What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

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I’m still working to understand the full implications of this ruling rejecting (one of) the admin’s motions to dismiss and saying NEW priorities can’t be used to terminate previously awarded grants: www.politico.com/live-updates... But it’s definitely good news.

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In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

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shit I just accidentally read something about the Louisiana shooting and now I gotta go eat a brownie about it.

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This is a handy little website if you want to keep track of how things are going with science funding. sciencespending.org#overview

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