ORS encourages members to advocate for their research. On March 7, join the nationwide Stand Up for Science rally in Washington, DC, and state capitols. Share with colleagues and learn more at www.standupforscience2025.org. #scienceisforeveryone
NIH funding directly translates into jobs, new medicines and economic growth. Spread the word!
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The funding freeze is NOT over.
Biomedical grants can't get reviewed or funded because of a "loophole" the current administration is exploiting.
The NIH timeline for reviewing and funding was already LONG, now this process is frozen indefinitely.
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This will start to filter through the community today but the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Science Study section has been postponed to an unknown future date. The approvals at the highest levels that needed to happen for a federal review meeting to be held didn’t get done. 1/n
SBDD was supposed to meet today, but looks like "This meeting did not take place as scheduled". public.csr.nih.gov/StudySection... . When do we sound the alarm?
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)
If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.
There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
Ah, speaking of using admin obstacles to break NIH: this one is just huge.
Trump/Musk are blocking all FACA meetings going forward. That means study sections and council meetings. This will devastate cancer research.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social @ucsusa.bsky.social
We are also hearing that at NIH and in other agencies, political types are seemingly intentionally adding administrative burden to slow-walk compliance with judges' orders. Things will slow and break.
This change does NOT mean that things are back to normal. Please keep an eye out.
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3. Given that, it’s probably fine— not really fair, but fine— if indirects are set the same for different universities. Politically it’s better.
4. But that uniform indirect rate should be more like 58%. Not 15. Probably the big brain P2025 see this has an opening.
While not completely unexpected, this is the third rail of biomedical research. Universities will react very strongly for the simple reason that this represents the end of the biomedical research enterprise as we know it in the United States.
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Reducing the indirect rate on NIH grants to 15% will kill biomedical and health research in the US. I'm not exaggerating here. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪
There you go
Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-068 Key Dates Release Date: February 7, 2025 Related Announcements None Issued by Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD) Purpose
🚨RED ALERT for 🧪:
The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities.
“Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮
Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky
The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!?
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
Really appreciate Jonathan Lambert pointing out that NSF grants are congressionally mandated to weigh how grants broaden participation in science, putting the administration's executive order against DEIA in conflict with, and potentially undermining, congressional legislation
In addition to calling to stop RFK Jr's nomination for HHS, please urge your Senators to vote NO on Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH, "a health economist known for his pro-infection advocacy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic."
www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
Yesterday President Trump announced a pause on all federal grant disbursals. While it is a bit vague on details, it appears to include research grants. This would be devastating to American science. If you have not had a chance, call your Senators & Reps 🧪
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...
This is the letter written by Albert Camus to his schoolteacher, Louis Germaine, after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature Here is the full text - translated into English: 19 November 1957 Dear Monsieur Germain, I let the commotion around me these days subside a bit before speaking to you from the bottom of my heart. I have just been given far too great an honour, one I neither sought nor solicited. But when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you. Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching and example, none of all this would have happened. I don’t make too much of this sort of honour. But at least it gives me the opportunity to tell you what you have been and still are for me, and to assure you that your efforts, your work, and the generous heart you put into it still live in one of your little schoolboys who, despite the years, has never stopped being your grateful pupil. I embrace you with all my heart. Albert Camus
January is #MentoringMonth a time to reflect on the importance of mentor-mentee relationships
And a good moment to share this beautiful letter written by Albert Camus to his teacher, after receiving the Nobel Prize
You can't underestimate the impact of a great #teacher or #mentor!
#ThankAMentor 🙏
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
Without govt funding you simply don't have the community of scientists scattered across the US that helped the US to take the lead in scientific development in the 20th century!
Members of Congress should be all over how this affects their districts!
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Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
My laboratory has an open postdoctoral position on osteochondral engineering
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
As a scientist, it’s impossible to continue to use a platform without meaningful moderation and where misinformation is allowed to spread unchecked. I’m happy to have moved my lab account here, and hope my colleagues do the same.
