Jessie
urbanplanterdfw.bsky.social
Jessie
@urbanplanterdfw.bsky.social
Urban Forester & Science Communicator 🌳 TCU Science Ed PhD Candidate👩🏻‍🔬 🌿 All views are my own! she/ her 🌈 #BiInSci🏳️‍🌈 go frogs 🐸
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM