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January 23.   Max Kozlov: ‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel. In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

February 3.   Dan Garisto & Max Kozlov: NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders.

February 7.   Humberto Basilio: ‘We are a target’: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown. The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.

February 14.   Alexandra Witze: NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard. Some researchers at NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the changes at the agency, which was known for promoting inclusion in science.

February 17.   Stephanie Nolen: U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World: Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

February 24.   Heidi Ledford & Humberto Basilio: Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science: As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

March 6.   Max Kozlov & Smriti Mallapaty: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants.

March 18.   Dan Diamond: RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist.

March 27.   Dan Garisto: How Trump is following Project 2025’s radical roadmap to defund science.

March 29.   Stephanie Kirchgaessner: Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies.’

March 31.   Jessica Glenza: More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science.

April 1.   Scott Neuman: Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a ‘climate of fear’ in research.

April 1.   Wired Magazine: The CDC Has Been Gutted: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

April 6.   Carolyn Y. Johnson: NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.