Erin Reidy

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Meanwhile NIH reviewer training admonishes us that we may never, ever feed our assigned grants to AI. While in fact our grants all go into training a black box AI on our intellectual property…

Congress: Cancer Research Funding Cuts Have Consequences ACS CAN is the leading cancer advocacy organization that is working every day to make cancer issues a national priority.

The president's recent budget proposal calls for a 37% cut to #CancerResearch funding.

If this proposal becomes law, it will have life-threatening consequences. That's why we're fighting back.

Send a message to your members of Congress now urging them to reject these outrageous proposed cuts.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

"When the people in the world of biomedical research, let’s cut the technical language, disease cure research make sustained contact with the people in each of these dozen or so disease communities and help them understand what’s happening, that’s the point when I think everything will change."

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

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Cassidy: Why did you cut research on ALS and alzheimers.
RFKJ: The Chinese aren't spending a lot of money on DEI. We have not fired any working scientists.

THIS IS A BALD-FACED LIE.

Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research The following is very important news about the Trump White House’s unfolding...

"The universities can’t say the grants have been canceled because they in fact have not been canceled. And they’re scared to say they’re not being paid because they’re hoping the White House or the NIH will relent." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

🚨🚨🚨 Four NIH institute directors have been removed from their posts and some offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, effective today.

These institutes include NIAID (Jeanne Marrazzo), NIMHD (Eliseo Pérez-Stable), NICHD (Diana Bianchi), and NINR (Shannon Zenk).

New survey data out from Navigator research shows the profound public concern and anger over the cuts in the Musk wilding spree. Unsurprisingly, voters are more concerned than almost anything by Trump and Musk shutting down cancer cure research (and research into cures for other diseases) in the U.S. 71% of independents says they're concerned or very concerned about it. 65% percent of voters over all. It's also something they've heard the least about. Here's the raw data for the poll and a powerpoint. And here's the chart on Elon and the billionaires. "Dangerous," "Power-Hungry," "Corrupt," and "Self-Serving" Are Best Descriptors of Musk and Other Billionaires' Actions Independents see them most as "dangerous," the job he is doing ao say they da greedy Oligarchic. American and inexpariEnced est lower across the body approve of * and "inexperienced" test lower across the board. Which of the following words or phrases best describes the actions of Elon Musk and the other billionaires working with the Trump administration? 2024 Trump Voters* Dem Rep Not-Strong Approvers Strong Approvers Dangerous 134% Power-hungry 134 Corrupt 131 Self-serving Greedy 129 MAGA Unaccountable Unelected 119 illegal Right-wing extremist Out-of-touch 115 114 Inexperienced Un-American IK Oligarchic Ik For more info, visit navigatorresearch.org n

ICYMI (especially if you work in Democratic politics):

Cutting cancer research is one of the things Americans are most worried about.

And one of the things they’ve heard the least about. According to polls from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social:
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Again, today would be an excellent day for Ivy League, Big Ten, & all the other chancellors & university presidents to start speaking loudly & collectively against the all-out existential crisis that this assault on US higher ed represents. The silence is deafening.

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If there is one thing scientists need to know right now it’s this.

Every effort you make now has to be directed at reaching the average normal person. That means reaching off Bluesky.
Hold local events, write local papers, get on local TV. Go to any space average people get info.

Stop pretending you care about seniors and disabled Americans when you KNOW a vote for cloture means the Republican CR passes with cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Demanding the Senate votes on your 30 day CR bill is performative and we, your constituents, can see right through that.

A vote for cloture is a vote for all of those cuts that you say you are against! You do not have the votes for your 30 day CR. Vote NO on cloture!

We are not idiots and fully understand what allowing a cloture vote means. You are letting the republican CR pass and hiding behind procedure.

Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is a major NIH-supported hospital and research center in Seattle.

And NIH funds many essential clinical trials that cannot be supported by the private sector. This is devastating.

This story is not just for us nerds. Find ways to connect with non-scientists.

DNA diagnostics, ancestry, etc.

"PubMed is the backbone of biomedical research in the U.S....It's housed under the NIH and is essentially our national library for public health and medical research information.

#cansky #medsky #NIH #Resist

Agreed! So many loose connections that I talk to do NOT understand what is happening. Scientists--please share how these cuts, website deletions, contract cancellations, etc are hurting you!

#cansky #medsky #NIH #Resist

Graduate programs ceasing admissions in the US due to funding being cut off is going to cause a really interesting predicament for private industry when companies want to hire trained researchers in 4-5 years.

Yes, the NIH is *still* violating a court order and freezing funds for new and competitive awards.

But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.

talking with reporters about the current chaos at the NIH, it's super clear how much of the convo is about HOW the NIH and federal funding of biomedical research works. Super grateful to the education I've received on twitter and from blogs, especially @drugmonkey.bsky.social's and physioproffe's

Completely agree

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻This. And is why it's so important for scientists to share their story with neighbors, parents in the school pick up line, etc

#cansky #medsky #academicsky #NIH #Resist

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

Voters are freaked when they hear about Trump and Musk shutting down cancer research in the US. Even 71% of indy voters.

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.

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So true. My mother is being treated for non-hereditary breast cancer. She's taking estrogen blockers & progesterone blockers, the latter of which is potently anti-metastatic.

Kamala Harris' mother became a citizen on a visa which involved research IDing & describing mammary hormone receptor cells.

Shortly thereafter she became pregnant with me.

I do not know this scientist's name, but I do know that there are thousands of stories from people that are alive today because of NIH intramural research. And cutting these jobs means that there are thousands who won't be alive in the future. (5/5)