not encouraging.

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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Such an important story and so well reported. Thank you for speaking out. I wish more people understood the urgency of this issue. No one wants this wanton destruction of our research system.

All of this is my way of saying: we need basic discovery science, and we need people who use those ideas to build practical tools.

Having both is a great strength of our nation. I hope we can keep that strength, and keep it alive for future generations.

😳

Absolutely 💯 on the mark

Can Biology Class Reduce Racism? (Published 2019)

It is a very powerful and important perspective. I first heard of this via @amyharmon.bsky.social here www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/u...

Answering the Call for a Healthy, Inclusive Democracy During a time of calculated attacks against our democracy, we hear a call for justice from every neighborhood and community. A call for those with power, privilege, and resources to put those on the l...

A very excellent piece from Rich Besser, President of @rwjf.org www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwj...

We can all agree of the need to defend freedom of inquiry, the right of the people and institutions to access evidence and science free from ideological interference to build healthy, just, sustainable societies.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing! Miss him so often.

Or the same eagle circling you?

Surprise surprise!

Not surprising at all, but it’s important to document and call it out. Like Nancy Hopkins‘s tape measure!

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n... via @statnews.com

RFK Jr.'s Very Bad Week - KFF Health News HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had another tough week. In addition to Kennedy having rotator cuff surgery, the nomination of his ally to become surgeon general is teetering, the controversial hea...

“The NIH has been this sort of bipartisan jewel that everybody has supported,” said KFF Health News’ @julierovner.bsky.social.

“Now, it’s basically being dismantled in front of our eyes.”

Listen for more analysis of the latest health care news 🎧 ⤵️

SLEEP! Yes Amita Sehgal! Also super fascinating connections to brain aging.

It’s a beautiful piece of music!

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Every day Vought withholds $ from these agencies is a day where a grad student doesn’t get funding, a day where a postdoc has to look for work elsewhere, a day where early career scientists lose gap funding with a fundable grant sitting on this clowns desk. We’re losing a generation of scientists.

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

My latest:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

This photo shows Stand Up For Science CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Future of Science Summit.

On 4 Feb Stand Up For Science hosted our first Future of Science Summit with science and policy leaders, science advocacy orgs, and Hill staffers. We’re addressing the current destruction and creating community and dialogue for building a future science ecosystem that better serves more people.
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I am excited to be running the New York City Half Marathon on March 15th with CASA-NYC! I’m raising $2,000 for children and youth involved in the NYC foster care system. More info about the team and to donate casa-nyc.org/nyc-half-mar...

a black bird is standing on a ledge on a balcony . ALT: a black bird is standing on a ledge on a balcony .

www.mpg.de/12401947/102...

Mayor Mamdani joins a crowd of nurses on strike.

Mayor Mamdani waves to a crowd while wearing a red scarf.

A crowd of nurses raises their hands while on strike.

Nurses show up in our darkest moments. 9/11. The pandemic. Every illness and emergency. Their worth is not negotiable. Fair pay, safe conditions, dignity now. NYC stands with nurses and demands good faith bargaining for justice and care for all.

sad but true

@standupforscience.bsky.social appreciation thread
Science Fight Club is important and necessary for two reasons:

1. Science has become incredibly political, as identity politics took over ALL politics.

2. Scientific institutions don't typically "fight"
and look where that got us. 🧪

"I was part of a system trying to make people’s lives better. To me, that was a good reason to get up in the morning."

Nature’s 10: Ten people who shaped science in 2025 A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10.

And congrats to @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social, who is one of Nature's "Ones to watch in 2026"!

Delawalla has been focusing on building resistance to the US government’s targeting of the nation’s scientific enterprise ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

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