BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
Poster graphic reading Take Back our Science Rally! Washington DC, March 7th, 2026. standupforscience.net/march7. A group of protesters carrying signs in support of science are gathered in front of the US capitol building. A line of red stars streaming from right to left decorates the poster.
Washington, DC. March 7th, 2026. Rally with us to Take Back Science! 🧪✊🔬💥
The stakes could not be higher: we're facing attacks from an administration hell-bent on dismantling our science and our democracy. We have to stand up and fight back!
GET IN, DORKS! www.standupforscience.net/ma...
An ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, threatening the staff member who prevented him from entering.
Hello? ICE is so out of control that its agents think they can break international law.
Congress needs to rein them in yesterday.
Pressure works!
Capitulation and appeasement does not!
apnews.com/article/dei-...
Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there's little consensus on how to press forward on issues where the party has recently struggled to earn voters' trust. https://to.pbs.org/4jOplKK
Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill:
One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science.
The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%.
THIS IS BAD.
Director Bhattacharya spending more time on podcasts, this time taking about not renewing grants NIH was forced to restore.
Good reporting from @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...
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BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
Here's the press release ICE issued the day after Chaofeng Ge died. Although, he was found with hogtied with “a cloth ligature around his neck,” ICE chose this headline:
ICE detainee passes away at Pennsylvania's
Moshannon Valley Processing Center
"Passes away."
source: www.ice.gov/news/release...
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.
On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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Join us at CU Denver Biology! We have an open search for an assistant professor in cell and molecular biology to support our research and teaching mission. cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
✨🧠 Excited to share my research at #SFN today! If you’re around, stop by the Neurobiology of Stress Minisymposium this afternoon. We have a stacked session filled with fantastic talks. You won’t want to miss this line up! 🙌🏽
Beyond the false claims linking Tylenol to autism, it is especially gross to see extremely wealthy men shaming women for not ‘toughing it out’ during pregnancy.
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. 1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
This is illustrated in another way with this “word cloud” based on the grant titles from the ~200 awards.
9/14
August 22, 2025 Dear Director Bhattacharya: I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal. I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.
I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.
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rainbow rubber duckies all in a line
🐤Promise you this is one you'll want to say you were a part of...
Help us get our 'ducks in a row' and IMPEACH AND REMOVE THAT DANG QUACK!!!! 📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆
Link here: tinyurl.com/sufsci
16% loss at NIH
22% loss at NIDA;
22% loss at NIMH, 18% NIA, 17% NIAID.
17% loss at NIAAA, finally answering the question about unusually huge losses of POs causing their funding slowness in the negative.
The Trump administration, seemingly determined to hobble the NIH, continues to devise new and insidious ways to politicize what has long been considered the crown jewel of US research.
My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
"People rallied with the doctors, calling for medical professionals to be allowed inside..."
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
A cover labeled "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' by Jeremy M Berg
Several people have suggested that I compile my emails to Bhattacharya and I am delighted to do so.
Announcing the first cut of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
This contains just the first few exchanges. I will be adding more as time permits.
