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Research Development Associate | Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy @ WashU | views my own
🚨 Attention: founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or business leaders whose companies have benefited from NSF research:
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is coordinating a letter with business leaders in support of sustained funding for NSF in FY26. Add your signature here:
With rumors of more NSF grant terminations today, contact your university research offices about top admins checking email. Termination letters come from a random NSF email that could go to junk folders & are not directed to core staff that handle proposal/award submissions or communications daily.
25.04.2025 11:30 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
So sorry to hear this
21.04.2025 17:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
"Effective today...NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding & awaiting final signoff t.... In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."
www.science.org/content/arti...
The NEH has learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. It is advising organizations & members who have been directly affected to please fill out this form: bit.ly/42ur1C7. Participate in the NEH advocacy alert here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT.
03.04.2025 18:26 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Per a source, recipients of CDC grants received a questionnaire (maybe from OMB) today with some "absolutely nuts" questions.
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
28.02.2025 15:56 — 👍 25236 🔁 6036 💬 480 📌 319Check out a short book review I wrote for the International Review of Victimology on Svenja Goltermann's "Victims." Timely reflections on the power embedded in claims to victimhood and the rhetorical processes involved.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
