The smartest bed is the dumbest bed, as it turns out.
22.10.2025 20:05
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The smartest bed is the dumbest bed, as it turns out.
FABBS is hiring a short-term Tech Policy Fellow to focus on behavioral science and AI (link below). Share with early career policy wonks
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🆕NSF cuts don't just gut universities. Join New America, the R&D Congressional Caucus, and the American Association of Community Colleges for a briefing around the value of the #NSF for the skilled technical #workforce and #communitycolleges.
Register and share: forms.gle/LNaF6PptDr2u... #scipol
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued its first impoundment ruling yesterday. Possibly first of many as dozens of investigations are underway. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Coverage of Senator Kelly's efforts. Use planet.ly/senateletter to encourage your Senators to join him.
payloadspace.com/kelly-rallie...
The MAGA revolution threatens America’s most innovative place
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
Should have been Episodes 7, 8 and 9.
We don’t get the next mRNA vaccine or moon landing without risk. Short-term grants. Political landmines. Shrinking budgets. Big bets are disappearing—and so are possible breakthroughs.
bistromathic.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
#science #risk #innovation #NSF #NIH #research #bluesky
NEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation.
Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.
Illustration by Shonagh Rae of Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead the Library of Congress.
“Libraries are a trusted source. Let the books battle it out on the shelves. We have different perspectives, and you can choose.”
Carla Hayden, who sat down with ISSUES last year, was fired from her position as leader of the Library of Congress yesterday. issues.org/interview-li...
Called and spoke to real humans at each of my three representative's offices this morning (both local offices and in DC). Share your stories, your impact, your students' success, your discoveries, and your hope for the future.
Banger essay on the importance of federally funded R&D to American entrepreneurship from David Singer of Maverick Ventures. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
🚨 Breaking: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders
2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight
3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow
One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying
Enjoyed talking to @dkthomp.bsky.social about the crisis in American science. Glad to have him on our side in talking about how to protect American science in the future. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
🧪 BOOM: The AAU, ACE, APLU, and 13 universities just filed suit today against NSF for slashing to 15% indirect rates.
Full compliant: www.aau.edu/sites/defaul...
Updates: www.aau.edu/resources-aa...
A similar group of plaintiffs won a *permanent* injunction against a similar change at NIH.
Excellent news. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/03/b...
Strong statement from Appropriations Chair Collins. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
With the release of the skinny Presidential Budget Request, the FY 2026 season officially kicks off and the dashboard goes live!
Because this is a -skinny- request not everything was mentioned, so we'll keep updating as more details roll out in the next weeks and months.
www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...
NSF thread below. bsky.app/profile/davi...
Aeronautics (-37%) and Space Technology (-48%) suffer as well -- cuts to sustainable aviation, advanced propulsion, other unidentified R&D. These are underappreciated bits of the US tech ecosystem.
NASA science and tech is ugly too.
*Science Directorate* gets a massive cut (-47%) as feared. Mars Sample Return is canceled, climate monitoring satellites canceled, Landsat restructured.
*Office of STEM Engagement* -- which runs Space Grant -- is zeroed out.
(DOE cont.)
*ARPA-E* is cut in half. (-57%) This is an incredibly successful agency that historically elicits FAR more in follow-on private capital than it invests in public dollars.
Also a $15 billion cut to IIJA programs.
DOE first.
*Office of Science* gets a billion-dollar (-14%) cut. Climate and earth systems research was less than $500 million in FY24, so this will likely effect some math and physical sciences.
Budget prioritizes AI, quantum, HPC, fusion, but no concrete numbers on these.
Skinny Budget Day! Another terrible budget for US science and innovation. While attention is on NSF and NIH, some brief notes on energy and space, which also matter for competitiveness.
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/informat... 🧵
This from Jeffrey Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social) on NSF budget request: Trump has proposed cutting NSF's budget by more than half, to $4B, in FY 2026. The math in his "skinny" budget request is hard to follow, so here's a quick analysis:
Thanks to @npr.org for interviewing me on Morning Edition about the danger of #DOGE's gutting the federal research enterprise.
🧵A note on reform: I can't think of a serious #scipol researcher who DOESN'T believe in reform. DOGE is not focused on reform or efficiency.
one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...
