Donna Charlevoix, PhD

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Want to work for National Weather Service? Be ready to explain how you agree with Trump As the National Weather Service scrambles to hire up to 450 people to restore deep cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, potential applicants are being asked to explain how they would advan...

Meteorologists applying to work with the NWS are now asked to answer questions about how they support Trumps EO.

Science is non-partisan. This is nothing more than a loyalty test.

apnews.com/article/noaa...

There is not enough lobular breast cancer research, IMO, so I'm thrilled to see this radiation review by @mjsikora.bsky.social and co-authors!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#bcsm

Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies

NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24

Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

Senate appropriations committee voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of NSF and NASA. The panel supported maintaining spending at essentially current levels.
www.science.org/content/arti...

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research.

No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease.

Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...

Thanks! Hmmm, very interesting. So the potential to stop ILC from ever forming-that would be amazing.

Donald Trump ran on ending wars.

But 5 months in, he’s yet to end a single conflict abroad and brought us far closer to a wider war across the Middle East.

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.”

So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances…

It was always a lie.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. D.V.D., ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [June 23, 2025] The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18, 2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv– 10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala, even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order, it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya. Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention

NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Fantastic! Can you give me the 2 sentence lay summary of the work?

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

(Published Dec. 2024)

Old news but if you've not seen the FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress for NSF it's worth looking through. Not good news for scientific research.
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Federal Science Budget Tracker FYI's Federal Science Budget Tracker provides up-to-date information on budget and appropriations actions for physical sciences programs.

AIPs Federal Science Budget Tracker provides up-to-date information on appropriations proposals and outcomes for agencies that fund the physical sciences. www.aip.org/fyi/budget-t...

Exclusive: NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts

After already killing more than 1700 active grants related to politically charged topics, the National Institutes of Health has flagged another roughly 3200 grants for review and possible termination.

Federal R&D Budget Dashboard - an interactive tool for exploring long-term federal funding trends within the context of the broader budget.
www.aaas.org/programs/r-d...

Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers Authorities are searching for a 57-year-old man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, officials tell The Associated Press.

Assassination of political leaders is unacceptable. apnews.com/article/minn...

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.

Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.

Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

What do the Congresswoman who’s being prosecuted, the US Senator who was tackled & handcuffed & the judge who’s being prosecuted all have in common?

They were targeted by federal thugs building a police state to target not just immigrants but anyone who questions their fascism.

White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and other agencies

The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Final NSF budget proposal jettisons one giant telescope amid savage agencywide cuts Trump’s 57% proposed cut to agency would drop grant success rates to 7% and gut education and training

President Donald Trump today fleshed out his vision for a previously proposed 56% cut in the $9 billion budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and it’s not a pretty sight.

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

Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say

Trump admin now saying VA physicians & scientists must get prior approval from Trump appointees before publishing in journals or speaking with the public.

Nothing says “we support veterans” like censoring the people who care for them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking research on GLP-1s and cancer from #ASCO25: For people with obesity and #diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists are associated with a modestly lower risk of obesity-related cancers, especially colorectal cancer.

Learn more: brnw.ch/21wT6p5 #OncSky

Great session at the ASCO/ESMO Joint Session: Biomarker-Driven Therapeutics—Translating Innovation Into Practice. Exciting to see how advances in biomarkers are driving more personalized cancer care. #ASCO25

Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.

Do you like your phone GPS to be accurate? Federal cuts to NOAA and specifically the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) put our national infrastructure at risk.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Updates on NSF Priorities

Information from the NSF about terminated awards is now available. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency

Staff of the NSF come together to acknowledge 75 years of NSF support of basic science and engineering research.

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

National Science Board NSB governs NSF, develops Science and Engineering Indicators, and advises the President and Congress on S&E policy, research and education issues.

National Science Board: The U.S. risks losing its science & technology (S&T) leadership & with it uncontested control of destiny. Military strength comes from economic strength-economic strength comes from discovery & innovation. S&T is the new global currency of power. www.nsf.gov/nsb/news/new...

History

Did you know... Pres. Harry Truman signed the National Science Foundation Act in 1950, creating the first federal agency devoted to supporting fundamental research and education across all scientific disciplines. www.nsf.gov/about/history