August 22, 2025 Dear Director Bhattacharya: I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal. I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.

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So fun to have presented & co-presided over the Putting CER into Practice symposium w/ @snarkdivine.bsky.social at the Fall ‘25 @acs.org conference! Thanks @yccacs.bsky.social & the CIBA Foundation for the travel award, & to Prof. Molenium for taking a photo w/ our @udelaware.bsky.social chem group!

I really urge you to watch this

HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

Grant terminations have slowed, thanks to the suit from @uaw.org, @apha.org, and several states.

BUT recent leaked guidance suggests the admin aims to restart terminations on Oct 1. www.statnews.com/2025/07/06/h...

‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase

Thousands of research projects—some years in, with taxpayer money already spent—were wiped out by Trump’s budget cuts.

At the Science Fair of Lost Research, scientists showed what was lost: cancer breakthroughs, climate solutions, public health progress.

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#standupforscience

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The National Science Foundation has sent an email out to its members to collect signatures for a dissent declaration similar to the NIH’s Bethesda Declaration and the EPA’s Declaration of Dissent.

This comes on the heels of Lee Zeldin putting 139 EPA declaration signers on admin leave

This is a great article by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social on @dev-journal.bsky.social about color choice in #DataViz, thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali..., also check out his super useful #DataViz tools at huygens.science.uva.nl 🧪🧬💻

Grants at Columbia unfrozen at 9:30 this morning...

Refrozen at 2:30 this afternoon with instructions to undo all of the releases done earlier.

It like the 7th graders in detention broke into the Principal's Office...

How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.

We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights.

Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️

US CDC restores jobs for 450 laid-off employees The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating some 450 employees laid off under the Trump administration's massive reduction of the federal workforce, a government spokesperson...

Pressure matters, advocacy matters. Don't let any one convince that it doesn't. 450 CDC employees and several key departments including HIV prevention and STI surveillance and testing departments were reinstated today.
Keep speaking up!
www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/...

RFK Jr. Announces Eight New Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel The health secretary promised not to pick “anti-vaxxers.” But some public health leaders accused him of breaking his word.

“Covid-19 deniers, skeptics and outright anti-vaccine individuals.” Meet the government's new vaccine advisors. Story by @sherylnyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4462vqO

RFK Jr. removes all 17 members of CDC's vaccine advisory committee HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday he is removing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee.

The destruction of independent US science and medicine continue, with #RFKJr removing all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory board, after lying and promising Republican senators he would NOT do so.

abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-j...

Trump’s NIH cuts aren’t just numbers. They are delayed cures, abandoned treatments, futures stolen, lives that will be lost. This is why we Stand Up For Science.

#StandUpForScience
#SummerFightForScience

More US scientists must speak out Nature Human Behaviour - The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary and dangerous attack on US science. Climate and water scientist Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and...

Just released. My Nature piece:

"Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault...
History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists...

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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There are some really great action items here that can be applied to support science broadly, too!

Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900 Other Professionals 14,400 --> 4,100 Postdoctoral Associates 5,500 --> 1,000 Graduate Students 41,500 --> 12,400 Undergraduate Students 37,300 --> 8,000 PreK-12 Teachers 42,900 --> 8,200 PreK-12 Students 128,100 --> 39,400 Total Number of People 330,100 --> 90,000

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪

NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**

🧵 on some highlights...

Scientific societies should be leading the charge when it comes to advocating for science funding, federal scientific employees, and academic freedom in this moment.

I am paying close attention who is and who isn’t, and making decisions about membership and future conference attendance accordingly.

Project 2025 Tracker logo Project 2025 Tracker Buy me a coffee ☕ Support on Patreon Toggle theme Detailed Project Objectives Search... Agency Status Date Completed COMPLETED Completed 5/13/2025 Defense Dept. of Defense "use of public monies for transgender surgeries...should be ended". Note: Defense Department barred any new hormone treatments as well as any surgical procedures for transgender troops. LGBTQIA View Sources COMPLETED Completed 5/12/2025 White House White House Use the Congressional Review Act to undo Biden-era final rulemakings. Note: Trump has signed bills revoking Biden-era rules from the CFPB and Dept. of Energy. presidential power View Sources COMPLETED Completed 5/9/2025 EPA Environmental Protection Agency Repeal energy efficiency standards for appliances. Note: Trump signed four CRA resolutions to roll back energy efficiency rules; Energy Dept. rolling back 47 efficiency regulations. energy View Sources COMPLETED Completed 5/8/2025 Defense Dept. of Defense Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military. Note: The Supreme Court allowed Trump to enforce trans military ban while litigation is ongoing. LGBTQIA View Sources COMPLETED Completed 4/25/2025 DOJ Dept. of Justice Rescind AG Garland's policy that limited the Department's ability to subpoena journalists during leak investigations. Note: AG Bondi revoked a policy that made journalists’ testimony and phone records largely off limits to investigators. media View Sources COMPLETED Completed 4/24/2025 Transportation Dept. of Transportation Work to facilitate the "safe and full integration" of automated vehicles into the national transportation system. Note: Secretary Duffy announced exemptions from safety requirements and reporting rules for self-driving vehicles. transportation View Sources COMPLETED Completed 4/18/2025 DHS Dept. of Homeland Security Authorize state and local law enforcement to participate in immigration actions. Note: ICE …

This is...stark. And upsetting. www.project2025.observer

Trump slashed US cancer research by 31 percent: Senate report US President Donald Trump's administration cut cancer research funding by 31 percent in the first three months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to a Senate report released Tues...

This should be bigger news, no?
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

text from link --says we are not currently accepting applications

Word on the street is that HHMI is ending its highly impactful Hanna Gray Fellows Program. If true, its another extremely disappointing capitulation by our leading biomedical philanthropy
www.hhmi.org/programs/han...

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane!

If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

It will be critical in the coming months and years to support junior scholars impacted by politically-motivated cuts to science funding. One potential pathway for philanthropic funders (after the lawsuits are resolved) is to prioritize funding cancelled NSF postdoctoral fellowships & CAREER grants.

Today we learned the Diels-Alder Reaction

Today our NSF grant to increase minority participation in astronomy was canceled

So, yeah. Forgot to mention, while we were having SJSU Student Research Day today, a bunch of my colleagues and friends had NSF grants illegally cancelled.

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Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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