ALT #SaveOurScience Posted on May 12, 2025 by Jennie Spotila Science is under threat. There is no kinder, gentler way to say it. No matter what your politics or health beliefs are, this will hurt you. I join with ME activists everywhere to plead with Congress to Save Our Science. What is so alarming? The very infrastructure of scientific research is being undermined, and even destroyed. Here is just a selection of decisions made this year: Grant review meetings were canceled for months. Previously awarded grants were frozen or canceled, which means staff have been fired and data will go unanalyzed. The National Science Foundation–its budget, staff, and current grant portfolio–is being gutted. Researchers can no longer give subawards of NIH funding to collaborators overseas, even when that is the cost-efficient way for research to be done. Severe caps on indirect costs will eviscerate universities. 10,000 people have been fired from the Department of Health and Human Services, and more c