All study sections cancelled. The same study sections we treat with the utmost respect. Years of work going into each grant, months of work going into each review. Lives, futures, careers, science, truth, all at stake.
If this continues, this "pause" will effectively stop biomedical research in the US.
And for those not familiar with how research works, you can't just go in one day & start where you left off.
The long term impact on US health & research could be profoundly bad.
It is bizarre living in the Bay Area, being around folks so interested in nutrition/biohacking, yet I go to work daily knowing that there is about zero local supported infrastructure left to run a clinical trial on nutrition/supplements/general non-pharmaceutical interventions
Before she was the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten wrote nuclear policy for two different presidential administrations (ford/carter) and just once I want an interviewer to abruptly pivot and ask questions about like, the long term environmental impacts of uranium mining
You just blew up a teenager's life, revealing to the whole world that she was trans and getting her college acceptance rescinded because you're mad that your fifth place participation trophy came in the mail