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Jacob Hoover Vigly

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Jacob Hoover Vigly @postylem.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Jan 25 snowstorm timelapse. Total measured 16.0". Pawtucket, RI. #riwx

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Jacob Hoover Vigly @postylem.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

NSF (by congressional mandate) requires applicants to design projects with Broadening Participation goals. Now scientists with these grants may be punished for essentially doing the work they proposed to do in order to get the grants.

excerpt from article: The NSF spokesperson did not respond to a query about concerns that Trump’s executive orders are at odds with the agency’s responsibilities, as codified in law.
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Nature has seen the criteria for flagging grants, which call for programme officers to look for “broadening participation” language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy, and “discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI”.
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“We already reviewed all of these,” says one NSF employee, referring to the fact that grant proposals go through extensive vetting before being funded.“It's really frightening and ridiculous.” Another shares those concerns but says that faced with Trump’s orders, “NSF is doing an honest job, as painful as it can be.”

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