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Caitlin S., PhD

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Research Dev't & #SciPol | doing my best for science | Evolutionary Anthropology PhD | #celiac | 🐶 #DogRescue | #FosterCare | Personal account.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This language will be crucial to protect NIH science from being politicized. Thanks to @murray.senate.gov and Sen Collins for leading this. Kennedy is opposed, so especially if you are in Louisiana, time to flood phone lines. rollcall.com/2026/10/01/l...
rollcall.com
Lame-duck effort brewing to protect NIH grantmaking
​Senate appropriators from both parties are workshopping language that could be added to a spending bill to prevent the White House from exerting political influence on medical research grants. The pr...
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fyi #GoldenAgeOfScience www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
whitehouse.gov
U.S. Leads International Coalition to Endorse Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science
KYOTO, JAPAN — At the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum convened in Kyoto, the United States and 16 countries
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sen. Ron Johnson apparently supports breaking the law... "Johnson said he supports the president doing 'whatever it takes' to reduce federal spending." As he stopped a bill attempting to correct Vought's unlawful pocket rescission. www.politico.com/live-updates...
politico.com
Ron Johnson blocks vote to stop Trump’s funding cancellations
Democrats tried to pass a bill to revive $810 million Trump unilaterally canceled and prevent similar clawbacks.
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just missed it, but being in the club, this is every day for me. Go get those breasts checked!
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes!!! Congratulations, Gretchen!
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Will you be updating your False Claims Act course accordingly?
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WHAT THE ACTUAL F?!?! JFC.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Russ Vought pushing that NIH funding is still too “woke”. Director Bhattacharya supposedly defended NIH. [Gift link] wapo.st/3UPK3BP
wapo.st
Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash
A heated debate took place in the Oval Office on Friday, with some Trump officials accusing the National Institutes of Health of funding grants that conflict with the president’s agenda.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Despite extreme ongoing censorship of NIH research, Russell Vought reportedly argued with Jay Bhattacharya at the White House yesterday, urging Trump to bring further scrutiny to NIH funded research. wapo.st/3UPK3BP
wapo.st
Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash
A heated debate took place in the Oval Office on Friday, with some Trump officials accusing the National Institutes of Health of funding grants that conflict with the president’s agenda.
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As a human and former Div1 athlete, this makes me want to puke.
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CITI Program @citiprogram.org · 17/09/2026
Our new course, "Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)," provides researchers, institutional administrators, and IT professionals with the knowledge needed to safeguard CUI and meet federal compliance obligations. post.citiprogram.org/4yDbgWH #CUI #ControlledUnclassifiedInformation
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Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) | CITI Program
Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) This course provides researchers, institutional administrators, and IT professionals with the knowledge needed to safeguard CUI and meet federal compliance obligations. View this course at CITI Program.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
$9.5 Billion. That’s how much Trump paid Feds not to work. My >5 months on paid admin leave is barely a blip in the grand total. But I did see the waste first hand. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
nytimes.com
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort (Gift Article)
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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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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CITI Program @citiprogram.org · 16/09/2026
Register Now for Free! Our live webinar, "Beyond Policies and Procedures: Helping Research Administration Teams Thrive in Times of Change," will explore strategies to guide research administrators in leading through change. post.citiprogram.org/4iqbVGj #ResearchAdministration
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Available Webinar Registrations | CITI Program
Register for upcoming webinars covering a variety of research, higher education, healthcare, technology, and safety topics.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. 1 in 5 people gone from NIH. More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC. Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ. ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
ourpublicservice.org
The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity
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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The American Institute of Physics history program now has a reorganized website. Whether you know nothing, a little, or a lot about our work, take a look around and see if you find anything new to you! www.aip.org/history
Screenshot of the top portion of the AIP history website, showing a feature of a history guide on Bell Labs, introductory text, and the most recent weekly/monthly email newsletters.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good morning from my garden
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's awesome - thanks!
