This death by a thousand cuts - deep cuts - is how the administration is halting innovation for better health and new cures in America.
https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/nih-grant-disruptions-slow-breast-cancer-research
Michael Bacon
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If you're making slides, figures, or training material: remember that the #NIH has a pretty impressive catalog of scientific #illustrations mostly #CCO or #CCBY licenced.
Bookmark: https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/
#BioRender #AcademicChatter #Figure #ScienceMastodon #ProteinSynthesis #Science #Communication
If you're making slides, figures, or training material: remember that the #NIH has a pretty impressive catalog of scientific #illustrations mostly #CCO or #CCBY licenced.
Bookmark: https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/
#BioRender #AcademicChatter #Figure #ScienceMastodon #ProteinSynthesis #Science #Communication
Tyng-Ruey Chuang
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_Environmental Health Perspectives_ was a #DiamondOA journal formerly published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( #NIEHS, within the #NIH). When #Trump slashed the NIH and NIEHS budgets, the journal began the process of laying itself down. But now the American Chemical Society ( #ACS) will adopt it. Under the ACS, it will remain #OpenAccess but start charging #APCs.
See the ACS announcement.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/environmental-health-perspectives-joins-the-acs-publications-portfolio
See the coverage in Chemistry World.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/leading-environmental-health-journal-defunded-by-trump-administration-has-been-saved/4022745.article
_Environmental Health Perspectives_ was a #DiamondOA journal formerly published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( #NIEHS, within the #NIH). When #Trump slashed the NIH and NIEHS budgets, the journal began the process of laying itself down. But now the American Chemical Society ( #ACS) will adopt it. Under the ACS, it will remain #OpenAccess but start charging #APCs.
See the ACS announcement.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/environmental-health-perspectives-joins-the-acs-publications-portfolio
See the coverage in Chemistry World.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/leading-environmental-health-journal-defunded-by-trump-administration-has-been-saved/4022745.article
"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html
Eye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:
#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
der.hans
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#Trump cannot slash #NIH #research #funding, court rules
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled Trump's admin cannot carry out steep cuts to federal #grant funding provided by the National Institutes of #Health to #universities engaged in #scientific & #medical research.
#law #judiciary #science #medicine #idiocracy #BrainDrain
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-cannot-slash-nih-research-funding-court-rules-2026-01-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
"Trump Can’t Cap Overhead Rate on #NIH Grants to Research Universities, Appeals Court Rules."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-cant-cap-overhead-rate-on-nih-grants-to-research-universities-appeals-court-rules
( #paywalled)
"A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that the National Institutes of Health cannot unilaterally cap the indirect-cost rate on its grants at 15 percent, continuing a freeze on the controversial policy change that would cost universities billions."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Funding #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
#Trump cannot slash #NIH #research #funding, court rules
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled Trump's admin cannot carry out steep cuts to federal #grant funding provided by the National Institutes of #Health to #universities engaged in #scientific & #medical research.
#law #judiciary #science #medicine #idiocracy #BrainDrain
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-cannot-slash-nih-research-funding-court-rules-2026-01-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Konrad Förstner 💻🧬🦠
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"NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications It Shelved or Denied."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2026/01/02/nih-approves-100s-grant-applications-it-shelved-or-denied
This follows the pillaging pattern of agency layoffs. Reckless cuts followed by partial rehires. Hack first, plan second.
#DefendResearch #Funding #NIH #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications It Shelved or Denied."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2026/01/02/nih-approves-100s-grant-applications-it-shelved-or-denied
This follows the pillaging pattern of agency layoffs. Reckless cuts followed by partial rehires. Hack first, plan second.
#DefendResearch #Funding #NIH #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Ross Gayler
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"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
bioinformatician_next_door
and 1 other
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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.)
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
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