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Glass Half Full Professor of EM @dukeemergency 🚑,♥️, 🧬research; ✝️, from yinz to y'all, tweets=like, just my opinion, man.

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RT @chorye: Someone might consider reminding Texas senators and congresspersons how much money the MD Anderson Cancer Center got from the N…
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RT @chorye: Imagine running a restaurant & suddenly only having budget for ingredients & chefs—no rent, electricity, heat, water, support s…
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RT @DrPhiltill: It seems few people know what an “indirect cost” is or why it has to be 40-60%. The reason the government forced universi…
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RT @EMIMMD: @alimkakeng Yep! “In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic act…
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Cutting indirects means we’re no longer investing to make the US a leader in medical research.
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“the action amounts to "a surrender of U.S. supremacy in medical research. It is a self-inflicted wound that, if not reversed, will have dire consequences on U.S. jobs, global competitiveness, and the future growth of a skilled workforce."”
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RT @dr_andrealove: The NIH 15% cap on indirect costs will kneecap biomedical research in the US. Without essential infrastructure, there w…
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RT @j_g_allen: These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars
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RT @jkagan1: This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them. h…
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RT @DrPhiltill: Hmm. There are two errors in this, and also the new 15% limit is way too low. And finally this is an unintentional call for…
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RT @labonnelab: NIH grants drive more than $92.89 billion in economic activity across all 50 U.S. states and DC. It is estimated that every…
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RT @jaygirimd: 🧵 Many “hot takes” about the reduction of @NIH indirect grant costs to 15%. Let’s lay out the facts about the university g…
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RT @RachelBitecofer: The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee. The person making sure your plane doesn’t fal…
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RT @jflier: This approach to suddenly cutting @NIH grant indirect costs will cause chaos and harm biomedical research and researchers in ho…
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RT @CMichaelGibson: What are “indirects costs” and why are they so high ? These are the institutional costs that allow the research to be…
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