President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews and travel at the National Institutes of Health and appears to have erased diversity programming pages at the agency’s web

Researchers in the US have been blindsided by the Trump administration’s suspension of peer review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) earlier this week after a hold was apparently placed on external communications and travel at the agency.

A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the Trump administration will shift the agencies’ policies and day-to-day affairs.

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

The Trump administration continues its deluge of executive orders that directly affect science and research, just days after being sworn in. Following the executive orders (EOs) taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement and World Health Organization and the scientific nonsense in the EO on trans and non-binary people,