Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪
Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
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Signal: altnih4science.79
- The consolidation of review at NIH is really driven by the Trump/Republican desire to control NIH grantmaking from the top. Here’s an example of the chaos that’s happening now. It will get worse unless CSR and review are walled off from political interference.
- And just like that my standing study section at NIH is disbanded This administration truly cares about mental health… (sarcasm) @altnih4science.bsky.social
- Watch what happens at top right behind the fence. 😯😯😲 #science
- I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
- Some DOGE political appointee choosing which grants to fund is oppression of academic freedom and scientific freedom. If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.
- Everyone in this picture is complicit
- Pay attention to this. Apportionment — how OMB sends money from the Treasury to the agencies throughout the year — is being politicized by Trump and Vought. They need to follow the law and publish the data as Congress required.
- New: Trump admin files an emergency order to block the release of their RIF and agency reorganization plans. A federal judge ordered that release by Tuesday at 4pm Pacific. 🍿 1/3
- Not sure how @chrisgeidner.bsky.social has maintained his sanity through all of this, but kudos to him for staying on top of all of this! (I just try to keep up with the EOs and even that has been a lot)
- Marc Andreesen received government funding from NSF to create Mosaic.
- (6/11) The internet exists because we invested in science. Decades before it changed the world, the NSF laid the groundwork for the internet—funding research, building networks, and connecting universities. Without public investment, there would be no world wide web. www.nsf.gov/impacts/inte...
- Breaking: 🚨 Federal district court in California grants a temporary restraining order in AFGE v Trump. This TRO stops Musk/Trump/DOGE from taking any further actions on RIFs for now. 1/3
- 👇 Things at #NIH are far worse than have been reported. NIH and NSF have been effectively overthrown by people that hate science. The hostile takeover is complete at the top. The question now is how scientists are going to fight back. This is one step:
- Now they are gutting NSF. This is radical destruction. The Trump goal is to end scientific research in America. Our sense is that few people, even inside the government, have actually grappled with this reality.
