Shout out to all the hard working program officers and administration staff holding on at the NSF (and other federal agencies). Your work is appreciated and more meaningful with every passing day.

If you can share personal stories of how the spending freeze impacted you, that will help.

If you have REPUBLICAN senators, please contact them to (a) thank them for their pressure to reverse this freeze, and (b) urge them to vote against Vought's nomination to the Office of Management and Budget, because no one who is willing to send illegal memos on spending should be in charge of it.

Republicans don't give a shit about Africans dying of AIDS because we've halted distribution of HIV drugs or poor Americans not eating because we've halted distribution of food stamps. But they used to care about American science & competitiveness, so urge them to stop this disaster on those grounds

If this attack on American science were coming from Russia or China, we would rightly consider it a dangerous threat. But it's coming from our own government.

Republicans have always said they care about American competitiveness, but shutting down American science is the opposite of that. This pause will irrevocably damage American science. Publicly-funded science is part of what makes America great.

Call your representatives in congress today and let them know that shutting down NSF and NIH programs is unacceptable. Here is my letter to my representatives if you want to copy and/or use for inspiration. letterstothepeopleincharge.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/r...

My work is 100% funded by the National Science Foundation, and without it, I don't have a job. Publicly funded scientific research by agencies like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health is one of the things that actually makes America great.