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Posted on 04/25/2025 5:05:32 AM PDT by Twotone
The head of the US National Science Foundation, a $9 billion agency charged with advancing discoveries across the scientific spectrum, resigned Thursday amid sweeping changes spearheaded by the current Trump administration.
NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan has led the agency since he was selected by President Donald Trump during his first term and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in June 2020.
“I believe I have done all I can to advance the critical mission of the agency and feel that it is time for me to pass the baton to new leadership,” Panchanathan said in parting remarks, which were provided to CNN on Thursday by an agency spokesperson.
The director’s departure comes as the National Science Foundation is grappling with demands from the new Trump administration and DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, an effort established in January to slash government spending.
“This is a pivotal moment for our nation in terms of global competitiveness,” Panchanathan said in the statement. “NSF is an extremely important investment to make U.S. scientific dominance a reality. We must not lose our competitive edge.”
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“NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan...”
Maybe Trump was able to find an AMERICAN to run the agency.
In other words he was a deep state plant and /or flaming liberal in Trump’s first term and he does not want to get exposed this term
Creativity in science is not taught in Universities.
It is a gift from God.
Chaos! Another Trump appointee resigns!
Thank God for my Pearls and Fainting Couch! ;)
African Einstein—- Where he be????
Yeah, so what? It’s not like Trump can’t find someone else to run the NSF.
This clown was appointed in Trump 1.0 and went native—learned how to love the swamp and the grift.
Trump 2.0 sent some Musk folks over there to slash and burn his staff and budget—and he did not like that.
FAFO.
“Follow the science” to the unemployment line.
Thank you. Well said!
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This!
I think science will survive w/o the NSF!
Yes, our universities thrive on stupid grants & contracts from NSF & other gov’t agencies. We could destroy the STUPID in universities by stopping all the money they get from taxpayers.
Let corporations fund USEFUL science. What we get from gov’t grants is not only NOT useful, but downright dangerous. At my old university we were getting hundreds of thousands to put GPS trackers on vehicles, supposedly so they could identify people who drove specific “expensive” roads to be able to tax them for repairs. Of course, the end result is we’re tracked everywhere we go now. With our phones, with our cars, with everything we do...
If CNN is involved why read? Like 60Minutes, they have only lied.
The sooner the better.
Elon came in turned on the lights and the roaches took off to darker places
The trade off there is that corporations fund research that is useful to them to make money, not research that is useful for the betterment of the larger population. Corporations also tend to fund projects that show the results they want, not projects that do the science and let the chips fall where they may. Oops. Corporations funding research at universities also results in fewer private sector R&D jobs, because if a corporation can pay peanuts to a university lab with PhD students and postdocs, why would they bother with growing and paying their own professional R&D folks that they have to pay a full time wage to?
Corporations do fund some good research, but we don’t want to depend on them to do it all. We definitely need the NSF, we just need it to be tightened up.
The left has taken every decent idea for a federal program and weaponized it against us.
At this point the benefits of abolishing organizations like this outweigh the negatives.
If we keep it alive it will be turned against us—again.
Disaster. Where would Benjamin Franklin have been without the NSF?
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