"The WH, via OMB R Vought, has instructed agencies like #EPA, #HHS, #NSF, Interior & #NASA to freeze over $30B in spending -raising serious constitutional Qs about Congress’s “power of the purse” & the expansion of pres exec authority."
-C Young

Targets incl NSF research & edu prgms that operate using funding leftover from 2024 +tens of $Ms for nat park ops +>$100M in science spending at NASA, which incls. climate res.

Power of purse: #Congress!
#Fascism #Resist #USPol https://www.eenews.net/articles/white-house-looks-to-freeze-more-agency-funds-and-expand-executive-power/

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 #climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in #NSF grants have been slashed, and #scientists fear the #US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies/

#US #science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war
Facing an extreme budget, the #NationalAcademies hosted an event that ignored it.
The top-line budget numbers proposed earlier indicated things would be bad: nearly 40% taken off #NIH budget, #NSF down by over half. #NASA's budget includes sharp cuts for planetary science, which would be cut in half and then stay flat for the rest of the decade, with the Mars Sample Return mission canceled.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/us-science-is-being-wrecked-and-its-leadership-is-fighting-the-last-war/

#NSF #NationalScienceFoundation

https://nasawatch.com/trumpspace/letter-from-american-scientists-regarding-nsf-advisory-committees-dissolution/

Letter from American Scientists Regarding NSF Advisory Committees Dissolution, May 21, 2025. Signed by 89 US scientists.
https://nasawatch.com/trumpspace/letter-from-american-scientists-regarding-nsf-advisory-committees-dissolution/

"The justification provided for the termination of the advisory committees was…“to minimize waste, fraud, abuse, and inflation.” But the true cost of this action will not be in dollars saved —it will be in damage done to American scientific leadership, innovation capacity, and global competitiveness."

PS: I just added this letter to the #DefendResearch list of public statements.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5_fjGPNh4_1Hgc0Q68Hr2vJhVIOK1Qc-KynfIG6fZI/edit

"The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies/

"The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation [#NSF] grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world. The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works."

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing #NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-year-old-crypto-bro-is-now-vetoing-nsf-grants-while-staring-at-his-water-bottle/ more #murican madness

"Meet Zachary Terrell, #DOGE ’s apparent authority on scientific merit... Terrell’s apparent qualifications for overruling decades of #scientific expertise? A 2022 bachelor’s degree from Kansas State & a brief career in #crypto.

...This is the expertise now trumping peer review at the #NSF. Not content knowledge, not research experience... Just the confidence that comes with being a 23-yr-old #techbro who thinks he knows better than any actual expert."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-year-old-crypto-bro-is-now-vetoing-nsf-grants-while-staring-at-his-water-bottle/

New on the CITP #Blog: Mihir Kshirsagar makes the case for why the National Science Foundation (#NSF) National AI Research & Development Strategic Plan should prioritize diffusion over innovation

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/05/30/why-should-the-national-rd-strategy-prioritize-diffusion-over-innovation/

John Drake has a convincing argument regarding TACO President's attack on science. It's also a hefty tax on the US economy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2025/05/19/trumps-nih-and-nsf-cuts-could-cost-the-us-economy-10-billion-annually/
#TACO #Science #Economics #NIH #NSF

"Tens of millions of dollars in #NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

On May 28, a group of states including California, New York, and Illinois sued the NSF, arguing that the cuts illegally violated diversity goals and funding priorities clearly established by Congress, which controls federal spending."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies/

Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.

This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down.

https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/ #space #science #NSF #nature

Representing on today's ride in the new #NSF kit.

With or without Elon, the march of terminations continues at #NSF and #NIH, with 31 new terminations in the past week, plus dozens more from earlier weeks that we've surfaced.

The ugly total in terminations:
- NSF: 1,669 grants worth $1.5B
- NIH: 2,182 grants, worth $9.7B, 79 restored/in limbo

See them all at https://grant-watch.us, and don't forget to REPORT! We can't keep up without you.

~350 grants from: #NIH, #NSF...: CXL at #Harvard Med School -incl: research for studying biotic resistance, IDing the earliest precursors of breast cancer, breaking barriers to deliver effective drugs for Alzheimer's disease, studying microbial evolution & researching cures for ALS.

Scientists at Harvard say the CXLs of their res grants are collateral damage in the battle w the Trump admin -worry some scientific breakthroughs *never be discovered.
#Fascism #Resist #USPol https://abcnews.go.com/US/350-harvard-medical-grants-terminated-trump-administration/story?id=122221156

"Latest crisis at #Harvard.

If you're an esp talented grad student in STEM, you can get a grant from the #NSF to help pay for grad school.

You apply as you head to grad school. NSF awards ~4K/yr—each fellowship is for 3-5 yrs of funding.

Go to: top of the top grad students.

US citizens only. No INTL students.

NSFjust CXL all the NSF grants for Harvard grad students. 100s of Harvard PhD students in the sciences -had their funding pulled..."
-C Fishman
#Science #USPol
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1927751537071149517.html