tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
Powerful piece!
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“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
The ADA called the cops on attendees--one of them a former ADA president--for distributing reprints of an article pulblished in the ADA's flagship journal.
"Failing to meet the moment" is starting to feel like the understatement of the century when it comes scientific organizations in the US.
This Vought policy is an attempt to choke out American higher education. America's fascists view its institutions of higher ed—and the people who staff them—as existential enemies of the purified nation
Top story on the @nytimes.com app.
A big sign that this all-important story is breaking into mainstream consciousness.
If not now, when? This is an emergency.
This is what has me scared the most- the dry language that attempts to justify a legal sounding framework to do again what they have already tried- to ban entire institutions from receiving Federal funds and to reward "red" states and punish "blue" ones.
Jenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.
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What is the role of #poison-exon in regulating splicing factors in stem cells and development? Check out new work from Nathan Leclair and Mattia Brugiolo and many others in my lab @jax.org #RNA #splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This is the horror cherry on top of the egregious fraud, waste, and abuse sundae.
DOGE fired the people who send NIH money to research labs—which is a complicated process—so now even more labs are going to go under.
All while Jay Bhattacharya goes on a podcast and says no NIH funding was cut.
Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦
Shame on the American Diabetes Association- ejecting scientists from the meeting for distributing copies of an editorial critical of NIH funding cuts.
Kudos to these scientists for standing up for science and resisting censorship 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Now to go check the IDweek code of conduct page…
Craig Kaplan
Derek Lowe
Olga Anczukow
Kevin Elliott
The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
