Jared Freedman

‘You screwed people’: Inside the National Science Foundation’s firing of 168 workers At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.

"You screwed people": Inside the National Science Foundation’s firing of 168 workers👇

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

"Now is the time for science, not silence." The war on science isn’t just politics, it’s our planet's future & the stakes have never been higher.🦈🪸🌊 As climate scientists, we must advocate & defend evidence-based policy.📄🌏 #ClimateAction #ScienceMatters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

Felt good to stand with and talk to neighbors in Eugene, learn about local initiatives, and make it clear that we do not stand with the Trump Admin’s dangerous actions #50501Movement

Sen. Ted Cruz's list of "woke" science includes self-driving cars, solar eclipses Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says the National Science Foundation has given money to thousands of "Woke DEI" studies. Researchers say that's misrepresenting science and disparaging important research.

Ted Cruz’s “woke” science list contains a lot of basic, fundamental research that got flagged for simply addressing broader impacts (as Congress requires).

As absurd as the list seems, it’s making scientists uneasy.

My latest:

www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An absolute disgrace from the NSF. Beyond the obvious racism, sexism, and bigotry, these words are so engrained in scientific terminology that many “non-dei” research will be flagged as well…

Show me an ecology paper without the phrase “community diversity,” or an popgen paper without “barriers”

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.