BREAKING: Major shakeup in NSF leadership. Brian Stone, who has been performing the duties of NSF director since April 2025, is retiring on Dec. 31. Rebecca Keiser, who has been acting chief of staff, is also retiring, Oct. 31. Unclear who will replace Stone, since O'Neill's nom hasn't moved.

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Science is doing essential reporting on the decimation of NSF social science funding. We need public accounting. If you’ve benefited from an NSF grant from SBE, add to this 🧵. Tell the world what was funded that will not be funded from NSF anymore. I’ll start… www.science.org/content/arti...

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Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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I also happen to know that quite a few of those terminated employees were later hired back once someone eventually realized that they, you know, did something useful. So much efficiency...

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the hardest thing for the politician-bureaucrats to understand -- but which NSF staff *absolutely do* understand and always have -- is that you actually make scientific progress by giving young people money and promising not to bother them

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