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  • Senators mull science cuts
  • NSF pauses RIFs
  • Harvard hit by new grant cuts
WEEK OF MAY 19, 2025
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  • Massive shake-up of NSF begins
  • New batch of S&T nominees announced
  • Ideas for streamlining research regulations pitched to OMB
WEEK OF MAY 12, 2025
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought
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  • Trump proposes slashing science budgets
  • NSB to meet amid funding chaos
  • Publishers to assemble climate research amid NCA upheaval
WEEK OF MAY 05, 2025
A composite image of the NSF website and X posts as well as a crowdsourced database collecting grant terminations.
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  • NSF terminates more grants
  • Republicans propose tens of billions in new defense spending
  • Senate to vote on NASA administrator
WEEK OF APR 28, 2025
The entrance to the headquarters of the National Science Foundation.
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  • NSF ends DEI and misinfo grants + 12 advisory panels
  • Kratsios sketches S&T priorities
  • Trump escalates fight with Harvard
WEEK OF APR 21, 2025
The Department of Energy headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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  • DOE caps indirect costs
  • Trump poised to seek massive science cuts in 2026 budget
  • More university research frozen
WEEK OF APR 14, 2025
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  • Top DOE and NASA nominees testify
  • Scientists challenge grant terminations in court
  • Lawmakers examine Chinese AI models
WEEK OF APR 07, 2025
One of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic bases.
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  • Trump zeros out NSF construction budget
  • Grant terminations proliferate
  • More NIH layoffs planned
WEEK OF MAR 31, 2025
Pages from a questionnaire the Office of Management and Budget sent to international research partners.
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  • Scientists abroad alarmed by Trump survey
  • French scientist denied US entry
  • Europe looks to recruit US scientists
WEEK OF MAR 24, 2025
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  • Probationary employees reinstated
  • Government shutdown averted
  • NASA authorization bill reintroduced
WEEK OF MAR 17, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson returns to the Capitol after a meeting at the White House in late February.
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  • Congress scrambles to strike budget deal
  • RIFs begin at NASA
  • NIH terminating grants that clash with Trump priorities
WEEK OF MAR 10, 2025
Protesters gathered outside NOAA’s headquarters in Maryland on March 3 to protest the Trump administration’s treatment of the agency.
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  • NSF reinstating probationary employees after court order
  • Status of NOAA and NIST layoffs unclear
  • NIH nominee faces Senate
WEEK OF MAR 03, 2025

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