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For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.
The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.
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School accreditor drops required teaching on health inequities, known as structural competency, as Trump's DOJ probes three medical schools. www.statnews.com/2026/03/27/m...
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and for more on what one year into the Trump administration has looked like for researchers writ large, read this report by @jonathanwosen.bsky.social
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the main med school accrediting body has recently dropped language in its standards calling on schools to teach about health equity
the accrediting body, LCME, would not say why it made the change. but it has come under pressure from Trump over 'DEI' standards
www.statnews.com/2026/03/27/m...
Researchers we surveyed moved their international work to the US, wound down projects, and some had projects rejected
Read more at the report above from @mmolteni.bsky.social @jonathanwosen.bsky.social & I
~1/2 researchers said they weren't affected, but these policy changes affected some fields more than others
Work on infectious diseases & some rare diseases needs to span borders to have large enough populations to power research, as @mmolteni.bsky.social wrote abt
www.statnews.com/2025/08/06/n...
Collaboration is an important part of science — engaging in those collaborations across borders has become harder over the past year bc of NIH restrictions on foreign collabs
In our survey of 1k researchers, 1 in 4 said it was significantly impacting their work
www.statnews.com/2026/03/27/n...
there's a lot of rhetoric from this administration that focuses on individual responsibility over structures, but as several folks pointed out to me, there is overlap between structural competency & the MAHA movement
@ammahstarr.bsky.social @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social @ariana-tl.bsky.social
Medical schools are no longer required by the top accrediting body to teach health equity, @aniloza.bsky.social reports:
www.statnews.com/2026/03/27/m...
Lead is still with us, I learned from a new JAMA study. "A large share of heart disease bears the imprint of industrialization," Bruce Lanphear told me. "Lead, air pollution, and secondhand smoke aren’t side notes — they’re central to the story.”
www.statnews.com/2026/03/30/l...
Noam Ross
The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards requiring schools to teach about health inequities
@statnews.com conducted a national survey of NIH-funded researchers and found that, a year after Trump's return, many scientists are reeling, with some closing labs entirely. ‘This is like the Titanic,' one respondent told me. For full details, see our special report
www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...
