The National Science Foundation has shifted its focus from supporting individual researchers and training the next generation of scientists to aligning with the research priorities of the Trump administration.

"For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (#NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September. That’s the date NSF issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to train the next generation of scientists. Instead, the memo makes clear, NSF will devote the bulk of its resources to addressing the research priorities of President Donald #Trump and his administration, many of them technology focused." https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-memo-implementing-trump-s-golden-age-science-unsettles-researchers "NSF’s budget, adjusted for inflation, is essentially the same as it was 20 years ago, and Trump wants to cut it by half next year." #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

From Science.org: "The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to train the next generation of scientists. Instead, the memo makes clear, NSF will devote the bulk of its resources to addressing the research priorities of Trump and his administration, many of them technology focused." https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-memo-implementing-trump-s-golden-age-science-unsettles-researchers #UsPol #Cronyism 1/n