"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding

PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities

"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding

PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities

A new #NIH grant provision makes it easier for NIH to terminate a grant without a court overturning the decision. From the Nov 18 announcement: "The recipient agrees that…funding…may…be terminated…if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities."
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-009.html

Comment from Jenna Norton, an "NIH program officer who was put on administrative leave last month": "This provision…is…going to create a huge amount of uncertainty that may make it nearly impossible to do science. How can you ethically recruit somebody into a #clinicaltrial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/118809

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

"The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the science."

STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers: https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/trump-nih-cuts-impacts-next-gen-researchers-american-science-shattered-series/

(Of course, even the MOSAIC "early-career" researchers that lost their funding are in their 40s.)

#NIH

1/ I'm sympathetic to #NIH-funded authors who want to publish in certain #APC-based #OpenAccess journals and can't find the money to pay the APCs. But it's false to say that they must publish in those journals, in any other APC-based OA journals, or even in OA journals. Shame on _Inside Higher Ed_ for leaving this false impression..
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/05/nih-policy-holding-researchers-hostage

PS: I repeat: Compliance with the NIH OA policy is free of charge. Moreover, compliance is all about depositing in a certain repository, not publishing in a certain journal or kind of journal. The NIH has a #GreenOA policy, not a #GoldOA policy. The same is true for all the other federal agencies with OA policies, not just the NIH. When a journal charges NIH-funded authors an APC to publish, the fee is to publish in that particular journal, not to comply with the NIH policy. Don't be fooled by the widespread misunderstanding that compliance with these policies requires paying any kind of fee. Don't be fooled by journals and publishers that cynically spread this myth themselves or leave it uncorrected. You can help by correcting this falsehood wherever you see it. You can also help by working with hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding committees to care more about the quality of research than the journals in which it is published.

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#APCs #NelsonMemo #NIH #OpenAccess #OAintheUSA #PublicAccess #Repositories

Update. The #NIH just released the 914 public comments it received on its plan to cap the use of grant funds to pay #APCs.
https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Compiled-Public-Comments-on-the-RFI-on-Maximizing-Research-Funds-by-Limiting-Allowable-Publishing-Costs.pdf

#Funding #Medicine #OAintheUSA #ScholComm

A new #NIH grant provision makes it easier for NIH to terminate a grant without a court overturning the decision. From the Nov 18 announcement: "The recipient agrees that…funding…may…be terminated…if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities."
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-009.html

Comment from Jenna Norton, an "NIH program officer who was put on administrative leave last month": "This provision…is…going to create a huge amount of uncertainty that may make it nearly impossible to do science. How can you ethically recruit somebody into a #clinicaltrial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/118809

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

"NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says."
https://apnews.com/article/nih-funding-cuts-32b9b7bad01457a5412af26e394e3735

This AP article doesn't link to the primary source in _JAMA Internal Medicine_ or the accompanying editor's note, perhaps because they're both #paywalled. (If that's the reason, it's weak.) Here they are:

* primary source
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2840939

* editor's note
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2840943

#ClinicalTrials #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

where the fuck is Bill Gates? why isn’t he screaming about the #NIH and Kennedy’s evisceration of #HHS ?

where are Oprah, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Lebron James, the Kardashians, all of them paper billionaires?

where is Mark Cuban? and how about the Democrats’ favorite billionaires, Michael Bloomberg and Howard Schulz?

where exactly are all the good billionaires fighting Trump’s destruction of the federal government and what semblance of democracy USA had?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-fear-trump-administration-nih-cuts-could-impact-health-60-minutes-transcript/

#NoKings #Bethesda #Maryland #NIH

This is what DEMOCRACY looks like

#NoKings #Bethesda #Maryland #NIH

This is what DEMOCRACY looks like

Studies reveal that people consume more calories on ultraprocessed diets despite similar nutritional content, suggesting these foods may disrupt the body’s fullness signals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/13/world/our-obesity-understanding-may-be-wrong/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #health #food #obesity #diet #departmentofhealthandhumanservices #nih

#RFKJr fires top #NIH scientist weeks after she files #whistleblower complaint

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump admin’s #hostility toward #vaccines

The US * #health* secretary, RFKJr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of #Health (NIH) just 3 weeks after she had filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump admin relating to its hostility towards vaccines, according to a report.

#science #medicine #OrchestratedShutdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/rfk-jr-jeanne-marrazzo-nih-fired

#RFKJr fires top #NIH scientist weeks after she files #whistleblower complaint

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump admin’s #hostility toward #vaccines

The US * #health* secretary, RFKJr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of #Health (NIH) just 3 weeks after she had filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump admin relating to its hostility towards vaccines, according to a report.

#science #medicine #OrchestratedShutdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/rfk-jr-jeanne-marrazzo-nih-fired

The U.S. has long lagged behind other wealthy countries in reducing its stillbirth rate.

Now a new five-year, $37 million NIH consortium will prioritize this public health issue. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-stillbirth-prevention-consortium?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NIH #Pregnancy #Health #Women #PublicHealth #Science #Research

Two prominent scientists said in #whistleblower complaints filed late Wednesday that they had been removed from leadership positions at the #NIH after objecting to #Trump admin efforts to undermine #vaccines, flout #CourtOrders, withhold #research money & politicize the #grant-making process.

#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/health/nih-whistle-blower-complaints-vaccines-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The complaints were filed by Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who until the end of March had directed the National Institute of #Allergy & #InfectiousDiseases [#NIAID], the institute previously run by Dr. Anthony S. #Fauci; & Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, who until mid-April had directed the #NIH Fogarty International Center, which supports global #health #research.

#Trump#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law

The complaints shed light on much of the internal strife at the agency earlier this year, as the #Trump admin clamped down on the country’s #medical research #funding apparatus.

The scientists drew particular attention to what they described as an administration-wide “hostility” toward #vaccines that they said had taken hold in the upper echelons of the #NIH, long one of the world’s leading engines of #vaccine #research.

#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law

Two prominent scientists said in #whistleblower complaints filed late Wednesday that they had been removed from leadership positions at the #NIH after objecting to #Trump admin efforts to undermine #vaccines, flout #CourtOrders, withhold #research money & politicize the #grant-making process.

#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/health/nih-whistle-blower-complaints-vaccines-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare