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#nationalsciencefoundation

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#America's #science put on starvation diet
#NationalScienceFoundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%
#NSF, the agency responsible for promoting scientific progress in the #US and nurturing national #STEM talent has proposed a budget of $3.9 billion, 61.7 percent less than the $10.183 billion sought in FY 2025.
theregister.com/2025/05/30/ame

The Register · American science put on starvation dietBy Thomas Claburn
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Axomamma

"When grant applications are vetoed and whole organizations restructured, the freedom to speak becomes meaningless when disconnected from the possibility of being heard."

"To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations."

#Fascism #Authoritarianism #LoC #LibraryOfCongress #Copyright #NSF #NationalScienceFoundation

time.com/7285045/resigning-nat

TIME · Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of CongressI cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Brad Rosenheim

Just taking a moment in my laboratory this afternoon, staring at this investment of my time and love, and taxpayer dollars, and wondering what will become of the USian scientific enterprise as we cede our role in the world.

We are discontinuing sea ice monitoring.
adn.com/alaska-news/science/20

We are discontinuing the natural hazard cost database.
cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noa

We are burying our head in the sand at the behest of a little weak king of whom everyone is afraid. Meanwhile the world rushes to save valuable scientific datasets.
bbc.com/future/article/2025042

#science
#USPol
#NSF
#NationalScienceFoundation
#ScientificEnterprise
#setback
#NaturalDisaster
#ClimateCatastrophe

My little piece of the USian scientific enterprise. A small laboratory about 7 meters by 5 meters, packed with equipment. In the right front, you see green compressed gas bottles, across from that in the left bottom there is an isotope ratio mass spectrometer, and there is a homemade vacuum line and pyrolysis system set up across the background. You cannot see the fume hood and analytical balances tucked in behind the vacuum separations line. Fluorescent light fixtures line the ceiling.
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

If #NSF Snoozes, #TACC’s “#Horizon” #Supercomputer Loses
#NationalScienceFoundation is front and center on proposed cuts in spending by Trump, those cuts, if they should come to pass, will undercut scientific research and computing tools that make it possible.
NSF is conduit for lots of #research and half of the spending in #US for reasonably large capability-class (strong scaling for large workloads) and capacity-class (weaker scaling for many workloads) #supercomputers.
nextplatform.com/2025/04/28/if

The Next Platform · If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer LosesIt is a tumultuous time for any agency in the US government or any company or organization that depends on the US government for a sizable portion of its
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Trump team freezes new #NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The #NationalScienceFoundation is the latest #US agency to be disrupted by #ElonMusk’s #DOGE. With a budget of US$9 billion, the NSF is one of the largest funders of #basicresearch in the world.
DOGE is also reviewing a list of active research grants, assessed in February by NSF, for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI). It is considering terminating more than 200 of them.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.comExclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grantsThe National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
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doctorambient

'An NSF official apologized to the fired workers, noting that they were “following orders” from the Trump administration.'

Wow. We're already LITERALLY at the "I was just following orders" stage of all of this.

If all of this were to literally stop -- at this exact moment -- American science would still be set back by years.

#science #nsf #nationalsciencefoundation #trump #uspol #politics #elonmusk #musk #doge #justfollowingorders

politico.com/news/2025/02/20/i

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