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• Post #4189631

  NEW: Last week's terminations at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) total at least 150 grants worth $230M. That is over half of the agency's portfolio. It's the latest assault on healthcare, health equity, and the rule of law. Researchers had been left hanging as AHRQ failed to renew budgets for months, sometimes over a year. This continues the war on DEI. The word "equity" is the best predictor of termination. https://grant-witnes...

• Post #3623364

  Thousands of biomedical projects are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of projects renewed more than 60 days late has TRIPLED. These gaps leave scientists unable to plan research, keep students and technicians employed, or maintain long-term studies. https://grant-witness.us/posts/2026-06-23_overdue-funding/ #NIH #Science #USPol

• Post #3623363

  What's the preferred way these days to include a font in an R package (as part of a ggplot theme)? Examples? Can we use variable fonts? @hrbrmstr @thomasp85 #RStats

• Post #3623362

  Making use of this one-liner today as we're getting a bunch of intermittent Internet outages in the neighborhood while ! ping -c 1 www.google.com &> /dev/null; do sleep 1; done; say "Internet is back"

• Post #3623361

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@CenterforOpenScience/116840115226051857 I've been consistently impressed by the moral clarity and steadfastness of the @CenterforOpenScience team in the past 18 months, as the administration has sought to co-opt the policies they advocate as cudgels for politicization of science. Thank you!

• Post #3623360

  NEW: The National Science Foundation has been doing everything it can to meet its legal requirements to spend funds while throttling awards going to U.S. Science. While both are slow, spending is twice as fast as new awards. It's not because awards are bigger: they are *smaller* by an average of $100,000. Rather, NSF is directing more funds to support old projects, and forward-fund budgets, than actually making new awards to invest in science. https://grant-witness.us/posts/2026-06-3...

• Post #2562516

  Very excited to be working with Angie Reed + the Tribal Exchange Network (https://www.tribalexchangenetwork.org/) on the revival of {redoc}, an #rstats package enabling collaboration on reproducible reports via tracked changed in WYSIWYG documents. Thanks to the @RConsortium for selecting us, and congrats to the other grant winners! https://r-consortium.org/posts/r-consortium-awards-first-round-of-2025-isc-grants/ --- FOLLOW UP: We need a new name! https://github.com/redoc-dev/redoc/discussi...

• Post #2516502

  Annika Horne is making a great series of short films about the great disruption of scientific research. Here's one about the administration kicking NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies out of their building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwWf1yOq2fk&list=PLK41C0Vfc8JWbsoQr0Glvarl_y6oEkEn2 #NASA

• Post #2516501

  A team of researchers surveyed scientists from the Grant Witness database whose #NIH grants were terminated last year and found: Half of terminations in the name of "equity" were of BIPOC researcher's grants. 60% of terminations in the name of the administration's anti "gender ideology" (itself a blatant ideological crusade) were of grants to sexual and gender minority scientists. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/TLRHAMERICAS/article/PI...

• Post #2516500

  What's the current state of remote parquet-querying tools (duckdb, arrow, maybe polars) and WebR? That is, if I want a WebR/Shinylive app to query a remote parquet file and only transfer the query results? Or is the way to go, say, loading duckdb's WASM build and have a shiny call it via eval_js? Any examples? @hrbrmstr @jeroenooms @gws @kirill #RStats #WebR #DuckDB

• Post #1762587

  #RStats challenge: How to make a pie-beeswarm like this one from the Minnesota Star Tribune showing the relative sizes of ICE/CBP and local police forces? https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-numbers-compare-to-twin-cities-largest-police-forces/601562617 (Challenge 2: Try not to argue about pie charts in the replies 😉)

• Post #1671213

  OMB has clearly decided to ignore Congressional intent and implement their own preferred budget at #NSF. It's outrageous, unconstitutional, and is gutting our scientific capacity. Their excuses are such thin bullshit - There have been *two* SBE grants awarded this year, both for how to make humans work better with AI. Thanks to Dan Garisto for the deep dive here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01287-0 Detailed data from Grant Witness here https://grant-witness.us/funding...

