NIH Vigil 5/9/2026

This Week’s Updates and Discussion

  • FDA Commissioner Makary ousted

  • Courts protect museums, libraries, and the National Endowment for Humanities

  • Science editor-in-chief and Timothy Snyder discuss “Lessons in resistance for the scientific community”

  • Harvard announces increase in PhD slots

  • NIH geese show hope. Baby geese seen on campus. Hearts melted.

  • USDA relocation plan poised to gut workforce

  • NIH grant cuts disproportionately impacted minority and women researchers

  • Federal workers too scared to accept public service awards

  • Administration erasing government health data

  • NIH-funded hantavirus research terminated before cruise ship outbreak

  • Disabled federal scientists illegally denied workplace accommodations

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