Some good news: temporary restraining order used: www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

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.

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data. "As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported." nsidc.org/data/user-re...

AAU updates their excellent explainer about indirect costs to cover the current attacks... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqK... 1/2

lawsuit filed yesterday against the NSF IDC cuts! www.aau.edu/key-issues/l...

For those of us who didn't follow the drama closely on how the cap on NIH indirect cost played out, but are suddenly very very interested in the wake of the cap on NSF indirect costs, I just found this helpful summary of the NIH timeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Crap: www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Saw an enormous banana slug yesterday that was almost as big as the actual banana I was carrying