2026-06-23 18:13 UTC
:boost_requested: Please help us save science and research on literally everything in the United States. No, I am not overstating this. TLDR: Grants can be cancelled for any reason at any time at the whims of essentially one person appointed by the federal govt without much or any oversight. This rule will likely cancel about HALF the clinical trials currently in progress, for example. And that's just the tip. Any and all federal funding for any and everything is affected by this rule.
⚠️ TAKE ACTION! 20 days left to comment, can do it through stand up for science here https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163675 or direct via federal sites. Either works. The page I linked has some overview to help you write in your dissent. Comments need to be unique to be counted, so please write your own.
⚠️ Also please call / write your congress folk. You can use the same comment you wrote for above.
(Full text: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance)
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@Archivist@social.linux.pizza 2026-06-23 23:35
@sunguramy@flipping.rocks I want to emphasize here, that the reason why we can diagnose 2/3rds of the cancers worldwide is because some researcher in astrophysics got a grant to figure what unreachable gas clouds were made of. No one can know what results will be useful. Some obscure mathematics thesis may solve all of our energy problems and the undergrad that published it may never even know. And it would not even be the first time.