Allison Henrich

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
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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

Major news from the NSF! This is very bad, folks.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

This is bad, friends.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

More grant freezes. This is not ok.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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...

NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says

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...

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

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 Pittsburgh

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

Hands Off Madison Wisconsin! Hands off our democracy!

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

"Hands Off!" protest in Boston draws nearly 100,000 people rallying against Trump, Musk Nearly 100,000 of angry demonstrators gathered in Boston and other Massachusetts locations on Saturday for the so-called "Hands Off" protest​.

100K!

www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

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

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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.

A Dark Day for Our Country I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Today was a bad day for our country – and for the Democratic Party.

Required viewing.

schiffnotes.substack.com/p/a-dark-day...

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 The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution

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News from the AMS Advancing research. Creating connections.

“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...

YouTube video by Mathematical Visual Proofs Leibniz Formula for Pi/4 - A Pi Day Visualization/Dissection

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 In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third said their research is delayed or in je...

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?

NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

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.

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