From #ElizabethGinexi:
https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-research-funding-announcements

"In 2024, #NIH published 756 funding announcements.

In 2025, it published 120.

In 2026, as of March 15, it has published 14…

This is not a temporary slowdown. It is a structural collapse."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

I've accused #DOGE of terminating #NEH grants (and other grants) by using dumb keyword searches to look for prohibited words. It turns out that DOGE used dumb #ChatGPT prompts instead. Like this one (quoting verbatim): “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html

#Censorship #DefendResearch #DEI #Funding #Humanities #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Trump tries bribery.

"Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-college-funding.html

"The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds."

#Arizona, #Brown, #Dartmouth, #MIT, #Penn, #USC, #Texas, #Vanderbilt, #Virginia

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Forgot to add this important response last week:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/02/governor-newsom-no-state-funding-for-sell-out-universities/

"Governor #GavinNewsom today [Oct 2] issued the following statement in response to the White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which ties access to federal funding to radical conservative ideological restrictions on colleges and universities: IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY’LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY. CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #California #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking comments from the nine universities that received the Trump threat-bribe.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-white-house-sent-its-compact-to-9-universities-heres-what-their-administrators-and-faculty-are-saying
(#paywalled)

Summary: Large faculty groups at each institution urge administrators to reject the deal.

Administrators are saying little beyond the fact that they received the letter and are discussing what to do about it -- with one exception.

The exception is UTexas, where the chair of the Board of Regents, Kevin Eltife (a retired Republican State Senator), said Texas is "honored [to be] named as one of only nine institutions in the US selected by the Trump administration for potential funding advantages under its new 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'. We enthusiastically look forward to engaging with university officials and reviewing the compact immediately."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #MIT just became the first university to reject Trump's compact. Here's the letter from MIT President #SallyKornbluth to faculty, dated today.
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. After #MIT said 𝗻𝗼 to the Trump compact (yesterday), the Chronicle of Higher Education asked the other eight targeted universities for their reactions.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-could-mits-rejection-of-trumps-proposed-compact-mean-for-the-rest-of-higher-ed
(#paywalled)

"Asked for reactions to MIT’s announcement, spokespeople for Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University had no new information to share. The other recipients — the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania — didn’t respond."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/trump-invites-all-colleges-to-join-compact-after-mit-s-rejection
(#paywalled)

"The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter…Trump has said that colleges who reject the deal will face investigations into compliance with federal laws, but the extent to which federal research grants or student aid eligibility will be predicated on acceptance of the accord remains murky."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. If you've heard that Trump "offered" his compact to all US colleges and universities, and your institution didn't receive the Trump letter, here's why. Trump didn't use letters. He used this Truth Social post:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115362973187528235

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that, "A source at the Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that a Truth Social post from President Trump was intended to be an invitation to higher ed. 'We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,' wrote the source, who declined to go on the record."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-welcomes-any-institution-to-sign-onto-compact-outlining-his-priorities
(#paywalled)

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #Dartmouth has not yet made a public statement rejecting the Trump compact. But two Dartmouth sources "who asked to speak anonymously…said they participated in a meeting with President Sian Leah Beilock in which…she said 'she would not sign the compact as written.'"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/dartmouths-president-balks-at-trump-compact-sources-say-as-feds-expand-offer-to-any-institution
(#paywalled)

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #Brown just rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Brown President Christina Paxson.
https://www.brown.edu/sites/default/files/brown-response-federal-compact-10-15-2025.pdf

"Brown’s existing agreement with the federal government expressly affirms the government’s lack of authority to dictate our curriculum or the content of academic speech -- a principle that is not reflected in the Compact."

h/t #WilliamCross

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #Penn just rejected the Trump pact (Oct 16). Here's the public letter from UPenn President J. Larry Jameson.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/announcements/update-penns-response-compact-academic-excellence

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The U of Southern California just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 16). Here's the public letter from #USC interim president Beong-Soo Kim.
https://we-are.usc.edu/2025/10/16/update-from-interim-president-kim/

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The U of Virginia just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 17). Here's the public letter from #UVa interim President Paul Mahoney.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/community-message-interim-president-paul-mahoney

