Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.
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Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year.
Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers.
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
