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Chemical Oceanographer at UCSC
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Some good news: temporary restraining order used: www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
Federal judge temporarily halts Trump's sweeping government overhaul
A federal judge in San Francisco issued a two-week restraining order temporarily blocking the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government. Her order applies to 20 agencies.
www.npr.org
May 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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science.org
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
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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...
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). 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. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.
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
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lawsuit filed yesterday against the NSF IDC cuts! www.aau.edu/key-issues/l...
Legal Filings Submitted by AAU, APLU, ACE, and 13 Universities Contesting Cuts to NSF Research | Association of American Universities (AAU)
On May 5, 2025, AAU, APLU, ACE and 13 research universities filed a lawsuit contesting the cutting of F&A reimbursement rates for NSF grants and cooperative agreements.
www.aau.edu
May 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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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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Crap: www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate
www.nsf.gov
May 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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noamross.net
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.
Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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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