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@volcanojw.bsky.social @mineraltoplanet.bsky.social Frustrating, though maybe not surprising, that they seemed to only answer pre-formed questions and not questions from the live Q&A, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Breaking: Judge Saylor postpones the DHS rule terminating duration of status (i.e. restricting international students to 4 years) a day before it would have taken effect. He denies the request to vacate the rule itself at this time, though. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IV. Conclusion
For the foregoing reasons, plaintiffs’ motion for APA § 705 relief, a preliminary
injunction, or, in the alternative, summary judgment, is GRANTED to the extent that it seeks to
postpone the effective date of the Final Rule pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, 5
U.S.C. § 705. To the extent that plaintiffs seek vacatur of the Final Rule, summary judgment, or
other relief, the motion is DENIED without prejudice to its renewal.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yesterday NSF announced a series of major changes to its grantmaking, best encapsulated by a shift from bottom-up 'investigator-driven inquiry' to more top-down 'NSF-directed opportunities'. These include 4 Frontier Initiatives (previously described as 'Grand Research Challenges'). My reporting:
nature.com
NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities
The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core sciences.
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's been on there for quite some time.
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Love SUFS, but feels like unfortunate messaging given the recent flooding disasters... yikes.
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Love SUFS, but unfortunate messaging given the recent flooding disasters... yikes.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Investing in Exceptional American Talent
NSF's fellowships have launched many of the nation's most distinguished scientific careers,
and cultivating a domestic STEM talent pipeline is a core part of NSF's mission. NSF will
continue this tradition of excellence to identify, train, and empower the latent scientific and
technical talent across our nation.
NSF will therefore renew its talent development around a clear objective: to open pathways
for all Americans with technical aptitude and interest to translate their potential into STEM
careers and, in particular, to make advanced STEM training and research a compelling
choice for the best and brightest Americans. The agency will find and support talented
individuals across the country and equip them with scientific and technical fundamentals
through sustained hands-on experience. NSF programs will bring individuals into contact
with the scientific frontier as early as possible and grant them independence while their
research creativity is at its peak.
The growing integration between basic research and manufacturing R&D calls for federal
investments that pair foundational research in the physical sciences and engineering with
translational efforts including in advanced manufacturing, rebuilding domestic
manufacturing capacity and laying the groundwork for an industrial renaissance. Where
appropriate, NSF will co-locate, sequence, or jointly award workforce and education
investments alongside federal R&D funding so that sector-specific R&D in a region's
expertise is matched by the skilled technical workforce it needs. Through such place-based
strategies, NSF will extend the benefits of federal science to American communities, enable
partnerships across sectors, and facilitate complementary investments in a region.
Education and workforce development are by nature multi-stakeholder endeavors, and
federal investment goes furthest when joined by committed partners. Across its talent
programs, NSF will integrate academia, i…
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
instrumentation, experimental facilities, and reliable verification methods. Realizing the
promise of AI for science requires preparing the scientific enterprise to work differently,
and NSF intends to lead the way.
NSF has a unique role in this transformation. The agency reaches across nearly every field
of science and engineering and supports researchers at every career stage and in every
kind of institution. NSF will use that reach to make AI a broadly available instrument of
discovery, connecting researchers to the AI models, compute, datasets, software expertise,
cloud labs, and infrastructure needed to apply these capabilities across every domain of
the scientific enterprise.
Nowhere is NSF's role more important than in the Genesis Mission, a national effort to
harness AI for scientific discovery and apply it to the most pressing national S&T
challenges. Scientific advances previously thought impossible are now within reach, but
only if the nation's research community lends its expertise, data, and effort to a
coordinated national mission.
NSF is putting its trusted relationships across the scientific enterprise behind Genesis
Mission coordination. The agency has issued a Dear Colleague Letter and incorporated
language into core discovery funding opportunities encouraging proposals that leverage AI
and other emerging technologies, where scientifically justified, to make new modes,
methods, and scales of science possible. In parallel, NSF has also announced a series of
investments in AI-accelerated discovery, including support for AI-ready datasets, next-
generation scientific data infrastructure, and a new national network of programmable
cloud laboratories.
NSF, both directly and through its grantees, is pursuing new and stronger partnerships with
industry, which houses frontier general-purpose AI tools and increasingly performs its own
foundational research using the largest and most capable AI models, computing systems,
and engineering teams. Partnerships w…
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
model NSF's portfolio-driven approach and make full use of the agency's funding
mechanisms and institutional models to accelerate progress, including prizes and
challenges. Frontier Initiative portfolios will balance thesis-driven conviction about where
breakthroughs will emerge with room for serendipity in recognition of scientific
uncertainty. The NSF Office of Metascience will regularly assess whether a Frontier Initiative
continues to address a consequential and distinct frontier, and NSF leadership will
strengthen, evolve, retire, and/or establish new Frontier Initiatives as the frontier develops.
