Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
Physicist Turned Psychologist | Senior Researcher in #STEMed | Meta-Analysis Nerd | d-miller.github.io
Also posts about 🧪 science funding to focus my attention.
Personal account. I don’t speak for my employer or any other orgs.
- Previously, "rotators" are be active scientists who serve 2-4 years at NSF, injecting the agency's direction with fresh insights from the field. But now, those rotator positions are being slashed. Will further restrict direct exchanges between agency officials and the active scientific community.
- NSF officials announced they are essentially abandoning the use of “rotators”— scientists on leave from academic positions who help the agency choose the best research to fund. NSF also plans to reduce the number of administrators classified as senior executive service employees. scim.ag/3EKnxmc
- 🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF
- 🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
- Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈The Trump administration’s newly proposed regulation, dubbed “Schedule Policy/Career” is really just a rebrand of Project 2025’s “Schedule F” – turning the non-partisan civil service into political loyalists. Here’s what you need to know ↓
- Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/
- Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈New: Helping to lay off 90% of the CFPB’s staff while holding $715K worth of stocks in companies that would benefit from a weakened CFPB “looks like a pretty clear-cut violation” of the federal criminal conflict-of-interest statute, one ethics expert said.
- Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈Recently, all the AAAS Science & Tech Policy Fellows at EPA were terminated from our positions with little notice and for no clear reason. This effectively ended a partnership that had been going since 1980 and which had brought hundreds of scientists to the EPA as fellows, many of whom stayed. 1/7
- Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈Rage coding this morning using #TidyTuesday NSF grant terminations data. Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration. I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...
- Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈Some grim updates on NSF grant terminations. ❌ ~1,382 grants terminated over a 15 day period ❌ $1.07 billion in total grant value ❌ Half (441 / 902) of the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM portfolio is gone No indication terminations have stopped. grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html
- 🧪 Q for the science community: Are there lists/docs already out there for non-fed funding sources for those who do NSF/NIH/Dept of Ed/etc funded work that's now threatened? For instance, one example with W. T. Grant Foundation: wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/rese... Specific calls are welcome too!
