⛔ Last year, this administration shut down work on topics they didn't like, including our LGBTQ health research. We sued. Courts restored thousands of grants. 📜 Now the Office of Management and Budget wants to reverse that, for good. 🔒 👇👇Here's what you have to do before Monday to stop it. 👇👇🧵

📢 Hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBTQ Reproductive Health Disparities at Harvard Medical School 🌈🧬 Focus on rigorous epi methods + big data (longitudinal cohorts, EMR, claims) 📊 Ideal for epi/biostats folks who want rich cross-Harvard collaborations Details👇 Please boost + tag! 📣

Some big movement in our NIH lawsuit ⚖️🧬 ⚠️ Our case challenges new rules that cut grants on LGBTQ health, racism, climate change, vaccines, and other health equity topics

Just in: NIH staff have been instructed to REINSTATE these ~900 grants to comply with the court order, per sources. This comes after staff were also directed to cease any further terminations. You can see the lists grants to be reinstated in my post below.

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

The judge intends to limit his order to universities in the plaintiff states (CA, MD, WA, AZ, CO, DE, HI, MA, MN, NV, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, WI), members of the plaintiff orgs (APHA, UAW), and the researchers named directly, he said today. His written opinion will come in the coming days.

The sense of relief, vindication, & hope in the courtroom was undeniable—the emotion was so thick you could feel it in the air as justice & the value of our research were finally affirmed

Protect Democracy@protectdemocracy.org · last yr.

🚨BREAKING: In a huge win for public health and democracy, a federal court ruled that the NIH’s ideological purge of life-saving research grants is unlawful. Today, the rule of law prevailed — and science, once again, belongs to everyone.

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇

‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU

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From our lawyers @protectdemocracy.org "By excluding entire topics...the NIH divides & polarizes communities, undermines our shared sense of reality, & demonizes marginalized groups. Challenging these actions is vital for science, for equality, & for democracy." 🤞 for tomorrow's hearing

Challenging politically-driven attacks on science and medical research - Protect Democracy

Protect Democracy is challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful termination of $400 million in federal funding.

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Heartbroken for my colleague @kgamarel.bsky.social After decades of NIH support, HIV research network gets funding back—but Kristi's study on trans youth of color is singled out & cut Essential research for most vulnerable—lost 🙏 Powerful reporting @stephaniemlee.bsky.social in @chronicle.com

An NIH Grant Is Restored, With a Catch: Cut a Study on Trans Youth

HIV scientists were given a choice: eliminate a study of transgender youth or lose a shot to recover a larger series of grants. They chose the former.

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✊ How to challenge authoritarianism? 🔥 3 proven approaches 1️⃣ Mockery & salacious humor 🤡 2️⃣ Expose corruption, hypocrisy (& not just calling for ‘democracy’) 💸 3️⃣ Spotlight an individual tragedy (& not sea of oppression) 💔 🔗 👇 Nicholas Kristof @nytimes.com

Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat

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Sworn testimony & leaked emails: more proof DOGE is hand-picking which NIH grants live or die—screening awards, handing out kill lists, & canceling science in hours 🙌 Shout out to @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com for breaking the story (again), in part due to brave NIH insiders

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

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🗣️ Tomorrow, our lawyers will ask the court for an injunction to halt the illegal cancellation of NIH research grants They'll argue violations of the Administrative Procedure Act & Constitution Meet the other plaintiffs & listen in on the hearing 👇🔬 #ProtectScience

The faces of the NIH cuts

What sort of research is being slashed?

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📍DEVELOPING 🪓 Hundreds of Harvard research grants slashed What I told @bostonglobe.com — full quote follows ⬇️ #AcademicTwitter #HigherEd #Science

‘A bloodbath’: Trump administration moves to terminate hundreds of federal grants at Harvard - The Boston Globe

Harvard researchers who rely on federal grants to study cancer, infectious diseases and a range of other topics began receiving termination notices en masse on Thursday from a number of federal agenci...

