Melissa Bauman

The job market is showing signs of weakness as Trump's tariffs take effect U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to a report from the Labor Department Friday, as the unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%. Job gains for May and June were also revised sharply ...

Today's jobs report shows 24,000 factory jobs lost in the past three months.

Trump’s first term brought a manufacturing recession. Now his reckless tariffs are making Americans worse off, again.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n... via @statnews.com

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

New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences

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14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

“Withholding or suspending these funds would jeopardize that trust and hinder progress on critical health challenges facing our nation. Ultimately, this is about finding cures and seeing them through to fruition.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Digital flyer for a virtual event titled “Calling Swing Districts – Save Scientific Research Funding.” The event is scheduled for Thursday, July 17th at 3:00 PM PT and will be held online. The flyer invites people to help call South Asian voters in Republican-held swing districts to encourage them to contact their representatives about proposed cuts to scientific research funding. It states that the Trump administration plans to cut 38% from the NIH and 55% from the NSF and has already withheld $3.8 billion in NIH funding. The event will also include calls to moderate Republican Senators to oppose cuts to NPR and PBS. At the bottom is a QR code and the logo for Stand Up for Science, along with a note that the RSVP link is available at Standupforscience.net. The background includes a red-toned image of the Statue of Liberty.

📣 UPCOMING EVENT ALERT -

🗓️ Thursday, July 17
🕒 3PM PT
📍 Online
📞 Join the call campaign to defend science.
🔗 scan the QR code or RSVP here ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/calli...

#StandUpForScience
#SummerFightForScience

As a scientist who studied animal behavior, this is extremely alarming. There is no way to test behavior/cognition in an organoid. If you could, that organoid would be conscious & deserving of protections as well.

Either neuroscience should be forbidden forever or these sacrifices are necessary.

Journalist freaks out researchers because of incomplete understanding of how NIH works The socials blew up yesterday over a recent article in Drug Discovery & Development posted by Brian Buntz. With good reason. The subhead reads “NIH announces end to funding for animal-onl…

Journalist freaks out researchers because of incomplete understanding of how NIH works drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/j...

Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

Well, this happened yesterday...

www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...

I assume that this pertains only to applications that focus on therapeutic development and not those addressing fundamental biology or mechanism.

But I am wary about making assumptions...

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Vice President Harris and Douglas Emhoff watch fireworks at the White House on July 4, 2024.

This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better.

But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.

When federal funding for medical research is cut, it’s not just budgets that suffer — people do. As the @aamctoday.bsky.social’s chief scientific officer Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH points out, many dedicated researchers are losing their jobs. More in @thehill.com: thehill.com/homenews/edu...

NIH Grant Terminations - Tracking the Scope and the Impact The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has just released an analysis of terminated NIH grants. As of May 5, U.

“Research cannot be turned off and on like a light switch,” writes Heather Pierce, JD, MPH, @aamctoday.bsky.social’s senior director for science policy and regulatory counsel, in a reflection about the impact of NIH grant terminations.

These two are unstoppable! Congrats @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

Okay, colleagues, we need to be paying attention here 👇👇👇 This is the first case for #NIH grant terminations to go to court. Thx @scott-delaney.bsky.social for updating us!!

This #FathersDay, we’re excited to launch #FathersWhoCare, a global campaign uniting 16 partners to normalize caregiving & inspire men to champion gender equality. Together, we’re building a world where caregiving is valued and shared by all. 👉 www.mothersinscience.com/dads

NIH scientists go public to denounce Trump’s deep cuts in health research Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers sign letter criticizing agency policies: ‘We dissent’

"They went public in the face of a “culture of fear and suppression” they say Trump’s administration has spread through the federal civil service."

zurl.co/EZcMO
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StandUpForScience

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.

Impact of NIH Funding Cuts on Medical Education in the U.S. NIH Funding Trends and Recent Cuts For decades, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been the major source of funding of medical research and education in the U.S.

NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Programs, like my program at Mayo Clinic, are crucial to recruiting, training, and retaining generations of physician scientists who innovate science and patient care 😢

www.linkedin.com/pulse/impact...

"Banning NIH-funded researchers from publishing in leading medical journals and requiring them to publish only in journals that carry the RFK Jr seal of approval would delegitimize taxpayer-funded research.” #resist #StandUpForScience 🧪

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News 'I Just Read Them To You!': Dick Durbin Asks RFK Jr. Point Blank About Cuts To ALS Research Funding

Colleagues!! 👇👇 Proof that talking to your Senators matters! Call and tell them the facts of what’s happening at #NIH. Stories need to be shared. Do NOT assume they know. They ARE listening

(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right." PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Love being part of the #PMB team! 💙

WARRRRRRIORS

See you in the Western Conference Semifinals, #DubNation

The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security.

More here:
medium.com/@eblissmorea...

As Trump Guts Federal Science Agencies, Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Create New Science Institute and Authorize Vaccine Purchase and Production Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.

SB 829 would create a new state agency, the California Institute for Scientific Research, to fund research in biomedicine, public health, climate, oceanography, coastal ecosystems sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/trump-g...

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Opening Day of our new research and innovation hub - Aggie Square!
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