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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Deadline this week!!
🌟ISEH 2026🌟- submit your abstract to present at the annual meeting in Germany! #ISEH2026
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Science is good. We should fund it.

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. 🧵👇

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Abstract submission just opened for #ISEH2026 in Frankfurt. Outstanding scientific program; welcoming community; and more than double the number of short talk slots for abstract to be presented in. Looking forward to seeing you there. @isehsociety.bsky.social

I think this gets to the heart of things, but the whole thread is worth a read. 👇

I got the chance to talk to Dr. Jennifer Trowbridge @trowbridgelab.bsky.social about ISEH and how the society supports the hematology community... and what we should be expecting in the year ahead! Have a listen 😊! @isehsociety.bsky.social

279 postdoctoral fellowships!

Download freely our database of postdoctoral fellowships and grants. For each entry, we provide eligibility criteria, $ amount, deadline, etc.

Good luck!

Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The president
-Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries
-Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory
-Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership
-Is talking about canceling elections

2026 Mini Symposium Abstract Submission April 16th, 2026 - 3:00 - 6:00pm (US CDT) Online symposium Contact: info@iseh.org The 3rd Mini Symposium organized by the Junior Faculty Committee of the International Society for Experimental…

Submit your research for a chance to give a short talk at the 2026 Mini Symposium taking place 16 April. The presenter of the best short talk, as voted by attendees, will earn a speaking spot at #ISEH2026 🏙️ and will be awarded a Travel Grant! Submit by 28 February to be considered👉

TODAY at #ASH2025 New Frontiers in Neutrophil Biology. W311 at 4pm. Ostuni, Bonnet, Findlay. See you there!! @welner.bsky.social @leegrimeslab.bsky.social

Demand that NIH Maintain the Scientific Credibility of its Institute Directors The institute directors at NIH are top scientific leaders who in principle can redirect grant money as they please. The Trump NIH must not install new directors without a real hiring process.

NIH has for decades used a rigorous recruitment process to hire its top scientists, the institute directors.

The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance.

This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.

Methodology

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

Thanks for all the supportive comments from folks in the chat - it means a lot.

I want to address the comment from the anonymous HHS official.

Is it “radically leftist” to believe NIH policies should not harm research participants?
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Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.

Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

No Kings-Chicago, IL

Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

#TheResistance

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

marrazzo is one of the most respected and accomplished physician scientists/public health experts in the world

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.

Jamie Raskin FTW.

A fun list to inspire.

I really feel this. I received a brand new puzzle. It was a gift, a picture of many beautiful skeins of yarn. When I completed it, there was one missing piece. Right in the center. It felt like the universe was flipping me off. It happened years ago, and it still makes me sad.

I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.