@academicchatter @GhostOnTheHalfShell

Columbia U thought if they kissed orange ass they would not be fucked

They did, and they were

Update. "US #NIH reverses conference travel ban for scientists"
reuters.com/business/healthcar…

"Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health had been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they paid their own way and went during time off… After Reuters reported the travel restriction policy earlier on Thursday, an #HHS spokesperson said, 'Effective April 10, official travel may resume following established approval processes within each Institute and Center.'"

Neither the original travel restrictions nor the recent reversal have been put in writing.

#DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Phillip Levine lists the 77 US #universities that stand to lose the most from three kinds of funding cuts threatened by the #Trump admin: (1) capping indirect costs for #NIH grants at 15%, (2) cutting the #NSF budget by two-thirds, and (3) endowment taxes.
chronicle.com/article/these-77…
(#paywalled)

PS: Note that there are other kinds of cuts that Levine does not bring into this calculation, like withholding funds from targeted institutions because of their DEI or antisemitism policies.

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Update. "More Than $110 Million in #NIH Grants to #Harvard, Affiliated Hospitals Terminated Since Late February"
thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/…

"All of the grants were terminated before the #Trump administration announced a $9 billion review of funding to Harvard and affiliated health care centers. At least four grants to Harvard-affiliated scholars — specifically those related to research on Covid-19 — have since been temporarily reinstated as the White House battles court challenges. The affected projects had more than $43 million in undisbursed funds at the time of cancellation…All of the canceled projects prominently featured themes of #gender and #sexualidentity, #Covid-19 and its #vaccine, or health disparities."

#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

More Than $110 Million in NIH Grants to Harvard, Affiliated Hospitals Terminated Since Late February | News | The Harvard Crimson

The National Institutes of Health has terminated research grants worth more than $110 million to Harvard University and its affiliated hospitals since late February, according to public Department of Health and Human Services filings reviewed by The …

^{www.thecrimson.com}

Update. "Judge permanently blocks #NIH’s plan to cap funding, setting up appeals battle"
highereddive.com/news/judge-pe…

"Research #universities won an extended reprieve Friday when a federal judge permanently barred the National Institutes of Health from capping funding for indirect research costs at a 15% rate, a move that would cost institutions billions a year. US District Judge Angel Kelley ruled NIH had violated federal statute, was “arbitrary and capricious” in creating the cap, failed to follow rulemaking procedures when doing so and violated constitutional prohibitions on applying new rules retroactively."

The NIH will surely appeal.

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Judge permanently blocks NIH’s plan to cap funding, setting up appeals battle

Universities are waiting cautiously as the agency's unilateral plan to cut billions of research support dollars has already created widespread disruption.

^{Ben Unglesbee (Higher Ed Dive)}

Update. "Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency. White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted."
science.org/content/article/tr…
(#paywalled)

"President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the #climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (#NOAA)…The administration is also preparing to ask for deep cuts to #NASA’s science programs."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Massive cuts to #NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan"
washingtonpost.com/science/202…

"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions…'This is an extinction-level event for NASA science,' said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy for the Planetary Society…'It needlessly terminates functional, productive science missions and cancels new missions currently being built, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars in the process.'”

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "#CDC's #STD Lab Shuttered by #Trump Layoffs"
medpagetoday.com/infectiousdis…

"A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (#STDs) in the US has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs…One of its most remarkable projects is a one-of-its-kind repository of 50,000 isolates of gonorrhea used to monitor antibiotic resistance, which is quickly becoming a global health concern. The lab has been doing this work for nearly 40 years -- but will now, at best, have a gap in data."

Also see the public statement by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (#ASTDA).
astda.org/statement-from-astda…

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #OpenData #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics

CDC's STD Lab Shuttered by Trump Layoffs

Implications of lab slashing 'makes me sick to my stomach,' former employee said

^{Kristina Fiore (MedpageToday)}

I have long suspected their aim is a 'cull' of 'the weak' and 'empathetic'.

Hitler already used the term 'useless eaters' but we may hear it again.

