We are happy to see folks in Congress stepping up, but we need more than sternly worded letters. We need action. The US scientific enterprise is at stake #resist
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We are happy to see folks in Congress stepping up, but we need more than sternly worded letters. We need action. The US scientific enterprise is at stake #resist
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
Major news from the NSF! This is very bad, folks.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Action Report #6 Understanding the Law and Policies for Grant Terminations for the National Science Foundation March 25, 2025 This informational guide is primarily intended for National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded principal investigators if NSF requests a change in your work. The level of detail assumes the reader has basic familiarity with the NSF’s two main review criteria (intellectual merit and broader impacts), in addition to the NSF’s Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). However, this guide may also be relevant to research administrators, legal experts, or awards from other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), given that the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) applies to all agencies, not just the NSF.
So what should NSF grantees, worried by terminated grants, do? That's something I've been thinking a lot about, given my own NSF grants.
First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
Also, “one source told Science the agency’s $1.1 billion education directorate may have canceled as many as 200 grants just today.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
What?!
“NSF announced it was returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff... In the meantime, according to sources, NSF will not make any new awards.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
Fascism doesn’t fly in Philly —
or anywhere in America.
Hey, Trump! Hey, Musk!
Hey, GOP! Hands Off!
HANDS OFF!
HANDS OFF!
HANDS OFF!
(Vid via @seankitchen)
Portland OR Hands Off Rally
Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff
Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common
Hands Off Madison Wisconsin! Hands off our democracy!
Hands Off Pittsburgh
Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
Recommended reading
It’s very scary over here.
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
t.co/LeABrGqDei
The amazing @roope.bsky.social dug deep on this and teaming up with topologist extraordinaire @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social we devised a first-ever tidy way of turning knot patterns into string code, which can then be analysed readily for patterns. We natch also have the coordinates.
NSA cancelled its MSP (Math Sciences Program) -- meaning all current grants (conferences, REUs, summer workshops, etc.) are cut effectively immediately. www.nsa.gov/Research/Mat...
Trump suggests ‘methods’ exist for bid for unconstitutional third term
One of the most terrifying intentions I’ve heard.
Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it.
“We liked it over here,” one said.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
wapo.st/4i7891y
“It is clear that now and for the next several weeks it will be critically important that the AMS and the mathematical community as a whole advocate to ensure that funding for science, and mathematics in particular, is both sufficient and stable.”
www.ams.org/news?class_i...
It’s already Pi day in some parts of the world. Here’s a cool visualization of the Madhava-Gregory-Leibniz formula for pi/4 due to Viggo Brun (and written about by Mitsuo Kobayashi). Hope you like it and share with all your math enthusiast friends!
youtu.be/rzZ2JTFVDdw
Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p... via @statnews.com
@roope.bsky.social can you comment on this?
In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
