Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/116657625572527562

I don’t know how high-up admin denied my case. Maybe these MAGA, or maybe just bootlickers.
#nsf

My NSF CAREER proposal got recommended by the review panel and PO, but denied by “upper management” who has serious misgivings on the proposed research. Will hear more from the PO tomorrow.
This has been devastating, as we have worked so hard on this, and have put on so much hope/stake on it.
I work as a scientist in the US because I believed academic freedom, but it seems not existing anymore.
I guess it’s time to really move on… I will seriously look for an alternative career.
#Science #NSF

Eric R. Scott 2d ago

Unfortunately, it looks like the US NSF is terminating and suspending research grants again.

This time, they are doing it in a way that doesn't show up in publicly available data, so please help us out and report if you've received suspension or termination letters for your NSF awards!

https://grant-witness.us/posts/2026-05-27_new-nsf-terminations/

#NationalScienceFoundationNSF #NSF #uspol #Science #Research #ResearchPolicy

New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

Grant Witness

Noam Ross 2d ago

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them!

We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions through reports from researchers. Please report!

https://grant-witness.us/posts/2026-05-27_new-nsf-terminations/

#NSF #science #uspol

New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

Grant Witness

Noam Ross 2d ago

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

New Grant Disruptions at NSF -...

New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

Grant Witness

petersuber May 22

The US Government Accountability Office (#GAO) just reviewed the #OpenAccess policies at nine federal agencies.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107738

A few highlights:

* Among other things, GAO looked for compliance with the #NelsonMemo. This is further evidence that the #Trump admin supports the memo.

* It encourages #NSF and #USDA to go further to ensure #reuse rights. (That would be good.) But it assumes that the other agencies are already doing enough to ensure reuse rights. (I can't agree with this.)

* It praises #NIH for taking steps to reduce money spent on grantee #APCs, and encourages other agencies to follow the NIH lead on this.

* In a few places it leaves the false impression (1) that all OA journals charge APCs and (2) that all publishers are responding the federal policies by charging APCs to publish fed-funded research.

#PublicAccess #ScholComm #USPol #USPolitics

LeidenForce May 20

Proposed large cuts to US science agencies were mostly scaled back by Congress. #NSF, #NASA and #NIH budgets ended up far less affected than initially announced, showing the strength of legislative checks in budget-making.

🔗 https://www.pourlascience.fr/sr/les-sciences-a-la-loupe/budget-de-la-recherche-americain-le-congres-tempere-les-coupes-voulues-par-donald-trump-29079.php

#ResearchPolicy #ScienceFunding

LeidenForce May 12

Nearly 14,000 applicants, 2,599 awards: the American National Science Foundation (NSF) increases PhD fellowships again. Engineering, quantum science and AI lead growth in this competitive programme.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01119-1

#NSF #GraduateResearch #QuantumScience #AI #STEM

NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the US funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half.

Rich Stein (he/him)May 12

Science under attack: the US Government no longer feels that research into misinformation (as well as so much other scientific research) is relevant. It's almost like they want an ignorant populous that Wan be fed misinformation and told what to believe.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2026/05/07/nsf-grant-scientific-funding-trump-misinformation/89970285007/
h/t @fil
https://fediscience.org/@fil/116560209596452033
#misinformation #ScienceMatters #science #NSF

I researched misinformation, until the government stopped me | Opinion

A researcher's NSF grant termination reveals a broader attack on science funding and misinformation research, despite rising AI-generated falsehoods.

The Tennessean

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬May 11

#Scientists Press #Congress on Trump’s Dismissal of Funding Agency Board
The slowed pace of #grants by the #NationalScienceFoundation (#NSF), under attack from #WhiteHouse, could put #US at disadvantage with China, scientists warned.
“We stand with the #NationalScienceBoard, and call on Congress, as an equal branch of government, to rapidly and firmly support science by calling for the reinstatement of terminated #NSB members,” signatories wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/nsf-science-congress-trump.html
https://archive.ph/YpHnD

Scientists Press Congress on Dismissal of National Science Foundation Board and Research Funding

The slowed pace of grants by the National Science Foundation, under attack from the White House, could put the United States at a disadvantage with China, the scientists warned.

The New York Times