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Posted on 05/09/2025 5:59:05 AM PDT by cgbg
The National Science Foundation (NSF), already battered by White House directives and staff reductions, is plunging into deeper turmoil.
According to sources who requested anonymity for fear of retribution, staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight NSF directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
The current directors and deputy directors will lose their titles and might be reassigned to other positions at the agency or elsewhere in the federal government.
As soon as this evening, NSF is also expected to send layoff notices to an unspecified number of its 1700-member staff.
The remaining staff and programs will be assigned to one of the eight smaller directorates. Staff will receive a memo on Friday “with details to be finalized by the end of the fiscal year,” sources tell Science.
The agency is also expected to issue another round of notices tomorrow terminating grants that have already been awarded, sources say.
In the past 3 weeks, the agency has pulled the plug on almost 1400 grants worth more than $1 billion.
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"Follow the science" to the unemployment line.
WINNING!!!!!
if they actually used the Scientific Method in stead of being propaganda platforms, legitimate scientific research might be worthy of public support.
can’t think of any in this century that does, unfortunately.
I’ve spent the last two days having a Facebook “conversation” with some guy who is all up in arms because People are going to die because mean orange man fired 200 NIOSH employees who test vital, lifesaving respirators.
My response was that industry groups are for more agile and more effective using current techniques and processes at far greater value.
For instance, many federal specs have been cancelled in favor of ASTM industry specs for products. This happened decades ago. Huh, we’re still alive.
Constitutionally the Tenth Amendment reserves these duties to the States, not the central government.
Of course this guy was unwilling to entertain that anyone except the Federal Leviathan was capable of such important and lifesaving work.
Even though we are polar opposites, it was actually a decent conversation. (I don’t know him, he’s a friend of a friend and his profile said he grew up in DC, so he’s spent his life being brainwashed by the system.
All agencies that just dole out money need to go away & NSF is one of them.
Their motto:
Grift is good.
Winning!
Name one positive outcome of a National Science Foundation grant that has improved the quality of life in America not counting the shrimp on the treadmill study.
“The current directors and deputy directors will lose their titles…”
The horror…the horror…
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This is the kind of garbage these clowns were financing:
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1,400 grants worth a billion dollars shows that the American taxpayer lacks any understanding of lobster working luncheons that the government officials attend. I’ll bet they were well paid to play with themselves behind their desks.
Boo-effing-hoo. We’ve seen your “science”, NSF. We were underwhelmed and screwed. There are real scientists out there. You should consider hiring them.
“Battered by the White House...
Plunging into deeper turmoil...
Fear of retribution...
Abolished...
Drastically reduced...
Lose their titles...
Terminating...
Pull the plug...”
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Oh the horror! The horror!
Good, we need employees for manufacturing.
The fact that it has 37 divisions suggests it’s top-heavy to begin with. If you look at university hiring, rather than hire teaching personnel, most are administrative hires. For example, at Ohio University, as of the 2021–2022 academic year, there were approximately 8 faculty members for every 10 administrators, many the result of new laws passed to oversee federal grants.
Check out their salary levels:
https://govsalaries.com/salaries/FD/national-science-foundation?page=3
That is just salary—probably add another 25 to 30% to include benefits of various kinds paid by the taxpayer.
Firing lots of these folks is a no brainer for budget cutters.
They buried the lede. THAT's the lede right there. A billion in grants for what?
See post 11—my bet is that is not an outlier.
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