Science Homecoming
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✨NEW PROJECT✨ Support science across the country by writing an opinion piece in your hometown or local newspaper. This account is run by @cantlonlab.bsky.social & @spiantado.bsky.social. Join us at sciencehomecoming.com
Today is a great day to write an editorial about how important government funded research is.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last mo.Right, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Chopping science means progress stops. Time to write home about the value of American science. Science Homecoming has resources on our website. Encourage your colleagues to pencil up ✏️
Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · 4mo agoSome science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more.
Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84 Here's my coverage of this in @forbes.com 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84
Even though the U.S. Congress gave the National Institutes of Health budget a modest increase, the Trump administration may be using other ways to cut the NIH budget.
forbes.com
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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👩🏾🔬🐝🌌 Want to write popular science articles about your research for small-town newspapers in the U.S. to boost trust in science and support science literacy? Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has the information, tools, and volunteers to help you. www.sciencehomecoming.com
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The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.
Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier
Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite.
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Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week @science.org and @nature.com www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Even more success, now at NIH. Our collective efforts worked 🇺🇸🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Congress Proposes Increasing NIH Budget, Maintaining ED
Appropriators have released legislation that wouldn’t defund Education Department programs or slash the National Institutes of Health budget. And it would prohibit the federal government from capping ...
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Science Homecoming@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 7mo agoMoving forward 🇺🇸. “When asked if the president would sign the bill, the White House directed NBC News to a statement earlier this month from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The statement said that the administration supported the bill.” 🧪🏠 NO MAJOR CUTS
Moving forward 🇺🇸. “When asked if the president would sign the bill, the White House directed NBC News to a statement earlier this month from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The statement said that the administration supported the bill.” 🧪🏠 NO MAJOR CUTS
Science Homecoming@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur collective efforts to save science are working. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Our collective efforts to save science are working. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
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This project is trying to raise science awareness by doing short videos about cancelled research — including mine.
What We'll Never Know@never-know.bsky.social · 8mo agoA new video in the What We'll Never Know series, featuring Jessica Cantlon's groundbreaking research on improving spatial intelligence 🧪@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social @cantlonlab.bsky.social
Scicomm matters now more than ever! Returning from a trip to rural USA, realizing the messages so familiar to is are not getting out - both in terms of 1) disruptions to US science and 2) healthcare misinformation. Efforts like @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social matter! /1 sciencehomecoming.com
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Local reporters like @emilywoodruff.bsky.social are finding voices in their communities that speak to real-life ramifications, stepping beyond the immediate news cycle and humanizing policy choices, writes TON/@bwfund.bsky.social early-career fellow Lucila Pinto. 🧪
How to Make Science and Health Funding Cuts Resonate with Readers - The Open Notebook
By tracking funding losses and finding angles that illustrate the impacts of those cuts beyond the numbers, journalists can give readers a deeper understanding of how fiscal decisions have profound co...
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Please join @spiantado.bsky.social at @caltech.edu today for an in-person ScienceHomecoming event with The Caltech Y www.caltechy.org/programs/sas...
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Steve’s invited to present Science Homecoming to the American Mathematical Association @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
American Mathematical Society@amermathsoc.bsky.social · 9mo agoJoin this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.
Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.
Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG
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Conservation biologist Tabor Whitney learned to value nature in Colorado’s forests. Now her federally funded work protecting the Colorado River Basin and building resilience against drought, wildfire, and water scarcity is at risk of being cut. 🧪🏠 www.vaildaily.com/opinion/whit...
Whitney: Protecting what makes Vail great means supporting federal funding for science
I am one of the lucky few to grow up in Vail. My childhood was surrounded by nature and adventure. Living in Maloit Park in Minturn meant that my backyard was essentially a forest, one...
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Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper sciencehomecoming.com
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🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10mo agoHere's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed? Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
science.org
