Susan E. Brennan
@susanelise.bsky.social
Nothing's more patriotic than a peaceful protest.
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Nothing's more patriotic than a peaceful protest.
Just over 2 weeks ago, our petition in support of #NSFGRFP was submitted to NSF (now with nearly 1,200 signatures).
Today Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Haley Stevens requested that eligibilty of 2nd year graduate students be restored:
democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...
PERSIST!!
Today Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Haley Stevens requested that eligibilty of 2nd year graduate students be restored:
democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...
PERSIST!!
Ranking Members Lofgren and Stevens Demand NSF Reverse Cruel Changes to the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
democrats-science.house.gov
October 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Just over 2 weeks ago, our petition in support of #NSFGRFP was submitted to NSF (now with nearly 1,200 signatures).
Today Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Haley Stevens requested that eligibilty of 2nd year graduate students be restored:
democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...
PERSIST!!
Today Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Haley Stevens requested that eligibilty of 2nd year graduate students be restored:
democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...
PERSIST!!
Close to 1,000 signatures!
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📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
October 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Close to 1,000 signatures!
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This is unfair to all who delayed applying as 1st-yr grad students in '24, or who withdrew due to missing letters (expecting eligibility this year), or who are 1st yr students now without sufficient time for a compelling application. Let me know if this is you. #NSFGRFP
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NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.
It does seem like they have barred 2nd year graduate students from applying. This is devastating, I've been preparing my applications materials for MONTHS and now they all have to get binned...
September 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is unfair to all who delayed applying as 1st-yr grad students in '24, or who withdrew due to missing letters (expecting eligibility this year), or who are 1st yr students now without sufficient time for a compelling application. Let me know if this is you. #NSFGRFP
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Letters of reference are due Fri Nov 7 5PM ET. If you are applying, contact your recommenders right away and let them know; begin your application on Research.gov asap so that they'll get the links (but note that the Application Portal may not be open yet).
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The #NSFGRFP solicitation is out. Deadlines are pushed to Nov. 10, 12, 13, 14. However, 2ND-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE. This is unfair to those who delayed applying or who withdrew last year due to missing letters (please contact me if this is you).
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Letters of reference are due Fri Nov 7 5PM ET. If you are applying, contact your recommenders right away and let them know; begin your application on Research.gov asap so that they'll get the links (but note that the Application Portal may not be open yet).
bsky.app/profile/susa...
bsky.app/profile/susa...
The #NSFGRFP solicitation is out. Deadlines are pushed to Nov. 10, 12, 13, 14. However, 2ND-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE. This is unfair to those who delayed applying or who withdrew last year due to missing letters (please contact me if this is you).
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The #NSFGRFP solicitation is out. Deadlines are pushed to Nov. 10, 12, 13, 14. However, 2ND-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE. This is unfair to those who delayed applying or who withdrew last year due to missing letters (please contact me if this is you).
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
To all aspiring applicants to NSF GRFP, former applicants, fellows, honorable mention recipients, faculty advisors, researchers, deans, reviewers, advocates for STEM education: Please join us in this open letter! #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
To all aspiring applicants to NSF GRFP, former applicants, fellows, honorable mention recipients, faculty advisors, researchers, deans, reviewers, advocates for STEM education: Please join us in this open letter! #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
Reposted by Susan E. Brennan
"We are so very late that many students will not be able to apply this year."
My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
Delays, uncertainty plague NSF fellowship for graduate students
After an unusual award process this year, applicants for next year are waiting for overdue guidelines
www.science.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"We are so very late that many students will not be able to apply this year."
My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
All NSF fields are ostensibly included; probably best to proceed with 2024's solicitation in mind. A critical missing piece is the letter deadline: 2024's was a week before applic deadlines, but apparently the portal had be re-opened due to many late letters. 2025 portal's still not open yet. Chaos.
I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
All NSF fields are ostensibly included; probably best to proceed with 2024's solicitation in mind. A critical missing piece is the letter deadline: 2024's was a week before applic deadlines, but apparently the portal had be re-opened due to many late letters. 2025 portal's still not open yet. Chaos.
Reposted by Susan E. Brennan
I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know.
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Graduate students who applied to #NSFGRFP last year: I'm collecting information for a petition. Please reply or send me a chat request about whether you (1) were able to access your application reviews, and (2) experienced any chaos around the letter writer deadlines last year.
September 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Graduate students who applied to #NSFGRFP last year: I'm collecting information for a petition. Please reply or send me a chat request about whether you (1) were able to access your application reviews, and (2) experienced any chaos around the letter writer deadlines last year.
I'm really hoping that #NSFGRFP letters of rec will be due the week AFTER the application deadline (as they have been for decades) rather than the week BEFORE, as they were last year. Did anyone experience any chaos last year due to late letters?
September 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I'm really hoping that #NSFGRFP letters of rec will be due the week AFTER the application deadline (as they have been for decades) rather than the week BEFORE, as they were last year. Did anyone experience any chaos last year due to late letters?
Curiouser and curiouser. Mon morning NSF GRFP announced deadlines of Oct. 27, 28, 29, 30 (49 days from today, rather than the 90 required by the Federal Register), but STILL no solicitation, just "Solicitation coming soon."
