How are US universities spending billions from spiraling federal student loans and research grants, amid claims that up to 70% of grant money covers overhead instead of science? #UniversityFunding #FederalFunding #StudentDebt #ResearchGrants #OverheadCosts
My cartoon on #overheadcosts is featured in this excellent overview on The Scientist: www.the-scientist.com/nih-budget-c...
"The chill [of this proposed policy] will be felt immediately, but the impact is going to be lasting.”
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#NIHcuts #AcademicSky
Were you wondering what will be the effects of the
#NIHcuts on medical research? Here they are: www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/02...
💔 #AcademicSky #overheadcosts
STOP MUSK - National Day of Action - February 19
📣 TOMORROW - NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ✊
Unelected president #Musk is cutting down vital services while taking millions of tax $ through his private companies. It is time to show support for our federal workers. Boycott #Tesla. Divest from #SpaceX. Stop posting on X. Cut down on his #overheadcosts!
Every week seems to be Shark Week, aka Bite-Off-Infrastructure Week. What a typically naive and disastrous move to blindly gut all support costs for research! That's not how ANYTHING works. (1/)
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#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky #scicomm #doge #OverheadCostJob
Overhead Costs
⚕️ What are the 'overhead' costs that the NIH wants to cut? ✂️
Improved and simplified explainer.
As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.
#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky
The alternative to #overheadcosts is for scientists to itemize the actual cost of doing research. And the volunteer reviewer will be asked to scrutinize those costs. #DOGE bros, this is not an efficient way to work. Let institutions negotiate the IDC rates and let the scientists do their work!
NIH Overhead Costs explainer
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I made this short comic to explain what the #NIH cuts mean in practice because behind the abstract label of #overheadcosts are real people, doing important work!
#AcademicSky #resist #organize #scicomm
Have you heard about DOGE going after #overheadcosts? Sounds good until you understand the impact to so much necessary work. I talked to someone high up in the school of geosciences at a major university and he said it’s a catastrophe. Shitshow. #doge