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #Dartmouth just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 18). Here's the public letter from Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock.
https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10/dartmouths-feedback-compact

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The U of Arizona just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 20). Here's the public letter from #UArizona President Suresh Garimella.
https://president.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Suresh-Garimella-to-Sec-Linda-McMahon.pdf

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. From Barbara Snyder, President of the Association of American Universities (#AAU), on the Trump compact:
https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/statement-aau-president-administrations-higher-education-compact

"Federal support for higher education must never be tied to ideological alignment with any administration."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #Vanderbilt has not yet accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But Chancellor Daniel Diermeier just released a vague and inconclusive open letter on where it stands.
https://t.e2ma.net/message/tu4xiq/5vxmu1ke

"Last Friday, Vanderbilt participated in a discussion with members of the administration and other university leaders about shaping a productive process for providing such comments. We expect to share our input with the administration through that process. Our response will be grounded in our long-held principles and values…Vanderbilt believes deeply in the power of constructive dialogue."

The letter is undated (why?) but the Chronicle reports that it was made public on Oct 20.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/compact-live-updates-more-colleges-weigh-responses-as-deadline-for-feedback-looms

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Like Vanderbilt (above), #WashingtonU has not not accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But also like Vanderbilt, its Chancellor, Andrew Martin, just released a vague and inconclusive statement on where it stands (Oct 20).
https://andrewdmartin.washu.edu/washu-to-join-conversation-about-the-future-of-higher-education/

"We believe it is in the best interest of our university, and higher education more broadly, for us to participate constructively, share our experience and expertise, and help inform policies that strengthen the nation’s research and education ecosystem…We firmly believe meaningful progress will best be achieved through open, ongoing dialogue."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #WashingtonU has now rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Chancellor Andrew Martin (Oct 22).
https://wustl.app.box.com/s/f3wwjqkrq9x1ovyz28d3r3cxmo8kwlk9

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #SyracuseU will also reject the Trump compact, according to an Oct 22 statement by Chancellor Kent Syverud to the University Senate. Apparently there is not a public letter announcing the decision.
https://dailyorange.com/2025/10/syverud-declines-trump-compact-senators-pass-portfolio-review-resolution/

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "#NewCollege of #Florida Is Ready To Be The First To Sign President Trump’s Higher Education Compact."
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/861953402/new-college-of-florida-is-ready-to-be-the-first-to-sign-president-trump-s-higher-education-compact

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The University of Kansas provost says that #UKansas will not sign the Trump compact.
https://www.kansan.com/news/ku-won-t-sign-trump-s-higher-education-compact-was-never-invited-to-provost-says/article_aaea8512-a72a-4c9f-b45e-44f38dd835d4.html

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. #ValleyForgeMilitaryCollege just offered (Oct 28) to sign the Trump compact. Here's the open letter from its President and Chairman of the Board to the Trump Dept of Education.
https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/10/vfmc-letter-trump-admin.pdf

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Five faculty from five institutions argue that "Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To Protect Our Democracy."
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-20/college-university-trump-law-professors-compact-opinion

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Universities

Hey! I made a new fundraiser so I can survive the upcoming month. Due to working on a contract of mandate I don't have much of a sick leave so I need your help. I set the goal for 4500 PLN so I can pay bills and have money to spend on food (strict diet)
https://zrzutka.pl/xsb39e
#funding #help #fundraising

"Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository."
https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2026-009

"Since the start of the second #Trump administration, we have seen a progressive removal of #climate, environmental, and socioeconomic #data from federal websites, with further threats to dismantle data infrastructure looming. This essay represents a short personal account of the data rescue efforts of the #NASA #Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (#SEDAC), which was run by Columbia University’s Integrated Earth System Information (#CIESIN) since the late 1990s."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #NASA #OpenData #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

There can be no independent #publishing in #Canada without public funding. #NovaScotia is the only province to forfeit its support of cultural expression.
Fernwood requests community support against austerity

#Literature #NSPoli #CdnPoli #Funding #TimHouston #FakePremier
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/news/view/fernwood-requests-community-support-against-austerity

The #SCOTUS ruling comes despite a series of short-term wins on the court’s “emergency docket” that have allowed #Trump to push ahead with extraordinary flexes of #ExecutivePower on issues ranging from high-profile #firings to major federal #funding cuts.

