An utterly bleak picture of the future of academic science in America
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Congratulations!! Well deserved!
I would have been surprised if it hadn't been the case. You can add the deportation and visa cancellations in the equation as well for the domestic prices: fewer people out there to harvest crops, milk cows, etc.
Listening to a great talk on PanKbase. I’ll have to explore it more but it looks like a great resource for islet biologists. pankbase.org
Uh hi this seems bad
(essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)
I wonder if there is any recent, similar study for the US.
”Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature.
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct"
This should terrify every single scientist in America.
HbA1c can be misleading even without that: I’ve seen some people trying to remain borderline hypoglycemic as often as they could to compensate from the highs they were experiencing and keep the HbA1c at bay. For people with CGMs nowadays, GMI sounds like a much better alternative to me.
NIH Grant termination in 2025 since the new administration took office. You can sort by title, institution, etc.
airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...
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Interesting article on the US Administration campaign against Universities in the NYT today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Je suis chercheur aux États-Unis, et c’est exactement la situation dans laquelle on se trouve. Pas de quoi en rire ou le prendre à la légère. L’ensemble du domaine biomédical (et la recherche dans bien d’autres domaines aussi) est menacé et en suspens. C’est dramatique.
Ce qu’on voit aux Etats-Unis, c’est l’installation d’un régime autour de la crainte, de la terreur qui me fait penser aux débuts de Vladimir Poutine.
@franceinfo.fr
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
“The total includ[es] $5 billion to pay for biotech research that industry was unlikely to pursue on its own.”
As anyone in biotech or pharma will tell you, their talent, targets, and drugs critically depend on NIH funded basic, translational, and clinical research.
Columbia
Penn
Harvard
Princeton
Brown
and now Cornell and Northwestern
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔
You also have to factor in the people who get news on X, Facebook ro Instagram. It’s scary…
You can add to the list: The iOS G7 app crashes in the background on a regular basis. The phone doesn’t display values, and doesn’t relay them to the Dexcom servers, so caretakers loose numbers through Follow. Dexcom support has been less than helpful and didn’t even ask to see the crash logs…
26% des chercheurs français aux Etats-Unis remettent en cause leur expatriation.
Mon passage sur @franceinter.fr : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
#StandUpForScience Article in French. A French scientist going to a meeting in Houston was denied entry and kicked back to France because *on his phone*, he had exchanged messages with colleagues criticizing the actions of the Trump administration on Research:
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
