This guy -- CEO of ADA Charles Henderson -- gets paid $1.3 million per year. Truly incredible when diabetes scientists are on the chopping. He can "rebuild trust" by resigning and donating his salary to diabetes science.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 4mo agoDiabetes association leader apologizes for expulsion of members, pledges to rebuild trust. www.statnews.com/2026/06/10/a...
I know you know this @drugmonkey.bsky.social but others may not. This RFI is a joke. If they cared about the putative goals ("maximize scientific productivity and innovation"), they wouldn't have throttled grants or used multi-year funding. They want to kill us; this is just another salvo.
Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 4mo agoNIH seeks input on capping grant awards drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/n...
She is nothing less than an American hero. her courage and conviction is breathtaking. deep down they know she is right and that is why she is targeted. We support you @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 8mo agoSince last summer, @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social, a program director at #NIH, has been vocal about impacts of Trump administration's policies. She organized the #BethesdaDeclaration. She seeks whistleblower protection for being put on administrative leave. 🧪🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
G Elliot Morris is not serious. Every piece of data always shows how great Dems are doing. In this example party ID exactly where it was in Trump 1. Real progressives are serious about data.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 8mo agoNew party identification polling from Gallup this week shows Americans are moving against Trump faster than they did in his first term. Adults were R+4 in 2024, now D+8. That 12-pt drop is 3x the change in the first year of his first term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...
The reporting on Larry Summers has totally missed the point. It’s not just about him pal-ing around with Epstein. It’s about his predatory actions against junior Female colleagues and mentees. Notice that he doesn’t even apologize for the despicable sexual harassment he was doing
Is it “radically leftist” to believe that marginalized groups should not be excluded from NIH research? …that throwing away public resources by terminating studies just before they complete? If so, I wear the label proudly. And it is absolutely my job to criticize such policies at work.
A true American hero and patriot. Thank you @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social. We see your courage.
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10mo agoTrump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
Director Bhattacharya is a liar. NIH staff oftern send emails to PIs telling them to remove specific words from grants. This is a fact.
Ian L Morgan@ianlmorgan.bsky.social · last yr.Director Bhattacharya says there are no banned words at the NIH. The data suggest otherwise.
Some additional framing on the MYF tragedy:
Anonymous Scientist@accursedhats.bsky.social · last yr.If I may add, it’s not just about our colleagues on these grants that should have been funded but were not. That is a shame but it is not the entire tragedy. It’s also about the discoveries and wonderful things we may never know because this science was not done.
Imagine all the discoveries that will not be made. Imagine the young scientists who will leave science, who won't make more discoveries in the future either. We won't even know what we have lost.
Metabo_Dave@metabodave.bsky.social · last yr.2400 is a lot of grants not funded. Wow.
Ask Kevin Hall about this who was purged when he refused to change his science to align with this administrations ideology. Shameful.
Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · last yr.The official NIH social media account is now….
Giving clear orders while maintaining plausible deniability is a hallmark feature of mobsters. Which is what Trump and he cronies are fundamentally.
Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · last yr.Is NIH under a Multi-Year funding policy or not? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/i...
I used to think science was like law. A lot of people carefully studying intricacies, making discoveries, applying lessons learned. But this Supreme Court shows that it is just a facade, a conclusion looking for a justification. As though as a scientist invented a finding out of whole cloth.
I was thinking more about @azfaust.bsky.social's comments about Memoli. How easy it was for him to slide into $500 million in funding for his pet project... No need for study section for this guy! No need to even write a grant application!
AZ Faust@azfaust.bsky.social · last yr.The freaking greed of some people is beyond me.
To build on this point, the house bill does not prohibit OMB’s multiyear funding requirement, as in the senate. This is as important as the topline budget. This requirement is equivalent to a 25-30% NIH cut.
Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · last yr.It will be essential to interpret any top line number in terms of (i) whether expert review or political ideology guides decisions; (ii) whether Congress intends to stop the process of impoundment. Otherwise, the budget becomes a guessing game, undermining research objectives.
