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NIH halts new grant awards to universities with frozen funds
#Science #Research #NIH

#UsPol #NIH #Academia
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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

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

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

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” says a #NIH Intramural #Scientist. Depressing report in #Science

#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.)

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations - CBS News
#NIH #Research #Science #Funding

New NIH notice stating that grants cannot be awarded or renewed or continued to any institutions with DEI programs
#Research #Science #Funding #Grants #NIH

If you ever wonder why our lab stays motivated to research stuttering, or whether funding for speech research is justified, just watch this very powerful video by Drew Lynch: #Research #Funding #Science #Stuttering #NIDCD #NIH