Worth highlighting this part. If it goes through, I’m not sure conferences survive. Currently scheduled ones may see people withdrawing at rates that require cancellation. I don’t know anyone with an active grant who budgeted for specific conferences, and many don’t have alternative funds.
Roman Feiman
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet.
The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
Carl T. Bergstrom
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule.
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
