And finally: K grants
These support post-docs and early career researchers. Landing one of these can be your ticket to a tenure track gig. They're career-makers.
# of new grants issued through April 15 in
FY2024 (the last “normal” year): 374
FY2025: 252
FY2026: 140
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Dear Member of Congress: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants. Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH: • Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities • Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants • Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one • Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects • Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color
U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year.
For example👇
1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year).
2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants.
🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...
Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. n.pr/4sLetjV
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to the Everglades concentration camp where she describes the inhumane conditions she witnessed.
One of the most reprehensible humans alive
Modeling by Brooke Nichols at Boston University estimates that dismantling USAID led to 762,000 deaths, including >500,000 children
Charles Kenny & Justin Sandefur at the Center for Global Development estimate the number to be between 500,000 & 1 million
Examining Multimorbidity in Older Adults Living in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, in Ontario, Canada, Using Latent Class Analysis. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.70416
‼️Just learned, another Venezuelan doctor detained. All documents were fine. But this is not about the documents. And her 5 year old child is detained with her and the child is a US citizen.
This is the world that RFK Jr dreamed of 😢
Three National Guardsmen in Chinatown outside the metro.
Periodic reminder: D.C. remains patrolled all over the city by armed members of the National Guard deployed to do so by President Trump.
MAHA has used Gold OA and preprints to seed pseudoscience and beef up false claims. Here’s a brief tally.
www.the-geyser.com/the-oa-movem...
If we are serious about protecting young people, we need to approach social media policy with that nuance in mind.
www.wearequeeraf.com/rise-of-soci...
An amendment to a bill protecting Trans+ rights has removed legal gender recognition for one in five of the world’s Trans+ people, pending assent by India’s president. An amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019 proposed by MP Virendra Kumar has passed, removing the rights of Trans+ Indians to self-identify. The right was guaranteed by a Supreme Court ruling in 2014. It is a significant rollback.
It’s estimated that 2 million people could be affected by the changes
Understand the amendment 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the-lgbtqia-n...
I’m incensed that immigration policies are removing foreign doctors from their hospitals and jobs. We face a critical physician shortage. Many of these doctors treat the poor and underserved. This decision will cost lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...
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Two Planned Parenthood clinics in Indianapolis are set to close in April after the Trump administration cut funding, threatening access to essential care for patients who relied on them. Learn more about what these closures mean for Indianapolis patients. https://bit.ly/3PqKlML
The deluge of disruptive news from around the globe is making it hard for researchers to focus on their day-to-day work
go.nature.com/4s5bGSc
lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me
For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below
A TSA official warned on Tuesday that the ongoing partial government shutdown may force the closure of small U.S. airports. TSA officers, working without pay for more than a month, have called out of work and quit in growing numbers as the shutdown drags on.
A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication. For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done: • by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, • outside of classroom settings • aimed at the public If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."
Attention Science Communicators!
We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences.
Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
0.0065 :-)
Vox graphic showing "The US slashed medical research grants in nearly every field."
2/ fell by 47 percent. And new grants for cancer research fell by 23 percent — even as cancer rates are rising sharply among Gen X and millennial Americans. Across all areas, the NIH went from funding roughly 5,000 new research grants in 2024 to just 3,900 in 2025."
🔺️Why?
🔹️One reason is that...
Discovery Released in Lawsuit by Humanities Groups. I'm not surprised by this. I'm sure they used similar criteria, both violating the Constitution and incorrectly flagging grants as DEI with all the grant terminations that happened across all agencies.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
When Thomson Reuters employees learned that their company was providing ICE with investigative software, they mobilized. More than 200 Reuters employees have signed a letter asking that the company not renew the ICE contract when it expires in May.
Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:
Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is a death sentence. Why when we have the tools needed to treat?
Map of Iran showing location of airstrikes with "Minab - mass casualties reported at girls' elementary school" circled
I pay taxes so they can bomb Iran to try to make us stop paying attention to the Trump Epstein files but my patients will be kicked off food stamps and Medicaid because a basic safety net is immoral and wasteful. Every time I think I can't be more enraged, they prove me wrong. Image fr The Guardian
