In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH.
But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔
NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards.
Here are funding curves for each.🧵
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
BAMENDA MENTIONED 🇨🇲
Boards of Canada Tape 5 video still. Broken parallel lines, like static from a video recorder.
Boards Of Canada have shared a new track, ‘Tape 05’, fuelling further speculation around the duo’s first album since 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest...
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need context, can't tell if this is a psycholinguistics hot take or a state ethics training hot take
the fact that the LLM apparently does give the "sunny" intended result rather than the "I deed to blow my dose" result makes me more confident that my field is lasting a while, lol
basic absurdities aside, the original prompter has no idea what they're talking about - "raised soft palate" would make you sound like you have a head cold, not "bright, sunny, inviting" - the nose would be totally plugged shut.
We're over half way through the Fed fiscal year.
AHRQ FY26 appropriation: $345M
Amount obligated to date: $0
New AHRQ funding curves up at Grant Witness:
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
AHRQ supports work to lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes. This is what Trump is unlawfully gutting.
lately, it's been sending about one out of every three Zoom notifications like "[student I meet frequently with] has entered your Personal Room" to spam, totally unprompted - I try to find the pattern and just can't
I wish this were a bit. Science and antiscience are not the two sides of science. Much of the criticism you are receiving is because people were not born yesterday and they actually are familiar with disinformation campaigns and science denial
a b-schooler puts together a panel featuring jay bhattacharya and emily oster and imagines they have something useful to say about rigor (which they don't have) in the social sciences. incredible, no notes, can't wait for jay to somehow justify gutting SBE
Here’s an idea for “improving science” - don’t appear on panels with anti-science ideologues like Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster.
let's not let "Indian", "Eritrean", "Ethiopian", and "Nigerian" fly under the radar
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
Hi I'm reaching out from Saga to let you know she'd love to be put in a well and left there, can we work together to see that it happens?
We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member
📉 FY2026 is worse.
NIH has made 10,195 awards so far. NSF has made 613.
Six hundred thirteen.
Congress appropriated the money. The agencies are not spending it.
Grant freezes. NOFO collapse. Staff RIFs. Review cancellations. You can win the budget fight and still lose the funding war.
🚨 Congress held NIH and NSF budgets roughly flat. Scientists celebrated.
Here is what actually happened.
NIH awarded 4,641 fewer grants in FY2025 than the 4-year avg. New awards dropped 14%. Over $1.3B never reached investigators.
NSF awards fell 22%.
The money was there.
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
While that is stated as rumor, the graph tells it all.
#NSF has awarded only 613 grants this fiscal year. That's compared to almost 3,000 by this point in FY '24.
Congress and the courts both moved hard against this, but it's irrelevant. The White House has the "power of the purse" now.
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A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.
NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October.
No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out.
Why...?
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source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
🟦🧠 #academicsky
Zero Americans benefit from this.
All of us, every Conservative and every Liberal American, are watching our future hobbled.
Shattering a treasured national asset: our former status as the top destination for global talent, hard-wrought by generations of visionary Republicans and Democrats.
Extreeemely late to the party, but finally used energy gathered from sabbatical + HSP excitement to create a bluesky account!
Hi everyone! As Chair of the Local Planning Committee for ICPhS 2027, I am excited to share with you the ICPhS 2027 website, hot off the press! Between the website and social media, you should find all you need to plan your trip to beautiful Victoria BC! ➡️ icphs2027.ca
The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵
