#nsf emails

[geneticdrifting]

want to crawl under a Rock and live there

[vuutarros]

Hey, uh, we still need help, if you can. We're two trans women, I'm unemployed and she's in school and our rent payment bounced the other day, plus we had to pay a couple bills that were about to be shut off, and pick up meds and food. I just got an email from the landlord that I have until noon tomorrow to pay the rent plus the nsf charge or they'll start the eviction process, which they'll charge us even more for. I was hoping to be able to draw this out until my next EI payment, but that doesn't look likely.

We need about $850CAD

Paypal and Kofi, and if you're Canadian, dm me for e-transfer details

$20.22/$850CAD

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[milktian]

Sorry for the spam btw I'm just trying to fix my dashboard jfkslslms things r happening rn

[absinthemindedly]

On today's todo list:

Draft and schedule emails

Review existing literature on my PI's current research direction

Review previous NSF GRFP applications

Look into other national fellowships (listed)

Brainstorm about personal statements + project proposals

I've unfortunately fallen off my daily journaling/work routines the last few months, and I'm working on getting myself back into good habits. Today, my main goal is to schedule all my emails to other PhD programs their declining offers of admission. I just finalized everything with my chosen program this week, and the April 15th decision deadline is looming. I feel terrible for dragging my feet on communications, but I want to make sure I send personalized emails to each professor I interviewed with. I know this is part of the process, but I still hate disappointing people.

On the upside, I've already set up my graduate school accounts, put together a preliminary schedule of my classes in the fall, and set up my new email. I'm eager to get back to work

[malacandrax]

NOW CLOSED

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No sketch stage, final image only

Two characters, half body

+$10 per additional character

Payment upfront via paypal invoice

Turnaround usually within a week from payment

Send me an email at malacandrax@gmail.com with:

Any OC references/clothing references etc

What you want- eg 'X giving Y a kiss on the cheek'

Additional character info for vibes 'X loves murder, but also loves Y'

The email you use for paypal

I may not be able to take them all on, and will let you know if this is the case.

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I generally take about 5 a week, and waitlist anyone over that limit, sending out invoices when I'm ready to work on them (I'll give a time estimate.)

Also I will happily draw canon character ships, maybe you'll even get me into it. I won't judge so don't worry about asking.

I'm open to negotiation if you're dying for a full body or colour.

Adult nsf/w comms- Feel free to ask, I will probably charge extra for the complexity. No issue with content/k*nks, I might say no but shoot your shot (hur hur).

(characters belong to @sharkflan, @faghettiandmeatballs @mistercrowbar, and RRoses324 >:) <3)

NOW CLOSED

[collapsedsquid]

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. The policy prevents the NSF, one of the world’s biggest supporters of basic research, from awarding new research grants and from supplying allotted funds for existing grants, such as those that receive yearly increments of money. The email does not provide a reason for the freeze and says that it will last “until further notice”.

[chase-solidago]

Today I worked in person all day and talked to so many plant scientists doing cool plant science and helped students and even went out for drinks with my peers, which I’ve never done at this org

It went really well! I like my work, when I get to focus on it!!

But here I am refreshing my email at midnight on a Friday, still waiting for the dreaded NSF cancellation to come in. NIH has been sending them out all week, but I haven’t heard much at all about NSF

I hate letting my guard down because I know that’s when the rug will be pulled, but also humans aren’t meant to be in fight or flight mode for months at a time

SIGH

[o-wild-west-wind]

So...what's going on with the NIH?

A (very reductive) breakdown

With the current “flood the zone” agenda overwhelming our feeds, I’m sure that all this news about the NIH feels like just another drop in the bucket. I figured I'd try to write out what's going on and why it matters, since this is all HUGELY impactful, despite getting pretty buried in the news cycles (my explanation is under the cut—the article above is a helpful reference).

TL;DR: The NIH funds most medical research in the US; this medical research funding is being slowed and cut effective immediately; and we need to contact our representatives about this ASAP.

You can say that you "urge them to oppose all funding cuts and DEI-related restrictions in the NIH." Stick this onto your other phone/email/letter scripts, and feel free to add more specifics and personalization!

What happened, and why does it matter:

As of 2/8/25, the Trump administration has:

Indefinitely halted NIH study sections, which are how research gets reviewed and approved, as well as travel and communications (some of all this is just now restarting, but this has been selective/on a delay)

Planned to flag and possibly reject grant renewals and any new proposals with "DEI" and "DEI-related" terms, ranging from obvious keywords like "LGBT" and "transgender" to standard technical terms like "race, "gender," "health disparities," and "bias" (source on terms is re: the NSF, but I can confirm as an NIH funded researcher that we have similar directives)

Ended "DEI" programs in the NIH and removed multiple webpages on diversity-related grants and funding

Frozen hiring and rescinded job offers starting on 2/8/25

Capped the indirect cost funds of grants at 15%, effective immediately (from an average of 30%)

(NOTE: This is a non-comprehensive list—and while I'm an NIH-funded researcher, I'm not high up enough on the food chain to be a total authority on this. Please feel free to add more details if you know them.)

