Dan Schrider

Disregard my question, and see: bsky.app/profile/davi...

Was there actually any discussion of such an amendment in committee today?

There was also some mention of the bill containing some kind of effort to stop the forward-funding policy but the statement I heard was very vague. Anyone have any idea what that was about?

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-...

My quote of the day is a bit longer: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Thanks for the info. Fingers crossed!

Anyone know if NIH T funding mechanisms are still comatose?

Excellent work out from postdoc Remi Ketchum in @samurscicop.bsky.social's lab 👊🔥🦟

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I heard it in the wind, and I saw it in the sky. I thought it was the end...

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Thank you to Natalie for being a voice for thousands of clinical trial patients who are not receiving the care they were promised. This is powerful.

www.instagram.com/reel/DLflEqh...

I applied for this trial. This could EASILY have been me. Or someone else you know.

The (old) NIH made some recent-ish changes that address this somewhat, but I don't think it can be fully addressed unless more $ (higher grant success rates) is part of the solution. Anyway none of this matters because the whole system has just been nuked and the consequences will be catastrophic.

Yes that is clearly true, but it is absolutely clear that low success rates (which are about to get WAY) lower, play a big role in this.

Bingo.

So by extension, when NSF grant success rates drop from ~25% to 7% after the coming budget cut there will be no move towards even more risk-averse science. Good to know!

‘Dire implications’: Duke University president warns of ‘likely’ layoffs due to federal funding cuts “We will, for the foreseeable future, have to be smaller – and do our work with fewer people.”

‘Dire implications’: Duke University president warns of ‘likely’ layoffs due to federal funding cuts www.wbtw.com/news/state-r...

NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling. More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

Washington Post story about #BethesdaDeclaration

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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ATTENTION:

I am working on a project and need some assistance.

If anyone might have some time this weekend, particularly if you are in a red state, please DM me (and provide an email address and/or cell number) or reach me on Signal (jeremymberg.78).

THANK YOU!

The preliminary program of ProbGen 2026, which will be held at UC Berkeley, is now up: probgen2026.github.io

Sharing on behalf of Rasmus Nielsen who is not on this site. For more see his thread on that other site: x.com/ras_nielsen/...

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

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

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

Who's calling the shots at NIH?

Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder.

DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

Seeking an experienced tech or a postdoc stat!

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Accessible, realistic genome simulation with selection using stdpopsim Selection is a fundamental evolutionary force that shapes patterns of genetic variation across species. However, simulations incorporating realistic selection along heterogeneous genomes in complex de...

Fresh off our latest stdpopsim release (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), we are plotting our next moves. Should stdpopsim expand into SPACE by enabling users to easily simulate spatial population genetic models? Or maybe it should model quantitative trait loci to simulate phenotypic variation? (2/3)

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A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab