Northeast state Health Departments already starting to work together to coordinate activities moving forward: vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/w...
Northeast state Health Departments already starting to work together to coordinate activities moving forward: vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/w...
Presumably they could just terminate them again for lack of alignment with the new research priorities put out last week, or for "convenience", assuming the oversight EO is implemented. They have steadily been putting backstops in place to ensure these terminations happen one way or another.
To Live, about the Cultural Revolution in China, is another movie that is shockingly recognizable now.
I just got Passport this morning - every contribution helps, plus I can never seem to stay up to watch the 10pm shows that look so awesome (and my 86-year-old mother calls to tell me about!).
The Snowflake Bentley museum in Jericho, Vermont is fascinating and lovely, especially if you are into early photography. It's true - no two snowflakes are alike! Snowflake Bentley share.google/kilCrGsCoNHG...
The bill is not posted but multiple sources tell me that it contains a provision that multi-year funding cannot exceed fiscal year 2024 levels. I will check as soon as it is posted.
IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
this is it #scisky #medsky www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
I'm Jewish and this is what I would have said. Language often means something different to others than what we intend. What does a Palestinian American hear when my synagogue says "We stand with Israel"? I'm guessing, "we don't care about Gazan children". Censoring speech is a slippery slope.
In case you thought basic science was silly. . . www.nature.com/articles/d41... #saveNSF @standupforscience.bsky.social
Jfc. We are flushing our future down the toilet.
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
More leadership from the trenches Project McClintock Graduate students writing local op-eds [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
All Five Corners were packed with protesters in Essex Junction, VT! Many hundreds, lots of honking support. @maddow.msnbc.com
Desert seed-harvester ants are teaching us how to survive extreme conditions, by banding together to conserve water and resources. The Chuckwalla National Monument is protecting their fragile habitat, and NSF made our research on these fantastic ants possible! #SaveNSF #SaveChuckwallaNM
I am guessing this is because there is a new injunction on enforcement of the DEI-related EOs, including the certification provision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Because there is a flag relay scheduled along that route.
Do these data include the out-year commitments for new grants, for which half of the FY RPG budget has been allocated? This seems to be a new policy, replacing the annual non-compete process. Page 5 of the NIH CJ Overview below.
This is how my institution decided the issue, and we have heard the same across the board from other research-intensive universities. But note there is a claw-back provision, so the risk exposure will grow over time. One "whistleblower" next year could lead to a $20M clawback. Would bankrupt us.
Same for IOS (92%) and MCB (89%). All of fundamental biology wiped out, unclear how this could even happen without also terminating a bunch of current awards.
90% for fundamental biology (DEB, IOS, MCB, see p. 215). Greatest % reduction across entire portfolio.
It is actually worse then that - fundamental biology at all levels, from environmental biology to organismal systems to molecular and cell bio, facing 90% cut, largest percentage cut across the entire portfolio (see p. 215). My entire integrative Bio dept's research program would be wiped out.
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Statutes, not status.
3/3 Laying the groundwork through an appeal using the award terms and conditions process feels like an important first step.
NSF in particular seems like the best case for ultimately prevailing in court, given how clear the status mandated are going back.many decades (eg America COMPETES Act and prior).
Does your institution plan to contest the termination, on the grounds that promoting STEM participation by women and minority populations is congressionally mandated for NSF and cannot be dropped as an agency priority?
Great turnout and energy at the #HandsOff rally and march today in Burlington, Vermont!
@standupforscience.bsky.social Tomorrow - let's support science!
#Vermont is standing up for science this Friday in Burlington! Join your neighbors in the Brave Little State to advocate for the scientific research that saves lives, preserves livelihoods, and protects our communities. #standupforscience2025
#Vermont is standing up for science this Friday in Burlington! Join your neighbors in the Brave Little State to advocate for the scientific research that saves lives, preserves livelihoods, and protects our communities. #standupforscience2025
The Research Coordination Network for Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) program was archived one day before its Jan 28 deadline - a fabulous program to bring college educators together around innovations in the classroom.
It is only Maine at this point.
We had same experience with RCN-UBE - program was archived literally as we were getting ready to hit submit.
Confusing language - does this invalidate the order to cease EO-related activities, or just mean that they can't stop payment for those activities now, but could investigate non-compliance and claw back money via audit later because the directive was in effect? Not sure what to tell my faculty.
Will not directly block a suspension/termination while being reviewed, but thousands of review requests would be noticed. NSF's mission is better protected by statute than many other agencies, and we should be using every tool we have.
Every NSF PI should dispute their suspension order, providing the Hierarchy of Authorities figure and relevant statutory requirements from the America COMPETES Act and CHIPS and Science Act as evidence that improper procedures were followed and NSF did not follow their own precedence policy.
According to the current PAPPG (NSF 24-1), PIs have 30 days to request of a review of any NSF-initiated suspension or termination of a grant in whole or in part. Note criteria for review. new.nsf.gov/policies/pap...
