Kristin Foringer, PhD
@kforinger.bsky.social
Research Development Associate | Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy @ WashU | views my own
🚨 Attention: founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or business leaders whose companies have benefited from NSF research:
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is coordinating a letter with business leaders in support of sustained funding for NSF in FY26. Add your signature here:
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is coordinating a letter with business leaders in support of sustained funding for NSF in FY26. Add your signature here:
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚨 Attention: founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or business leaders whose companies have benefited from NSF research:
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is coordinating a letter with business leaders in support of sustained funding for NSF in FY26. Add your signature here:
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is coordinating a letter with business leaders in support of sustained funding for NSF in FY26. Add your signature here:
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With rumors of more NSF grant terminations today, contact your university research offices about top admins checking email. Termination letters come from a random NSF email that could go to junk folders & are not directed to core staff that handle proposal/award submissions or communications daily.
April 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
With rumors of more NSF grant terminations today, contact your university research offices about top admins checking email. Termination letters come from a random NSF email that could go to junk folders & are not directed to core staff that handle proposal/award submissions or communications daily.
Reposted by Kristin Foringer, PhD
🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
Reposted by Kristin Foringer, PhD
There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
Reposted by Kristin Foringer, PhD
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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"Effective today...NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding & awaiting final signoff t.... In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
www.science.org
April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Effective today...NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding & awaiting final signoff t.... In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The NEH has learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. It is advising organizations & members who have been directly affected to please fill out this form: bit.ly/42ur1C7. Participate in the NEH advocacy alert here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT.
Notify NHA about grant terminations!
bit.ly
April 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The NEH has learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. It is advising organizations & members who have been directly affected to please fill out this form: bit.ly/42ur1C7. Participate in the NEH advocacy alert here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT.
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Per a source, recipients of CDC grants received a questionnaire (maybe from OMB) today with some "absolutely nuts" questions.
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
March 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Per a source, recipients of CDC grants received a questionnaire (maybe from OMB) today with some "absolutely nuts" questions.
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
Reposted by Kristin Foringer, PhD
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
Check out a short book review I wrote for the International Review of Victimology on Svenja Goltermann's "Victims." Timely reflections on the power embedded in claims to victimhood and the rhetorical processes involved.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Check out a short book review I wrote for the International Review of Victimology on Svenja Goltermann's "Victims." Timely reflections on the power embedded in claims to victimhood and the rhetorical processes involved.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kristin Foringer, PhD
NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says
National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...