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Separately, HHS announced a communications ban through 1 February in a memo issued yesterday. (The Washington Post and Associated Press first reported the memo’s existence.) It orders a stop on the publishing of regulations, guidance documents, grant announcements, social media posts, press releases, and other “communications,” and the canceling of speaking engagements. Any exceptions must be applied for and approved through the president’s appointees.
“This is a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization,” an NIH spokesperson says.
Another consequence of the communications pause is a freeze on meetings of federal advisory committees and study sections. NIH today canceled meetings of advisory councils at its dental and bioengineering institutes.
Hard to know what this really means, though I can't say it's surprising. If my research however involved vaccines, gender, or SES disparities... I would be very nervous for the foreseeable future.
Outside of that though, our entire organization has put on pause clinical enterprise development due to concerns about reductions in research infrastructure.