Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
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Ben Stone
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
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Hey researchers archive all your work stat locally or at https://archive.org
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-medicaid-funding-freeze-paused.html
This is insane.
(I’m a PhD student funded by the NSF GRFP)
Tangerine Turd has no understanding of POLITICS.
FIND A BETTER COUNTRY!
So two birds, one stone.
Even with a NSF fellowship, I spent grad school living paycheck to paycheck
They want scientist to comply with their fascist regime because they know they need us
https://bsky.app/profile/nmwilkinson.bsky.social/post/3lgygcgetes2t
Nazis controlling universities comes to mind.
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/controlling-universities
https://www.congressionalinstitute.org/2020/04/17/if-it-can-get-its-act-together-a-case-for-strengthening-congress/
In the meantime, he wins and has several courts tilted in his direction.
Just guessing at this point.
which means folks of color as well as first gen folks and just straight up destroying the future of science
Trump wants to emulate the acts of Andrew Jackson, his favorite predecessor, and just fire everyone who isn't personally loyal to him. Problem is that it's 200 years later, and we have laws to protect the nation from a repeat of Jackson.
SCOTUS doesn’t actually stop him.
”Ah, well, nevertheless.”
This is what the immediate impact of losing my fellowship would have meant during my PhD program years.
(Note: you're explicitly not allowed to get a second job in most grad programs)
But this isn't how you make America great again.
The blast radius is thorough.