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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
From the DOJ: Constitutionality of the National Science Foundation’s STEM Programs www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
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Trump ousts National Science Board members
Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
www.afge.org/article/afge...
afge.org
AFGE Local 3403 Members at NSF Take Bold Stand for Science
In a powerful act of professional integrity, nearly 150 career scientists and workers at the National Science Foundation (NSF), represented by AFGE Local 3403, have delivered an unprecedented whistleb...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
www.alxnow.com/2025/08/26/g...
alxnow.com
GSA launches search for new Alexandria office space to house displaced National Science Foundation | ALXnow
The General Services Administration has launched an official search for office space in Alexandria to relocate the National Science Foundation after the agency was displaced from its Eisenhower Avenue...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Join us on August 18 for the next webinar. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
nsf.gov
NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/n...
nytimes.com
Judge Declines to Order Trump Administration to Restore Research Cuts
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.govexec.com/management/2...
govexec.com
NSF slashes most career executive roles after shedding one-third of staff
The National Science Foundation is initiating a reduction in force for senior executives, but offering them opportunities to stay at the agency.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-repo...
federalnewsnetwork.com
‘A never-ending nightmare’: Federal workers detail mental health toll of government downsizing
Federal employees say in a new survey that they are experiencing high levels of anxiety, stress, sleep deprivation, anger outbursts and depression.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
nytimes.com
Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
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NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Includes comments from NSF program directors: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts
Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oc7...
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National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover | NBC4 Washington
YouTube video by NBC4 Washington
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
nytimes.com
Housing Department to Move Headquarters, Booting National Science Foundation
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/natio...
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National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)
I’m still trying to find out more about this. But as I...
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Vote! 🌊 🌊🌊🌊 @alexismya.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
HUD secretary's hostile takeover of the NSF building have angered NSF employees
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So about that @dangaristo.bsky.social scoop... It would seem the "New Golden Age of HUD" now supersedes "Restoring Gold Standard Science".
"The New Golden Age of HUD | Secretary Turner Unveils HUD's New Building"
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
National Science Foundation Surprise: Employees Being Relocated to Accommodate Secretary of HUD’s Palatial New Office www.afge.org/contentasset...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees www.alxnow.com/category/news/
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News | ALXnow
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
nsf.gov
NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...
news.bloomberglaw.com
National Science Foundation Sued Over DEI Funding Rollback (1)
Sixteen states say the National Science Foundation is illegally divesting millions of dollars from university research efforts to align with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI mandate, according to a...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.
federalregister.gov
Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025
NSF officials announced they are essentially abandoning the use of “rotators”— scientists on leave from academic positions who help the agency choose the best research to fund. NSF also plans to reduce the number of administrators classified as senior executive service employees. scim.ag/3EKnxmc
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NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about
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About EES
The NSF Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in science and engineering.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
scim.ag
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“Save the US NSF” Take Action Toolkit www.savensf.com
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Home | Savensf
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Open Letter from NSF AFGE Union to Members of the National Science Board www.savensf.com/_files/ugd/e...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
npr.org
Scientists reel as turmoil roils National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
washingtonpost.com
Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis
The $9 billion agency, which exists solely to fund researchers, projects and facilities outside its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters, is hitting reverse on its mission.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I missed NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences! What a welcome back. Most illegally terminated employees will be reinstated this week.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Firings+reinstatements+RIFs=Efficiency? “Vought issued a memo to agency heads, directing them to start preparing for mass layoffs through a reduction in force (RIF) by submitting a reorganization plan by March 13. Several agencies have already sent out RIF notices.” www.afge.org/article/afge...
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AFGE Warns Americans Will Suffer from Trump’s Mass Layoffs of Federal Workers Who Provide Services
The American voters have been duped by Trump and Vought who are on a mission to take away their benefits by attacking the very people who provide these services.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What a roller coaster. I am grateful for and in awe of our wide NSF community. Reinstatement of fired staff is the right outcome of the first fight. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/n...
axios.com
National Science Foundation is reinstating fired probationary employees
The NSF said probationary employees help it remain a "global leader in scientific discovery and innovation."
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“ A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary government workers in several agencies across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal.” ✊🏻 #AFGE wapo.st/3QJEf7f
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Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers
A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several agencies, including the Department of Defense, were likely illegal.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A court hearing this afternoon could be pivotal for NSF staff terminated illegally. A colleague’s declaration of harm is in Document 18, attachment 9 and speaks for a lot of us who were fired from NSF. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69655...
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American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management, 3:25-cv-01780 - CourtListener.com
Docket for American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management, 3:25-cv-01780 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating ...
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
‘While Musk’s rampage has been feverishly covered, the scope of its impact remains largely underappreciated…It can’t be measured in weeks or months or in government services affected…It will be felt over the span of decades & defined in intellectual talent lost.’ www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...
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The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun
It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Great thread!
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
reuters.com
US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says
National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/n...
theregister.com
NSF decimation puts future US science leadership in doubt
An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more
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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Are you a federal employee, contractor, or other worker in the DC area who's been illegally fired or whose job is in limbo because of Elon Musk? Come to the Senate to meet others in the same boat and share your story with Senate offices. We meet every day at 10am.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What is science in the US going to look like after 2/3 cut in budget? www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
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National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce
NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
During the mass firings yesterday, NSF’s Chief Management Officer told us, “This is the first of many forthcoming workforce reductions”. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: ‘You screwed people’: Inside NSF’s firing of 168 workers
At an emotional meeting, National Science Foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
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