NSF is announcing the inaugural set of Frontier Initiatives:
1. Future of Intelligence will advance our fundamental understanding of intelligence,
aimed at breakthroughs in the architectures, hardware, and theories of learning
that will define the next paradigm of AI. Just as neuroscience laid the groundwork
for neural networks, the next paradigm will likely come from outside computer
science and draw deliberately on physics, mathematics, biology, neuroscience, and
engineering.
2. Frontier of Quantum Phenomena will advance foundational research in quantum
information science and technology, building the physical understanding, materials,
and theory needed to compute, sense, and communicate in ways that exceed the
capabilities of classical systems. This initiative will also support the engineering and
instrumentation breakthroughs required to realize the application of quantum to
other frontiers.
3. Advanced Materials and Matter will advance the design, discovery, and
manipulation of the materials that underpin nearly every other frontier, including
quantum and computing, semiconductors, robotics, fusion, and biomanufacturing.
This initiative will also advance early-stage research on advanced manufacturing
methods that accelerate and close the loop between discovery, synthesis, and
characterization.
4. Foundations of Biological Design will advance the broad measurement…
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
consequential results, and operationalize practical improvements. The OMS will operate
with full transparency, publicly reporting the effectiveness of various funding mechanisms
and publishing postmortems for both positive and negative results.
The Office of Metascience will work across directorates to run rigorous experiments that
advance directorate goals and inform consequential design choices. OMS' experiments will
test questions whose findings can inform broader NSF practices and priorities, such as:
When do longer awards produce greater scientific ambition? Do rapid, exploratory awards
surface valuable ideas that conventional processes miss? Which approaches give early-
career researchers the most independence to produce novel, disruptive ideas? NSF will test
such questions prospectively, share what is learned, and expand successful approaches
across the agency.
Through the OMS, NSF will become a learning, self-improving institution that tries new
approaches, measures their effects, admits candidly when they do not work, and scales
them when they succeed. NSF intends for the OMS to serve as a model that can be applied
to the broader federal research enterprise. These efforts ultimately serve a concrete
ambition for NSF to double the scientific productivity and impact generated by each federal
research dollar by 2036.
Pioneering at the Scientific Frontiers
Increasingly, the most consequential scientific questions emerge at the intersection of
fields, where coordinated action across disciplines can produce transformative outcomes.
NSF has a strong tradition of opening up new frontiers: the National Nanotechnology
Initiative, launched in 2000, spanned NSF's Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO),
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Engineering (ENG),
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
(SBE); the Materials Genome Initiative, launched in 2011, worked across CISE, ENG, and
MPS; and the BRAI…
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Institutional Models. Universities and investigator-led laboratories remain indispensable to
the American S&T ecosystem, but some scientific goals require new forms of institutions
that support a mix of full-time interdisciplinary teams, engineering capacity, local and active
management, or sustained coordination around a specific technological bottleneck. Our X-
Labs initiative that we announced in May 2026 provides one new model for filling this
institutional gap through agile, time-bound organizations that pursue a defined scientific or
technological objective. We will also expand support for other emerging institutional forms,
such as joint university-industry centers and research institutes that drive greater
integration of foundational and applied research. These organizations will complement, not
replace, the extraordinary strengths of America's universities, industry, and federal
laboratories.
Portfolio-based grant-making is ultimately a model for the entire federal R&D enterprise,
and NSF intends to be the first agency to demonstrate it at scale. Our unique and
indispensable contribution to the overall federal R&D portfolio is foundational research,
spanning both curiosity-driven and use-inspired discovery. By pursuing excellence and
deliberateness in our part of the national portfolio, and by leveraging partnerships with
other agencies, philanthropy, and industry, NSF will deliver maximum return on federal
research dollars.
Building a Self-Improving National Science Foundation
Since its inception, NSF has leveraged taxpayer investments to deliver groundbreaking
discoveries, cutting-edge infrastructure, and a world-class scientific workforce. Yet, we
must continuously adapt and improve the agency to operate with maximal efficiency and
impact. NSF's merit review system rightly expects researchers to formulate hypotheses,
test them against evidence, and apply a high degree of rigor and self-skepticism. We will
apply the same experimental thinking and discipli…
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
built into the over $1.5 billion dollars of core discovery research funding opportunities
released on August 17, 2026.
