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I received a surprising and disturbing request from NIH on Friday. They wrote to cancel a subaward to Hong Kong on one of my grants. (This was disturbing but not surprising.) They also ordered us not to interact with our collaborators in Hong Kong on any work under the award:

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Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago. This is infuriating. And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.

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yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

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#WithoutNSF my lab won’t receive the critical funding it needs to continue studying how ancient pathogens adapted to human hosts. #NSF supports our country's leadership in science and innovation. #SupportNSF #SaveNSF www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...

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Indiana University has served the young people of the state and the country and the world as a model public university. These measures, passed without review or discussion, destroy IU’s independence and will if allowed to stand undo its essential character. (1/3) www.axios.com/local/indian...

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My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

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14 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Sites in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences were hit yesterday with DOGE-mandated terminations.

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It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.

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Yesterday I was awarded $10k in research funds, today the grant was terminated by NSF. Would love someone to explain how this is making America great again…

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My NSF was officially terminated “Beyond the Myth: Political Geography, Electoral Institutions, and the Evolution of Women’s Voting Patterns in Rich Democracies” I’ve been collecting historical data on the gender turnout and preference gaps after suffrage using old ass books…

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Today our NSF grant to increase minority participation in astronomy was canceled

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I learned today that the NSF grant I'm a co-PI for has been terminated with immediate effect. Our team had been given some kind of assurance by the program officer until recently, so the impact is even bigger.

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What is happening at the NSF right now is a scientific crisis. Hundreds of grants, including my own, are being terminated for no other reason than Ted Cruz and Elon Musk say so. Without legal intervention, soon there will be nothing left of this agency. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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infuriated and heartbroken at all the important work reviewed, approved and funded by NSF being terminated this week - all the work visioned, proposed, managed and conducted by teams of scholars, faculty, staff, students and community members airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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It was really only a matter of time, but both my NSF grants have now been terminated.

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Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

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Our NSF grant was terminated. :(

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For some context, this is the person who was amplifying these concerns originally. I think it's always a good idea to have copies of your award letters and annual/final reports on your hard drive all the time, regardless.

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Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience

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#WithoutNSF my lab won’t receive the critical funding it needs to continue studying how Neanderthal genomic ancestry affects our health. #NSF supports our country's leadership in science and innovation. #SupportNSF #SaveNSF www.youtube.com/live/BH9CyPe...

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Just want to say that I have been reading the all of the grant descriptions and everyone has been doing some goddam amazing work out there. #NSF airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak

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🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪

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Preliminary number of NSF grants to be terminated today is ~600, per sources. Including last week's cluster, this would put the total around 1,000.

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Further grant terminations from NSF. I don't yet have a list of what has been cut. It's been hard to concentrate today when every email ping could a notice from NSF that another of our grants is being terminated.

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UPDATE: After DOGE/NSF froze making any new NSF awards last week, it has now resumed. Of course, this is amid the NSF director resigning yesterday, more terminations of active awards expected today, etc. But an interesting tidbit nevertheless...

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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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"We are using Kickstarter because the traditional funding approach of coordinating academic and scientific support through grant proposals and applications has no path forward under the current administration’s lack of support for education, the arts and the sciences."

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Another big blow to US science and natural resource management. Wildlife coop research units date back to the 1930s. With roots back to the early 20th century, USGS has been the lead in long-term biodiversity monitoring and important citizen science programs. 🧪#Academicsky

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Impressive organizing by UCLA faculty: hundreds signed in less than 24 hours, and tonight Frenk signed the AAC&U open letter. (Frenk was UM president until last year. Our current president hasn't signed.)

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If you would like to see UCLA's Chancellor Frenk sign on, you can ask him to do so here: sites.google.com/view/constru...

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As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

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🚨Today the entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library services were cut by DOGE!

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I had two NSF grants terminated last week, for a total of just under $1M. The largest one had just started and its goal was to provide users with more context and information on the content that they see on social media.

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🧪 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...

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🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

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I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

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This USGS program includes, amongst others, the Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Ecosystems' Land Change Science Program www.science.org/content/arti...

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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

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NSF announced that it has begun terminating awards. It's unclear how many affected. Sources say it could be over 200 It's also re-reviewing proposals that had already been approved for funding Here's a breakdown of what's happened this week: cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #ChemSky #Science

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"Faculty at Michigan State University have become the latest in the Big Ten to urge conference leaders to create a "mutual defense compact" statenews.com/article/2025...

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Holy shit. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has halted the awarding of previously approved proposals to ensure compliance with presidential directives following the arrival of DOGE at the science funding agency.

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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