I am working on my public comment. All scientists should do so, this would be devastating to US science and the innovation and leadership that has been a real gold standard.
The top Democrats on a Republican-led congressional committee that historically opposes most U.S. interactions with China are slamming President Donald Trump for firing all the members of the board that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/43Usj9i
Good report via @npr.org
“NPR would like to hear from more people with information about federal agencies and the proposed reorganization of the Forest Service.”
Contact “Chiara Eisner, at [email protected], or contact her on the end-to-end encrypted platform Signal, here. Her username is: ceis.78.”
Born #OnThisDay in 1951 was astronaut and physicist Sally Ride. Ride became the first American woman to go into space as part of NASA's seventh space shuttle mission, and was the third woman overall to go into space. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/4dH5k6b
Climate change is shifting the competitive balance between tree species. The result: Up to 25% of Europe’s forests could experience a change in the dominant tree species in the 21st century. New insights from a deep learning-based meta-model trained on 135 million data points doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Democrats in Congress are criticizing President Donald Trump’s unprecedented firing of all members of the National Science Foundation’s governing board—and demanding answers on what the administration plans to do next. https://scim.ag/3R288TX
The U.S. research community is asking the Senate to do something it hasn’t done in more than 3 decades: Hold a hearing on the president’s nominee to lead the National Science Foundation before voting on whether to confirm him. https://scim.ag/4dWgoxE
Reminder about this webinar tomorrow!
On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people.
www.nsf.gov/funding/post...