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AFGE Local 3403 Members at NSF Take Bold Stand for Science In a powerful act of professional integrity, nearly 150 career scientists and workers at the National Science Foundation (NSF), represented by AFGE Local 3403, have delivered an unprecedented whistleb...

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confirmed from multiple staff sources from various departments 😫

Three AGU Bridge staff members were fired this morning, including the long term lead.

GSA launches search for new Alexandria office space to house displaced National Science Foundation | ALXnow The General Services Administration has launched an official search for office space in Alexandria to relocate the National Science Foundation after the agency was displaced from its Eisenhower Avenue...

www.alxnow.com/2025/08/26/g...

NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar

Join us on August 18 for the next webinar.
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Judge Declines to Order Trump Administration to Restore Research Cuts

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/n...

NSF slashes most career executive roles after shedding one-third of staff The National Science Foundation is initiating a reduction in force for senior executives, but offering them opportunities to stay at the agency.

www.govexec.com/management/2...

‘A never-ending nightmare’: Federal workers detail mental health toll of government downsizing Federal employees say in a new survey that they are experiencing high levels of anxiety, stress, sleep deprivation, anger outbursts and depression.

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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar

US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’

Includes comments from NSF program directors: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover | NBC4 Washington YouTube video by NBC4 Washington

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Housing Department to Move Headquarters, Booting National Science Foundation

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office) I’m still trying to find out more about this. But as I...

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HUD secretary's hostile takeover of the NSF building have angered NSF employees

So about that @dangaristo.bsky.social scoop...

It would seem the "New Golden Age of HUD" now supersedes "Restoring Gold Standard Science".

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

National Science Foundation Surprise: Employees Being Relocated to
Accommodate Secretary of HUD’s Palatial New Office

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Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees

www.alxnow.com/category/news/

NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar

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National Science Foundation Sued Over DEI Funding Rollback (1) Sixteen states say the National Science Foundation is illegally divesting millions of dollars from university research efforts to align with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI mandate, according to a...

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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!!

Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference.

👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees.

➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff

NSF officials announced they are essentially abandoning the use of “rotators”— scientists on leave from academic positions who help the agency choose the best research to fund. NSF also plans to reduce the number of administrators classified as senior executive service employees. scim.ag/3EKnxmc

About EES The NSF Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in science and engineering.

NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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“Save the US NSF” Take Action Toolkit www.savensf.com