The Food and Drug Administration (#FDA) has already lost 19% of its staff, the Centers for Disease Control (#CDC) 18%, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (#CMS) 9%.
medpagetoday.com/special-repor…

#DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Can HHS Still Function? Health Data at Risk; Inside Docs' $421M Jury Award

This past week in healthcare investigations

^{Kristina Fiore (MedpageToday)}

Update. "The National Science Foundation (#NSF) has abolished its chief mechanism for getting the scientific community’s input on its programs."
science.org/content/article/ns…
(#paywalled)

#DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Faculty Letter to #Yale University Administration"
sites.google.com/view/yalefacu…

"We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association, and academic freedom. We write as one faculty, to ask you to stand with us now. We urge you to: …Resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance…Protect science and other research at Yale from funding cutoffs… Defend the rights to free speech on campus…Work purposefully and proactively with other colleges and universities in collective defense."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "The #Trump administration’s cuts have slowed operations in #Antarctica to a crawl. Scientists warn that #climate research conducted there is vitally urgent. Despite this, the #NSF is preparing for an operational retreat from Antarctica."
explorersweb.com/new-funding-c…

PS: This one is more personal for me. In 1996 I visited Palmer Station, an NSF-funded base for polar biology on Anvers Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, and had a wonderful talk and tour with its director, Polly Penhale.

#DefendResearch #Funding #USPol #USPolitics

New Funding Cuts Forcing U.S. Researchers Out of Antarctica » Explorersweb

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are imperiled.

^{Lou Bodenhemier (Explorer's Web)}

Update. "Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More"
propublica.org/article/trump-d…

"The data collection efforts that have been shut down or are at risk of being curtailed are staggering in their breadth. In some cases, datasets from past years now sit orphaned, their caretakers banished and their future uncertain; in others, past data has vanished for the time being, and it’s unclear if and when it will reappear. Here are just a few examples."

PS: What follows is one of the best lists of deleted or endangered datasets so far published.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Trump Halts Data Collection on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change, More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

^ProPublica

Update. "Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants"
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

"All new research grants have been frozen at the US National Science Foundation (#NSF) — an action apparently ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE)… Documents seen by Nature show that two members of DOGE…have been given access to grant management systems and used that access to prevent grants from receiving funding that were already approved but awaiting finalization. 'That, of course, raises the hairs on the back of our neck in a worrisome way,' an NSF programme officer says."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

^{Garisto, Dan}

Update. "Trump’s #DOJ Sends Intimidating Letters to Medical #Journals for Supposedly Being ‘Partisan’ "
gizmodo.com/trumps-doj-sends-i…

"The U.S. Department of Justice has sent letters to medical journals for supposedly being “partisan,” heavily suggesting that they’re spreading misinformation and are influenced by “funders” rather than medical science. Gizmodo has confirmed that the journal CHEST, a peer-reviewed publication on pulmonary care published by the American College of Chest Physicians, received a letter this week. And MedPage Today reports that at least two other journals have received similar intimidating letters."

PS: The letter to Harvard shows that the Trump admin wants to control what universities teach. These letters show that it also wants to control what scholarly journals publish.

#AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Trump's DOJ Sends Intimidating Letters to Medical Journals for Supposedly Being 'Partisan'

Trump's goons will eventually come for everyone.

^{Matt Novak (Gizmodo)}

Everyone hits the end of their rope eventually.

#Trump's memory isn't large enough to rememeber every person and institution he resents and want's to punish.

He is simply a crazy old man who intends to break everything he an put his little hands on.

Now medical journals? Soon he'll ask us to drive on the left side of the road. He'll send intimdating letters to traffic engineers.

After the #Trump storm is over, what do we do with folks like Ed Martin?

We need to let them retire in obscurity. We don't need to chase them, even if they pulled stupid stunts like writing to medical journals.

#Martin is the only US Attorney in the last fifty years to have no experience as a judge or federal prosecutor.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Marti…

American politician and lawyer

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Update. "#NIH freezes funds to #Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them."
science.org/content/article/ni…
(#paywalled)

"After freezing all grants to #Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [#Brown, #Northwestern, #Cornell, #WeillCornell Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services (#HHS)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email."

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA) maintains a public list of datasets and databases it's terminating.
nesdis.noaa.gov/about/document…

Transparency about pulling the plug on transparency.

