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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

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People surprised that university admins are ready to throw people under the bus haven’t really been paying attention to how universities work

Now is a good time to change that

EEOC tells its workers to halt LGBTQ+ discrimination claim processing The news comes just days after the Trump administration’s controversial purge of Democratic officials at the commission.

this has been the longest fucking week of the longest fucking month

turns out rewatching schitts creek still does wonders for the mental health

It's Pritzker and AOC who get it so far. Who else?

MattXIV Wants to Make Young Queer People Feel Less Alone “People who follow me tend to walk with me.”

For Teen Vogue’s series 'Logged On,' where we talk to the people bringing you politics and the news in innovative and fun ways, @mattxiv.bsky.social chats with @janehouseal.bsky.social on creating content and his hopes to make young queer people feel less alone ⤵️

Hey remember two weeks ago when we still had a government

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

The Trump administration is now saying NSF can't do what Congress requires it to do…

Broaden “participation of women and individuals from underrepresented groups” in science — something studies show leads to more productive science

will a sweet treat heal me let’s find out

just registered for #iste25

haven't made it to an ISTE conference in YEARS so looking forward to getting out there this year (even though I am absolutely *dreading* being in TX when everyone will be celebrating the 4th of July)

if your work is NSF funding and you have or expect to be affected by the recent EO how are you pivoting? any and all feedback would be incredibly helpful

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

anyone else checking this page daily? 😅

ready for today to be over

not really mentally prepared for tomorrow

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

And after 15 minutes catching up on here…this is the one that’s gonna do me in for today✌️

the information overload happening right now is really not helping the overstimulation

all you people who told us to calm down can go fuck yourselves

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

who would’ve thought

an Amazon company (Whole Foods) has employees who make progress towards unionization and we get this:

Federal Spending Freeze Does Not Apply to Student Loans and Pell Grants Students and parents panicked after news of the order, but the Education Department said the guidance would not stop the flow of money to students and schools.

The memo sent to government agencies calling for a broad pause on federal spending does not apply to federal student loans or Pell grants, the U.S. Department of Education said in a statement on Tuesday morning.

Chris Hayes wants you to pay attention The MSNBC host asks if our ability to focus, or our politics, can be saved.

“Everything Trump says is too good to check…Sometimes it does have an aspect that’s true in some highly attenuated fashion, but in competitive attention markets, which is what we’re all dealing with… lies will outcompete truth, because lies are more attentionally compelling.”

can someone please just tell me who to follow on here I’m too lazy to find everyone I used to follow over *there*

Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Vote to Form Chain’s First Union The union win comes as Amazon, which owns the grocery chain, is also fighting labor organizing in its warehouse and delivery businesses.

Breaking News: Workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia voted to become the first unionized store in the grocery chain, which is owned by Amazon.

the struggle of wanting to root for Carlos but riding hard for the #tifosi I mean come on look at this lineup

you know I came to Arizona to escape shitty weather and first two days I’ve been here it’s been overcast and rainy I really do think the problem is me

desperately need an ice coffee and a cigarette