Courtney Davis
@mathcourtney.bsky.social
Math professor. Mathematical biologist. Christian. "She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.''
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My old TI-85 calculator just gave up the ghost in the middle of grading finals. I'll miss that calculator. Every newer model lacks the customizable menu button that made TI-85 the most convenient to use.
April 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My old TI-85 calculator just gave up the ghost in the middle of grading finals. I'll miss that calculator. Every newer model lacks the customizable menu button that made TI-85 the most convenient to use.
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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
March 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
A year ago today, there was a lake in #DeathValley one could float on. A reminder that wonder exists in our world!
February 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A year ago today, there was a lake in #DeathValley one could float on. A reminder that wonder exists in our world!
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Perhaps now more than ever, cultivate curiosity in your students and reassure them that there are paths toward becoming a scientist in the future. Education and training remain a huge part of the NSF mission. (15)
February 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Perhaps now more than ever, cultivate curiosity in your students and reassure them that there are paths toward becoming a scientist in the future. Education and training remain a huge part of the NSF mission. (15)
Good practice always, but especially now 🧵
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 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Good practice always, but especially now 🧵
Pepperdine has earned R2 status 👏
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Pepperdine has earned R2 status 👏
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This will help when - WHEN, please - you call your rep.
Do you live in a US State, District, or Territory? Get specific with these “NSF in your state” sheets. Here’s an example from Kansas. new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s...
February 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This will help when - WHEN, please - you call your rep.
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Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.
February 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
🔥🧵
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I didn’t know if it might help to actually see what we are talking about with indirect costs so I did a little lab tour.
youtube.com/shorts/ttia4...
youtube.com/shorts/ttia4...
February 8, 2025
YouTube video by Sarah Horst
youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I didn’t know if it might help to actually see what we are talking about with indirect costs so I did a little lab tour.
youtube.com/shorts/ttia4...
youtube.com/shorts/ttia4...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Well, this made me cry.
The congregation of First Presbyterian Asheville, who were recently affected by Hurricane Helen, reached out to our church, Westwood Presbyterian Church:
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The congregation of First Presbyterian Asheville, who were recently affected by Hurricane Helen, reached out to our church, Westwood Presbyterian Church:
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February 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Well, this made me cry.
The congregation of First Presbyterian Asheville, who were recently affected by Hurricane Helen, reached out to our church, Westwood Presbyterian Church:
...
The congregation of First Presbyterian Asheville, who were recently affected by Hurricane Helen, reached out to our church, Westwood Presbyterian Church:
...
This sums up the current administration's approach succinctly:
"I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
From: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
From: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This sums up the current administration's approach succinctly:
"I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
From: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
From: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.
February 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.
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@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Just received this email (received 3:25 pm ET), from the NSF director, informing that DOJ has interpreted the temporary restraining order on the funding freeze as applying to “all NSF award recipients.”
Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!
Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Just received this email (received 3:25 pm ET), from the NSF director, informing that DOJ has interpreted the temporary restraining order on the funding freeze as applying to “all NSF award recipients.”
Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!
Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
#PalisadesFire and #EatonFire are finally 100% contained. Recovery will be a very long road and never 100%. We are changed by this.
February 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#PalisadesFire and #EatonFire are finally 100% contained. Recovery will be a very long road and never 100%. We are changed by this.
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Breaking news: The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a new memo obtained by The Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.
White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, in reversal
The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.
wapo.st
January 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Breaking news: The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a new memo obtained by The Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.
Create and mentor transformative summer research experiences for undergraduates who want to pursue careers in science. Plus, during the summer, the undergrads pay it forward by designing outreach activities and teaching younger kids about scientific research. #NSF #REU
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
WaPo got the memo with more info.
Main article (gifted): wapo.st/4gfgcHQ
Memo (gifted): wapo.st/3E9XcgH
Main article (gifted): wapo.st/4gfgcHQ
Memo (gifted): wapo.st/3E9XcgH
January 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
WaPo got the memo with more info.
Main article (gifted): wapo.st/4gfgcHQ
Memo (gifted): wapo.st/3E9XcgH
Main article (gifted): wapo.st/4gfgcHQ
Memo (gifted): wapo.st/3E9XcgH
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Got the same intel today. NIH studies last week. NSF review panels today. Chaos. Intentional and planned chaos.
#OpenAsResistance
#OpenAsResistance
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
January 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Got the same intel today. NIH studies last week. NSF review panels today. Chaos. Intentional and planned chaos.
#OpenAsResistance
#OpenAsResistance
I haven't shared much about the fires. My apartment and work are okay. Everything in between is not. So many people are not. Also my neighbor passed away unrelatedly. I've been helping with her affairs and helping where I can while also starting classes.
I am exhausted.
I am lucky.
Praying for all.
I am exhausted.
I am lucky.
Praying for all.
January 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I haven't shared much about the fires. My apartment and work are okay. Everything in between is not. So many people are not. Also my neighbor passed away unrelatedly. I've been helping with her affairs and helping where I can while also starting classes.
I am exhausted.
I am lucky.
Praying for all.
I am exhausted.
I am lucky.
Praying for all.
Pepperdine classes are online tomorrow b/c with PCH closed and Malibu Canyon Road shut by rain, there's one road to campus. For context, with MCR open, my commute in on Friday from West LA was 1:45 (1:10 if lights are working). I prefer in person, but I'm grateful.
January 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Pepperdine classes are online tomorrow b/c with PCH closed and Malibu Canyon Road shut by rain, there's one road to campus. For context, with MCR open, my commute in on Friday from West LA was 1:45 (1:10 if lights are working). I prefer in person, but I'm grateful.