#Climate #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "How #Trump is following #Project2025’s radical roadmap to defund science."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

"Indiscriminate firings. Terminated grants. Cancelled programmes. The barrage of actions by US President Donald Trump has shocked the country’s research community over the past two months. Yet, much of it was planned out years in advance and laid out publicly…The Wall Street Journal found that more than half of Trump’s executive orders (EOs) align with Project 2025 recommendations. And most of its 40 listed authors are now key figures on Trump’s team…Here, Nature examines science-related policies from Project 2025 that have already come to pass, and which ones might be on the horizon."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

How Trump is following Project 2025’s radical roadmap to defund science

Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint. Nature read it so you don’t have to.

^{Garisto, Dan}

Update. "National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards"
nytimes.com/2025/04/22/science…

"In January, the #Trump administration attempted to freeze grant payments for existing awards at the #NSF. A temporary restraining order lifted the freeze. The order also said that the agency could not terminate active awards to comply with President Trump’s executive orders…In a statement on Friday, the NSF said that its grant cancellations were not in violation of the temporary restraining order. When asked by The Times to provide clarification on the legality of the grant cancellations, the agency declined to comment…On Friday, the NSF went further, canceling grants supporting ongoing research."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #USPol #USPolitics

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

^{Katrina Miller (The New York Times)}

Update. "The federal Department of Education [#ED] maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents [Education Resources Information Center, #ERIC] dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to #DOGE cuts."
governing.com/policy/major-edu…

PS: I use many sources in my attempt to stay on top of what's happening with #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, #OpenEducation, and so on. ERIC has been one of the stalwarts.

#DefendResearch #Education #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week

The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.

^Governing

Fortunately the Data Rescue Project (@datarescueproject.org) lists it as completely backed up as of April 5, 2025.
baserow.datarescueproject.org/…

The DRP tracker points to the April 5 back-up here in the #WaybackMachine.
web.archive.org/collection-sea…

#Preservation

Update. The #OpenAccess Biodiversity Heritage Library (#BHL) needs a new home. The #Smithsonian will stop hosting it next January.
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2…

#Biodiversity #DefendResearch #ILoveBHL #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

^{Biodiversity Heritage Library}

Update. "Funding cut for landmark study of women's health."
npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-53728…

"The #Trump administration is shutting down most of a landmark federal project studying women's health, stunning researchers around the country…The study, begun in the 1990s, has produced a series of groundbreaking results and was continuing to gather valuable data about women's health…Neither the #NIH, which funds the study, nor #HHS, which oversees the NIH, responded to NPR's questions about the matter…One big question is what will happen to the huge repository of #data…which represents a treasure trove that could be mined to make yet more important discoveries."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The long-running and wide-ranging study of women's health that #NIH cut two days was back on track the next day.
nytimes.com/2025/04/24/health/…

PS: This is another sign that some protests work. It's also an example of thoughtless pillaging, as opposed to a careful attempt to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.

#DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative

The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world.

^{Roni Caryn Rabin (The New York Times)}

Update. "Groups Decry Loss of Funding for 'Critically Important' GI Disease Network."
medpagetoday.com/special-repor…

"Physicians and patient advocates are sounding the alarm after the #NIH abruptly withdrew a grant renewal application for the Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers (#CEGIR), the only clinical care network for eosinophilic gastroenteritis patients in the U.S."

The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (#AAAAI) says that NIH defunded the project, not on the merits, but because it uses "foreign components".
aaaai.org/about/news/news/2025…

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Groups Decry Loss of Funding for 'Critically Important' GI Disease Network

Sudden grant application dismissals will 'directly harm patients,' AAAAI says

^{Jennifer Henderson (MedpageToday)}

Update from Gary Price (@infodocket). "Accessing Archived Material From #ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) via the #InternetArchive."
infodocket.com/2025/04/23/acce…

"Here are a couple ways to access archived material from ERIC on the open web. We will do our best to keep this post updated if/when new open web sources become available to access ERIC material."

#DefendResearch #Education #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update from Lisa Schiff (@lschiff), "Protecting your work – and your values – in US higher education."
timeshighereducation.com/campu…

"With US higher education under attack from the federal government, what can scholars do to ensure their research is preserved and to stand up for academic freedom? Lisa Schiff, a co-author of the Declaration to Defend Research."

