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"His custom cancer therapy is in an NIH freezer. He may not get it in time."
#NIH #Funding #Science #Research

#UsPol #NIH #Academia
NIH scientists pub…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Reagan-appointed judge rules that US #NIH must restore hundreds of canceled grants.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01914-2

Yes, yes, please fork #PythonRequests and a bunch of other high-profile #Python libraries as its dependencies, and add some more #NIH dependencies to that. Oh, yes, and definitely overwrite the original packages in the process! What could possibly go wrong?
#packaging

Judge Rejects Trump’s ‘Appalling’ NIH LGBTQ, Race Grant Cuts (1)
#NIH #Research #Science #Funding

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns | Science | AAAS
#NIH #Funding #Science #Research

Vanderbilt University Medical Center to lay off up to 650 after Trump administration grant cuts • Tennessee Lookout
#Science #Research #NIH #NSF #Funding #Grants

Nobel laureate on how Trump's cuts are hurting science | KPBS Public Media
#Science #Funding #Research #Grants #NIH

#Python #packaging be like:
"Remember the totally random #PyTest plugin that died in 2018, that we forced you to add to #Gentoo, because we decided to start using it for no good reason? Well, we just stopped. Also, we just found a #NIH plugin that reinvents flaky test handling for the third time, enjoy!"
(Fortunately, it's compatible enough with pytest-rerunfailures, so we can ignore it.)

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
#Funding #Science #Research #NIH #NSF

"Trump order aims to politicize decisions on federal science grants" | Science | AAAS
#Science #Research #Funding #Grant #NIH