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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an excellent article about what has been happening with federal funding for scientific research.
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 29/09/2026
NOAA studies and monitors our coasts, the deep sea, weather, climate and even outer space. It has endured staff firings, suppression of scientific reports, budget cuts and grant terminations. This week we're adding it to Grant Witness's tracking. grantwitness.org/noaa/updates... 🧪
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Grant Witness is tracking NOAA Terminations and Funding
Tracker and Submission Form is now available on our website
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 29/09/2026
NOAA studies and monitors our coasts, the deep sea, weather, climate and even outer space. It has endured staff firings, suppression of scientific reports, budget cuts and grant terminations. This week we're adding it to Grant Witness's tracking. grantwitness.org/noaa/updates... 🧪
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Grant Witness is tracking NOAA Terminations and Funding
Tracker and Submission Form is now available on our website
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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ahead of Fiscal Year End, NSF Over a Billion Behind, IES to Award Funds www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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NSF Over Billion Behind on Grants; IES Says Will Give Funds
As the fiscal year’s end looms Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation has awarded significantly fewer grants than usual, and a judge has ordered an update from the Institute of Education Sciences o...
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really helpful website with information by sector and state on funding for programs that has been cut or frozen: Clawson, J., Kaczmarek, U., Ross, N., et al (2026). Lost Funds: A States United and Grant Witness Project Tracking Funding Disruptions under the Trump Administration lostfunds.org
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Lost Funds — $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 16/09/2026
We're proud to partner with @statesunited.org on the new Lost Funds project, comprehensive tracker of how the administration has usurped Congress's power of the purse and harmed local governments, businesses, nonprofits, tribes, schools, universities and communities across America.
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States United Democracy Center @statesunited.org · 16/09/2026
💰🚨 NEW: Since January 2025, the Trump administration has disrupted $177 billion across 17 funding sectors in all 50 states and DC. Our new project with @grantwitness.org tracks every dollar, grant by grant, and shows the impact of disruptions 🔗 www.lostfunds.org
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Lost Funds — $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
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States United Democracy Center @statesunited.org · 18/09/2026
🚨 Funding disruptions are harming farmers, doctors, children, teachers, police officers, disaster relief workers, and millions of other Americans across all 50 states trying to make ends meet. This is NOT business as usual. www.lostfunds.org
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Lost Funds -- $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration's federal funding disruptions state by state -- what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please join me in thanking the named plaintiffs in this lawsuit, including @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd & @jddaw.bsky.social These brave scientists are taking on risk to protect science, scientists & beneficiaries of science (all of us). www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New lawsuit challenging NIH actions around "DEI" on Constitutional grounds. protectdemocracy.org/work/researc... 1/2
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Researchers challenge NIH screening of grants for disfavored viewpoints - Protect Democracy
Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 16/09/2026
We're proud to partner with @statesunited.org on the new Lost Funds project, comprehensive tracker of how the administration has usurped Congress's power of the purse and harmed local governments, businesses, nonprofits, tribes, schools, universities and communities across America.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The White House and OMB's diminished vision for science and medical research undercuts discoveries to come... ... and will lead to significant, near-term economic losses totaling tens of billions of $-s and tens of thousands of jobs. scienceimpacts.org/fy27
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2027 Budget Cuts to the NIH and NSF
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of stories across Pennsylvania about NIH grant terminations at Pitt and Penn. This is why speaking out matters. Even Congress critters who generally support the administration get pressured into actually supporting their constituents. www.wesanews.org/health-scien...
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McCormick, Fetterman question termination of more than 100 health research grants
Pennsylvania’s senators are demanding information about more than 150 health research grants canceled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this summer.
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 11/09/2026
Glad to work with @aip.bsky.social to highlight the dramatic loss of support for physics from NSF this year. Dig into the numbers at grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Previous reporting
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Previous update
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Obligations are down 20%, about 1.5 billion. Most of that is due to the $1 billion in withheld funds, though it seems there's another ~$500 million sitting in accounts (~$350 million in the Office of the Director) which may just not be spent. 9/9 is the last day to internally commit funds.
Plot of NSF obligations shows FY26 is well below historic levels.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Grantmaking has leveled off, so it looks like NSF will make around 6,200 new grants—down from an average of ~11,000. That's a historic low, not seen since the 1980s, when NSF was a far smaller organization. Left was our projection three weeks ago, right is the current data.
Previous plot of NSF new grants projected FY26 would be ~6100Current data for total new grants at NSF
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Penultimate? FY26 NSF grantmaking update One month ago (8/4) New grants: 4310/7761 — 55.5% of avg. Obligations: 4.10/5.08 billion — 80.7% of avg. Now (9/7) New grants: 6,144/10,857 — 67% of avg.* Obligations: 5.97/7.49 billion — 80% of avg. *avg. from 21–24 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
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Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026
@jeremymberg.bsky.social and the Grant Witness team — @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social — are the experts at tracking grant money NIH is sending out the door. And the latest curves are not looking great:
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026
Right. Vought and Bhattacharya tried to gut NIH in 2025 via stopping spending (Fed Reg bans) and rescission. That failed. Now in 2026, they’re still using bureaucracy inside the agency to try to slow spending. But they need a new way to get the leftover money (meant for science!) out of NIH. 1/
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Was looking at Grant Witness and got to thinking... How does American geoscience survive *next* fiscal year given NSF's stated goals for the geoscience directorate and the collapse of other federal funding? What's left?
Plot from Grant Witness of the NSF geoscience directorate funding curves, modified with a marker to show the stated goal for funding in 2027. It's a greater than 75% cut.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Have we heard much about this sort of thing at NIH? I've heard whispers about a plan to shift SROs to different study sections every few years but nothing so far about POs being forced into other ICs.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Grant Witness has been an invaluable resource for navigating terminations and funding. Much of my reporting — and, judging by how often GW is credited, that of everyone else who's covering these tumultuous times in federal science — would have been far more difficult or impossible without it.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New NSF BIO solicitation says expected number of awards is 250-300. Historically, the number of awards is closer to 800-1000 for the Directorate of Bio Sciences: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Unless I'm missing large, non-core programs, this seems really not good?
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Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 24/08/2026
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Grant Witness
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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