Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
incoming NICHD director and paid expert witness in vaccine injury lawsuits
If RePORTER is correct, he has never even had an NIH grant. And now gets to oversee $1.7 billion in NIH funding
August 21, 2026 at 6:58 PM
incoming NICHD director and paid expert witness in vaccine injury lawsuits
I missed this earlier this week, but the Directors of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD, & NINR were all fired. The NIAID Director, Mazzaro, was likely fired in retaliation for speaking out against the anti-vaccine moves made by the administration.
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I missed this earlier this week, but the Directors of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD, & NINR were all fired. The NIAID Director, Mazzaro, was likely fired in retaliation for speaking out against the anti-vaccine moves made by the administration.
Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More NIH chaos.
NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.
NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.
Jeanne Marrazzo, director of NIAID, claimed that the Trump Administration’s actions
endangered research subjects, defied court orders & undermined vaccine research.
Earlier, Kennedy fired Susan Monarez of the CDC.
Resisting unethical policies costs you.
🧪🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
endangered research subjects, defied court orders & undermined vaccine research.
Earlier, Kennedy fired Susan Monarez of the CDC.
Resisting unethical policies costs you.
🧪🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
More NIH chaos.
NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.
NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.
No NICHD either....
The White House proposed budget for 2026 does not include the National Eye Institute…
The institute that has funded almost the entirety of my career.
The proposal is to merge it in with neuroscience, despite a whole half of the eye (the front part) which has little to do with neuroscience per se.
The institute that has funded almost the entirety of my career.
The proposal is to merge it in with neuroscience, despite a whole half of the eye (the front part) which has little to do with neuroscience per se.
June 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
No NICHD either....
This year I had the chance to see Edvard Munch’s The Sick Child painting in Oslo. It’s a powerful reminder of what our Institute, NICHD, NIH, works to prevent and cure.
December 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This year I had the chance to see Edvard Munch’s The Sick Child painting in Oslo. It’s a powerful reminder of what our Institute, NICHD, NIH, works to prevent and cure.
9 months later, we are at the top of the to-fund pile but still no NOA and we're told NICHD has not awarded a single new R01. Sure would like to work on this project!
🚀🚀🚀 4th percentile on a shared R01! Given that we are not sure how hopeful to be, we have settled on "at least we'll get to read some positive reviewer comments".
March 30, 2026 at 10:52 PM
9 months later, we are at the top of the to-fund pile but still no NOA and we're told NICHD has not awarded a single new R01. Sure would like to work on this project!
Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters!
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters!
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
NCI, NHGRI, NIAID, NICHD, NIDCR, NIGMS, NIMH, NIMHD, NINR, NLM, CSR, Fogarty, NIICH, Clinical Center.
Do you have a list?
September 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
NCI, NHGRI, NIAID, NICHD, NIDCR, NIGMS, NIMH, NIMHD, NINR, NLM, CSR, Fogarty, NIICH, Clinical Center.
8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM).
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
hr.nih.gov
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM).
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
New work from Harold Burgess Lab at NICHD
Mutations in the microexon splicing regulator srrm4 have minor phenotypic effects on zebrafish neural development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.626094v1
Mutations in the microexon splicing regulator srrm4 have minor phenotypic effects on zebrafish neural development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.626094v1
Achieving a diversity of neuronal cell types and circuits during brain development requires alternat
www.biorxiv.org
December 1, 2024 at 8:48 AM
New work from Harold Burgess Lab at NICHD
New work from the Chitnis Lab @ the NICHD
Signaling and Mechanics influence the number and size of epithelial rosettes in the migrating zebrafish Posterior Lateral Line primordium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.17.650326v1
May 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New work from the Chitnis Lab @ the NICHD
Just heard NICHD had it’s three offices that support science via buying (buying lab and hospital supplies) “eliminated in whole or in part.”
This shld make us all angry: the Trumpers who did this DELIBERATELY didn’t say who was being cut, so it would dribble out, slowly, reducing media impact. 1/ 🧪
This shld make us all angry: the Trumpers who did this DELIBERATELY didn’t say who was being cut, so it would dribble out, slowly, reducing media impact. 1/ 🧪
April 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just heard NICHD had it’s three offices that support science via buying (buying lab and hospital supplies) “eliminated in whole or in part.”
This shld make us all angry: the Trumpers who did this DELIBERATELY didn’t say who was being cut, so it would dribble out, slowly, reducing media impact. 1/ 🧪
This shld make us all angry: the Trumpers who did this DELIBERATELY didn’t say who was being cut, so it would dribble out, slowly, reducing media impact. 1/ 🧪
Is it bad for developmental psychologists that they just fired the director of the NICHD? Seems bad
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Is it bad for developmental psychologists that they just fired the director of the NICHD? Seems bad
v pleased that NICHD has picked up our R21, a randomized trial on improving health in infants & parents via music & reading interventions
proposal was led by a fantastic postdoc, Eun Cho. early work on this topic is at osf.io/preprints/ps...
this went from not discussed to 12%ile!!! it's possible!
proposal was led by a fantastic postdoc, Eun Cho. early work on this topic is at osf.io/preprints/ps...
this went from not discussed to 12%ile!!! it's possible!
