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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈

@davidimiller.bsky.social
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Physicist Turned Psychologist | Senior Researcher in #STEMed | Meta-Analysis Nerd | d-miller.github.io Also posts about 🧪 science funding to focus my attention. Personal account. I don’t speak for my employer or any other orgs.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One striking difference between NIH and NSF is that NIH seems to have leadership able to push back against Vought, as well as a broader public base of support in Congress. NSF leadership seem to be doing nothing to push back against the killing of social science research.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NSF gave 90% fewer new grants this year in the social & behavioral sciences Spokesperson quote is even more batshit crazy: NSF "has been actively engaging in prudent planning & taking steps to implement the President’s agenda for FY 2027" Yo, that first requires a little thing called...Congress
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New long-form post on the proposed Executive Order that would give OMB Director Russell Vought veto power over NIH funding decisions.
joshuasweitz.substack.com
An Emperor of All Malice: Contesting Efforts to Control NIH Funding
Unilateral efforts by the White House to politicize funding decisions jeopardize discovery, health, and the economy… and demand a timely, effective response.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As you call members of Congress to raise concern about a Vought-led grant review panel, encourage them to sign onto proposed legislation that could help: 1) Follow the Science Act by @degette.house.gov would remove political appointees from the grant-making process: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2. Prefer applicants who voluntarily agree to not charge the gov't for the full indirect costs of research (§ 75.228). 3. Allow for "multiyear funding" that in practical terms means fewer new projects in next 1-3 years (§ 75.252). Comment on whatever most speaks to you! Cite the relevant section #
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
⏰ About 12 hrs left to comment on the Dept of Ed's proposal!! I focused on changes to redefining "evidence" (a thread on that coming later): www.regulations.gov/comment/ED-2... But also the changes would... 1. Give broad authority to terminate grants "for convenience" (§ 75.901(a)). Cont'd...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
See this broader guide from AERA on other proposed regulatory changes: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
Allow the Department to give a competitive preference to grant applicants that voluntarily agree to recover less than their federally negotiated indirect cost rate—and require them to maintain that reduction for the life of the grant. This could disadvantage institutions that are less able to absorb unrecovered research costs;
Expressly authorize the Department to terminate discretionary grants “for convenience” and retain broad discretion to end awards based on changing program goals or agency priorities;
Revise standards governing continuation funding for multiyear awards and establish a new definition for “frontloading” grant awards;
Add requirements governing merit-based employment and participation decisions; compelled statements of political belief; and institutional protections for freedom of speech, inquiry, research, press, and association under Department grants;
Require state-administered grantees and subgrantees to comply with applicable Executive Orders; and
Revise definitions of experimental studies and different levels of evidence, while establishing a new “evidence framework” through which the Department could recognize review approaches beyond those aligned with the What Works Clearinghouse.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
📚 Ed researchers: Listen up, the Dept of Education is proposing major changes in the federal role of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). ⏰ You have **three days** left to submit a public comment. Working on my own right now. In the meantime, take it from a former contracting officer for the WWC:
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you so much Nora!! Means a lot from you, especially given the work we've done together ❤️
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you Jeremy ❤️ That means a lot coming from you.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So bottom line: If you have felt the same, you're not alone. And also know that sometimes redirecting efforts to the state/local level can help in regaining a sense of purpose--while still changing lives. In solidarity with you all, especially if you've felt the same ❤️
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don't know if I will return to continue to post regularly. I have really enjoyed getting to meet others at in-person functions where they go, "oh you're *that* David Miller who posts about NSF? Thank you!" My heart swells, but I also feel a tinge of guilt too, whether warranted or not.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If anyone has reached out over Bluesky/Signal/email/etc over the past year, and I haven't responded, just know: it isn't you. I feel vulnerable writing so candidly and so publicly, but I do so in case it's helpful for others in finding a regained sense of purpose.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But also, finding other ways to support the research and STEM education community has helped a lot too in what sometimes feels like an ever-hopeless task of bucking developments at the national level.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But comforting isn't enough: If you have felt the federal level to be overwhelming, also know that the local/state level can often matter a whole lot more in aggregate. Personally, part of my day-to-day work still involves supporting NSF grantees--a mission I still remain very much committed to.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like, "oh, we're using the word 'equity' in official gov't communications?" Well OK then! It's given me a renewed sense of purpose. So if you've felt the same: definitely know you are not alone. In fact, I would find it comforting to hear from others who had a similar journey over the past year.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
2. I recently have felt hope--at the state/local level. I've recently started a really cool project about making education research more usable and actionable for California educators seeking to improve student outcomes. I've been pleasantly surprised...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Instead, I write this thread for two reasons: 1. First, I recently connected w a colleague who felt the same. Someone who I felt a kindred spirit of sorts at the start of 2025--but then felt increasingly withdrawn. Hopeless almost. If we both felt the same, who else might feel similarly?
