Trump moves to slash NSF: why are the proposed budget cuts so big?
Major US science funder could lose more than half its budget — and researchers are reeling.
"If the NSF budget were to be enacted as is, it “would spell the end of any pretence that the US leads the world in science and technology, handing that position to China”, www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“Among the projects it supports are oral histories from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and archiving material from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.”
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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Save public education
Vote. Him. Out.
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That would be a hard pass from this Canadian.
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A vote sign is displayed outside a polling station during advanced voting in the Ontario provincial election in Carleton Place, Ont., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
POLL: the top election issue for Ontario voters is health care www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... @nnayrb.bsky.social @alexarsenych.bsky.social
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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfu0 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
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Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID
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Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.
Here's how we would've spent that $$:
Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration #saveUSAID. #saveforeignaid
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IT'S GAME TIME! So maybe the Superbowl ad buy was just a rumor - we'll see- but we know what's true: USAID saves lives. We're gearing up for another fun-filled week in MAGA conspiracy-land. Help us spread the facts! #TeamUSAID #AIDBowl
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