The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Dr. Tina Dura, part of the CRESCENT Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) working group, was featured recently in a PBS Terra video about the future Cascadia megathrust event. Learn more about what the event could mean for the PNW and how you can prepare here ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uV...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Faculty Position at University of #Iowa 🧪⚒️ Solid Earth #geology, focused on #structural geology, tectonics, geochronology, thermochronology, critical minerals, or geodynamics. jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

70,000 people marched through Seattle at the No Kings rally. It was loud, it was huge, and it was only a start. While downtown swelled with speeches, ICE tear-gassed protesters in Tukwila. Showing up once isn’t enough. The fight doesn’t end when the march does.

We are just getting started. “American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating…” wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

With everything going on *gestures wildy*, I am feeling so to be on Ios Island in Greece with some incredible other geologists learning everything we can about subduction↘️💥🌋, underplating ↗️🍽️, deformation 〰️, fluids💦, and (perhaps?)...slow slip 🫴🦋.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

So many of my colleagues are struggling with this same decision: stay or leave. I’m staying as long as it’s within my power to do so, but this is 🔥🔥🔥

Letter: I use funding from the NSF for my research at the University of Utah. Trump’s deep budget cuts would devastate science.

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

Reminder: the budget where you see NIH & NSF getting cut by 40-50% has been PROPOSED by the President of the United States. The Senate and the House must approve this budget-- and they generally do NOT. See below. ✨Congress needs to hear from you.✨ CALL YOUR REPS & tell them to Save our Science!

NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%. When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction. Changes like this can wreak havoc on research. MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... #NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF

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.

NIH DOGE'd..... Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations 60 Minutes @cbsnews.com w/transcript www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

📣PRESSURE WORKS!📣 The Trump administration has reversed its termination of thousands of students’ U.S. visa registrations, reinstating their legal status after legal challenges and court orders deemed the mass cancellations unlawful. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, DORKS! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Science friends, I’ll be honest: We have no idea yet what any of this will mean. But I can tell you that I work alongside some of the best humans around and that we are fighters. www.science.org/content/arti...

It’s Earth Day, and some of us have spent not just our careers but our whole lives loving + studying the Earth. It is not an easy time. But I hope you take a moment today to look at something beautiful, eat something delicious, squish someone you love, pet a dog, remember the nice parts. Yay Earth.

🚨🚨 Breaking: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can” Well fuck, this would seem to accelerate DOGE control at NSF…

"university indirect cost rates are analogous to operating expenses divided by R&D expenditures. For 2023, these ratios were 60% for Merck, 138% for Pfizer, and 105% for Roche...cutting governmental indirect costs to 15% for medical research conducted in universities is clearly unfair."🧪⚕️

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

@agu.org has a tool to find & contact your legislators about FY25 #science funding. It provides scripts, email text, phone numbers & sends emails. agu.quorum.us/campaign/FY2...

At @eos.org we've launched a new blog with quick updates on the hurricane of federal actions pummeling science and science agencies and offering context for how it will affect all of us. Follow it here eos.org/r-and-d

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

NEW: NSF is REINSTATING the 84 probationary staff who were terminated last month, in response to Friday's Federal court order. The 84 "intermittent experts" are still fired.

Graduate programs ceasing admissions in the US due to funding being cut off is going to cause a really interesting predicament for private industry when companies want to hire trained researchers in 4-5 years.

Holy shit yes. READ THIS

The more time I spend in academia the more I eye roll when people suggest that Universities are left wing bastions 👀

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Inside the lobby at NSF…

There are real life consequences to the job cuts and funding pauses that the new administration has put in place. They're creating chaos, fueling anxiety, and for Nancy Hastings of Belle, WVa, they are threatening access to critical medical care. Read this. www.statnews.com/2025/02/18/i...

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

Federal grants save lives.

Margaret is one of several colleagues I’m losing at 1:00p today, including one of my best friends who finally got his dream job 5 months ago. Fuck all of this.

Are you a subduction zone scientist intersted in what fluids are doing along the megathrust? Think about applying to CRESCENT's Fluids in Cascadia Workshop happening in Portland OR on April 23-25! 💦 cascadiaquakes.org/2025/02/03/t...

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.