Kate Thompson, PhD
@kate-et-thompson.bsky.social
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NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
Grant Watch
grant-watch.us
April 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
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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.
It's been hard to concentrate today when every email ping could a notice from NSF that another of our grants is being terminated.
April 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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.
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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Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
April 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
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Even if Musk "steps away" from politics, he needs to be reviled and protested until he is completely destroyed
April 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Even if Musk "steps away" from politics, he needs to be reviled and protested until he is completely destroyed
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Universities like mine are limiting hiring, travel, and other spending using federal funds because of the fear of things like this. It's basically impossible to do science, whether NSF takes back funding or not.
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Universities like mine are limiting hiring, travel, and other spending using federal funds because of the fear of things like this. It's basically impossible to do science, whether NSF takes back funding or not.
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Just got a phone call from an old friend (my college roommate) about the 400+ cancelled NSF grants that DOGE is celebrating in the post below. He’s on it. But they have the wrong grant! 1/6
April 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just got a phone call from an old friend (my college roommate) about the 400+ cancelled NSF grants that DOGE is celebrating in the post below. He’s on it. But they have the wrong grant! 1/6
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Really scary stuff. the US NSF is following the lead of Ted Cruz cancelling "questionable projects that pushed onto science neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle". I've worked with NSF for 32 years. Something is wrong. This is not what they do.🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
In killing grants, NSF appears to follow Ted Cruz’s blueprint
Senator’s report targeted up to $2 billion for diversity, climate change, and misinformation research
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Really scary stuff. the US NSF is following the lead of Ted Cruz cancelling "questionable projects that pushed onto science neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle". I've worked with NSF for 32 years. Something is wrong. This is not what they do.🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF didn’t set “new priorities”… NSF illegally terminated grants
NSF Sets New Priorities
After a change in priorities, NSF says it won’t fund programs that promote DEI or combat misinformation, among others. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jjEuma
After a change in priorities, NSF says it won’t fund programs that promote DEI or combat misinformation, among others. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jjEuma
NSF Terminates Grants Focused on DEI or Misinformation
After a change in priorities, NSF says it won’t fund programs that promote DEI or combat misinformation, among others.
bit.ly
April 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NSF didn’t set “new priorities”… NSF illegally terminated grants
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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
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
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🚨 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
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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🧪 As the measles outbreak in West Texas & New Mexico grows to >130, not hard to imagine how much worse this same scenario could be a few years down the road if RFK undermines confidence in & access to vaccines. The signs he will are already adding up. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link!):
Measles Outbreak Was Entirely Avoidable
Low vaccination rates contributed to the re-emergence of a disease declared eradicated in the US 25 years ago.
www.bloomberg.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🧪 As the measles outbreak in West Texas & New Mexico grows to >130, not hard to imagine how much worse this same scenario could be a few years down the road if RFK undermines confidence in & access to vaccines. The signs he will are already adding up. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link!):
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Not great: “They are greatly diminishing CDC and the country's ability to respond to emerging infectious threats."
Let’s all hope that bird flu doesn’t get any worse 🤞🏽
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Let’s all hope that bird flu doesn’t get any worse 🤞🏽
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Upheaval and firings at CDC raise fears about disease outbreak response
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Not great: “They are greatly diminishing CDC and the country's ability to respond to emerging infectious threats."
Let’s all hope that bird flu doesn’t get any worse 🤞🏽
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Let’s all hope that bird flu doesn’t get any worse 🤞🏽
www.npr.org/sections/sho...