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.