#law #economy #tariffs #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics

Despite a deadlock over #DHS #funding, #Republican lawmakers left town & left #Democratic & #Trump admin negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.

When a disruptive #GovernmentShutdown nears, the Capitol is usually occupied by lawmakers struggling to avoid an embarrassing halt in govt services & the accompanying political fallout. Even if a lapse is a certainty, members of #Congress typically want to look like they are trying to avert it.

Not this time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/politics/congress-jets-off-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

ZAST.AI Raises $6M Pre-A to Scale "Zero False Positive" AI-Powered Code Security

We're excited to announce our $6 million Pre-A funding round led by Hillhouse Capital, bringing our total funding close to $10 million.

Key Milestones in 2025:
- 119 CVE assignments
- Hundreds of zero-day vulnerabilities discovered
- Findings in Microsoft Azure SDK, Apache Struts XWork, Alibaba Nacos, Langfuse, Koa, and node-formidable
- Automated PoC generation and validation for every reported vulnerability

Our mission: ending the era of high false positive rates in security tools.

Read the full announcement: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/zastai-raises-6m-pre-to-scale-zero.html

#AISecurity #Cybersecurity #Funding #HillhouseCapital

Nearly ⅔ of the #funding is unspent money allocated to state & local #PublicHealth departments in #California.

“These grants are being terminated because they do not reflect agency priorities,” a spox for the #HHS said. About 2 dozen of the grants were aimed at curbing #HIV & other sexually transmitted infections [#STIs].

Dr. Deb Houry, who served as the #CDC’s chief medical officer before she resigned in August, noted that #Congress had already appropriated the funds.

#law #Trump

Dear FOSS maintainers,

here’s a list of funding programs currently accepting proposals for maintenance work:

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding

GitHub: https://github.com/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding

Thanks to everyone who helped crowdsource it! I’ll keep it updated, issues and PRs are very welcome :)

#opensource #funding #maintenance #foss

A photograph at the Bondi beach vigil today.

“#Political #LobbyGroup #Advance has been back in the headlines this week. It was revealed an organisation headed by the husband of the Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, donated A$50,000 to the group.”

When is this going to be addressed?

#RWE / #extremism / #funding <https://theconversation.com/right-wing-political-group-advance-is-in-the-headlines-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-stand-for-261164>

Alt...

“Minns says the “danger we must confront is the deliberate incubation of hatred” which includes “individuals who promote violence” sometimes cloaking it in “ideology or even the perversion of religion.” source https://theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/dec/21/bondi-beach-terror-attack-one-week-anniversary-day-of-reflection-reactions-sydney-vigil-memorial-nsw-protest-laws-police-powers-anthony-albanese-labor-sussan-ley-coalition-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6947b6158f087ccaa8450157#block-6947b6158f087ccaa8450157

The push to rename the station & the airport for #Trump comes as the president, who recently put his name on the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts in Washington, has been on a renaming spree & has appeared increasingly preoccupied with his “legacy” [ego].

The Trump admin began withholding #funding for the new tunnel connecting #NYC & #NewJersey, a $16B project, in October. The agency overseeing its construction moved to halt ongoing work on Friday as money was running out.

#law #extortion

#extortion & #vanity

Again I say, I bet he pees on everything too.

Officials Pressed Schumer to Rename #PennStation & #Dulles International Airport for #Trump

Admin officials told the top #Senate Democrat that Trump would release frozen #funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.

#law #MafiaState #EgomaniacalSociopath
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-schumer-penn-station-dulles-airport-renaming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The #Trump admin has pressured Sen #ChuckSchumer (D-NY) the minority leader, to help rename #NewYork’s #PennStation & Washington #Dulles International Airport after Trump in exchange for releasing billions of dollars in #funding he has frozen for a #rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

Top admin ofcls have told Schumer in recent weeks that the money would be released if he agreed to name the facilities in Trump’s honor, acc/to 4 people familiar with the private conversations.

#law #extortion

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.

But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
https://www.propublica.org/article/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-grant-guidelines-donald-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Library #Museum #Funding #Government #USPolitics

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s office says a bipartisan #funding deal has been reached to avoid a government #shutdown as #Senate #Republicans try to set up a Thursday vote.

