NewsletterTFApr 30

National Science Board Cleansed: Trump Administration Removes Key Oversight Figures

President Trump removed members of the National Science Board on April 24th. This affects how science research is overseen and funded in the US.

#NSBchanges, #TrumpScience, #SciencePolicy, #NSFfunding, #April24news

https://newsletter.tf/trump-removes-national-science-board-april-24/

NewsletterTFApr 30

President Trump removed many members of the National Science Board on April 24th. This is a big change for science in the US.

#NSBchanges, #TrumpScience, #SciencePolicy, #NSFfunding, #April24news
https://newsletter.tf/trump-removes-national-science-board-april-24/

Trump Removes National Science Board Members on April 24th

President Trump removed members of the National Science Board on April 24th. This affects how science research is overseen and funded in the US.

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AnthonyMay 2, 2025
Still waiting to see if I'll be affected by this NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones. I've been doing work under an NSF grant for a few months now.

#NSF #NSFFunding #funding #FederalFunding #GrantFunding #science #ScienceFunding #AntiScience #AntiIntellectual #USPol
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Anne Fausto SterlingJan 4, 2023
https://elifesciences.org/articles/83071
#racisminscience #NSFFunding #antiAsianbias
"The prevalence and persistence of these racial disparities in funding have cascading impacts that perpetuate a cumulative advantage to white PIs across all of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics."
Meta-Research: Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation

White principal investigators applying to the National Science Foundation are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs.

eLife
Anne Fausto SterlingJan 4, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/science/asian-scientists-nsf-funding.html
#asianresearchers #NSFFunding #bias #modelminority #NationalScienceFoundation
"The success rate of proposals led by Asian scientists is about 20 percent below the overall rate — a disparity that has persisted for two decades and runs counter to the common narrative that Asian Americans dominate the sciences and engineering fields in the United States."
Asian Researchers Face Disparity With Key U.S. Science Funding Source

White researchers fared best in winning grants from the National Science Foundation, a study says. Asians encounter the highest rate of rejections, challenging an academic stereotype.