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Alice Pawley
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Professor at Purdue University. Rotator program officer for engineering education at the National Science Foundation. Parent and partner. She/hers. Have you joined @AAUP yet? What are you waiting for?
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nasawatch.bsky.social
National Science Foundation employees’ dissent declaration on ‘indefinite hold’
www.chemistryworld.com/news/nationa... #NSF
National Science Foundation employees’ dissent declaration on ‘indefinite hold’
Document's postponement follows recent suspension of staff at Environmental Protection Agency for releasing similar declaration
www.chemistryworld.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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nasawatch.bsky.social
National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration (UPDATED)
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s... #NSF
National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration (UPDATED)
The new declaration echoes similar efforts from NIH and EPA.
www.importantcontext.news
July 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
📣 UPCOMING EVENT ALERT -

🗓️ Thursday, July 17
🕒 3PM PT
📍 Online
📞 Join the call campaign to defend science.
🔗 scan the QR code or RSVP here ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/calli...

#StandUpForScience
#SummerFightForScience
Digital flyer for a virtual event titled “Calling Swing Districts – Save Scientific Research Funding.” The event is scheduled for Thursday, July 17th at 3:00 PM PT and will be held online. The flyer invites people to help call South Asian voters in Republican-held swing districts to encourage them to contact their representatives about proposed cuts to scientific research funding. It states that the Trump administration plans to cut 38% from the NIH and 55% from the NSF and has already withheld $3.8 billion in NIH funding. The event will also include calls to moderate Republican Senators to oppose cuts to NPR and PBS. At the bottom is a QR code and the logo for Stand Up for Science, along with a note that the RSVP link is available at Standupforscience.net. The background includes a red-toned image of the Statue of Liberty.
July 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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savensf.bsky.social
It’s our mission to shed light on the National Science Foundation’s impact on American innovation and leadership. We are fighting to protect funding for scientific research that could change the world. Share your experience with the NSF and share this post. #saveNSF

www.savensf.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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alexismya.bsky.social
HUD secretary's hostile takeover of the NSF building have angered NSF employees
June 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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dangaristo.bsky.social
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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lizneeley.bsky.social
"Indeed, the Court holds the President likely must request Congressional cooperation to order the changes he seeks, and thus issues a temporary restraining order to pause large-scale reductions in force in the meantime."
Screenshot of a court order that says: CONCLUSION. The Court concludes where it began. The President has the authority to seek changes to executive branch agencies, but he must do so in lawful ways and, in the case of large-scale reorganizations, with the cooperation of the legislative branch. Many presidents have sought this cooperation before; many iterations of Congress have provided it. Nothing prevents the President from requesting this cooperation—as he did in his prior term of office. Indeed, the Court holds the President likely must request Congressional cooperation to order the changes he seeks, and thus issues a temporary restraining order to pause large-scale reductions in force in the meantime. A temporary restraining order is, by definition, temporary. The Court will not consider defendants' request for a stay of execution of the temporary restraining order, as doing so would render the exercise pointless. The Court must promptly proceed to consideration of a preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction shall be filed no later than Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. (PDT) and shall not exceed 25 pages; defendants' opposition is due by Monday, May 19, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. (PDT) and shall not exceed 25 pages. The Court shall hold a preliminary injunction hearing in person on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. SO IT IS ORDERED. Dated May 9, 2025. Susan Illston, United States District Judge
May 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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indivisible.org
“The demonstrations against Trump have not stopped. And they are every single day.”

We’re taking to the streets on June 14 to deny Trump’s fascist birthday wish. There are already events planned in all 50 states for No Kings Day — please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
May 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
www.science.org
May 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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noamross.net
UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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davidimiller.bsky.social
🧪 The NSF director is lying to you.

Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
Long letter from NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, available here: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Letter-to-the-Community.pdf
March 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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jeremykoster.bsky.social
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social is reporting nicely on all this. And spellcheck wants to correct his name to Gender, which is also nice.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 18
Reyes asks whether saying an entire group of people are dishonest, undisciplined, and lack integrity — "people who have been under fire" — "expresses animus."

DOJ's Lynch will not provide a yes or no answer.

Reyes responds: "We are dealing with unadulterated animus."
February 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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emilypawley.bsky.social
Obviously high on the list

www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/c...
Trump officials struggled to reinstate nuclear weapons staff after firing hundreds | CNN
Officials backtracked on the terminations Friday after multiple members of Congress petitioned Energy Sec. Chris Wright to reverse course, explaining the dire national security implications.
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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emilypawley.bsky.social
Ok, starting a thread of these whoops, we accidentally-threw-the engine-overboard moments, send me your faves.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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waitmanwbeorn.com
This is the guy who fired the nuclear weapons specialists.

The scroll guy who dropped out of the University of Nebraska.
February 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
alicepawley.bsky.social
They've started laying people off at #NSF - #NationalScienceFoundation. Started this am. People are gathering in the lobby at the times that employees have been told to leave the building, to say goodbye. It is such a waste.
February 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Call it what it is: a plan to re-segregate the federal workforce. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Judge John D. Bates of the D.C. Federal District Court has ordered the CDC to temporarily restore pages removed from its website to comply with Trump’s executive order barring references to race, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
February 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth By Rebecca Solnit • 8 Feb 2025 View in browser "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what political scientist Erica Chenoweth told me when I asked them if we could have a conversation (by email, below in full) about the current constitutional crisis/coup attempt and what we can do about it. Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully and documents how nonviolence can be effective. There's no one I wanted to hear from more in this constitutional crisis, and I'm grateful I can share their insights with all of you.
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
A few years ago when they came after African American studies and women’s and gender studies scientists were like oh this is bad but we aren’t going to get super worked up about it and now y’all are finding out that you were next

Move in solidarity accordingly

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epopppp.bsky.social Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 7
A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now.

And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."
'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers
If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.
rider33414.bsky.social Bill Underwood @rider33414.bsky.social · Feb 7
If they won't put it in writing yourself. Send an email (bcc yourself?): "Following our conversation on x date at x time regarding x, I am writing to clarify your directives. According to my notes, you instructed me to A, B, and C. If any of this is incorrect, please advise. I have some concerns."
February 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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vox-magica.bsky.social
in his first term, trump’s OMB tried to cut NIH indirects to like 10% every year. the house & senate appropriations subcommittees on labor, HHS, education were GOP-led during the first two years.

this is unconstitutional and unprecedented, yes. but we still hold the line.

from 2019:
Trump once again requests deep cuts in U.S. science spending
But 2020 budget request likely to meet strong opposition in Congress
www.science.org
February 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM