The National Science Foundation (NSF) has reopened its website for distributing research grants after a week of confusion and controversy. While a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's attempt to freeze grant funding, the NSF continues its review of billions of dollars in grants, citing compliance with executive orders. This situation has caused distress among NSF-funded researchers, who face uncertainty about their funding and the future of their research.
JHVEPhoto/Alamy Stock Photothat it has reopened a website that distributes money from research grants to scientists. The move comes after a week of confusion and frustration for NSF -funded researchers in which the agency froze their funding — including for postdoctoral fellowships — and said it was reviewing grants worth billions of dollars to comply with President Donald Trump’s
“People are trying to understand what’s going on,” says one NSF employee. “The freeze in funding was, and continues to be, completely confusing to everyone.”, which are decrees that direct the US government’s actions but that cannot change existing laws. The orders aimed to reshape US policy on climate science, public health, the federal workforce and more. A week later, the Trump administration issued a memo freezing all federal grants.
There is no clear timeline for how long the judges’ temporary holds will last, but even if they are lifted in an appeal, the NSF could have a hard time legally terminating grants, because their funds are appropriated by the US Congress, meaning they are protected by law, says Deborah Pearlstein, a specialist in law and public policy at Princeton University in New Jersey.
“To see ‘women’ and ‘woman’ and ‘people of colour’ showing up on a spreadsheet over and over and over and over — that was a gut punch,” says one NSF employee. Jasmin Graham, a marine biologist who co-founded the science-advocacy group Minorities in Shark Sciences, says that NSF funds, which account for one-tenth of the group’s operating budget, have yet to thaw. “We are currently operating on the assumption we will not get the remaining funds…and are strategizing to find alternative funding sources.”
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