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Happy Sunday beaches!

On my way home from the gym I saw this dog wandering the neighborhood, so I took an hour wandering with him to find the right house. Along the way, Bentley and I met a lot of nice neighbors that brought out water and didn’t mind so much when he ate the cat’s food.

Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is so, so true.

There are so many scholars who need the support of their colleagues at any moment. Who you stick your neck out for is noticed, especially when there are others with a better claim to that same support who you ignored.

Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And as we reported last year, foreign food inspections plummeted to a historic low after the Trump administration took over due to staffing cuts at the FDA. Food safety experts told us, “It’s only a matter of time before people die." www.propublica.org/article/fore...

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"A recent report by the Government Accountability Office found that FDA averaged only 917 foreign food-facility inspections annually from fiscal years 2018 through 2023 — less than 5 percent of the statutory target established under the Food Safety Modernization Act."

Empowering Main St. Before Wall St.@rchady.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The posts on here versus linking are really really different. I’m not sure which is more effective.

Although Congress appropriated $345:million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Trump effectively shut it down. It's credited with saving thousands of lives and billions of dollars by improving medical practice over 27 years. #AHRQ

Trump has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcare

The agency, which has been key to improving patient safety, has been shut down by the Trump administration through cuts to funding.

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Received my first half million dollar grant rejection. Our lab identified major #healthcare service issues that cost lives and healthcare dollars in #SouthCarolina, but #AHRQ no longer funds healthcare research so we applied elsewhere. We lost, but so did patients, families and healthcare staff.

Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

Trump administration has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcare

Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants.

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With context on the terminations at AHRQ from @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/07/22/a...

Federal health quality research grants worth $109 million ended early

At least 78 AHRQ grants worth $200 million have been affected by "non-award" notices; it's estimated those grants had $109.2 million in funding remaining.

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Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

List of terminated AHRQ grants from GrantWitness: grant-witness.us/ahrq-data.html

For some weird reason, the Trump Administration is cancelling healthcare improvement grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. #AHRQ I don’t understand why this is not national news. #AHRQ #AHRQcide #healthcare #HHS www.linkedin.com/posts/seanbr...

#ahrqcide #ahrq #ahrq | Sean B.

Another example of #AHRQcide, where the Trump Administration is for some weird reason cancelling healthcare improvement grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. #AHRQ I don’t under...

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🚨Researchers across the country are receiving official notices that AHRQ is ending (healthcare) grants. #healthcare open.substack.com/pub/ahsituat...

AHRQ Has Begun Canceling Research Grants. Here's What We Know.

Researchers across the country have begun receiving official notices from AHRQ informing them that continuation funding for their grants will not be awarded.

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If we need a real news story tonight, it’s that Agency for #Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) improvement grants across the United States are being cancelled in mass today by the Trump Administration.

Our voting systems are secure; researchers and experts have examined them. This is all just political BS.

Olivia of Troye@oliviaoftroye.com · 4mo ago

I joined @oliviaoftroye.com to talk about the proposed rule that would destroy US science. Listen in and act before Monday night.

🚨Deadline: THIS Monday, 11:59 p.m. ET. Trump White House OMB Director Russ Vought's latest proposal could quietly change who decides what scientific research gets funded. Scientists are sounding the alarm. Your public comment to OMB could make a difference. @seanbruna.bsky.social More here!👇

Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 4mo ago

🚨 LIVE Saturday Covfefe Special Edition: The White House Rule You Need to Know About Before Monday

Scientists are sounding the alarm. Here's what's at stake, and why you still have time to act.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

It’s never a good sign when a senior NIH official cancels a keynote after the program has been printed.

One week it’s presenting on threats to democracy and the dismantling of AHRQ, the next presenting findings for the AIMAhead AI in healthcare conference. #AHRQ #MedicalAnthropology #AIMAhead #AI #healthcare

This was a good workshop about democracy and health.#Anthropology #AHRQ #Geneva

Emilio M Bruna@brunalab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We should value teaching more

Shocked someone who left academia after 10 years (in 2008) following tenure denial thinks a system that requires research AND teaching sucks. We should VALUE and REWARD TEACHING MORE. We don’t have to eliminate research to do so. Setting Research against Teaching undermines both.

The OMB and the Politicization of Science www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The OMB and the Politicization of Science | NEJM

The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...

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