What does this all mean?

The NIH is the largest funder of health/medical research in the United States, which is usually conducted at universities and hospitals (public AND private). This includes research on everything from cancer, heart disease, dementia, addiction, depression, HIV, and the flu to—in my specific case—co-occurring conditions of autism (so basically, anything at all health related? That's probably being studied via NIH funds).

Funding includes things like:

Direct costs of supplies, tools, machinery, etc.

Research team salaries, from lead scientists to administrative staff

Fellowships (i.e. how PhD students typically get paid)

Indirect costs (utilities of lab operation, etc.)

Basically, what all these directives do is slow and/or cut health research funding. What this means is slowing "non-DEI" research funding and entirely cutting "DEI" research funding (which we don't have solid definitions for yet!).

What does this all look like?

At this rate, and if unchanged, this could likely result in:

Months-long (or longer) delays on "non-DEI" medical research (i.e. for the average population)

Unknown cuts to health disparities research (i.e. research on health differences between specific demographics of people)

A near-complete loss of "DEI" research in most US institutions (e.g. BIPOC health, LGBTQ+ health, disability health)

Fewer proposals of new/novel research ideas

Fewer PhD acceptances and hiring opportunities for new researchers (possibly shrinking an entire generation of scientists)

Mass layoffs of research staff

Breakdown of international research collaborations

Huge tuition increases for college students (including undergrads)

Closures of research institutions/universities

Privatization of research funding (possibly creating a bias towards "profitable" research interests/health conditions more common to wealthy populations)

Potential brain drain of American scientists to other countries

USA's loss of status as a scientific leader and powerhouse

For the average American, this all translates to things like:

Fewer medical breakthroughs and "weaker" medical research

Fewer medical/health experts

Increased drug/treatment costs

Lower quality of life

Stagnant (or lower) average life expectancy

(Plus economic repercussions I don't have the expertise to predict).

So what do we do about this???

I hate to sound like a broken record, but...CONTACT YOUR REPS! Call daily if possible, but send emails/letters at the very least! Use the language in the TL;DR at the top of this post if that gives you a framework.

If you want, include personal reasons as to why this will impact you, or just mention that it will slow life-saving medical research (bonus points if you tell them to block all cabinet picks until Elon is no longer interfering in the government)!

This is dire and immediate, but it isn't all doom and gloom. With enough pressure, we can (and have!) gotten things reversed.

Take care of each other, stay alive, and keep fighting back 💛

[darkmaga-returns]

A large wave of funding cancellations from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has abruptly derailed hundreds of research projects, many of which were focused on so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Late Friday, researchers across the country received emails notifying them that their grants, fellowships, or awards had been rescinded; an action that stunned many in the academic community and ignited conversations about the role of the government in regulating research into online speech.

Among those impacted was Kate Starbird, a prominent figure in the “disinformation” research sphere and former Director of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.

The Center, which collaborated with initiatives like the Election Integrity Partnership and the Virality Project, both known for coordinating content reporting to social media platforms, had ties to federal agencies and private moderation efforts.

[dostoyevsky-official]

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday. “A large-scale reduction, in response to the President’s workforce executive orders, is already happening,” a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management said in an email. “The government is restructuring, and unfortunately, many employees will later realize they missed a valuable, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the deferred resignation offer.” [...] The Trump administration is trying to “scare the shit out of people so they take advantage of the resignation offers out of fear,” said one NSF program manager who asked not to be identified to avoid retribution. But if the White House and its so-called Department of Government Efficiency are serious about slashing NSF, the result would be catastrophic, the same program manager warned. Cutting the $10 billion grantmaking agency in half would “gut the intellectual center of U.S. leadership in science and technology,” the official said.

[sluggybunny]

Hi. It's me. I am opening very simple commissions because my bank is -$200 and I would like to get my medicine and maybe even eat.

not listed in the graphic above is any kind of sketch. that's just a 'throw whatever money you'd like and i'll make it'. i'm a little desperate.

Things I am good at drawing:

nsf/w or 'spicy' as some would say

couples and cute stuff

bloody and gorey things

if you want an 18+ pic, don't tell me the details through kofi. email me at rpracoons990@proton.me instead. I know emails suck but this is so I can keep track of things better.

