So... I got more information about this plan.
The most important points follow on the next posts.
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Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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Downtown Pittsburgh & the Three Sisters Bridges are all lit up in rainbows. Happy Pride!
Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting.
The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure.
The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real.
We have to stand up.
The @nejm.org is very clear - proposed OMB changes to federal funding of research grants would be very bad for science and public health. dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...
If you are at all interested in science and research, please read up on the latest proposals from the Office of Management and Budget, and submit comments before July 13..
www.aaup.org/news/omb-pro...
once again the Guardian is showing U.S. editors what an accurate headline looks like
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
I had the privilege of meeting Peter on a few occasions and working with him a bit. He was an extremely cogent thinker, an insightful computer scientist, and an all around pleasant person. He will be missed... See less
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...
The AAUP and AFT urge the scientific community, university leaders, business leaders, and the public to fiercely resist the latest attempt to coerce the American scientific research sector.
www.aaup.org
Deal will leave things almost exactly as they were before feckless war of choice started
There’s a growing Ebola outbreak, but it’ll probably all be fine, right?
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I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this:
Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff.
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