#nsf

Jonathan Cohn: tRump’s #Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations: Mindless slashing at #NSF won’t just harm the scientific enterprise today—it will damage discovery and innovation for years to come.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-science-cuts-will-be-felt-generations-innovation-discovery-nsf-foundation-marcia-mcnutt

The program was already highly competitive, w/just 16% of applicants getting fellowships, because the 3 yrs of unrestricted financial support it offers can be what it takes to get into a certain grad school, or to study w/ a particular mentor or in a particular lab—or, in some cases, to pursue a line of inquiry that might not have support elsewhere.

Now even fewer of the nation’s most promising scientists-in-training will get that funding.

#Trump #Science #NSF #AntiIntellectualism #BrainDrain

#Trump’s #Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations

Mindless slashing at #NSF won’t just harm the scientific enterprise today—it will damage discovery & innovation for years to come.

…when NSF announced the new class of fellows a week ago, the cohort had just a thousand students, less than half of last year’s number & the fewest since 2008.

That’s a big deal.

#AntiIntellectualism #BrainDrain
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-science-cuts-will-be-felt-generations-innovation-discovery-nsf-foundation-marcia-mcnutt

Most #NSF external advisory are now gone

#Science #USA

https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-scraps-most-outside-advisory-panels

Mark your calendar #science #NSF #NIH #NOAA #NASA #CDC #EPA #FDA #USDA #ocean #air #water #farm #ag #health #biodiversity #earth #habitat #wildlife #conservation

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpoxsaax7r5rs2tgeh56nqhn/post/3lmwkebxnps23

Heading to SynBioBeta to be on a panel about art & science. These conferences offer an intriguing mix of science, policy, futurism, industry boosterism & the occasional sideshow from outer space.

All across the USA, anti-scientific mobs are looking for research laboratories to vandalize and scientific careers to foreclose.

Yet astounding advances in biological science keep happening despite everything.

#biology #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #NIH #NSF

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnsundman/p/synbiobeta-dreaming-2025?r=38b5x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Science is under threat.
Massive funding cuts to NASA, NIH & NSF could set us back decades — or even a generation.

This isn’t just about labs and telescopes. It’s about cures for cancer. GPS. MRI machines. The internet.
All built on basic research — by people who had no idea their work would one day change the world.

Every $1 invested in science returns $2–3 in economic growth.
But more than that — science is human curiosity in action. It's how we dream bigger. It's how we move forward.

If we abandon it now, what future are we even fighting for?
“We float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.” – Carl Sagan

Want to help? Write your reps. Speak up for science.
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#StandUpForScience #FundScience #STEM #CarlSagan #NASA #NIH #NSF #SaveScience #StayCurious

https://youtu.be/ABU06LDZpfY

NSF slashes graduate fellowship program | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-slashes-graduate-fellowship-program

#NSF #GraduateStudents #Funding #Fellowship #Science #Research

Update. Phillip Levine lists the 77 US #universities that stand to lose the most from three kinds of funding cuts threatened by the #Trump admin: (1) capping indirect costs for #NIH grants at 15%, (2) cutting the #NSF budget by two-thirds, and (3) endowment taxes.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-77-colleges-have-the-most-to-lose-from-trumps-cuts
(#paywalled)

PS: Note that there are other kinds of cuts that Levine does not bring into this calculation, like withholding funds from targeted institutions because of their DEI or antisemitism policies.

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

#NSF slashes prestigious #PhD #fellowship awards by half
#US National #Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme (#GRFP) recipients in 15 years. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01098-9

Who needs another generation of #scientists? </s>

[OT] Nature: NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01098-9 #NSF #GRFP #DOGE

"Cuts of 30 to 70% are rumored at USDA next week. NIH & NSF funding is being destroyed & the agencies themselves facing cuts.

About 3,500 nonfederal entomologists depend on these agencies. We'rerisking research that protects #ecosystems & #foodsecurity."

It's difficult to keep up with all the atrocities, but we amplify the gravity of the losing these experts, the firings, existential threats... of the #TrumpMusk admin.

#DOGE #Firings #Science #USDA #NIH #NSF #USPol https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/04/some-usda-rif-plans-take-shape-department-warns-employees-major-cuts/404247/

Director of the #NSF appears to be either ignorant or lying. Neither is a great look.

Toady Panchanathan's "95%:"

"The $1.1 billion education directorate, for example, made only 12 new awards between 21 January and 27 March compared with 120 during the same period in 2024. The difference in dollars is equally staggering: $6 million versus $64 million. The $1-billion engineering directorate made 63 awards, down from 351, totaling $20 million versus $133 million."

https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-has-awarded-almost-50-fewer-grants-trump-took-office

Le capitalisme c'est le progrès.

#Trump
#USA
#Science
#Research
#University
#Capitalism

Via > @CindyWeinstein https://zirk.us/users/CindyWeinstein/statuses/114253817634373163
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You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

#NSF
#NIH
#USPol
#Science

You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

#NSF
#NIH
#USPol
#Science

You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

#NSF
#NIH
#USPol
#Science

#IJCAI2025 Deadline Extension! There's still time to submit your application for the IJCAI 2025 Doctoral Consortium! New deadline: 7 April 2025 #PhD Students from #USA institutions are eligible for #NSF-funded travel support: https://2025.ijcai.org/call-for-ijcai-2025-doctoral-consortium-program/

#PhD #Academia #AI

A New Tool to Detect Cellular #Spying | EFFector 37.3

This edition of the newsletter covers our new open source tool to detect cellular spying, #Rayhunter ; The #Foilies2025 , our tongue-in-cheek awards to the worst responses to public records requests; and our recommendations to the #NSF for the new #AI Action Plan to put people first.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-tool-detect-cellular-spying-effector-373

"DOGE fired the supervisor who approves new oil projects in Osage County, OK. It basically stopped new permitting, cutting against Trump's own drill, baby, drill mantra. Musk's team had to quickly scramble & rehire."

#Musk's #DOGE is fraudulent & dangerous. The #firings are out-of-control. Whether it's AI or human error: lives, livelihoods, & the economy: suffering.

How about the rehiring in the #CDC, #NIH, #NSF, NOAA, #FDA, #VA...

#Corruption #Trump #Resist #USPol

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/oops-doge-did-it-again-drill-baby-oklahoma-oil-gas-osage-indian-affairs

@eff to NSF: AI Action Plan Must Put People First

This past January the new administration issued an executive order on #AI taking the place of the now rescinded Biden-era order, calling for a new AI Action Plan tasked with “unburdening” the current AI industry to stoke innovation and remove “engineered social agendas” from the industry. This new action plan for the president is currently being developed and open to public comments to the #NSF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/eff-nsf-ai-action-plan-must-put-people-first