Jacquelyn Gill

That was short-hand required by brevity. It's not just Trump, and public science was under attack long before him. "The cabal most associated with defunding and dismantling public science."

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.

NSF has lost a lot more than 200 people. Thankfully, we had a gold-standard system; we don't have to come up with a new model. I believe people will jump at the chance to rebuild.

I'm not being a Pollyanna here. I just think it's ahistorical to act like we can't do big, challenging things.

And I understand that this is a deep wound, and that you are nearer to it than most of us. I absolutely respect that, and your expertise. But I refuse to live as though the conservative vision for the future is something we all have to sign on to because it's just too hard to undo their work.

There's a difference between "never" and "in the near-term."
I get that we need to recognize the full scope of what's happening but I am not here to platform defeatism as though humanity has not great and difficult things in a short time before. If we act like nothing is possible, what's the point?

I don’t think anyone is suggesting that. But his selection to head NSF is, as with other agencies, not good. Kicking NSF out of their purpose-built building because the HUD guy liked it was horrible. Fixing those things would be a nice start.

It’s not just the creation of an initiative. They closed multiple programs and cut staff and the initiative has shaped most of the programs across divisions. It’s even in biology.

In my case, my calendar is private so they’re scheduling during times that are blocked off!

I routinely have to schedule meetings with as many or more people using meeting polls. It’s definitely doable.

I strongly disagree. These systems didn’t always exist; they can be rebuilt.

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Yeah, either way!

I would put hospice care and solar panels under "scicomm" but...explainer?

I didn’t. I made my calendar private. People still schedule events anyway.

🧪🦣🏺 I'm quoted here, and much of what I spoke about with Carl echoes April's comments.
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*without ASKING first.

Yeah, that's a hard no from me, too! I use iCal for my scheduling, which integrates events from my work and personal Google calendars. All three then feed into Calendly, which I use as a scheduling app for meetings with others.

I disabled mine, so it's private! But they still just schedule willy nilly.

Yikes on bikes. Where does this mentality come from?

I just made mine private and people still just schedule meetings.

Let's outlaw scheduling meetings without first. I don't care what my university account calendar says, it's not a reflection of my availability, and even if it was, that doesn't give you the right to commit me to anything without my consent, kthxbye.

And meanwhile, they have more than enough money to fund their own R&D.

As a queer, disabled woman scientist I’m well aware of bias in the scientific community. What I means is that scientists, not politicians, have determined funding priorities and outcomes at NSF. It’s been a bottom-up process. It’s never been controlled by any president’s personal interests.

Tenure and promotion guidelines need to change, definitely.

Yeah, I don’t see myself in this scheme at all.

NSF didn’t always exist; everything is fixable.

That’s not quite accurate. What makes NSF a gold-star system is that the scientific community has largely been able to identify the priorities, with some input from Congress. This is unprecedented.

The cuts to existing programs and graduate research fellowships have a pattern: the Trump Administration is dismantling our ability to study ecology, biodiversity science, and climate research:

They’re putting Silicon Valley billionaires above studying Earth’s life support system.

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”