The NSF has been compromised.

[emjonaitis@mathstodon.xyz]

@luckytran The slide has been so sad to watch. Their director resigned in protest last spring, if memory serves, and they've got a nonscientist interim now. I seem to remember a surprise relocation also, and some terrible alterations to peer review?

I was there for a brief fellowship in 2008/9 and was just so impressed by everything about the place -- the program officers and other staff I met were curious, dedicated, collegial people who wanted to make their fields better.

[frieke72@mastodon.social]

@luckytran took me some time to figure the FY in file name is Fiscal Year... Not Fck You 🫣 which sounds fitting too

[robotistry@fediscience.org]

@luckytran The NSF 2027 budget request bottom line numbers are awful.

Non-capital-equipment research grants down almost 60% from 2025. Combined discretionary funding down 55%. Overall funding down 43% (after a brand new $900m line item for an Antarctic research vessel).

And this isn't the actual final funding. This is the *ask*.

Carnage.
#NSF

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@luckytran I'm too tired even to post it. Imagine I posted the "this is fine" meme.

[heafnerj@mstdn.social]

@passwordsarehard4 @luckytran Oh I certainly can.

[tjc_2@mastodon.social]

@luckytran
When I read "crappo language" (scientific term) at the very beginning of a paper it's usually the end of my reading time with the so-called document.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@luckytran fucking cowards

[levampyre@chaos.social]

@luckytran It is still very bewildering to read the term "woke" and anti-woke phrasing in a document like this. But I guess that's the times we're living in now. (Not that I want to sit back and accept that, though.)

[philip@social.simplexity.quest]

@luckytran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

[avuko@infosec.exchange]

@Philip @luckytran important concept to know.

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@T2R are you fighting back? @luckytran

[t2r@infosec.exchange]

@draNgNon @luckytran as much as I can. Protests and such.

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@T2R good, yay. I am too, I could do more, but it's hard to get traction enough to be effective, right? @luckytran

[t2r@infosec.exchange]

@draNgNon @luckytran especially in a red state yes. All of
My reps and senators are sycophants of their dear orange leader.