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A quick reminder during this busy travel season to know your rights as a passenger. Please be kind, be safe, and have a great holiday season!
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A quick reminder during this busy travel season to know your rights as a passenger. Please be kind, be safe, and have a great holiday season!
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NSF reorganization is, frankly, a bit odd, and we haven't run a story on it partly because it's hard to know what to make of it. The impetus for reorg, as I understood it, was to limit the siloing that occurs because NSF has so many (35ish) divisions. Now there will be 50+ sections.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NSF reorganization is, frankly, a bit odd, and we haven't run a story on it partly because it's hard to know what to make of it. The impetus for reorg, as I understood it, was to limit the siloing that occurs because NSF has so many (35ish) divisions. Now there will be 50+ sections.
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An excellent visualization of changes to NSF and NIH funding.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
An excellent visualization of changes to NSF and NIH funding.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.
Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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September 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.
Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.
Report: osf.io/e8rnc
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🧪 Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is currently withholding $2.5 billion from NSF's budget for this year.
This move is:
-Illegally secretive
-Unusual and suspect
-Disrupts science
-Subverts Congress
It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep).
🧵 Let's unpack...
This move is:
-Illegally secretive
-Unusual and suspect
-Disrupts science
-Subverts Congress
It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep).
🧵 Let's unpack...
June 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🧪 Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is currently withholding $2.5 billion from NSF's budget for this year.
This move is:
-Illegally secretive
-Unusual and suspect
-Disrupts science
-Subverts Congress
It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep).
🧵 Let's unpack...
This move is:
-Illegally secretive
-Unusual and suspect
-Disrupts science
-Subverts Congress
It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep).
🧵 Let's unpack...
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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."
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
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."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
Ocean is getting hot 🔥
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
showyourstripes.info
June 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ocean is getting hot 🔥
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21st June: #ShowYourStripes day
1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it
3) Encourage others to do the same
1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it
3) Encourage others to do the same
June 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
21st June: #ShowYourStripes day
1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it
3) Encourage others to do the same
1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it
3) Encourage others to do the same
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Start a conversation about climate change - the story of the stripes and how they have been used
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6t...
Start a conversation about climate change
YouTube video by University of Reading
www.youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Start a conversation about climate change - the story of the stripes and how they have been used
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6t...
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We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts
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Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency
Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step
www.science.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
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🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest.
E.g.:
--Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants)
--Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate)
A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵
E.g.:
--Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants)
--Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate)
A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest.
E.g.:
--Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants)
--Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate)
A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵
E.g.:
--Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants)
--Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate)
A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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21. NSF abolishing its divisions and rotators, and focusing the agency narrowly around AI, quantum, biotech, nuclear energy, and translational science
NSF officials announced they are essentially abandoning the use of “rotators”— scientists on leave from academic positions who help the agency choose the best research to fund. NSF also plans to reduce the number of administrators classified as senior executive service employees. scim.ag/3EKnxmc
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
21. NSF abolishing its divisions and rotators, and focusing the agency narrowly around AI, quantum, biotech, nuclear energy, and translational science
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Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another.
Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.
Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.
Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
www.unidata.ucar.edu
May 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another.
Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.
Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.
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🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
democrats-science.house.gov
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
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🚨 Breaking: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders
2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight
3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow
One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying
1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders
2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight
3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow
One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
🚨 Breaking: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders
2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight
3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow
One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying
1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders
2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight
3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow
One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying
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🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
May 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
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In light of the skinny budget (55.8% reduction), 6 past NSF directors and 7 NSB chairs have sent the House Committee on Appropriations a letter advising doubling the NSF budget.
"We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?"
"We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?"
May 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
In light of the skinny budget (55.8% reduction), 6 past NSF directors and 7 NSB chairs have sent the House Committee on Appropriations a letter advising doubling the NSF budget.
"We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?"
"We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?"
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Skinny budget out. Looks bad for science. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
May 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Skinny budget out. Looks bad for science. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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TODAY's news at NSF:
3. Effective May 5, there's a 15% indirect rate for new NSF awards to institutions of higher education. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
This highly illegal statement was cute:
"This Policy Notice takes precedence over inconsistent policies and procedures set forth in the PAPPG."
3. Effective May 5, there's a 15% indirect rate for new NSF awards to institutions of higher education. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
This highly illegal statement was cute:
"This Policy Notice takes precedence over inconsistent policies and procedures set forth in the PAPPG."
May 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
TODAY's news at NSF:
3. Effective May 5, there's a 15% indirect rate for new NSF awards to institutions of higher education. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
This highly illegal statement was cute:
"This Policy Notice takes precedence over inconsistent policies and procedures set forth in the PAPPG."
3. Effective May 5, there's a 15% indirect rate for new NSF awards to institutions of higher education. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
This highly illegal statement was cute:
"This Policy Notice takes precedence over inconsistent policies and procedures set forth in the PAPPG."
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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...