The deal, according to the minority leader, includes the separation of the 5 bipartisan appropriation bills that #Democrats had asked for & a 2-week stopgap funding extension for #DHS.

Senate #GOP leadership is now taking steps to schedule a vote for Thursday night.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-news-01-29-26?post-id=cmkzuzwml000f3b6p8b0rkied

"Some 10,109 [Ph.D.s] in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

“I really like the Small Web. Thanks for NOT supporting it.”

https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

(We tried one more time after that, got rejected again, and then stopped wasting time with @nlnet and @NGIZero. The Small Web will launch this year with ZERO EU funding in its six years of development from NGI/NLNet. If you want to support us before it does, please see https://small-tech.org/fund-us. After we launch, we aim for it to be self sustaining. So NGI/NLNet have been and are irrelevant as far as the Small Web is concerned.)

https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115940504761958251

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #FOSS #OpenSource #EUpol #OpenSourceSustainability #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #NLNet #SmallTechnologyFoundation

"#NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-quietly-ends-financial-support-for-planetary-science-groups/

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"When data disappears: The impact of cancelled federal studies on student financial aid research."
https://www.pellinstitute.org/news-impact/blog/when-data-disappears-what-the-cancellation-of-federal-studies-means-for-financial-aid-research/

"In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a quiet yet profoundly consequential decision to abruptly terminate major research contracts and lay off dozens of staff and contractors, [undermining] the nation’s ability to access credible, comprehensive data on college affordability, student success, and postsecondary outcomes."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Data #DefendResearch #Education #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"US science after a year of Trump. A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The #Senate was racing to clear 3 measures that passed the #House last week with money for the #Commerce Dept & the #DOJ [maybe skip that one], as well as for #environmental programs.

Even some programs that have long been despised by #conservatives are instead set to sustain only modest cuts, including #VoiceOfAmerica, the National Endowment for #Democracy [#NED] & the National Endowment for the #Arts [#NEA].

#law #Trump #Congress #funding

#Congress Is Spurning Many of Trump’s Planned #Spending #Cuts

Months after the partisan clash that led to the longest #shutdown in history, lawmakers have agreed on spending bills that look far different from what #Trump wanted.

#law #legislation #House #funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/congress-trump-spending-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Congress is quietly rejecting almost all of the deepest #cuts to federal programs that #Trump requested for this year, turning back his efforts to slash #funding for #ForeignAid, #GlobalHealth programs, #scientific #research, the #arts & more in a bipartisan repudiation of his #spending plans.

#law #legislation #House

The latest rejection of his #budget blueprint came Wednesday, after the #House voted 341 to 79 to pass a pair of bills to fund the #State & #Treasury Depts, as well as other #ForeignAid programs, providing money for agencies that #Trump had proposed eliminating entirely.

#law #legislation #Congress #funding

All told, while lawmakers have agreed to make modest trims to a number of programs that #Trump has wanted to eviscerate — & to zero out some others — the spending bills that they are now moving through #Congress reflect the political #reality that any #funding measure must be bipartisan in order to avoid a Democratic filibuster in the #Senate & become #law.

“These are bills that reject the devastating #cuts #Trump demanded in his deeply unserious #budget he sent to #Congress about a year ago,” said Sen #PattyMurray of Washington, the top #Democrat on the #Appropriations Cmte. “When just about every secretary came before our Appropriations Committee to advocate for those Trump #funding cuts, I made clear to them I planned to rip up his budget & write a new one — & that is exactly what we are doing.”

#law

It is a striking pivot just months after the partisan clash last fall that led to the longest #government #shutdown in history.

Lawmakers are now in the process of negotiating & approving a series of #spending bills before a Jan 30 shutdown deadline. Appropriators in both the #House & #Senate have come to bipartisan agreements on 8 of the 12 bills that fund the government.

#law #Trump #Congress #funding

From Horizon Malta.

The New European Bauhaus (NEB) Facility is an EU funding instrument supporting projects that make neighbourhoods more sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful.

The Facility is structured around two components:

🔬 Research & Innovation (Horizon Europe)
Around €120 million per year to support research, testing, and demonstration projects that combine sustainability, social inclusion, and design quality.