August 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM
v pleased that NICHD has picked up our R21, a randomized trial on improving health in infants & parents via music & reading interventions
proposal was led by a fantastic postdoc, Eun Cho. early work on this topic is at osf.io/preprints/ps...
this went from not discussed to 12%ile!!! it's possible!
proposal was led by a fantastic postdoc, Eun Cho. early work on this topic is at osf.io/preprints/ps...
this went from not discussed to 12%ile!!! it's possible!
we developmentalists are a small minority of scientists, but had the NIH reorganization gone through, the entire child development wing of NIH (that is, the NICHD) would have basically been decimated. so yeah, this counts as a win in my book
Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
February 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
we developmentalists are a small minority of scientists, but had the NIH reorganization gone through, the entire child development wing of NIH (that is, the NICHD) would have basically been decimated. so yeah, this counts as a win in my book
New study from our lab at NICHD, NIH! We identify TBC1D9 and TBC1D9B as novel ARL8 effectors that suppress exosome secretion by inactivating RAB11A and thus blocking exocyst-dependent fusion of multivesicular endosomes with the plasma membrane. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
July 23, 2026 at 6:47 PM
New study from our lab at NICHD, NIH! We identify TBC1D9 and TBC1D9B as novel ARL8 effectors that suppress exosome secretion by inactivating RAB11A and thus blocking exocyst-dependent fusion of multivesicular endosomes with the plasma membrane. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) page of the Population Dynamics Branch of the NICHD is now dead.
February 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) page of the Population Dynamics Branch of the NICHD is now dead.
Acting Institute Directors named at NIH
Jeffrey Taubenberger, Ph.D. NIAID (Influenza)
Carolyn Hutter, Ph.D. NHGRI (Genetics, epidemiology)
Alison Cernich, Ph.D. NICHD (Rehab medicine)
Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D. NIMHD (Cancer disparities)
Courtney Aklin, Ph.D. NINR (Clinical Psych)
1/n
Jeffrey Taubenberger, Ph.D. NIAID (Influenza)
Carolyn Hutter, Ph.D. NHGRI (Genetics, epidemiology)
Alison Cernich, Ph.D. NICHD (Rehab medicine)
Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D. NIMHD (Cancer disparities)
Courtney Aklin, Ph.D. NINR (Clinical Psych)
1/n
April 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Acting Institute Directors named at NIH
Jeffrey Taubenberger, Ph.D. NIAID (Influenza)
Carolyn Hutter, Ph.D. NHGRI (Genetics, epidemiology)
Alison Cernich, Ph.D. NICHD (Rehab medicine)
Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D. NIMHD (Cancer disparities)
Courtney Aklin, Ph.D. NINR (Clinical Psych)
1/n
Jeffrey Taubenberger, Ph.D. NIAID (Influenza)
Carolyn Hutter, Ph.D. NHGRI (Genetics, epidemiology)
Alison Cernich, Ph.D. NICHD (Rehab medicine)
Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D. NIMHD (Cancer disparities)
Courtney Aklin, Ph.D. NINR (Clinical Psych)
1/n
Yes, but the campaign is not administered by them. It’s an outreach program of NICHD, under NIH, within HHS. As you see, interestingly NICHD is named after the much more capable relative of RFK Jr.
May 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yes, but the campaign is not administered by them. It’s an outreach program of NICHD, under NIH, within HHS. As you see, interestingly NICHD is named after the much more capable relative of RFK Jr.
SO SO excited to share that we were awarded an #NICHD R21 titled “The influence of child-produced speech on infant language development”!
July 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM
SO SO excited to share that we were awarded an #NICHD R21 titled “The influence of child-produced speech on infant language development”!
It is interesting that Russell Vought kept Walter the NINDS IC director around for so long.
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It is interesting that Russell Vought kept Walter the NINDS IC director around for so long.
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
(The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.)
Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/
Quick takes:
-Sprout recall, local dengue in Florida
-Variant H1N2 flu in Michigan
-New NICHD director
Read more: https://bit.ly/4cDjWDW.
-Sprout recall, local dengue in Florida
-Variant H1N2 flu in Michigan
-New NICHD director
Read more: https://bit.ly/4cDjWDW.
Quick takes: Sprout recall, local dengue in Florida, variant H1N2 flu in Michigan, new NICHD director
A Minneapolis-based company has recalled certain lots of alfalfa sprouts linked to a 15-state E coli and Salmonella outbreak.
bit.ly
August 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Quick takes:
-Sprout recall, local dengue in Florida
-Variant H1N2 flu in Michigan
-New NICHD director
Read more: https://bit.ly/4cDjWDW.
-Sprout recall, local dengue in Florida
-Variant H1N2 flu in Michigan
-New NICHD director
Read more: https://bit.ly/4cDjWDW.
My favorite is placing pregnancy, infertility, maternal health, and child health (I.e., NICHD) in the Institute of Disability Research. What are we doing here??
Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My favorite is placing pregnancy, infertility, maternal health, and child health (I.e., NICHD) in the Institute of Disability Research. What are we doing here??