Likewise, true curiosity-driven, blue-sky research is more exploratory and can often be de-
risked quickly and inexpensively. Building on existing mechanisms such as EAGER awards
for high-risk, high-reward exploratory research and RAPID awards for time-sensitive
science, NSF is expanding the use of short-duration grant pathways featuring applications
of only a few pages and rapid funding decisions.
Degrees of Specification. NSF's portfolio approach to grantmaking will balance funding
opportunities focused on exploration by the scientist ("investigator-driven inquiry") and
NSF-directed opportunities in areas of special emphasis or need. Investigator-driven
funding opportunities provide researchers with the freedom to pursue bold ideas shaped
by their own curiosity, with the goal of advancing scientific progress without regard to
practical application or ancillary objectives. NSF-directed opportunities will take many
forms, from milestone-based funding tied to demonstrated progress towards defined
technical objectives, to prizes and challenges where NSF specifies a goal in advance aligned
with national missions and strategic technology priorities. When NSF provides direction, we
will specify the objective, never the method scientists must use to achieve it.
There is an opportunity to increase our use of prizes, challenges, and milestone-based
support where an ambitious objective can be clearly specified but many paths to achieve it
exist or interdisciplinary teams must be formed, and where substantial non-federal
participation can be leveraged. In the coming weeks and months, NSF will announce a
series of Grand Research Challenges to take thesis-driven bets that stand to unlock new
frontiers of S&T.
Funding Mechanisms. The NSF merit review process remains the gold standard of grant-
making, but other models exist that may be better suited to identify …
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our direction is consistent with the ambitious vision articulated in Science: A New Golden Age
and the Fiscal Year 2028 OMB-OSTP R&D Budget Priorities Memorandum, the first
comprehensive rethinking of the U.S. S&T enterprise since Vannevar Bush's 1945 Science:
The Endless Frontier. We are proud to take a leading role and work with federal research
agencies across the government to continue to push the American scientific frontier.
A Portfolio-Based Approach to Supporting Science
For over 75 years, NSF has supported research and related activities to further its mission
to promote the progress of science, including curiosity-driven and use-inspired
foundational research, translational efforts, research infrastructure, and STEM talent
development. NSF will combine its merit-based approach with an enhanced deliberateness
to its portfolio-based grant-making along two dimensions: how the foundation supports its
research and related activities, and how it supports different forms of scientific inquiry.
First, funding opportunities are being consolidated, simplified, and purpose-built to more
intentionally advance a specific aspect of NSF's mission. Discovery-focused research
funding opportunities will advance fundamental understanding within a given directorate's
disciplines without the need to address later-stage development. Translational programs
will address the barriers between discovery and application, leveraging industry cost-share
where appropriate. Infrastructure investments will create capabilities that no individual
researcher or institution could build alone and enable more researchers to conduct
cutting-edge science. NSF's STEM talent development programs will constitute a dedicated
portfolio focused on the challenge of preparing a robust domestic STEM workforce. Talent
development funding opportunities may be coordinated with discovery, translation, and
infrastructure-focused activities, as appropriate, but will be distinct and goal-oriented
efforts. NSF's …
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Full letter follows:
FROM: TO: SUBJECT: Brian Stone, Performing the Duties of the Director
The Science and Technology Community
NSF Leadership in a New Golden Age of Science
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), first envisioned in Vannevar Bush's report
Science: The Endless Frontier, was created in 1950 to advance the frontiers of knowledge and
to sustain the broad foundations of American scientific leadership.
Our core mission has not changed. We are redoubling our commitment to foundational
research, which lays the foundation for the next generation of technologies that will
strengthen economic competitiveness, enhance national security, and improve quality of
life for all Americans.
At the same time, the U.S. science and technology (S&T) enterprise has changed and
America has entered a period of extraordinary scientific possibility. New instruments of
discovery are enabling new lines of inquiry across every field of science and engineering,
and the frontiers of research are advancing in laboratories of every kind, in every part of
the country. Industry and philanthropy play a growing role in both basic and applied
research. The greatest periods of American scientific progress have depended on
institutions capable of recognizing new possibilities, empowering exceptional researchers,
and adapting as the practice of science has changed.