1/2

#funding #NEB #NewEuropeanBauhaus

"Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science."
https://www.science.org/content/article/congress-set-reject-trump-s-major-budget-cuts-nsf-nasa-and-energy-science

"The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. Today, lawmakers hammering out final bills covering the National Science Foundation (#NSF), #NASA science, and Department of Energy (#DOE) research programs unveiled an agreement to spend very close to current levels."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The #Trump admin froze $10 billion in #grant #funding for #childcare & #family assistance programs in 5 states purportedly because of “serious concerns about widespread fraud” in state-administered programs.

All 5 states targeted — #California, #Colorado, #Illinois, #Minnesota & #NewYork — are led by #Democrats.

#PublicHealth #HealthCare #medicine #RFKJr #law #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Plutocracy #elitism #RevengePolitics
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/trump-freezes-child-aid-hhs-fraud.html

Would people have more money in their pockets to crowdfund companies or product development that they actually *want*, if all companies were cooperatives? Would corporate loans cease to be relevant?

#Cooperatives
#CooperativeBasesEconomy
#Funding
#Crowdsourcing
#ResearchAndDevelopment
#Startups

"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html

"Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries #NASA #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant #funding said the #NIH would consider grant applications made up to Sept. 29, 2025, 👍without judging the efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or #DEI, or #vaccines.

The settlement provides an uncontested path for the agency while courts decide whether the administration can use its controversial analysis.
❌The administration did not agree to permanently ditch its campaign to evaluate health research funding decisions based on schools’ DEI programs.
⭐️NIH officials “will complete their consideration of the Applications in the ordinary course of NIH’s scientific review process, without applying the Challenged Directives,” the settlement said, adding that the agency would “evaluate each application individually and in good faith.”
The settlement was signed by U.S. Department of Justice lawyers and the attorneys general of Massachusetts, California, Maryland, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

https://blknewsnow.com/trump-administration-agrees-to-drop-anti-dei-criteria-for-stalled-health-research-grants/

Court allows Trump-backed cuts to Planned Parenthood's #Medicaid #funding in 22 states

A #US appeals court on Tuesday allowed the #Trump admin to enforce in 22 states a provision of his signature tax & domestic policy bill that deprives #PlannedParenthood #health centers of Medicaid funding if they perform #abortions.

#PPFA provides multiple services to #women & #families other than abortions including #cancer screenings. All of those services are at risk.

#law
https://www.reuters.com/world/court-allows-trump-backed-cuts-planned-parenthoods-medicaid-funding-22-states-2025-12-30/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Part of the underpinning of that plan is an unironic declaration by #RFKJr that gender-related treatments for minors “fail to meet professional recognized standards of health care.” In the suit, the states argue that the declaration is unlawful & a government overreach.

#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransRights #discrimination #bigotry #GenderAffirmingCare #healthcare #hospitals #funding #Medicare #Medicaid #Trump

“Secretary Kennedy cannot unilaterally change medical standards by posting a document online,” #NYAG #LetitiaJames, one of the #states in the lawsuit, said in a statement Tuesday. “And no one should lose access to medically necessary #health care because their #federal government tried to interfere in decisions that belong in doctors’ offices.”

#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransRights #discrimination #bigotry #GenderAffirmingCare #healthcare #hospitals #funding #Medicare #Medicaid #Trump

A coalition of 19 #states Tues sued to block the #Trump admin’s plan to strip #federal #funding from #hospitals providing gender-related care for minors, a policy that would effectively shut down any #health care providers that failed to comply.

That plan, announced Thurs by “Health” Secy #RFKJr, would cut off all #Medicaid & #Medicare payments — which make up a major share of #hospital revenue — to any facility that provides minors with gender-related treatments in the country.

#law

19 #States Sue to Block White House Plan to End Gender-Related Care for Minors

The coalition of states seeks to stop a #Trump admin effort to cut off #federal #funding to #hospitals that provide such care.

#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransRights #discrimination #bigotry #GenderAffirmingCare #Medicare #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/states-lawsuit-kennedy-gender-care-hospitals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#US District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general that sued the admin after being alerted that their #states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to “sanctuary” jurisdictions.

