US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more, but allow it for those on extreme weather and health. go.nature.com/42XQeDW

*sad trombone*

This is crazy. DOGE unilaterally deciding what scientific grants to cut. A must-read and hats off to Max for putting the pieces together.

Did you think the NIH was too efficient? Well DOGE is here to correct that. In addition to watering the plants, a staffer will now read your 100 pg proposal and adjudicate whether studying transmembrane proteins is too woke to be funded.

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NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show that DOGE has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. For nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo. go.nature.com/4kjFxDa

Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade on a $70m trial to study a new TB drug, enrolling 6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because an NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. For nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, Hannah Natanson reports. wapo.st/3HhnPSt