Category Archives: NIH

Friday action item: An awful budget, now with detail

Posted on 26 May, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

On Fridays while the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! There’s a detailed Federal budget proposal out this week, … Continue reading →

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Friday Action Item: Cuts to funding even sooner than we thought

Posted on 31 Mar, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

On Fridays while the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! You’re already all too familiar with the cuts to … Continue reading →

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The road ahead

Posted on 22 Nov, 2016 by Jeremy Yoder

It’s been almost two weeks since we woke up to the reality that Donald Trump — the failed casino mogul, the virtuoso tax-dodger, the reality-show star, the self-described serial sexual assailant, the Ku Klux Klan endorsee and darling of white … Continue reading →

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Raising the NIH pay-line to 20%

Posted on 14 Jul, 2015 by Noah Snyder-Mackler

I bet that title got your attention. In the good ol’ days our funding record made the United States look like the land of milk and honey. As Bruce Alberts’ and colleague wrote in PNAS earlier this year: “The United … Continue reading →

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The #IcedBudgetChallenge: Tell Congress to thaw out funding for NSF and NIH!

Posted on 26 Aug, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

So a friend nominated me in this viral scheme to raise funds for ALS research, about which you may have heard lately. I’m all in favor of finding a cure for ALS—my grandfather died of it—but I’m also pretty skeptical … Continue reading →

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