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📌 THREAD: I’m taking Health & Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to court ⚖️ Not for me — but to defend science 🧬, LGBTQ health 🏳️‍🌈 & the future of public research 🏥 Here’s why 🧵 🔗 Full story via my op-ed in @statnews.com #DefendScience #LGBTQHealth #RFKJr #NIH #PublicHealth #AcademicFreedom

Science is under attack. So I’m taking RFK Jr. to court

“After losing every one of my grants — and seeing the human cost to my team, patients, and society — I knew silence was not an option,” writes Brittany Charlton.

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🎙️ "Science Under Siege" panel via @statnews.com — powerful & urgent “Americans who deserve better — especially those who rely on government systems — will suffer and die because of what RFK Jr & his allies are doing.” 🎯 A few other standout remarks that hit hard👇🧵 #STATBreakthrough

🗞️Grateful for the chance to clearly say in Sunday's @nytimes.com paper— Ending medical research with LGBTQ people doesn’t just hurt our community; it endangers everyone🏳️‍🌈 “When the people around you are sick, it affects you — even if you think it doesn’t” We're all connected. Always have been 💜

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health

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With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

After 35+ years, the National Cancer Institute seems to be ending its Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program If my sources are correct, this is a loss for cancer prevention—a field that saves lives before treatment is ever needed 🛡️💔 And also, it's a pipeline of future leaders—gone 1/🧵

⚖️⚖️ Hearing just ended in Massachusetts v. RFK Jr. about the legality of NIH grant terminations ⚖️⚖️ Court is weighing jurisdiction — meanwhile, judge asked AGs for a list of affected grants & the government for its definition of DEI 👀 These requests are a big deal. Here’s why 🧵

📄 Just published: Our team's latest research shows that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are more likely to have an abortion compared to their heterosexual peers #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth

📄 Just published: Our team's latest research shows that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are more likely to have an abortion compared to their heterosexual peers #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth

📄 Just published: Our team's latest research shows that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are more likely to have an abortion compared to their heterosexual peers #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth

📄 Just published: Our team's latest research shows that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are more likely to have an abortion compared to their heterosexual peers #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth

📄 Just published: Our team's latest research shows that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are more likely to have an abortion compared to their heterosexual peers #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth

🙌 CHEERS to brave whistleblowers! They’ve confirmed how we were unjustly targeted for NIH grant terminations. But it gets worse... 💥 Newly leaked docs EXPOSE how this administration is violating court orders — and trying to cover it up. #Whistleblower #NIH #Accountability

Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show

A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv...

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As I said to @forbes.com, "Science should not be subject to political whims and having certain topics fall into disfavor is a violation of both congressional mandates and the NIH’s own strategic plan.” 🔗 Full article👉 hsph.me/lgbtq-press-...

Judy Stone@drjudystone.bsky.social · last yr.

New post! #Funding cuts are taking a huge personal and professional toll to researchers as #NIH budget cuts and risks to our future. Thx to @britshmit.bsky.social (Brittany Charlton) for sharing her story and for her #lawsuit against RFK Jr! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... #BudgetCuts #Yale #Harvard

📣 NIH reinstating some terminated grants Exclusive via @chronicle.com 🔗👇 confirms what we’ve seen for weeks Piece asks: what’s “secret sauce”? As an early-impacted PI, I know strategy matters Now I'm advising orgs on appeals, “orderly” closeout & reinstatements: brittanycharlton.com/consulting

⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth

Harvard Medical researcher sues NIH for cutting grant to study LGBTQ mental health

"This is not just an attack on the LGBTQ community — it is a blow to the integrity of science and the health of every American," a Harvard Medical School associate professor studying the mental…

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Atmosphere on campuses across the U.S. is bleak — canceled travel, encrypted communication & further layoffs 🎓 As I said to NBC News, “Our funding could come back. But even if it does, irreparable harm has been done.” ⚠️ @nbcnews.com @tktk.bsky.social #HigherEd #CampusCrisis #AcademicFreedom

Harvard students and faculty face the fallout from a showdown with Trump

Many describe a changed campus, one where the “best and brightest” may no longer feel welcome.

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🚨Breaking: Filed declaration in my lawsuit against #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH I refuse to be silent—silencing science endangers everyone Full declaration: hsph.me/lgbtq-declaration ⬇️ Highlights in🧵 ⬇️ 🙏🏻 @aclu.org @protectdemocracy.org @aclum.bsky.social @cspinet.org #AntiFascist