It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you
If MYF gets removed by Congress for FY26, I would hope IC’s try to fund some of these apps in late cycle FY25 that got absolutely screwed.
Jason Shepherd@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · last yr.My NIA PO said they have “closed the books” on this fiscal year. So my 10% scored Alzheimer’s R01 goes back into the lottery 😭 (I resubmitted it).
This nugget is new info for me. An important detail as we have now reached “pocket rescissions day” Wouldn’t bet my life on this guarantee though.
Jeremy Day@daylab.bsky.social · last yr.-Guaranteed that current FY NIH budget will be spent in this fiscal year, outlined one or two strategies to avoid upfront funding model resulting in huge decrease in funded awards
This 2016 Plos One paper is an incredible trove of NIH grant data. So interesting. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
How Criterion Scores Predict the Overall Impact Score and Funding Outcomes for National Institutes of Health Peer-Reviewed Applications
Understanding the factors associated with successful funding outcomes of research project grant (R01) applications is critical for the biomedical research community. R01 applications are evaluated thr...
journals.plos.org
This anecdote from an interview 3 months ago tells you everything you need to know about who is running things at NIH. Memoli the complicit yes man. Vought and OMB the puppet masters. Bhattacharya just happy to be there and do podcasts.
Anonymous Scientist@accursedhats.bsky.social · last yr.This is the most important line in this entire story. Memoli and Bhattacharya, as terrible as they are, aren't even running things. Let's not pretend they do. This is why NIH releases notices contradicting Bhattacharya's statements just hours after he says them.
What can you do? Contact members of Congress to flag this issue. Focusing on members on the appropriations committee is especially relevant right now. Senate appropriations is doing markup on NIH *this week* donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
If you've ever *benefitted* from NIH research (big population), CALL YOUR SENATOR now to let them know. ⏰ Tmrw morning, Senate appropriators will mark up NIH's FY26 budget. Personal examples help. My own case: decades of *sustained* investment in NIH-funded cancer research saved my life.
Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · 2y ago1/11 Though it's personal, I’m sharing this analogy if it helps others: In the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about my past journey with cancer. Years ago, I found out in the worst way. My doctor accidentally released the biopsy results to my online patient portal. 🧵 Thread
Everyone we must call our senators about the multi year funding plan!!!
Rosa Lafer-Sousa@rosalafersousa.bsky.social · last yr.…slowing down spending as NIH grants management has had to revise pay plans AGAIN to accommodate the rigid MYF policy. Program officers are scrambling to get money out the door. Pocket rescission is looming. CALL YOUR REPS. TELL THEM TO BLOCK THE MULTIYEAR FUNDING SCHEME AND PROTECT NIH FUNDING 📣
We shouldn’t be taking victory laps this morning if the multiyear funding policy is still in place. We need to keep up the pressure on Vought and OMB.
Metabo_Dave@metabodave.bsky.social · last yr.Question: even though Vought got slapped (allegedly), is the multi-year funding thing still in play? Reading the reporting, this all seems to be wrapped up in the same evil Vought plan.
@maxkozlov.bsky.social it is clear you get this, but others seem not to understand yet that the NIH no longer is acting in good faith
Anonymous Scientist@accursedhats.bsky.social · last yr.Journalists reporting on the NIH foreign subs prohibition are far too credulous about the justifications for these policies. When will they learn that you cannot take these justifications on good faith?! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/h...
Journalists reporting on the NIH foreign subs prohibition are far too credulous about the justifications for these policies. When will they learn that you cannot take these justifications on good faith?! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/h...
N.I.H. Bars New Funding From U.S. Scientists to Partners Abroad
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Thank you for confronting him, Jeremy. Thanks to you, Jocelyn Kaiser, and Adam Kucharski, we are already getting a taste of how he will approach his job. Denial, deflection, deception, condescension, hypocrisy-- all coated with a thin veneer of sanctimony.
