Scientific community expresses concern over policy shift
1 Sep 16 · 7d ago · 8 posts · 2 sources · development 1 of 1
Researchers and science advocates respond with alarm to the memo, characterizing the shift as unsettling and representing a fundamental departure from NSF's traditional mission of supporting investigator-driven discovery and workforce development.
“For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September.”
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"For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (#NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September. That’s the date NSF issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to train the next generation of scientists. Instead, the…
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From Science.org: "The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to train the next generation of scientists. Instead, the memo makes clear, NSF will devote the bulk of its resources to addressing the research…
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On Sept. 10, the National Science Foundation issued a 10-page memo, changing the role of the agency from giving grants to individual researchers pursuing their best ideas, to addressing the research priorities of President Donald Trump and his administration. Science magazine takes a look at what led to this, and the possible consequences…
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NSF memo implementing Republican President Donald Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers | Science | AAAS https://www. science.org/content/article/ns f-memo-implementing-trump-s-golden-age-science-unsettles-researchers?preview=true
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