Lucy W. Naughton (she/her)
@lucywnaughton.bsky.social
Sr. Clinical Research Asst @ Brown University Health | Incoming PhD Student @ University of Kentucky Clinical Psychology violence prevention | integrated treatment of OCD+PTSD | victim blame & shame | biphobia & bisexuality 🏳️🌈 views = my own
They have made it SUPER easy to email your Sentaors to vote no on Jim O'Neill, who is massively unqualified to run NSF - in fact, he's likely being nominated ot help destory it, as usual per Trump. This took me literally one minute. Add your voice. Please.
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 6mo agoLet your senators know he's unqualified to lead the NSF, and his record raises concerns about political interference, misinformation, and conflicts of interest. Easily email your senators at: tr.ee/NoToONeill (2/2🧵) #JimONeill #NSF #NoToONeill #NationalScienceFoundation #StandUpForScience
I am reviewing a simply amazing paper from a relatively young US-based lab, which is in danger of shutting its doors later this year. My emotions are all over the place. The fact that this does not uniquely identify the lab I’m referring to just deepens the tragedy of this moment in US science.
The best news I’ve seen today. A big win, although it may only be a temporary one, for Science. Impeach and remove RFK Jr.!!!
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 6mo agoOpening with a quote from Carl Sagan, a U.S. district court in Massachusetts issued a 45-page temporary injunction that BLOCKS some of the anti-vaccine decisions from Health Secretary RFK Jr. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h... (1/2🧵)
Great! Now let's impeach him! @altcdc.altgov.info @alt-hhs.altgov.info @standupforscience.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @whipkclark.bsky.social thehill.com/policy/healt...
Federal court blocks Kennedy’s vaccine changes, invalidates vaccine advisory panel
A federal judge on Monday blocked Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to vaccine policy, including the reduction of the recommended childhood immunizatio…
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Read why NIH colleagues resigned. Brave writing from Sylvia Chou, Alexa Romberg, Paul Grothaus and Vani Pariyadath. 🧪 #science #standupforscience #integrity www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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"The $7.3 billion National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH’s largest institute, is also feeling the effects. At a recent public meeting, Deputy Director Doug Lowy noted the NOFO approval process now requires 16 steps. He joked that it’s now more complex than a 1929 Rube Goldberg design for a can opener"
Megan Ranney MD MPH@meganranney.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe quiet part being illuminated: there have been very few new awards from NIH this fiscal year, for some very specific reasons 🆘 www.science.org/content/arti...
On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
open.substack.com
“Dr. Pilloud said that she felt like she had to present ideas that were not scientifically sound — such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new, and widely disputed, guidance about vaccines” I realize I am fortunate, but I genuinely cannot imagine doing this.
Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump’s Gaze
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I’m thrilled to announce that this fall, I’ll begin pursuing my PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Kentucky. I’m honored to work with Dr. Christal Badour as my mentor! Special thanks to @lindsayorchowski.bsky.social for all of her support along the way. So excited for this next chapter!
Researchers take note: 👇🏼👇🏼 analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions: 49% substantially altered 106 had "gender" switched to "sex" 15 logged/indicated change occurred 🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...
thelancet.com
Rage coding this morning using #TidyTuesday NSF grant terminations data. Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration. I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...
Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research. Or 932 years. [And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · last yr.For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
Birdsong is vanishing. 83% of North American bird species are in decline. And Trump? He’s gutting the protections meant to save them. 140+ actions to dismantle environmental protections already. Birds are a warning siren. Sound the alarm. Fight back. Read more ⬇️ news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
North American bird populations suffering severe decline | Cornell Chronicle
North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving, according to new Cornell research.
news.cornell.edu
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE: 19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS. “…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James. www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
More than a dozen states, DC sue Trump administration over ‘dismantling’ of federal health agencies | CNN
Democratic attorneys general across 19 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal hea...
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🧪 ICYMI: $25,000 bridge funding for terminated NSF grants. Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix. Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Check this chart. Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000. This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars. The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
I’m here to tell you that @standupforscience.bsky.social is working HARD behind the scenes to fight back against Trump’s destruction of science! We are going all in this summer ahead of the budget vote…and setting up to support pro-science candidates in the midterms. We are gonna save science!
Autistic people are not a disease. They never have been. Autistic people have fundamentally shaped our world...an incredibly net positive community. To condemn the existence of any autistic person is unacceptable. Autism is an inherent part of our culture and history, and it always will be.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
nytimes.com
The wanton destruction of academia in the US right now is pretty depressing.
🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
nature.com
This is the part that sticks with me about those funding cancellation letters. Funding cancellation is bad enough, but working in the effort to insult and belittle the investigator betrays the fact that is being done with vindictive and cruel intentions.
Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · last yr.It's pretty fucking crazy to grow up with all kinds of adversity and make it into school anyway and make it into science and do all the shit people say you should do to earn your place in society and fight to help others then have your government tell you that's evil actually
I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.
Grad Resources
Encouraging and equipping graduate students for impact.
gradresources.org
You've heard a lot about grant funding lately with disruptions at the NIH threatening groundbreaking research at #BrownSPH. Our thanks to Brown Alumni & Friends for collecting 5 important ways grant-funded research at Brown directly impacts our lives today! alumni-friends.brown.edu/news/2025-04...
5 ways grant-funded research at Brown is changing and saving lives
Every day, researchers at Brown are working on groundbreaking discoveries—made possible through federal and private grant funding.
alumni-friends.brown.edu
The brutal assault on American science by the Trump administration is such an incredible self-own. Our entire country suffers across various domains as we lose out on invaluable cutting-edge research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
nature.com
Current NIH funding slump represents: - Research labs closing - PhD students abandoning their dreams. - Trial participants left to their own devices mid study. - A halt to scientific progress and innovation for cancer, chronic and infectious diseases. - Minority health research terminated. Etc.
