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This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

submitted 16 hours ago • 207 comments

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

And here it is, my Joker moment. I am insane now.

submitted 3 days ago • 255 comments

What the shit "For FY26 we are told about plans to reduce the NSF budget by 50%-75% - such reduction will mean no new awards for at least a year, elimination of divisions, merging of programs." nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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Cuts to research funding and the anti-science tenor of government policies are already prompting universities to cut back on post-graduate admissions. www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 582 comments

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's not clear when that meeting will now take place.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 789 comments

The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned $21 billion to people who were cheated by big banks and credit card companies. So why are Trump and Musk gutting an agency that's returning money to people who were scammed? For them, this has never been about cutting costs.

submitted 4 days ago • 137 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 5 days ago • 288 comments

More and more scientists are joining the ranks of fired federal workers—and fighting back through protests, appeals, and legal challenges.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Veterans deserve the best health care available. At a time when the VA is already understaffed, these layoffs will hurt veterans. Unacceptable. Trump must not cut VA health care so that he can give tax breaks to Musk and other billionaires. The VA must rescind this order.

submitted 5 days ago • 170 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 846 comments

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

NASA folks in #planetaryscience - I'm trying to put together a network who can help our colleagues through RIFs on Tuesday. This is an EMERGENCY: Reports say that NASA probationary employees will be fired on Tuesday.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

submitted 15 days ago • 84 comments

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

submitted 24 days ago • 23 comments

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 23 days ago • 69 comments

Is the communications pause that's been imposed on the US government's health agencies affecting you? @statnews.com would love to hear about it. Please let us know. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Research Experience for Undergraduates program applications are open! You can work with scientists at the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. Research topics span the field of astrobiology, from microbiology to planetary geology to observational astronomy. 🧪 🔭 www.seti.org/research-exp...

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Wake up nerds, new JWST image just dropped! 🔭🧪 The Crab Nebula 🦀, a supernova remnant, captured in stunning near and mid-infrared light. Dust is shown in light yellow & green. Sulfur dominates in reds & oranges. Iron is in blue. 📸: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim read more: go.nasa.gov/46Qlaa6

submitted 481 days ago • 9 comments

Oh this is cool! "Smithsonian To Open First Public Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample Collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission" www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

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The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, Origins Worlds and Life, is now fully available WITH figures! nap.nationalacademies.org/read/26522/c...

submitted 488 days ago • 1 comment

So excited to be this week's guest on NASA Astrobiology's "Ask an Astrobiologist" tune in for my episode, "Scouring the seafloofor hydrothermal systems and biosignatures" on Wednesday Follow this link for more details www.youtube.com/live/JnWHOdn...

submitted 488 days ago • 3 comments