Susanne Ahmari

YouTube video by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Desk: The Future of Animal Models in Research | NIH’s Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer

A discussion of the use of animals in research.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...

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(Warning: Rant coming)

Outside of @cmu.edu Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit www.cmu.edu/work-that-ma....

One example:

🗣️"What do you think the $90B from industry is for?"

(note: the answer is, Not Science: $50B to develop data centers/ natural gas plants; $3 billion to modernize hydropower, etc).

Scientist holding a sign that says ‘Innovation Drives Our Nation- Fund Science’

It’s wild how even the most innocuous, theoretically uncontroversial message can still get you yelled at👩🏻‍🔬🧪

especially when it’s by people attending an AI conference that should theoretically like science…🧐

Graph showing NIH funding for new and competitive renewal grants for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. The fiscal year 2025 curve is substantially below the fiscal year 2024 curve.

Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.

First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.

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Today’s basic science is tomorrow’s game-changing invention. Trump’s cuts threaten both. - The Boston Globe Thirty years is often how long science takes to mature from a cool discovery to something that is life-changing. But researchers worry those discoveries are about to come to a screeching halt.

New Boston Globe story about NIH funding and its impacts

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/14/b...

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🚨Comment by JULY 14th!!!!!🚨

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14

This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

New story up on STAT this morning...

www.statnews.com/2025/07/06/h...

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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

A science fair of cancelled grants. The research that will be represented at this event (Tuesday) ranges from neuroscience, to astrophysics, to STEM education. The awarding agencies of the now-canceled grants include the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DOD. Open to the public.

RFK Jr. and Trump Administration is Limiting Access to Vaccines. Tell them by Friday, June 20, Everyone Must Have Access Public Comment at the CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.

🚨Only a few hours left to leave a public comment re: RFK Jr. and Trump administration limiting access to vaccines through the CDC!!!

Public Comment at CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.

peoplescdc.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and...

NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

"It's a horror show. We're under attack in every way all the time," says Sarah Kobrin, who has worked at the National Cancer Institute for more than 21 years. "We're told we're worthless. We're told we're cheats.… They're breaking things that won't be repairable."

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Look at that little tiny red bar for May 2025.

That's the illegal rescission/impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, shown graphically.

3900 grants that DOGE has killed in May. Trump is killing American science and ending disease cures. Come out to protests June 14th, everyone.

CN Health Subscribe NIH employees publish 'Bethesda Declaration' in dissent of Trump administration policies UPDATED 8 MIN AGO V By Meg Tirrell NATONA, NSTITUTES

“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”

Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

Those of you asking what you can do to help save medical research - please sign the support letter to the #BethesdaDeclaration and share it widely.

What is happening is not normal. Every name helps.

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

‘Unrecognizable and highly toxic’: NIH staffers speak out ahead of Senate hearing on budget cuts - The Boston Globe More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts to research grants.

Boston Globe story about #BethesdaDeclaration is up...

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/m...

Incredible morning of science- plus awesome use of an actual chalkboard for the agenda! #OldSchool

Had the good fortune to run into the amazing @cate-cholamine.bsky.social during Conte Center meeting break! @princetonneuro.bsky.social

FB post from BoT member Vivian Wilson, with a photo of a letter she received from Gov. Mike Braun, informing her, in one sentence, that she has been removed from her position effective immediately.

Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.

NIH Autism Research Funding Down 26% Under Trump, Analysis Shows HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to get to the bottom of surging autism rates, but a new analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut funding for such research by double digit...

RFK Jr says autism research is a priority, and that he wants to find the cause of the condition by September.

He's also overseen a 26% cut to autism research at NIH, per @disabilityscoop.bsky.social.

Excited for a day dedicated to amazing science! Very happy to be on the external advisory board for @princetonneuro.bsky.social Latent Cause Inference Conte Center 🧠

OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE THERE YOU ARE! YOU LOSE YOUR BET! THERE IT IS IN BLACK AND WHITE! I DON'T CARE WHAT THAT OR ANY OTHER BOOK SAYS — I KNOw I'M RIGHT!

The Omaha Daily News
March 05,1915

Some brightness for your timeline- it’s Prom night in Pittsburgh! Every year in Highland Park it feels like a red carpet event 🤩

In any given year, thousands of foreign medical graduates enter the match (almost 8,000 in 2022), many of whom are on J-1 visas. Revoking these visas would leave a lot of residency programs in the lurch, making it challenging for them to deliver high-quality patient care.

Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.

Politico was apparently the first to report on this, and isn't paywalled. Appointments that were already scheduled can still take place, so that's nice.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Also a CNN story on this: www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/p...

Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities’ courses and hiring under bill OK’d by House Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.

Texas legislators just passed a bill that
gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.