Can you terminate my grant after it’s awarded bc of a change in agency priorities? No bc violates spending clause says J. Talwani in Mass DC case www.courtlistener.com/docket/70622...

State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1:25-cv-11816 - CourtListener.com

Docket for State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1:25-cv-11816 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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#Harvard lay offs con't #RAdminSky

Dozens of College Staff Laid Off as FAS Restructuring Continues | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences directly laid off roughly 13 percent of College staff covered by last week’s restructuring in its largest wave of job changes yet, according to a document obtain...

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Note: “Letters of collaboration should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate or provide material support as described in the application and should not contain endorsements or additional information about or evaluations of the proposed project. “

I-75 Scientist@flscitriguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh, and Forms J are coming... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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NSF grantmaking update Three weeks ago (6/28) New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg. Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg. Now (7/20) New grants: 2850/6,397 — 44.6% of avg. Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg. Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Does anyone really care about Florida or Texas IHEs at this point other than their employees and students? If state govt wants to trash institutes and force mass exodus of human capital- I say go ahead and self-destruct. The rest of the country is happy to take their best.

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 3w ago

From the Archives: New College resembles neither the conservative dream nor the liberal nightmare. Part everyday small college and part proxy battle in the culture war, it is plagued by ordinary questions over how to boost enrollment amid extraordinary outside scrutiny. https://chroni.cl/3T6mQuc

Justice Thomas, no one wants to read 91 pages of dissent (Trump v. Barbara). Thank you, America

Great webinar! TU

Alliance For Higher Education@alliancehighered.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Federal accreditation policies are being re-written and some professional program accreditors have removed reqs that encourage teaching about structural inequities in their fields. Join us and a panel of experts to discuss these changes and their consequences. 📅 7/13/26, 4 PM ET 🔗 bit.ly/43KAAwD

I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves

Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education

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This is f**king crazy

New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists

Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions

science.org

Alert COGR members: a 90 page draft letter to OMB is available online to members now cogr.edu #RAdminSky

This is called foreign influence folks #ResearchSecurity

Nature@nature.com · last mo.

Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new AI-assisted materials discovery institute. go.nature.com/4pf2jQ3

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

A statement from the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the proposed OMB regulations. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/3

Sen. Collins Asks OMB to Withdraw Parts of Grant Rule, Extend Comment Period | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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OMB-2026-0034 NPRM: Impact Report #RAdminSky www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

The Trump admin is doubling down on its intention to destroy American science. Scientific expertise – not politicians – should be in charge of our science. We need everyone in this fight. Take action against the OMB proposal here:  zurl.co/k2Cj5 Article: zurl.co/F5zCu

Trump administration stands by controversial OMB proposal despite growing resistance

White House denies requests to extend public comment deadline on its plan to give political appointees control over science funding

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People have been wondering why Pharma hasn’t been doing more to protect public research, and one reason may be that it would rather try to weather this storm than draw too much attention to this fact. The number of modern drugs that could’ve existed without major public investment is virtually zero.

James Stout@jamesstout.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s worth noting that most of our unaffordable drugs begin in publicly funded labs with publicly funded scientists on publicly funded campuses. Then the public can’t afford the drugs when they come to market.

I've come to the conclusion that Jay Bhattacharya doesn't care to avoid harm at NIH nor does he want to improve science. For some in this administration, the harm & destruction of science are the point. But for Bhattacharya, the harm & destruction are the cost of maintaining his position of power.

Aries TU @theonion.com

!! Check this out #RAdminSky

SAMHSA Caps Applications Considered for Select Awards

Federal grants applicants should pay close attention to the newly issued funding opportunities from SAMHSA. Several recently released NOFOs

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Scoop with @mercohn.bsky.social: Johns Hopkins University is laying off more than 100 employees in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School and central administration. Hopkins is suffering "debilitating" decreases in federal research funding www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Johns Hopkins University lays off over 100 employees due to federal research losses

The layoffs this week impact the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey School of Business and the university’s general administration.

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"Rumors have circulated for months that NSF was withholding $1 billion or more of the $8.1 billion Congress approved earlier this year for its eight research directorates. An internal memo obtained by Science documents, for the first time, the extent of those cuts in some fields."

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

science.org

#NIH restrictions on foreign collaborations are "part of the US administration's xenophobia, stupidity, and war against its own scientists" -UK's Ole Petersen #ResearchSecurity

International Researchers React to NIH Scrutiny of Foreign Coauthorship | The Scientist

Scientists in China, Europe, India, and South Africa say uncertainty surrounding US research policies is beginning to reshape international scientific partnerships.

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#RAdminSky #ResearchSecurity Article on legal liability for PIs with new Common Forms disclosure certification

#RAdminSky #ResearchImprovesYourLife

Where Federal Research Funding Stands at Mid-2026

Federal research funding is being reshaped through two channels at once; an OMB rule rewriting 2 CFR Part 200 and Congress's FY2027 appropriations process. Where the funding cliff, indirect costs, and...

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This piece by @markhisted.org is really good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

An Ascendant Constitutional Theory Is a Threat to American Science

The idea of a “unitary executive” is now being extended to America’s scientific establishment, with potentially devastating effects.

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Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The ultimate deciders of these grants will be the political employees at the agencies,” Duncan noted in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

Just going to drop this here since we haven't talked about NSF strangling geoscience for about a month. It's still strangling geoscience (and everything else) with 9% the number of grants issued compared to the 2021-2024 average. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Do not expect many changes before the Final Rule or a comment extension…it’s bad #RAdminSky

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The @nejm.org comes out swinging against OMB's new proposed rule putting all federal grant making including science under political control. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....