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data + graphics at @upshot.nytimes.com | @bostonu.bsky.social alum, go terriers! bylines: nytimes.com/by/ethan-singer more of my work: ethansinger.me
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23.06.2025 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In 2019, President Trump awarded her the Presidential Early Career Award, the nation’s highest honor for early-career scientists. Last month, the government canceled nearly all of her funding.
Our analysis of the science at risk in Trump's clash with Harvard:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Ungated story here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
DOGE debuted a website last month cataloging the contracts the group says it has canceled to save taxpayers money. Since then, the list has undergone dizzying changes.
The story + a fun animated bubble chart (that I've spent way too long staring at) from @emmbadger.bsky.social and I.
"The picture of these shifting contracts reflects what has become the erratic hallmark of much of the team’s work"
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u... @emmbadger.bsky.social @ethansinger.bsky.social
Imagine if all of government reported data like DOGE does -- deleting numbers, altering them without notice, pointing numbers to the wrong things.
w/ another awesome @ethansinger.bsky.social graphic:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
with @sangerkatz.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social @aatishb.bsky.social and josh katz
19.02.2025 03:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DOGE claimed $8 billion in savings from a single cancelled contract on their new "wall of receipts." It was actually $8 million.
Around the time we published the story, DOGE removed a screenshot that showed the mismatch, but continued to claim 8 bil. in savings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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The Trump admin and NIH’s latest guidance about overhead rates is confusing, contradictory and vague.
But one thing is clear: hospitals and universities around the country stand to lose billions of dollars in research funding.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A few more words about this story:
We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy.
The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it.
These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.
65,000 federal workers have submitted resignations as part of Elon Musk’s “fork in the road” offer. Is that a lot or a little?
With @sangerkatz.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social and @aliciaparlap.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Is 65,000 federal workers replying "resign" a lot? Some context here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u... @emmbadger.bsky.social
07.02.2025 17:47 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Among them:
- A CDC info page about dementia warning signs and symptoms
- All of the DOJ’s state-level hate crime data
- Various FDA regulatory guidelines
- NIST’s zero-tolerance harassment policy
This weekend, we tracked the status of over 150 top government domains. We found over 8,000 pages that got taken down as federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Part of the confusion around the OMB funding freeze lay in the spreadsheet that was circulated with it: It named about 2,600 federal programs, a virtual copy-and-paste of how the U.S. government spends money.
We translated it more legibly here...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