NSF is taking decisive action to meet this moment, introducing new and ambitious ideas
that capitalize on the changes in the scientific ecosystem to advance our core mission. We
are embracing a portfolio approach that delivers the highest return on our investments;
strengthening the agency's ability to measure, learn from, and improve how we evaluate
and support science; enabling ambitious, multidisciplinary inquiry at the scientific frontiers;
harnessing AI to accelerate discovery; and investing in exceptional students and early-
career researchers to support as much scientific creativity as possible.
Many of these changes at NSF have already beg…
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Rest of the letter details other changes (some of which have already been announced): -an Office of Metascience -consolidating NOFOs -use of different funding mechanisms & longer time horizons -participation in the Genesis Mission -" some scientific goals require new forms of institutions"
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's not clear how much funding will go to the Frontier Initiatives in FY27, but during FY26, NSF has kept $1 billion centrally held; staff have heard hundreds of millions were for these initiatives—apparently the brainchild of OSTP. This led to a substantial decrease in the number of new awards.
nature.com
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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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Scoop: This afternoon NSF will formally announce its four 'Frontier Initiatives', and a suite of other changes in a public letter. These Frontier Initiatives (left) are identical to OSTP's 'Grand Research Challenges' that we have been reporting on (right). www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Society for Scholarly Publishing @scholarlypub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Up Close and Personal with the Trump Administration’s NIH Funding Cuts: An Interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg - The Scholarly Kitchen
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Up Close and Personal with the Trump Administration’s NIH Funding Cuts: An Interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg, formerly of NIH, sheds some light on censorship at the agency and the damage it's doing to health research.
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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...
grantwitness.org
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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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No words. "Republican attorneys general from 25 states are asking more federal agencies to suspend or debar the National Academies from funding over bias allegations." content.govdelivery.com/attachments/... via @aip.bsky.social #NASEM
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NIH to continue discussing only the top 1/3 of applications. This is a disservice to the research community. Fewer applications will get the higher quality of review from discussion. Applicants will get less nuanced feedback from review. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov
NOT-OD-26-114: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices NOT-OD-26-114. NIH
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
California voters will get two chances in the next 18 months to fund billions in research. But the state initiative on the November ballot has a lot of strings attached. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
California to vote on spending $16 billion to boost research after Trump cuts
State initiatives this fall and in early 2028 will gauge voters’ appetite for science, but controversy has grown around one proposal
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Columbia earthquake explained by Carnegie Science researcher Dr. Lara Wagner - www.youtube.com/watch?v=adE_...
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Colombia Earthquake Explained: Scientist Lara Wagner Speaks Out
YouTube video by CGTN America
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bhattacharya’s NIH has made a habit of ignoring the expert input of NIH staff. They push forward “solutions” even when we point out the new problems they will create. The consequences come in harm to research participants, lost research advances & a contracted workforce. substack.com/@27unihted/n...
substack.com
Changing policies without staff input is creating foreseeable damage
Concern 6 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What's it like inside the new NSF headquarters? Scroll down to logbook to find out why you're unlikely to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
ScienceAdviser: Sex reversal could land frogs in hot water
Today in Science and science: Digital twins aren’t ready for primetime, a new idea for treating jelly stings, and more
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Major new NSF initiative seeks answers to Colorado River water crisis. But some experts say it's asking the wrong questions. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
NSF initiative seeks tech fixes for Colorado River water crisis
$100 million program to ensure water for industry overlooks shortage’s root causes, critics say
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Huh.
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Politico @politico.com · 03/09/2026
IRS unveils plan to cancel universities' tax-exempt status
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IRS unveils plan to cancel universities' tax-exempt status
The proposed regulations could affect up to 18,000 high schools, universities and trade schools, the agency said.
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Reposted by Caitlin S., PhD
CITI Program @citiprogram.org · 01/09/2026
For many research administrators, the challenge is keeping pace with a regulatory environment that continues to evolve while ensuring decisions are applied consistently across the institution. post.citiprogram.org/4iF8j37 #ResearchSecurity #Recordkeeping
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Research Security Recordkeeping: Building Institutional Memory
Institutions do not need a perfect recordkeeping system on day one. What matters is creating a process that is consistent and searchable...
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