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Dan Schrider
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An aquatic ape studying population genetics at the University of North Carolina.
All true but still probably a better outcome than we could have expected. This is what good news looks like for scientists these days...
August 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Disregard my question, and see: bsky.app/profile/davi...
The formal provision was adopted as an amendment.

Bill text will be updated later with it:
Here's the provision to block multi-year funding:

(the bill text PDF will later be updated with this as an adopted amendment: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...)
July 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Was there actually any discussion of such an amendment in committee today?
July 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There was also some mention of the bill containing some kind of effort to stop the forward-funding policy but the statement I heard was very vague. Anyone have any idea what that was about?
July 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My quote of the day is a bit longer: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - A Defense of Beanbag Genetics
muse.jhu.edu
July 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thanks for the info. Fingers crossed!
July 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The (old) NIH made some recent-ish changes that address this somewhat, but I don't think it can be fully addressed unless more $ (higher grant success rates) is part of the solution. Anyway none of this matters because the whole system has just been nuked and the consequences will be catastrophic.
June 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM