Thank you. The estimate I have heard (from outside NIH sources) is 39% in FY25. And everyone should remember that lowered success rates across many institutes from around 10% to around 5%. Disaster.
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Does this mean all proposals get funded or none get funded 🤞
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🧪🛟🫁
Excellent reporting by @bruceylee.bsky.social in @forbes.com about the new NIH multi year funding policy decimating US biomedical research.
www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
I was supposed to serve on the BTSS study section today—nope. And my A1 application review was canceled last week, after the A0 application was also delayed earlier in the year. Winning!
Unlike a recent review that had one minor weakness under Approach but a score of 5. 🙃
I enjoyed sharing our latest work in my plenary talk this morning at the 2025 Modeling Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)! Had a great time at the conference too, thanks to the organizers.
Excited for the cancellation of my A1 proposal’s review panel next week just like happened with the original submission. Can’t catch a break. I’m also serving on a panel in 2 weeks and that is probably toast too.
Great demo from Boston Dynamics/Toyota Research Institute.
Other robots do manipulation (hand tasks) while people mess with them, but mostly while standing upright and still. Here it steps and crouches to pick up parts, combining locomotion with manipulation quite nicely.
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Shouldn’t technical expertise be required to write a successful grant proposal?!?!
Trump tries to put federally funded science under full ruling party political control. Hard to see how the U.S. maintains any global competitiveness in science in this scenario.
Yep, it's Fustilarian Friday again.
Defunding Terry Tao to own the libs.
So they are aware of the problem but don’t plan to stop it.
🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!
Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).
"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.
ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.
What about stopping multi-year funding shenanigans?
As long as they have the cures they think they need, they can forget everybody else.
‼️🚨‼️ Russel Vought just locked up the entirety of the remaining extramural NIH budget for this fiscal year, and part of intramural. $15 billion. ~a third of the NIH budget. THIS IS AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT.
All $$ is iced except intramural salaries, admin expenses, and clinical center. NO MORE GRANTS.
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New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
National Cancer Institute projection of a 4% pay line in FY2026.
Good grief, the US National Cancer Institute projects it will fund only one in 25 RO1 grant applications in 2026. This is massively defunding cancer research. Despicable vandalism. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
NIH can give 5 year MY awards that explicitly prohibit NCEs. My DP2 was like this.
Pretty common. But I don’t understand why they have to limit MY awards to 4 years if 5 is the financial cliff.
NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.
NIH has been toying with the idea of limiting R01s per PI for some time before the current admin, this is another way of doing that. I also think this admin doesn’t want PIs on soft money, primarily supported by federal funds.
Red banner at top reads “CALL NOW! Demand NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the FY 2026 Budget!” Below are three sections: “What’s Happening” explains the House CJS Subcommittee marked up the NSF budget; “Why It Matters” warns of a 23% funding cut; “What You’ll Do” urges people to call if their rep is on the list. Statue of Liberty background and “next page” arrow at bottom.
Graphic with a red banner reading “CALL NOW! Demand NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the FY 2026 Budget!” Below is a list of 12 members of Congress (Republicans and Democrats) with their states and districts. “Stand Up for Science” logo at bottom.
📣 CALL TO ACTION -
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget.
If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
Graph showing NIH funding for new and competitive renewal grants for fiscal year 2025 compared to fiscal year 2024. The fiscal year 2025 curve is substantially below the fiscal year 2024 curve.
Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications for the US agency, Nature has learnt.
go.nature.com/3TEw7GN
Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies
NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24
US NIH to cap publisher fees for federally funded research by 2026 reut.rs/4kyoTiH
Read this thread, watch the segment and share. As a comms manager for an org that supports cancer centers, I’ve been consumed by these budget cuts and their impacts since January. I hope this helps people who aren’t immersed in this day to day start to understand what’s happening — and fight it.
That’s just false. The UM Research enterprise depends on nearly a billion dollars in NIH funding every year. The endowment doesn’t generate nearly enough interest to cover that, and there are donor rules for how that money is spent.
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
