AI search assist (possibly Azure OpenAI) with safety/moderation filters that silently rewrote or blocked the queries behind the scenes.

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

"Uncritically adopting AI tools in discovery systems will perpetuate, if not exacerbate, existing biases and suppression of minoritized people."

#FSCI2025 #FORCE2025 #FORCE25 #medlibs #scholcom

acrlog.org/2025/07/21/w...

Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.

Great explanation by Bella Ratmelia (‪@bellaratmelia.bsky.social‬) and Aaron Tay (@aarontay.bsky.social‬) of transformers and LLMS - they shared this resource: poloclub.github.io/transformer-... #FSCI2025 #scholcom #FORCE2025

Joining for Day 1 of the Force2025 Scholarly Communication Institute #FSCI2025 learning about #semanticClimate and the rapid scoping literature review. force11.org/fsci/post/fs... #scholcom #force2025 #medlibs

When you are getting your work done, but then you glimpse a news headline (really any headline, it seems) and then you feel depressed about the state of the world....so you sit there trying to collect your thoughts and get back into the work, but it's hard, you know?

Image of a Kristi Holmes speaking with a slide she's shared there depicts Health Services Research as a large circle that includes a smaller circle called Implementation Science. Within Implementation Science circle, there are two smaller circles that overlap for Dissemination Research and Implementation Research.

Tuning into the Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture today with @kristiholmes.bsky.social—loved the shoutout to Sara Becker and the incredible work happening at Northwestern’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (@nucatsinstitute.bsky.social‬)! #medlibs #implementationscience

In a special presentation on Thursday, July 10, at 1 p.m., Northwestern's Kristi Holmes, PhD, will examine communication as a powerful translational engine, connecting people, machines and systems across disciplines and communities. Registration is free — bit.ly/3ZUNCX4

I failed. I was walking home from the Chicago campus at 9 PM, blissfully unaware of the weather, only to be met by an absolute deluge. Completely soaked. Zero foresight. I had an umbrella but it was little use. I will not do well in this new system.

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.

"Vaccines for influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 remain among the best tools to protect the public against these illnesses and their potentially serious complications—and physicians are among the most trusted voices to recommend them."

www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

On a lighter note - every year I find that my capacity to ingest Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies is pretty much endless.

How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.

RFK Jr wants to Make America Healthy Again. But is America really that unhealthy?

I spoke with public health experts & data analysts to find out. My story for @nature.com and brief🧵

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

Joined the peaceful #NoKings event in Chicago at Daley Plaza.

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Stopping a clinical trial or research project then trying to start it up years later is like stopping the construction of an aircraft carrier and trying to start it up years later.

That fails. There are only so many experts, and so many places to do the work, and they schedule years out.

Carrying Hope, Facing a Crisis — Pregnancy and Migration in Chicago | NEJM Heightened fear of deportation is keeping migrants with high-risk pregnancies — people who’ve escaped perilous situations — from seeking the care they need. What can their physicians do?

Carrying Hope, Facing a Crisis — Pregnancy and Migration in Chicago | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

Today, @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social staff sent a powerful letter to the NIH Director outlining serious concerns about the agency’s direction. Thousands have already signed in support—add your name. – Mary Munson, ASCB President www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...