The cuts were unveiled after a separate federal judge in a different legal challenge ruled it was #unconstitutional for the #federal govt to require states to cooperate on #immigration enforcement actions to get #FEMA #disaster #funding.

#law #Trump

Federal judge says #Trump admin must restore #disaster money to #Democratic #states

A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin’s attempt to reallocate federal #HomelandSecurity #funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal #immigration enforcement.

#law #judiciary #RevengePolitics
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-sanctuary-city-trump-fema-9c441d9cbe953a8ecd78123f0fe8a64e

“'It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies,' Gavin Yamey, a professor of global health at Duke University, wrote on BlueSky.

Hepatitis B, which can cause liver failure, is a significant health issue in Guinea-Bissau..."

https://undark.org/2025/12/23/cdc-hepatitis-vaccine-study/

#PublicHealth #HepatitisB #HepB #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #research #grants #funding #bioethics #CDC #HHS #ACIP #GuineaBissau #GlobalHealth

"The Year That Changed Research."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/19/how-2025-changed-research-and-whats-ahead

Summary from @insidehighered: "A year of mass federal grant terminations and sweeping policy changes to the nation’s research enterprise broke many scientists’ trust in the government. And those changes offer insight into what may come next year."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The case has tested the govt's #power to sway the nation's oldest & wealthiest university, which has resisted a pressure campaign targeting #colleges around the country.

Judge Allison Burroughs ruled in Sept that the #Trump admin's sweeping #funding cuts violated #Harvard's #FirstAmendment rights. The judge said the govt put #unconstitutional conditions on Harvard's federal funding & failed to follow federal procedures for the govt to sanction universities for “#CivilRights” violations.

#law

The #Trump admin is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in #funding cuts to #HarvardUniversity, extending a standoff over the White House's demands for “reforms” at the #school.

The #DOJ filed a notice of appeal late Thursday in a pair of consolidated lawsuits brought by #Harvard & the American Association of #University Professors.

#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #HigherEducation #RevengePolitics
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-administration-appeal-judges-order-reversing-federal-funding-128555783

"The American Academy of Pediatrics has joined the ranks of organizations that are losing funding for grants that, federal officials say, don’t align with the Trump administration’s missions or priorities."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/health/hhs-american-academy-of-pediatrics-grants

#healthcare #PublicHealth #HHS #grants #research #funding #pediatrics #InfantMortality #RuralHealth #MentalHealth #adolescents #disabilities #USpol

"The project broke ground in October 2024. Within six months, the Trump administration had canceled the grant program, known as Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or BRIC, calling it 'yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program … more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters.'"

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/tsunami-shelter-oregon-hospital-fema-funding-cut-lawsuit/

#healthcare #environment #disasters #preparedness #FEMA #DHS #grants #funding #DOGE #USpol #courts

#Trump is getting into the #fusion #power business through a $6 billion merger of his social media firm & #Google backed #TAE technologies, just days after industry representatives urged #federal #funding.

The all-stock deal announced Thursday is a bet on the power boom spurred by #ArtificialIntelligence #datacenters & adds to the Trump family's growing roster of ventures very much connected to his presidency from cryptocurrency to mobile services.

#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-combine-6-billion-deal-2025-12-18/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

"Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/

"The #Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research [#NCAR] in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading #climate research labs."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health sued the Trump administration Tuesday, saying she was illegally fired for warning that abrupt research cuts were endangering patients and public health."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-nih-lawsuit-marrazzo-health-e8210ddfe9ea79ff0f7bb478f3c13e2d

#healthcare #NIH #research #funding #DOGE #USpol #courts

Could you get 1% of Firefox users to subscribe at $2/month (total, not per device or user or anything) to a proper community-owned fork, if that meant you could get rid of the stupid obsessions of Mozilla management, and make the browser the *only* thing the new organization worked on?

A million people, at $2 / month? You could fund a pretty good development team on even half of that.

Maybe it's unpossible. Maybe it's not.

The existing forks of Firefox basically depend on Mozilla doing the development, then the forks strip out whatever bits they object to and re-package it. That's not sustainable; if Mozilla makes one hard turn, suddenly that "just strip it out" becomes a mammoth task the all-volunteer forks can't keep up with.

