Birdwatch Note Rating
2025-02-11 23:35:29 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: EE37E49A9E8CC0801C586DC7E7D0FFB47ADE33EBC699B6E3D1C7E30C30A40B6D
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Original Note:
At 6:19pm EST on Feb. 7, 2025, the NIH posted that they would immediately adopt a 15% maximum indirect cost rate. Indirect costs are non-project-specific costs for shared resources such as facilities (buildings, shared equipment, utilities, libraries, etc.) and admin. https://x.com/NIH/status/1888004759396958263 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/medical-research-funding-cuts-university-budgets.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/08/nih-cuts-billions-dollars-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately/ https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-appoints-himself-kennedy-center-chair-citing-disapproval-of-drag-shows-c9783724 https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/nih-slashes-indirect-costs-on-all-grants-to-15-percent-trump/ https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-slashes-overhead-payments-research-sparking-outrage
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