Michelle Birkett, PhD
Associate Professor @ Department of Medical Social Sciences | Director @ Center for Computational and Social Sciences in Health (COMPASS) | NIH PI @ Northwestern University | HIV & Networks
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDThe full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhD🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/
- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDNew this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDThis is what breaks my heart. These young people who are so eager and full of promise and who are the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, scientists inventors, teachers. #Trump and #Musk have destroyed it all. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDWe've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵
- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDThe crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDIf the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDA timber industry lobbyist & exec now head of US Forest Service. The privatization/sell public lands thugs found their guy. First time in Forest Service history chief wasn’t a career employee. This thug is about to sell off our public lands to create Trump's sovereign wealth fund.
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhD🚨 We are mobilizing for a NEW national day of protest— March 4th Against Monarchy! Find organizing resources and more at linktr.ee/fiftyfiftyon.... @polrev.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social #NoKings #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne
- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDTyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDCDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhD1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDI’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War. Same link, new title and some updates.
- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDJust in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDExtremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDI’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDNEW: Organizations that provide vital, lifesaving care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.
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- Reposted by Michelle Birkett, PhDWhen you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
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