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don't write this to gain sympathy. I honestly feel like a walking set of contradictions: myself 15+ months ago would have been slapping me, saying "wake the fuck up and do something." And I know objectively that is still true. Yet, subjectively, it has been hard to process.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm also gay. But that pales in comparison to the absolute terror that undocumented immigrants face on a day-to-day basis when it comes to ICE. Yet, there's still the feeling of dread when it comes to the federal gov't, despite my relatively safe position.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When I write "federal context has been weighing on me", I feel guilty. I live in a *very* privileged position: I'm white, natural born U.S. citizen, with a reasonably high-paying job. I'm not who this present admin is targeting. Sure, I had an NSF grant terminated b/c it was about gender bias.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hey folks, I feel weird writing this thread (considering you know, I've been inactive for like a year on social media). But the truth is the federal context really has been weighing on me. I used to be super active, especially posting every latest development as it relates to NSF. Cont'd...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Fuck that noise. Federal workers deserve our respect and pay. And more than that: it's the law. "Shall be paid...at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends" 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2): uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
(2) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 03/10/2025
I got fed up with Vance’s lies, so I made a video addressing a few of them: -Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants) -Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996) -What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Receipts for above: U of Texas Board of Regents (gift NYT link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... California governor: bsky.app/profile/gove... The 10-page "compact" itself: www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A tale of two states and Trump's shakedown of higher ed: TEXAS: Oh goody, yes, we love to strip away academic freedoms to serve Trump's wishes. CALIFORNIA: Eat shit. Any university who signs the letter will lose state funding.
“The University of Texas system is honored that our flagship — the University of Texas at Austin — has been named as one of only nine institutions in the U.S. selected by the Trump administration for potential funding advantages under its new Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” Kevin P. Eltife, the chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents, said in a statement on Thursday. “We enthusiastically look forward to engaging with university officials and reviewing the compact immediately.”Newsom
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Republicans had what was a strong shutdown position: We want to keep the govt open, Dems have demands. They had traded this for Vought's position, which imo is much riskier, since it is based on an obvious lie about the need to make cuts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
The administration is gambling the idea that the public will buy the false claim that the cuts they are imposing are caused by the shutdown. This is simply not true, and if people start to understand that Vought is imposing needless pain, using the shutdown as an excuse to hurt public services and blue states, the Republican position looks a lot harder to defend. It is therefore substantively important that the media cover this point accurately.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.” - @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science
President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass lay-offs across the federal government.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Some further context on the abrupt policy change:
science.org
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Though many NSF employees are currently furloughed, Congress is not (where this call is going to next):
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors: You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship. Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that. [Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]
laurenkuehne.github.io
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday. We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition! *nearly 900! @danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
One blatant violation of the Hatch Act after another:
“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal spending bill (HR 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the US Small Business Administration from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. Every day that Senate Democrats continue [to] oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”

The email goes on to say that once the shutdown is over, “we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.”
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Advice: download PDFs of any documents you might need from government websites. The NIFA website went offline during the government shutdown during my PhD
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh... Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.
Brief Summary of significant agency activities that will continue during a lapse:
National Science Foundation (NSF) will use available carryover balances to continue daily operations.
Once those balances are exhausted, electronic systems for proposal preparation and submission
will remain available for use during a lapse in appropriations, (i.e., Research.gov, and Grants.gov).
The Awards Cash Management Service (ACM$) and the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) will remain
available for the submission and processing of valid payments for recipients and contractors.
Recipients may continue performance under their NSF awards during a lapse in appropriations, to
the extent funds are available, and the period of performance of the grant or cooperative
agreement has not expired. In the event of a lapse, more detailed information on NSF operations for
recipients, panelists, and employees will be posted at www.NSF.gov, and will be updated as
necessary during a lapse. 
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Brief Summary of significant agency activities that will cease during a lapse:
In general, no new grants, continuing grant increments, cooperative agreements, or contracts will be
awarded. No new funding opportunities (program descriptions, announcements, solicitations or
Dear Colleague Letters) will be issued. Responses to any inquiries received regarding upcoming
deadlines will be deferred until normal operations resume. All panels (including virtual panels)
scheduled to occur during a lapse in appropriations will be cancelled and will likely be rescheduled
to a later date.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Needed to take a bit of a social media break for personal reasons, but hopping back on say: At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc. While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
New: More than two weeks after a court order ruled the Trump administration's termination of 1000+ grants illegal, Harvard's research funding is still frozen—with one exception. On Wednesday, NSF reinstated both Harvard's grants and access to funds. My reporting:
nature.com
Harvard vs Trump: research funds still mostly frozen despite court win
US funding agencies might violate a judge’s ruling if they continue to withhold money.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Exactly this
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2025
Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: David.marcelis@wsj.com Journalists who wrote the article: james.fanelli@wsj.com sadie.gurman@wsj.com Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Appreciate the timeline cleanse 😂
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/09/2025
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ‼️🧬💪 ⏰WHEN: Weds, Sept. 17th at 8am ET 📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC 🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Statement from the plaintiffs: “We are as united and committed as ever to ultimately winning this case and protecting these important NSF grants. The Trump-Vance administration acted unlawfully when it terminated these crucial grants."
democracyforward.org
In a Loss for American Innovation and Excellence, Court Allows Mass Termination of Grants at National Science Foundation as Case Continues - Democracy Forward
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And more broadly, fuck this lawless dangerous SCOTUS. Like how SCOTUS gave the green light for racial profiling earlier this week. From a chaired law professor at NYU:
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