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NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

New NSF guidelines. Pay particular attention to 35.1.c (no 'discrimination' against Israeli companies) and 35.2.a (i) (NO DEI practices). The wording is vague enough that universities may pre-emptively capitulate. Share Widely. #NSF #AcademicSky nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research.

Or 932 years.

[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]

Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.

Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET

Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

YouTube video by National Science Board NSB 494th Meeting

The National Science Board is currently streaming their public portion of the meeting www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1PE... Thus far no mention of the DOGE elephant in the room. #Science #NSF #saveNSF #womeninstem

YouTube video by National Science Board NSB 494th Meeting

National Science Board (oversees NSF) currently streaming the public portion of their meeting. Thus far, the DOGE elephant remains unmentioned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1PE...

The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science Opinion | Severe cuts in research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.

Moving beyond NSF and NIH… undark.org/2025/05/01/o...

There is also this opportunity to contribute and stay informed. www.savensf.com

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.

The Board of the NSF is meeting this week. We can attend remotely and submit comments. Lets get as many people to do both as possible! Link for comments at the bottom of the web page #academicSKY #WomeninSTEM #Science #NSF… www.nsf.gov/nsb/meetings...

2500 people marching on the Williston VT ICE data center for May Day 2025

(5) Lastly, they urge everyone to create strong narratives of the benefits of their research and its impacts -especially educational impacts- to be shared with the media, Congressional representatives, and the larger community.

(4) Recommended responses include institutional responses and explicit objections from disciplinary groups. Also, although the termination letters say no opportunity to appeal, the law and the terms of most grants do allow appeals, so PIs should connect with institutional legal counsel.

(3) There will be no new calls for proposals for STEM education, STEM education research, climate, environment, or environmental justice. They are expecting a new large batch of terminations to go out this Friday.

(2) NSF budget cuts are going to be far deeper than expected, and almost all 'broadening participation in STEM' programs will be killed. Moving forward, only standard grants will be funded.

News from a colleague:
Three DOGE members in the NSF Office of the Directorand Vought (OMB) must personally approve all solicitation changes and all new solicitations. DOGE has total access to the grants management system.

we look forward to having her here, and supporting her through her legal proceedings.

Student in front of their poster at an undergraduate research conference.

I love working with undergraduates in my research into STEM teaching and learning. Her findings: that low-risk public communication assignments increase student engagement in an introductory biology class. #EduSky #AcademicSky

Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex Another front in the war on American greatness

Paul Krugman on the 'quack-industrial complex' in the T administration. substack.com/home/post/p-... #academicsky #womeninSTEM

Seen in Pittsburgh

A little rain wasn’t going to stop NYC. #handsoff

#Handsoff! Burlington, VT

Thank you for running a great rally - and for posting something that showed how many of us came!

hundreds of people with signs in front of Burlington city all

@indivisible.org #handsoff Burlington Vermont - sorry I wasn't in a position to show how many of us showed up!

sign with National Park Service symbol and the words Hands Off

Ready in Vermont.

#altNationalParkService in your honor. #HandsOff

because our history must be white-washed so white folks don't feel uncomfortable.

although I think they find cruelty pleasurable

because the stupid wasn't deep enough…

I walked out of a faculty senate town hall on the administration's attempt to blow up higher education this evening, looked up in the sky to see the debris from Musk's spaceship blowing up over the Bahamas and South Florida.

Burlington VT