Anurag Verma

@anuragverma.bsky.social

Assistant Professor | Biomedical & Computational Geneticist | Associate Director, Clinical Informatics & Genomics, Penn Medicine Biobank | UPenn

Apologies for this long post I put together to explain to non-scientists the impact of NIH cuts: Last night, an “atomic bomb” was dropped on the biomedical science community. We were informed that effective immediately, indirect costs on NIH grants (both current and future) would be fixed at 15%.

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.