Stranger still: est. # of awards is 1 to 3000 ! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Stranger still: est. # of awards is 1 to 3000 ! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Curiouser and curiouser. Mon morning NSF GRFP announced deadlines of Oct. 27, 28, 29, 30 (49 days from today, rather than the 90 required by the Federal Register), but STILL no solicitation, just "Solicitation coming soon."
Stranger still: est. # of awards is 1 to 3000 ! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Stranger still: est. # of awards is 1 to 3000 ! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Thousands who hope to apply this year to NSF GRFP are working on applications, but with no guidance from a solicitation. NSF's .org website no longer exists. Will the program continue?
NSF needs to hear from you! PLEASE email concerns to bstone@nsf.gov, mcheatha@nsf.gov, and smalcomb@nsf.gov #grfp
NSF needs to hear from you! PLEASE email concerns to bstone@nsf.gov, mcheatha@nsf.gov, and smalcomb@nsf.gov #grfp
August 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Thousands who hope to apply this year to NSF GRFP are working on applications, but with no guidance from a solicitation. NSF's .org website no longer exists. Will the program continue?
NSF needs to hear from you! PLEASE email concerns to bstone@nsf.gov, mcheatha@nsf.gov, and smalcomb@nsf.gov #grfp
NSF needs to hear from you! PLEASE email concerns to bstone@nsf.gov, mcheatha@nsf.gov, and smalcomb@nsf.gov #grfp
At the 7/10 Sen. Appropriations hearing on the Commerce/Justice/Science bill, Sen Tammy Baldwin managed to get CJS Chair Sen Jerry Moran to publicly agree to go over the 1,500 NSF grants to determine which ones should be restored!! Sen Susan Collins will join them! (~2:21:00 in)
Be still, my heart!
Be still, my heart!
Full Committee Markup of Commerce, Justice, Science; Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA; and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
At the 7/10 Sen. Appropriations hearing on the Commerce/Justice/Science bill, Sen Tammy Baldwin managed to get CJS Chair Sen Jerry Moran to publicly agree to go over the 1,500 NSF grants to determine which ones should be restored!! Sen Susan Collins will join them! (~2:21:00 in)
Be still, my heart!
Be still, my heart!
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US Army swore in tech executives as lieutenant colonels
The Silicon Valley executives will serve as senior advisers as part of the U.S. Army Reserve, according to a news release.
www.snopes.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Reposted by Susan E. Brennan
The U.S. Army swore in four Big Tech executives as Lieutenant Colonels:
- Palantir’s CTO
- Meta’s CTO
- OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer
- OpenAI’s former Chief Research Officer
All of these people are surely connected to fascist Peter Thiel, as Zuckerberg (Meta) and Altman (OpenAI) are his protégés.
- Palantir’s CTO
- Meta’s CTO
- OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer
- OpenAI’s former Chief Research Officer
All of these people are surely connected to fascist Peter Thiel, as Zuckerberg (Meta) and Altman (OpenAI) are his protégés.
US Army swore in tech executives as lieutenant colonels
The Silicon Valley executives will serve as senior advisers as part of the U.S. Army Reserve, according to a news release.
www.snopes.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The U.S. Army swore in four Big Tech executives as Lieutenant Colonels:
- Palantir’s CTO
- Meta’s CTO
- OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer
- OpenAI’s former Chief Research Officer
All of these people are surely connected to fascist Peter Thiel, as Zuckerberg (Meta) and Altman (OpenAI) are his protégés.
- Palantir’s CTO
- Meta’s CTO
- OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer
- OpenAI’s former Chief Research Officer
All of these people are surely connected to fascist Peter Thiel, as Zuckerberg (Meta) and Altman (OpenAI) are his protégés.
This is from 10 days ago, but still newsworthy.
U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language
Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom
www.science.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is from 10 days ago, but still newsworthy.
Was your graduate education funded by an NSF grant or a GRFP award? If so, now is the time to contact the Appropriations Committee and your senators (especially Rs) and let them know how important NSF's educational mission is. #SaveNSF
June 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Was your graduate education funded by an NSF grant or a GRFP award? If so, now is the time to contact the Appropriations Committee and your senators (especially Rs) and let them know how important NSF's educational mission is. #SaveNSF
NSF's slashed 2026 budget includes NO funds for any new NSF GRFP awards! PLEASE contact the Appropriations Cmte now: www.appropriations.senate.gov/about/members
1. Find contact info here:
www.270towin.com/elected-offi...
2. Tell them how important NSF and GRFP are to you!! #SaveNSF
1. Find contact info here:
www.270towin.com/elected-offi...
2. Tell them how important NSF and GRFP are to you!! #SaveNSF
June 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NSF's slashed 2026 budget includes NO funds for any new NSF GRFP awards! PLEASE contact the Appropriations Cmte now: www.appropriations.senate.gov/about/members
1. Find contact info here:
www.270towin.com/elected-offi...
2. Tell them how important NSF and GRFP are to you!! #SaveNSF
1. Find contact info here:
www.270towin.com/elected-offi...
2. Tell them how important NSF and GRFP are to you!! #SaveNSF
Here is a letter that we (2 former NSF GRFP program officers) sent to the National Science Board Fri 5/9. The NSB is the Exec Branch's lawful governing board for NSF (as opposed to DOGE).
May 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Here is a letter that we (2 former NSF GRFP program officers) sent to the National Science Board Fri 5/9. The NSB is the Exec Branch's lawful governing board for NSF (as opposed to DOGE).