• Post #1325704

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Posit/116404450648261613 I had missed that {renv} now installs packages in parallel! Many thanks to @kevinushey #RStats

• Post #1174223

  We're hiring a Research #Data Scientist in my group at EcoHealth Alliance! Join a team working on disease movement through travel + trade and outbreak forecasting. Build Bayesian and interpretable ML models using reproducible #RStats MS/PhD or equiv, $70-80K, Moving/visa support to NYC, or remote (US EST hours). Due 1/15 https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/career/research-data-scientist-2023 @jobsecoevo @rstats #Epidemiology #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DataDon #Job #PostDoc

• Post #1169333

  I find the {reviser} 📦 by Mark Burri + Philipp Wegmueller (now @rOpenSci reviewed!) interesting: It shows how economists deal with a problem that epidemiologists grapple with a lot: revisions of past time series https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/13/reviser/ @seabbs #RStats

• Post #1056444

  Excited that @rOpenSci's April co-working and office hours will be held jointly with the Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease Network! Join us and CSID network hosts Irene Ramos and Adamu Saleh Saidu on Apr 7 at 16:00 UTC to get to know a peer community!: https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-04/

• Post #1056442

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rOpenSci/116369011699593006 I'm very excited about this collaboration between @rOpenSci's R-Universe and @bioconductor: modernizing build systems for #rstats while expanding and testing new models for governance and development. Thanks to @jeroenooms for his leadership, the BioC team's collaboration, and @RConsortium's support!

• Post #1056441

  We've released a major update to our #NIH tracking at Grant Witness. We now publish a complete, multi-source history of events to track the complex administrative and legal journey of each grant. https://grant-witness.us/posts/2026-03-39_nihv3/

• Post #1056440

  Hey @millerdl, do you have that animated GIF of the spatial uncertainty of dolphin distribution in the Gulf of Mexico handy somewhere? @ericJpedersen @gavinsimpson

• Post #1056439

  @hrbrmstr I was just writing you to see how you were doing and then saw your post!

• Post #959991

  NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile for a collective follow-up with the House Science commitee and NSF leadership Details and template at https://grant-witness.us/grfp-letter Update: A new round of these RWRs appear to have been sent out today (Feb 4). Keep those letters coming! #NSF #GRFP

• Post #954920

  Yesterday the Trump administration suspended nearly 300 #NSF grants to UCLA, claiming the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students." The NSF grants total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types. More at https://grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-new-terminations/, thanks to Grant Witness member Mally Shan, with grant-level...

• Post #954918

  Honored to be working to defend science against authoritarianism alongside so many inspiring colleagues profiled here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02811-4

• Post #943613

  🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/pag50h1IjrX5MHhCH/form Please share widely! #NSF #NIH

• Post #943611

  🚨 NEW: Crowdsourced database of #NSF grant terminations. 🚨 We've been able to collect info on 1̶1̶0̶ 431 (!) cancelled grants. Thanks to all who reported. UPDATE: We think this is all of Friday's terminations. https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO These terminations target misinformation research, AI literacy and safety, and programs to broaden participation in science and education. They're an attack on the very idea of an educated and informed citiz...

• Post #943605

  The Chronicle of Higher Ed on #NIH grants on trans health, COVID, and more restored after termination: a smattering, haphazard, but many restored by going to court. "You can't win if you don't fight." https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-nih-grants-were-terminated-now-theyre-back

• Post #908283

  For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. https://grant-witness.us/funding_curves.html

• Post #865214

  Lots of neat stuff in this month's update! My faves: 1) O nosso guia agora é trilíngue (Inglês, Espanhol e Português)! 2) @mpadge's {pkgmatch} is now run on all new package submissions, helping authors and editors find reviewers and prior art! https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/671#issuecomment-4117805740 #RStats https://hachyderm.io/@rOpenSci/116317252225898305

• Post #841655

  This is a neat report that looked at >1300 open-source projects in #sustainability and #climate in terms of languages, geography, topics, and community/contributor structure. One bit I'm proud of: @ropensci is home to more projects than any other community! https://report.opensustain.tech #rstats #foss

• Post #783250

  I must complete the required security training. To do so, I must use the learning platform. The learning platform requires signing up for the new credential system. There is a training to sign up for the new credential system.