Link to my Ko-fi

you may get a complimentary picture of either Pip or Gertrude if you wish. thank you

[mariacallous]

Nada Fadul’s love for science and medicine began early. As a child, the aspiring physician-scientist had observed her father, a doctor, treat patients at his primary care office. Later, as an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, Fadul had the opportunity to work in a lab developing nanotherapies for ovarian cancer. Through these experiences and a strong cadre of mentors, she “felt really inspired to pursue both research and medicine,” she says.

To gain more lab experience before applying to joint MD-PhD programs, Fadul had decided to apply to the National Institutes of Health’s postbaccalaureate program, which offers full-time research positions to recent college graduates considering careers in medicine or STEM. But in early February, she received an email stating that the program had been completely paused. “There’s always some changes when the administration changes, but I didn’t expect the changes to hit so close to home and to affect my hopes and plans for the upcoming year,” Fadul says.

Changed plans, lost opportunities, worries for the future—these are all things that current and prospective scientists across the country now face on a day-to-day basis. Since January, a rapid-fire slurry of executive orders have driven huge cuts to federal funding, hiring freezes, and thousands of layoffs across the research sector, with thousands more job losses expected. For students and graduates, the knock-on effect is a big reduction in opportunities to gain the experience and placements needed to enter and progress in the field.

During the lifespan of a scientist, there are several critical steps. For many, the first is to gain research experience during college—whether through working in a university laboratory or through summer research programs. From there, some take gap years (with the NIH postbaccalaureate program previously a popular option) to pursue even more research. Then comes an application to graduate school, completing graduate school, and possibly doing a postdoctoral fellowship. After all of that, only some end up as research faculty at institutions—where they embark on a decades-long saga of grant applications, many of which are for federal funding from the NIH or National Science Foundation (NSF).

It’s a process that already forces young scientists to compete for a limited number of spots at each stage of training. Many, like Fadul, seek out extra research opportunities to ready their applications. The process of simply applying to graduate school is “five to ten years in the making,” says a current post-baccalaureate scholar at the NIH, who requested anonymity due to fear of retribution. “I think that for almost all of the applicants, this is their dream, and this feels like their livelihood.” In the space of two months, it is a career pathway that has rapidly narrowed.

After the administration’s initial memos indicating that a federal funding freeze was imminent in late January, graduate programs across the US began reducing the number of admitted students. To track what exactly was happening, faculty and students began compiling a comprehensive list of universities and their associated program reductions—based on word of mouth and reported evidence. Among many others, this included a 20 percent reduction at MIT’s biology graduate program, an estimated 20 percent reduction at Duke’s biomedical graduate programs, and a 30 percent reduction at UC San Diego’s biological sciences program—from 25 places down to 17.

“If we went on business-as-usual and admitted a normal class size, then we’d have students we couldn’t support in the program,” says Kimberly Cooper, a developmental biologist at UCSD and associate director of the biology PhD program. One of her undergraduate mentees wasn’t admitted to any graduate programs this year. That mentee hopes to become an unpaid volunteer to continue working in a lab “because she wants to do this so badly,” Cooper adds. “That’s another concern I have—that we may be moving back to a place where research was really only for people that have independent finances to be able to do it.”

Jeremy Berg, a former director of the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences, has tracked the disbursement of NIH T32 grants—training grants that directly support graduate and postdoctoral research. Since February of this year, only two new T32 grants have been awarded. For comparison, 69 grants were made from February to March of last year. While March is not necessarily the month where T32 grant-awarding peaks, the lack of activity has Berg concerned for the future.

The lack of NIH training grants is in line with trends from the NSF, where awards from the Directorate for STEM Education appear to have slowed to a near-complete stop. In comparison to the NIH, the NSF funds research that can be non-biomedical in nature and runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program—which provides support for thousands of graduate students each year. GRFP awards are usually made in April, and it’s unclear how they will be impacted this year. “It’s a terrible signal to send to students who decided they want a career in science and have been waiting their whole life to go to graduate school,” says Berg.

The instability in training-grant disbursement, coupled with the NIH’s new policy on capping indirect costs—which pay for critical functions like lab maintenance, equipment, and administrative support—have not just affected trainees, but also the faculty whose labs rely on graduate students and postdoctoral scholars’ work. Federal grants provide a significant portion of many laboratories’ funding, says Ran Blekhman, a geneticist at the University of Chicago whose lab is almost entirely funded by the NIH. This uncertainty has forced many scientists, particularly those early in their careers, to pivot their focus from simply doing science to trying to make their science—and their careers—survive.

Blekhman, whose research group studies the human microbiome, has always looked for non-federal sources of funding. But money from, say, private foundations often does not support basic science or has an unsustainably low-indirect-cost ceiling, which ordinarily would have been covered by NIH funding before the new indirect-cost cap. “My feeling is that everybody’s already been looking everywhere,” Blekhman says. “It’s not like there is a new pot of money that no one was aware of.”

