Great. Impeach or STFU.
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Great. Impeach or STFU.
Excited to be giving a public planetarium talk at Embry Riddle University tonight! Love showing off the @sdssurveys.bsky.social data :) Sold out show!!
Jeopardy answer stating “A 2024 study found that the Milky Way acted like a giant hair dryer blowing gas off the nearby dwarf galaxy LMC, the “Large” this
Amongst your doomscrolling, here’s a fun thing - a paper I’m on was featured on Jeopardy last night!
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
Unbelievable.
It’s not to go home on the weekend.
Senate Dems did a deal on RFK and Gabbard so they can go to a luxury hotel in Munich and drink beer this weekend.
CNN shared a story about Taylor Swift at the Superbowl and Steven showed up and dropped the single greatest comment of all time
23-501: Federal Grant Opportunity Package(s) Deleted The following grant opportunity package(s) were deleted: Funding Opportunity Number: 23-501 Funding Opportunity Title: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Opportunity Package ID: PKG00277218 Agency Code: NSF Agency: National Science Foundation Deleted Date: Feb 08, 2025 Deletion Comments: Opportunity deleted
Y’all they cancelled the NSF MPS Ascend Program after encouraging underrepresented folks to only apply to it and not both the Ascend and the MSPRF. This is astronomically fucked up for many grad students and postdocs of color in math. #MathSky
The NSF MPS Ascend Postdoctoral Fellowship has been archived: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
All folks who applied to this opportunity have had their application package deleted.
To be clear, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are instituting death panels for rural America. That’s what closing federally qualified health centers means, since they are often the only health providers available. bsky.app/profile/chan...
“In this week’s episode of ‘AOC Talks America Off The Ledge,’” the opposition leader would “like to remind us that Elon Musk is actually kind of fucking stupid.”
“One of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met.”
“This dude is not smart.”
www.wonkette.com/p/opposition...
Huge throwback…
This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.”
And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.
Hey, I know there are lots of things to be angry, activated, and/or scared about right now. But I am noticing that coverage of the executive orders that are specifically harmful to trans children and adults are barely being discussed by anyone except trans journalists.
Stop this shit.
Fact Check: Lying motherfucker tells racist lies about plane crash.
Fixed it.
I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
can’t believe we forgot to add constitutional crisis classes to physics grad school curriculum
Turns out the 2010 America COMPETES Act contains language I recognize because I've cribbed it from NSF's Grant Proposal Guide for every proposal I've sent to NSF
www.congress.gov/111/plaws/pu...
It's encoded in 42 USC 1826p-14
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R: the 2010 Act, L: the GPG
And it’s not just a requirement that NSF dreamed up and can discard, broader impacts review criteria are written law, enacted by Congress:
It is hard to know where to begin with this. I am not directly affected (yet? thanks, bureaucracy?) — instead, it is largely more junior student and postdoctoral researchers. The NSF is just out here canceling paychecks despite the grants in question already being awarded.
No one is telling us what to do, and we’ve received a lot of conflicting information. Many people were advised to pull funds on Jan 28th. This will be devastating for many folks. Check in on your fellows and see if your university can offer them emergency funds.
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
I was an NSF postdoc fellow. Their stipends (aka paycheck) come directly from the NSF into their bank accounts.
I really hope the universities employing all of these amazing early career folks are very quickly figuring out how to help them cover their bills.
Pursuant to its authority under 5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s Executive Order entitled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Defending Women). Steps to End Federal Funding of Gender Ideology: In light of Defending Women, each agency should take prompt actions to end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflect gender ideology as defined in Section 2(f) of Defending Women. Specifically, agency heads should take the following steps: 1. No later than 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, January 31, 2025 a. Send an email to all agency employees announcing that the agency will be complying with Defending Women and this guidance. b. Review all agency programs, contracts, and grants, and terminate any that promote or inculcate gender ideology. c. Review all agency position descriptions and send a notification to all employees whose position description involves inculcating or promoting gender ideology that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all initiatives, offices, and programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology. d. Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender ideology. e. Review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns.
f. Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements, and plans that inculcate or promote gender ideology. g. Cancel any trainings that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. h. Disband or cancel any employee resource groups or special emphasis programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. i. Review all agency forms that require entry of an individual’s sex and ensure that all list male or female only, and not gender identity. Remove requests for “gender” and substitute requests for “sex.” j. Ensure that all applicable agency policies and documents, including forms, use the term “sex” and not “gender.” k. Ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) are designated by biological sex and not gender identity. 2. No later than 12:00 p.m. EST on Friday, February 7, 2025, report to OPM on all steps taken to implement this guidance, including: a. a complete list of actions taken in response to this guidance and Defending Women; and b. any agency plans to fully comply with this guidance and Defending Women. Please contact OPM at defendingwomen@opm.gov if you have any questions regarding this guidance. Please send any reports requested by this guidance to defendingwomen@opm.gov. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, Human Resources Directors,
BREAKING — I'm told OPM just sent out this memo with guidance for implementing Trump's "Defending Women" anti-trans executive order.
"Take down all outward facing media that inculcate or promote gender ideology. Review email systems and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns."
Diversity was a conservative compromise that liberals decided to accept and now we are here
Revoking approved grants for including work that was part of the evaluation criteria previously is like changing football rules now so the team with less points win because points are bad, and then saying as a consequence, Notre Dame is the current national champion. 🔭🧪⚛️
This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
