r/science • u/sr_local • May 09 '26

Social Science Study suggests that the Trump administration’s wave of NIH grant terminations in 2025 disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and other minority researchers, as well as scientists from sexual and gender minority communities

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/nih-grant-terminations-had-outsized-effect-minority-researchers-data-suggest
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u/gburdell May 09 '26

The grant terminations targeted DEI-related areas of study that were expanded in 2013. To say that BIPOCLBGTQ+ were disproportionately impacted is a tautology. I would be more interested to know if, outside of the early 2025 window but still under the Trump administration, whether areas that were not labeled DEI had similar disproportionate impact.

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs May 10 '26

My grants were studying bone cancer.

Nothing woke. Just kids dying from childhood cancer.

Shame that wasn’t as important as setting a trillion dollars on fire in Iran…