NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?

1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile for a collective follow-up with the House Science commitee and NSF leadership

Details and template at https://grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Update: A new round of these RWRs appear to have been sent out today (Feb 4). Keep those letters coming!

#NSF #GRFP

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?

1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile for a collective follow-up with the House Science commitee and NSF leadership

Details and template at https://grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Update: A new round of these RWRs appear to have been sent out today (Feb 4). Keep those letters coming!

#NSF #GRFP

Congressional committees have put forward a funding proposal for #NASA the #NSF and the #EPA among other science agencies -- that counters the President's Office request to slash federal #science agencies.

For NASA, it only cuts 1-2% over last year's enacted budget, instead of the 50% projected cuts from the President's request. EPA gets a 4% cut instead of 55%... It also saves Goddard spaceflight center from being shuttered and stops reorganization activities that are threatening US science leadership.

The minibus bill will go to a House and then a #Senate vote starting this week.

This is our chance to save science! Of all the things you could call your #congressional representative on Wednesday, make it this!

Congressional committees have put forward a funding proposal for #NASA the #NSF and the #EPA among other science agencies -- that counters the President's Office request to slash federal #science agencies.

For NASA, it only cuts 1-2% over last year's enacted budget, instead of the 50% projected cuts from the President's request. EPA gets a 4% cut instead of 55%... It also saves Goddard spaceflight center from being shuttered and stops reorganization activities that are threatening US science leadership.

The minibus bill will go to a House and then a #Senate vote starting this week.

This is our chance to save science! Of all the things you could call your #congressional representative on Wednesday, make it this!

Very proud of, and sad for, our friends at @thecarpentries for turning down a $1.5M #NSF grant rather than abandon their values. The (illegal) demands that they abandon DEI work were fundamentally at odds with their mission, and they made a hard and principled choice.

Click through for ways you can support them, financially or otherwise.

https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/

🚨 NEW: Crowdsourced database of #NSF grant terminations. 🚨

We've been able to collect info on 1̶1̶0̶ 435 (!) cancelled grants. Thanks to all who reported.

UPDATE: We think this is all of Friday's terminations.

https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO

These terminations target misinformation research, AI literacy and safety, and programs to broaden participation in science and education. They're an attack on the very idea of an educated and informed citizenry, because it's a threat to authoritarian power.