Forking Firefox once, and getting a smaller, but focused, funded, and stable development team for it, seems like it might actually solve the problem.

3/3

#funding #nonprofit #PublicBenefit #BCorp

"We expect breakthroughs to occur on a regular basis, and 2025 delivered; successful trials of gene therapies for diseases that have no treatments, for example, filled scientists and the public with hope. But bright spots like these were overshadowed by a series of political decisions in the U.S. that have already started to set public-health care back instead of pushing it forward."

https://time.com/7339884/2025-health-progress-vaccine-policy/

#healthcare #PublicHealth #research #grants #funding #HHS #USAID #vaccines #USpol

The Americanisationof British political funding

The Tories and Labour have colluded to dominate politics, gifted the purse strings of vested interests, including those connected with overseas powers (Russia and the Tories for example) for years. Now #Reform are getting in on the act and are expected to be able to outspend the #SNP in Scotland and #Plaid in Wales, as well as the ‘big two’.

Reform (not that one) is essential.

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/reform-uk-builds-towards-40-million-election-war-chest-as-billionaires-wait-in-the-wings-to-back-nigel-farage-for-pm/

#UkPol #Corruption #Funding #Crisis

”This war is on European soil, so how the war ends is of intrest to europeans. It’s not in anyone’s interests that Russia comes back for more.”

”The cost of supporting Ukraine today pays in comparison to what we would have to pay in the event of a full-scale war on the European Union.”

Great speech at the European Parliament by Kaja Kallas!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9duKyybbTT8
#ukraine #eu #russia #war #funding #kajakallas

📬 In this issue of #AdvancesInComputing:

🎙️ Personal narratives from computing visionaries on the power and promise of federally funded research

🧵 and more from Interactions HCI

https://open.substack.com/pub/theofficialacm/p/the-power-and-promise-of-federally?r=6w5qsy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#ACMNewsletter #funding #NSF

Jolla Launches Community-Funded Linux Phone: https://linuxiac.com/jolla-launches-community-funded-linux-phone/
#linux #hardware #jolla #smartphone #funding #deadline

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush, computational biology pioneer, ‘knew biomedical research was in the crosshairs’

#science #biology #funding

https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/research-cut-impacts-john-quackebush-profile-american-science-shattered-series/

The memo also calls on the department's grant-making offices to prioritize awarding #funding to states & municipalities that have programs designed to protect against [thier definition of] “domestic terrorism”, & it instructs the #FBI to update & improve its tip line so that "witnesses & citizen journalists can send media of suspected acts of domestic terrorism."

#Trump #fascism #ThoughtPolice #dissent #ViewpointDiscrimination #NaziInformants #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion

The #US Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of #Science & #Medicine

A quiet policy change means the #government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

In the past decade, the #NIH awarded top scientists $9 billion in competitive #grants each year, to find #cures for #diseases & improve #PublicHealth.

This year, something unusual happened…

Starting in January, the #Trump admin stalled that #funding. By summer, funding lagged by >$2 billion, or 41% below average.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Capitulation

#Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with #Trump admin to restore #federal #funding

#NorthwesternUniversity has agreed to pay $75 million to the US government in a deal with the Trump admin to end a series of investigations & restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal #research funding.

#extortion #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Palestinian #HumanRights #protests
https://apnews.com/article/trump-northwestern-agreement-antisemitism-d646516c3f800faa416228deab61532c

"Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries."
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/11/court-permanently-blocks-trumps-executive-order-dismantle-federal-agency-americas

"Today [Nov 21], the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (#IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

And…it’s happened…

#Trump Admin Announces Steps to Dismantle #Education Department

Responsibilities for #K12 & #college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.

#law #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #FederalFunding #PublicSchools #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #Project2025 #poverty #LowIncome #grants #funding #children #kids
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/trump-education-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

"The NIH has posted a dozen job openings for institute directors with very tight turnaround timelines and without convening search committees -- a departure from the past that's raising red flags among scientists."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/118567

#healthcare #biomedical #science #research #NIH #HHS #grants #funding

#NSF #NSFFunding #funding #FederalFunding #GrantFunding #science #ScienceFunding #AntiScience #AntiIntellectual #USPol