#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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Nice piece by @scibri.com on the impact of Trump's Draconian science cuts in Canada and what our government might do about it (recruit the young ones!!) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘A funeral for our careers’: Trump’s science cuts spill onto Canadian turf

Researchers in Canada prepare for turbulence in the wake of US funding changes — but there’s a silver lining.

nature.com

New Notice on No Cost Extensions (or lack thereof) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer. Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.

Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy

Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

nature.com

A friend at NIH received notice that the National Library of Medicine is terminating its bioinformatics program

The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

The F mechanisms fund grad students and postdocs. Shut off pretty much completely. A generational disaster, crippling American science for decades to come.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals) Oof! 3/n

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Most unusual' questionnaire sent to Canadian researchers receiving U.S. federal grants | CBC News

Canadian scholars who receive some of their funding from the U.S. government sources are flagging a troubling new questionnaire they have been receiving. It asks political and ideological questions ab...

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I see we're doing another round of this nonsense this week...

Canada is 100x a better place to live than the US, but this "scientific paradise for those fleeing Trumpism" talk has got to go unless it's backed by something on a scale not seen since post-WWII US spending on science and universities.

DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million (government press release) www.gsa.gov/about-us/new...

DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million

Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that through their coordinated efforts they would i...

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Trump claims DOGE found $8M in wasted spending on "making mice transgender." It was actually $8M for transgenic mice, used to study gene function or generate models to help cure genetic disease in humans.🤦‍♂️ Just 1 of Trump's many lies I debunk in my fact check: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-2025...

Trump 2025 Joint Session Fact Check

Debunking Trump's disinformation speech with all the receipts

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Just finished the renewal for my NIH grant, which has funded my work for 23 years. We'll follow through on exciting threads, including a possible link between autism spectrum disorder and sensation/movement. Barring a collapse in the federal government and U.S. science, it's ready to submit. uh oh

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

NEW: A program officer inside NIH sent an anonymous message to grantees with some updates and requests for patience. "This is the most stressful work situation most of us have ever been in," it reads. "I know this is tough, but please hang in there with us."

The status on my 2nd year NOA for my NIH R16 changed to 'Pending administrative review' today. 🤞 Feeling sad for all my colleagues with grants caught in the no advisory councils, no study section purgatory right now. 🧪

From NIH Office of Research on Women's Health webpage Sex as a Biological Variable tab "Historic document published prior to January 20, 2025" It looks like we are headed back to the good old days when women were consider to be small men for the purposes of research...

I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

We are hearing that there is a meeting of all NIH IC directors happening now. We are also hearing, from several sources, rumors about director and assistant director level removals coming soon. The impact of this wld be enormous. IC directors have all grantmaking authority for each institute. 🧪

ATTENTION If anyone has received a NoA after the "pause", please DM me with information about the mechanism and institute or center. THANK YOU

a cartoon character says " just let me know "

ALT: a cartoon character says " just let me know "

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The new policy to comply with the temporary restraining orders (TROs) was issued today, February 12. The first TRO, however, was issued on January 31. The NIH memo reveals that the agency has been in violation of these orders for almost two weeks.

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order

The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.

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Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.