To keep the lights on in the lab, contingency plans abound. Cooper, who has four NIH proposals in limbo, recently helped one of her postdoctoral scholars apply for a fellowship in Europe to continue her research. Blekhman is thinking about how many students he can reasonably support in the future, should cuts hit his lab.

Even among the uncertainty, many students remain deeply committed to pursuing careers in science. Robert Schwartz, a college and graduate essay consultant, says that some students he works with are taking a few extra gap years in European laboratories, in the hopes that more US funding will open up in the future. As Fadul figures out which schools to apply to, her list of federally funded MD-PhD programs has gotten shorter, while the list of MD programs (which do not rely as directly on federal funding) has gotten longer. But the uncertainty is “not going to stop me, and I don’t think it’s going to stop my peers, either,” she says.

In the meantime, Cooper, Blekhman, and others are focusing on ways to better support and educate their trainees—not only about how federal funding works, but also how to keep going. “We just want people in the lab to do their great science without having existential dread about how they get paid,” Cooper says.

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[pintadorartist]

Save NIH and NSF Research Funding

On February 7, the Trump administration moved to cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) by placing an immediate cap on so-called “indirect costs”. Indirect costs include infrastructure, facility maintenance, and staff salaries. These funds ensure that research can happen. This new policy will cause an immediate and massive funding shortfall at research institutions nationwide, forcing layoffs and jeopardizing critical scientific research. This change undermines years of financial planning at universities and research institutions, creating a devastating budget crisis overnight.

NIH and NSF funding doesn’t just support scientific progress, it also helps fuel the U.S. economy. Every dollar of NIH funding generates $2.46 of economic activity. NIH-funded research has led to breakthroughs in treatments for cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and more; NSF is a critical funder for every field of science, particularly computational and cybersecurity research. Cutting indirect costs will mean fewer jobs, fewer discoveries, and a weakened global standing in science and innovation. In 2023 alone, NIH funding supported over 400,000 jobs and generated nearly $93 billion in economic activity. This decision jeopardizes thousands of livelihoods and our nation’s economy.

There are serious questions about whether this decision is even within the administration’s authority. Current policy suggests changes like this must go through Congress, who must act to block this harmful order.

Call Tools:

Email your Rep/Senator:

Fax Zero:

[francisforever2014]

list of 9/11s that have happened to me in the last 24 hours

1. just in general my spring break has literally sucked ass . every time i go back to my moms house it’s worse and worse and this time i genuinely felt all of the life drain out of me in the like. 5 days i was there. i hate the person i am there i hate being in such a cramped space with my family i hate it all. i literally become just a horrible short tempered exhausted version of myself and it’s awfulllll . this sounds dramatic but it’s true . but anyways

2. remember how i got both the nsf summer research opportunity and the one at my school? that’s so cool . and it is cool. but i emailed the nsf people being like heyyyy guys i would love to accept this but are we sure that the government isn’t just gonna cut the funding ??? and they were like hey bestie tbh idk 😁 we’re hoping not tho 😁 like okay????? bc if i accept it they do i’m literally fucked . but this opportunity pays better and is more dynamic than the one at my school. but it’s literally not fucking guaranteed . so i’ve been stressing all day about what to do and just mourning the opportunity bc it was really cool but i just don’t think i can commit to something that’s not 100% esp when i have another option. like i just can’t miss out on a summer of research (both bc i CANT live at my moms house all summer and bc i just like. want to do it and need it for grad school apps) so anyways that was awesome . to just have that ripped away from me . kinda. but i’m lucky to have another option so it’s okay but i’m still just frustrated

3. i get to the airport to FINALLYYY (it’s been six days but it feels like years ok) go back to my apartment and the flights delayed. okay no worries it’s just like 30 minutes. we board the plane and they’re like actually everybody needs to get off bc there’s a mechanical issue . flight is delayed for 3 hours and i’m barely gonna make my layover but i still would bc it was long asf . and then they’re like kiddinggggg it actually is delayed 5 hours and is gonna leave at 7. and that’s when my connecting flight was supposed to LEAVE so i’m like okayyy and i have to wait it line to talk to the agent and it’s super long and the virtual agent thing is like sorry! there’s no flights until tomorrow . girl what the hell. but then when i finally get up there they just put me on a different airline and it’s direct so i’m actually only getting home an hour later than i thought . so it’s actually okay but this was 9/11 for like 2 hours when i didn’t know what was gonna happen . and i had already been on the verge of tears all day bc of the above and i was like i just need to get HOME and everything will be okay. and then all this happened .

but anyways now i’m just chilling waiting for my flight and i won’t be home too late and my best friend is visiting tomorrow and i think i know what to do about summer stuff . so suicide POSTPONED but it was dark there for a minute