Erica Grodin
@ericagrodin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UCLA studying neuro and addiction. Views are my own. She/her/hers
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October 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🎓 The RSA Doctoral Student Small Grants provide $5,000 (for one year) to help you carry out your project.
🏆 Submit a 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) first; selected LOIs will be invited to submit full proposals.
Learn more & apply: researchsocietyonalcohol.org/doctoral-stu...
🏆 Submit a 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) first; selected LOIs will be invited to submit full proposals.
Learn more & apply: researchsocietyonalcohol.org/doctoral-stu...
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants
A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.
www.latimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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join us for our Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute! We are reaching out to the public to show the life-saving research that is at stake in the Trump admin's attack on UCLA research!
September 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
join us for our Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute! We are reaching out to the public to show the life-saving research that is at stake in the Trump admin's attack on UCLA research!
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As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
For some scientists fighting partisan attacks, the goal is to defend their work from political interference. But in retaliating, @katherinejwu.com reports, they also run the risk of advancing the narrative that they want to fight.
Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap
Fighting back against the Trump administration means they start to look more like activists.
bit.ly
August 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
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Are they playing for a major budget reduction in the next Fiscal Year?
NIAAA is starting to concern me drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/n...
NIAAA is starting to concern me drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/n...
NIAAA is starting to concern me
I did a RePORTER search for any grants with Award Notices issued by NIAAA from 7/1/2025 onward, just to see if they were shut down completely. No, there are 39 awards including two R00 conversions …
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are they playing for a major budget reduction in the next Fiscal Year?
NIAAA is starting to concern me drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/n...
NIAAA is starting to concern me drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/n...
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NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
www.importantcontext.news
June 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
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Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).
scienceimpacts.org
scienceimpacts.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).
scienceimpacts.org
scienceimpacts.org
Please comment. It's super easy and can have a big impact.
Anyone who would like to register an objection should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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May 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Please comment. It's super easy and can have a big impact.
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New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk
I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of
www.abqjournal.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.
May 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.
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So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:
NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase
Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:
💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.
📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.
NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase
Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:
💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.
📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.
April 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:
NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase
Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:
💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.
📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.
NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase
Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:
💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.
📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.
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It’s National Infant Immunization Week! Vaccines protect our children from serious diseases. Make sure your little one is up to date on their recommended vaccines. Schedule vaccine appointments with your health care provider or at MyTurn.ca.gov.
April 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It’s National Infant Immunization Week! Vaccines protect our children from serious diseases. Make sure your little one is up to date on their recommended vaccines. Schedule vaccine appointments with your health care provider or at MyTurn.ca.gov.
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Someone just sent me this and I cannot support it enough: the creation of the California Institute for Scientific Research (CISR) to offset the orange monster's destruction of federal research. sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/trump-g...
As Trump Guts Federal Science Agencies, Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Create New Science Institute and Authorize Vaccine Purchase and Production
Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.
sd11.senate.ca.gov
April 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Someone just sent me this and I cannot support it enough: the creation of the California Institute for Scientific Research (CISR) to offset the orange monster's destruction of federal research. sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/trump-g...
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The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
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There is a debate in the addiction field about the affect regulation hypothesis. So let's see what ya got! Papers in favor, papers opposed. Thanks @jonasdora.bsky.social @kevinmking.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social @drandreahoward.bsky.social @jtwaddell7.bsky.social for being Guest Editors.
I'm excited to announce a special issue on "Novel perspectives on the affect regulation hypothesis of substance use" in @apadivision50.bsky.social Psychology of Addictive Behaviors! We welcome empirical & theoretical papers that tackle inconsistencies in this theory.
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
March 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There is a debate in the addiction field about the affect regulation hypothesis. So let's see what ya got! Papers in favor, papers opposed. Thanks @jonasdora.bsky.social @kevinmking.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social @drandreahoward.bsky.social @jtwaddell7.bsky.social for being Guest Editors.
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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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Though all of scientific research is sitting under the gun, the most vulnerable among us are our postdocs. The nations 72,000 postdocs often go unnoticed in national discourse but are essential to the American research enterprise across all disciplines. www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p...
Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership
In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third said their research is delayed or in je...
www.statnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Though all of scientific research is sitting under the gun, the most vulnerable among us are our postdocs. The nations 72,000 postdocs often go unnoticed in national discourse but are essential to the American research enterprise across all disciplines. www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p...
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Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
scim.ag
March 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
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WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
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Los Angeles folks, come stand up for science!
LA is holding a Stand Up For Science solidarity event! Join us to amplify our voices and our values at the Federal Building in Westwood at the corner of Wilshire and Veteran at 12 PM! If you’re looking for an event in your city, see standupforscience2025.org/local-events/
February 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Los Angeles folks, come stand up for science!
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I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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As of today, at least 73 study sections have not met. If they review 50 applications, plus 30 triaged, 10% funding rate = 8 grants per SS.
That's 584 fundable grants on hold. Probably 5000 researchers affected in those teams composed of our best and brightest.
SABOTAGE.
That's 584 fundable grants on hold. Probably 5000 researchers affected in those teams composed of our best and brightest.
SABOTAGE.
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2025 Study section tracking
docs.google.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
As of today, at least 73 study sections have not met. If they review 50 applications, plus 30 triaged, 10% funding rate = 8 grants per SS.
That's 584 fundable grants on hold. Probably 5000 researchers affected in those teams composed of our best and brightest.
SABOTAGE.
That's 584 fundable grants on hold. Probably 5000 researchers affected in those teams composed of our best and brightest.
SABOTAGE.
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alright, we're gonna kick this series off with a fucking bang. my first story in the DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS series comes from nate brought, director of the executive secretariat at the national institutes of health, and you're going to want to hear what he has to say.
Nate Brought | Maryland
I am the Director of the Executive Secretariat at the National Institutes of Health until COB Friday, February 28.
golikehellmachine.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
alright, we're gonna kick this series off with a fucking bang. my first story in the DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS series comes from nate brought, director of the executive secretariat at the national institutes of health, and you're going to want to hear what he has to say.
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Take a look at this chart. That gap, shown by the red arrow, is two billion dollars in grants that have not gone out the door.
Now, study sections can't meet till late March. The gap will grow.
(from the piece by @maxkozlov.bsky.social )
Now, study sections can't meet till late March. The gap will grow.
(from the piece by @maxkozlov.bsky.social )
February 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Take a look at this chart. That gap, shown by the red arrow, is two billion dollars in grants that have not gone out the door.
Now, study sections can't meet till late March. The gap will grow.
(from the piece by @maxkozlov.bsky.social )
Now, study sections can't meet till late March. The gap will grow.
(from the piece by @maxkozlov.bsky.social )