For those at #AAAS in Phoenix, @malar0ne.bsky.social will be speaking at the Expo Stage on our joint #SCIMaP work today:
'Widespread Economic Impacts of Federal Research Cuts in Local Communities'
Time: 2:50 PM for 10 minutes
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This tweet was a key part of our #SCIMaP team's initial motivation to launch. Not only does HHS try and highlight potential 'savings', it tries to make an impression that the issues here are confined to elite, private institutions.
These are national-scale & substantive costs.
scienceimpacts.org
We have more work underway in #SCIMaP, spanning reactive & proactive steps to assess, visualize, and communicate the impacts of ongoing cuts.
The #SCIMaP effort is made possible via the combined talents and commitment of @malar0ne.bsky.social, @falklab.bsky.social, @ellenpeters.bsky.social, @angiefagerlin.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social, @dcosme.bsky.social, C Cooke, A. Chande + more.
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For my part, working with the #SCIMaP team has made it possible to connect policy changes with direct impacts on local communities:
healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/06...
As a result, #SCIMaP has adapted our analytical framework to assess losses at county, congressional district and state scales for the White House's proposed $18 billion reduction in NIH's budget
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
Changes in approval by baseline attitudes and ideology
How and why we share personalized information are grounded in parallel studies led by @asinclair.bsky.social (co-founder of #SCIMaP and future faculty at Rice):
"Communicating the Economic Impact of NIH Funding Cuts Changes Attitudes and Motivates Action "
www.sinclairlab-rice.com/publications...
Cancelled & Frozen NIH Grants
The #SCIMaP project has included these terminations as part of our analysis flow, again linking the site of grant terminations to local economic impacts. The scope of grant terminations remain a surprise to many, both to those who oppose and to those who support them.
The motivation to initiate #SCIMaP stemmed from an early decision by the administration to slash research infrastructure support to NIH grants (so-called "IDC" costs), support that is essential for facilities, safety checks & compliance required for medical research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Launched in March 2025 as a joint project between the University of Maryland & the University of Pennsylvania and now supported by a grant from Open Philanthropy, #SCIMaP focuses on assessing the impacts of federal cuts to science on communities nationwide:
cmns.umd.edu/news-events/...
Amidst a government shutdown in which the White House has proposed slashing federal support of science by billions of dollars, our #SCIMaP team continues to assess the impact of research cuts on communities nationwide.
Learn more about our efforts: scienceimpacts.org
With more to come...
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Panelists included Mallory Harris (of #SCIMaP and UMD-College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences), whose work has been essential to assessing the community-level impacts of federal cuts to science.
Preprint:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Panel:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/16/f...
SCIMaP job opportunity - https://umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/job/Research-Communications-and-Media-Outreach-Specialist_JR102577
Best consideration deadline, Friday Oct 10:
#SCIMaP (scienceimacts.org) seeks to hire a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist at U-Maryland to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research.
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
New job 🚨:
Our #SCIMaP (scienceimpacts.org) team is searching for a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research.
Application review starts Oct 10:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
The Damage Done by @marianneguenot.bsky.social
Now out in Nature Medicine, featuring analysis from #GrantWitness and #SCIMaP and impacts on grants, clinical trials, patients, discovery, collaboration, and careers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to @malar0ne.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social, @asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team for this impact assessment of the WH FY26 NSF discretionary budget proposal.
More on NIH impacts is available at:
scienceimpacts.org
This #SCIMaP analysis leverages FY20-24 NSF funding data by congressional district to assess how the White House's proposed 56% cut to NSF would impact the economies of local communities nationwide.
Full report: osf.io/e8rnc
Highlights via @savensf.bsky.social 👇
Map of NSF budget cuts. https://osf.io/e8rnc/
Our #SCIMaP team recently mapped out the expected impact of White House cuts, they are extensive:
osf.io/e8rnc/
GUESS WHAT: CHOPPING SCIENCE FUNDING IS A BAD ECONOMIC POLICY!
Incredible work #SCIMaP team!
@joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social
This NSF budget proposal analysis was made possible by the #SCIMaP team, with support from Open Philanthropy.
Report contributors include @malar0ne.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social, Shaowen Li, and @asinclair.bsky.social
Full report: osf.io/e8rnc
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And for more interactive visualizations on impacts of ongoing and planned cuts to NIH from #SCIMaP, check out
scienceimpacts.org
Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget
New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.
Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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New thread & posts soon on #SCIMaP analysis of economic impacts of the White House's proposal for the National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget...
By using historical funding data and commuter flows to estimate budget impacts, #SCIMaP estimates that twenty-six states face over $100 million in economic losses, and more than three quarters of U.S. congressional districts will experience more than $10M in economic losses.
More from our #SCIMaP effort, including projections and state level report cards of what is at stake given the White House projected FY26 budget for NIH
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
There are also substantive policy matters to confront.
This is why our team has invested time & effort to make the implicit explicit - making it easier to understand how policy positions translate into economic impacts.
#SCIMaP @asinclair.bsky.social
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
Sorry, I didn't understand that. To get a #SCIMaP Scorecard, you can mention me with:
- A US zip code (e.g., '90210')
- A state and district (e.g., 'CA-12')
- A state name for a statewide report (e.g., 'California')
Sorry, I didn't understand that. To get a #SCIMaP Scorecard, you can mention me with:
- A US zip code (e.g., '90210')
- A state and district (e.g., 'CA-12')
- A state name for a statewide report (e.g., 'California')
Our #SCIMaP team, a group of interdisciplinary scientists and coders, have built a county, house district, and state level analysis tool that assesses the local, economic impacts of NIH funding. I don't recall you having reached out to learn more. Who exactly is trapped here?
scienceimpacts.org
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