#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Protecting your work – and your values – in US higher education

With US higher education under attack from the federal government, what can scholars do to ensure their research is preserved and to stand up for academic freedom? Lisa Schiff, a co-author of the Declaration to Defend Research Against US Government C…

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Update. "Impacts of Restrictions on Federal Grant Funding in Physics and Astronomy Graduate Programs."
ww2.aip.org/statistics/impacts…

"37% of the responding department chairs [in #physics and #astronomy] said they expect to enroll fewer first-year graduate students in the fall of 2025 than they did the previous year…The number of first-year graduate students in physics and astronomy is anticipated to decline by about 13%. This is a projected decline of about 600 first-year graduate students."

#DefendResearch #Funding #ERC #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Impacts of Restrictions on Federal Grant Funding in Physics and Astronomy Graduate Programs

^AIP

Update. People receiving an #NIH grant must now promise not to participate in #DEI programs or any boycott of #Israel or companies doing business in Israel. NIH calls this a "civil rights" condition on the grant.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/no…

#CivilRights #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Noam Ross and Scott Delaney maintain a crowdsourced database of #NIH grant terminations. Extremely helpful.
airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy…

Meagan Parrish has put together a useful overview of what it contains.
pharmavoice.com/news/nih-hhs-c…

Ross and Delaney also maintain a database of #NSF grant terminations. Right now it lists 501.
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC…

#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

What’s being cut at NIH

A look at the government’s far-reaching rollback in research grants so far.

^{Meagan Parrish (PharmaVoice)}

#ERIC ist mit knapp 2 Mio Nachweisen (Stand: Mai 2024) die weltweit umfangreichste bildungs- & erziehungswissenschaftl. relevante bibliografische Datenbank. Nachgewiesen wird seit 1966 überwiegend englischsprachige Literatur (Bücher, Zeitschriftenartikel, Forschungs-, Konferenzberichte u.a.) zu allen Bereichen der #Pädagogik.

Auch in unsere Suche ist #ERIC eingebunden. Künftig wird es also dank #DOGE viel weniger Treffer geben.

fachportal-paedagogik.de/liter…

Update. "Scientist Who Helped Prove Humans Changed the Climate Watches Evidence Being Erased"
sfpublicpress.org/scientist-wh…

"Ben Santer never imagined that 12 words could change the trajectory of his life and humanity’s understanding of what it was doing to the planet: 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.' He wrote that sentence as the lead author of a pivotal chapter in the 1995 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [#IPCC]…Now the #data sources that made that discovery possible are under threat… 'There’s real concern that the data may go away, that the satellites, measurements that have been collected for 40 plus years, may not continue.'"

#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Evidence That Humans Changed the Climate is Being Erased

Livermore Lab’s Ben Santer spent decades tracing humanity’s imprint on the atmosphere. Now, the data behind his work is under attack.

^{Michael Stoll (San Francisco Public Press)}

Update. I just did an interview for the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (#ZBW, @ZBW_MediaTalk) on the impact of #Trump admin actions on US research and higher education. Thanks to @avatter for the good questions.
zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/04/peter…

EDIT. ZBW has now released a German translation of the interview.
zbw-mediatalk.eu/de/2025/04/pe…

#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Update. "US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment."
reuters.com/sustainability/cop…

"President Donald Trump's administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government's signature study that informs federal and local governments on how to prepare for climate change impacts…The dismissal of nearly 400 contributors to the sixth National Climate Assessment, which is mandated by Congress, leaves the future of the report in doubt."

#Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "#NIH Grant Cuts Aren't Saving Money. They're Wasting It."
bloomberg.com/opinion/articles…

"The Trump administration’s waves of massive cuts to funding at the NIH are framed as a recasting of research priorities and a way to save taxpayer money. Another way to frame it is an exercise in massive waste. In terminating nearly 750 NIH grants over the past two months, the government dumped years of investment down the drain…Funding was pulled just as some of these projects were getting off the ground, while others were rounding into their last year of funding — a point where enough data would finally be collected to offer concrete results. Our analysis found that nearly 40% of the canceled R01 grants supported research that had yet to produce findings, meaning all of the agency’s prior investments won’t benefit the public."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "‘The Classified Catalog’ launches to track secrecy news"
freedom.press/the-classifieds/…