Amber M. Smith, PhD

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

12.02.2025 17:04 — 👍 11522    🔁 5462    💬 291    📌 674

Outside of the biomed. research death & unemployment that will happen from the #NIH indirects cut:

- tuition hikes ➡️ increased healthcare costs

- state tax loss ➡️ cuts to other programs

- loss of educated workforce ➡️ affects all sectors w/ compounded effect on K-12 education

What have I missed?

10.02.2025 19:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

08.02.2025 00:56 — 👍 3619    🔁 1477    💬 79    📌 239

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

A state-by-state look at the impact of NIH funding in creating jobs and economic activity.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

08.02.2025 21:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Direct Economic Contributions NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

08.02.2025 03:08 — 👍 4443    🔁 2104    💬 73    📌 91

Notably missing from their list of things that are sexist & racist are the words “men” and “male”.

Accountability as a word and a concept is also completely absent.

04.02.2025 21:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

04.02.2025 01:26 — 👍 27916    🔁 15810    💬 1279    📌 3686

Women’s health research and resources have now been scrubbed from the NIH and CDC.

Please download everything you can using web.archive.org. Most of the information is still accessible at the moment.

01.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0