Phoebe J. Lam
phoebejlam.bsky.social
Phoebe J. Lam
@phoebejlam.bsky.social
Chemical Oceanographer at UCSC
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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AAU updates their excellent explainer about indirect costs to cover the current attacks...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqK...

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Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
YouTube video by Association of American Universities
www.youtube.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
For those of us who didn't follow the drama closely on how the cap on NIH indirect cost played out, but are suddenly very very interested in the wake of the cap on NSF indirect costs, I just found this helpful summary of the NIH timeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH cuts triggered a host of lawsuits: Nature’s guide to what’s next
A host of legal claims aim to roll back the Trump administration’s grant terminations, indirect-cost cap and more.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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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.
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Saw an enormous banana slug yesterday that was almost as big as the actual banana I was carrying
April 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM