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The Hanford weather service office is closed for 5.5 hours every night due to critically low staffing levels. The Sacramento and Hanford offices collectively serve more than 7.3M Californians in the Central Valley and some of the state's most wildfire-prone landscape in the Sierra foothills. #CAwx

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

I was wondering who’s responsible for the ongoing demolition of NSF. Aside from Chief Management Officer Cheatham, whose resignation the staff union seeks, it appears to be 3 DOGE agents: Farritor (23), Terrell (25), and Riley (33). None appear to have any familiarity with scientific research.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

'I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos (...) this would normally result in a warning or fine. Instead, my visa was revoked & I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana, where I have spent the past 3 months with roughly 100 other women. We share one room w dormitory-style beds'

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Disgusting.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 6 days ago • 1589 comments

At the Cato Institute today, Secretary McMahon suggested that required Dept of Ed data collections could be transferred to NSF, where Trump admin is gutting its ed unit, as rightly noted below. But McMahon may also be referencing transfer to NCSES too (Nat'l Center for Science & Engineering Stats).

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

submitted 5 days ago • 422 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 7 days ago • 489 comments

In case you needed that final straw to get offline and foster real, physical community, how about a budget reconciliation bill that (inexplicably) includes language completely deregulating AI and "automated decision systems" for ten years. Do you want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Appreciate the vital and helpful context in this NSF update from @jillbarshay.bsky.social! "Several congressionally mandated programs are housed within the eliminated equity division, including Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) and the Eddie Bernice Johnson initiative."

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If anyone knows what is actually going on at LOC/Copyright, I would like to talk with you. Please reach out via Signal — crg.32 — via a nonwork phone.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

I know NIH is ~5x bigger than NSF but I think the gutting of NSF is getting a lot less than 1/5 the attention— in the news media and in higher ed— compared with what's happened to NIH.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Yes! Exactly what’s needed to #SaveNSF include letters like these that use stories of local impact to call on specific reps in Congress.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

submitted 10 days ago • 126 comments

Everybody I know at a research university works at a department that lost federal or state money in the last 5 months. The destruction of higher education is occurring at a scale and speed that nobody could imagine

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

My graduate research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The research that sealed my tenure case was majority funded by NSF. Five of my graduate students have been funded by NSF. My current sabbatical is #NSFfunded. In short, #withoutNSF, I would not be the scientist I am today. #saveNSF

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Scientists, tell your story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, to publish on June 16! #McClintockLetters #saveNSF We have to move the needle on public opinion. Fight this attack by sharing how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

#WithoutNSF my research on plant adaptation won’t receive the critical funding it needs to continue studying weediness, herbicide resistance, and other plant traits that improve agriculture. #SupportNSF #SaveNSF

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is one of the absolute best resources out there for science teachers to use to help students visualize and understand scientific processes. It was a godsend during the pandemic when in-person labs were not possible. And it's free for all to use. So disappointing. 🧪🎢 ⚛️ 🥽 🍎 #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Without the National Science Foundation, I'd be nothing. NSF funded my PhD (GRF, DDIG) on bird origins and later my work on dinosaur extinction & rise of mammals. Now it's being dismantled for pure political reasons. Our country culture & economy will all suffer. Disgraceful! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

This article makes a good case that every dollar spent on Federal research & development generates between $5-12 in return. In the graph below, the lower line is economic benefit alone, while the upper includes health and other benefits. So why the rush to drastically cut R&D?

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

While going about your Saturday routine, please take a minute to stop and think about this. #Altgov exists because regular employees of the federal government must FIGHT this administration to simply be allowed to do the work we were hired and funded to do for the American people. THIS IS INSANE.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

Marc Andreesen received government funding from NSF to create Mosaic.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Here is a letter that we (2 former NSF GRFP program officers) sent to the National Science Board Fri 5/9. The NSB is the Exec Branch's lawful governing board for NSF (as opposed to DOGE).

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0 #ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF #SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

submitted 21 days ago • 1240 comments

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

submitted 21 days ago • 416 comments

This stuff has to be blown up much bigger than it has been. You want a kitchen table issue? Cancer is a kitchen table issue.

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Fellow Dems, This. Anyone who isn’t fighting for us right now, against actual Nazis, is never going to Every sector of America’s economy is undermined, and the rule of law that makes our economy reliable is also being dismantled. All of us face economic ruin, arbitrary punishment, and worse

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

"I want parents who have children to know that opportunities for your kids, if they aspire to be scientists or engineers, are being stripped away right in front of you," the NSF employee told Axios. www.axios.com/2025/03/10/a...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

My last NSF grant is going to land me in jail.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

When NSF cancelled its panels at the last moment, some folks took a financial hit on their housing reservations and NSF doesn't have any way to pay these folks back. So here's a fundraiser that I'm running to collect a bit of cash to help out a few of these junior colleagues in need.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

submitted 67 days ago • 48 comments

Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

submitted 67 days ago • 425 comments