Matthew Feickert
Research scientist at UW-Madison data science institute working on #LHC #physics and data science with the ATLAS experiment @ CERN and IRIS-HEP. PhD @ SMU
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertFor those having a hard time following all the changes to NSF by the Trump administration, here's a wrapup of the past week's momentous events--and what they mean for the agency. www.science.org/content/arti...
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- This has been a week. Really wish there was a “pause” button on life at the moment.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertA victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
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- Reposted by Matthew FeickertBREAKING: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been arrested at Delaney Hall by the Department of Homeland Security. Read our statement: www.aclu-nj.org/en/press-rel...
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- From my non-Bluesky friend on our Discord
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- Reposted by Matthew FeickertExclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertI'm very excited that we are able to expand our team. These are great jobs for those that want to be active in AI/ML and data science in a research environment and work on problems that have real-world impact. Spread the word!
- DSI is hiring AI engineers, MLOps specialists, and a data scientist to support faculty research, with an emphasis on the @uwmadison.bsky.social RISE initiative. This is a great opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research across a wide range of topics. dsi.wisc.edu/about/work-a...
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- Reposted by Matthew FeickertAnnouncing our two new Targeted Grants in MPS: an ambitious muon collider project + support of Cenca Bridge, a nonprofit that provides opportunities to students in Central America and the Caribbean. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/05/01/m... #science #math
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- Reposted by Matthew FeickertDSI is hiring AI engineers, MLOps specialists, and a data scientist to support faculty research, with an emphasis on the @uwmadison.bsky.social RISE initiative. This is a great opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research across a wide range of topics. dsi.wisc.edu/about/work-a...
- While I'm grump about it, I have to give props to Microsoft Teams for having the nicest code box with language formatting experience of any chat client that I've used.
- While I've been attending @scipyconf.bsky.social since 2019 and helping to organize SciPy since 2021, #SciPy2025 will be my first time teaching a tutorial at the conference! Hope to see you there, and looking forward to great experiences with the tutorial participants.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertHours after the Trump administration proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts from next year's federal budget, hundreds of arts groups in the U.S. were told their grants were canceled.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertA few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertFYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertScientific merit—not politics—should guide NSF funding. These funding cuts are reckless and will cause irreparable damage to American innovation and global leadership. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertFive former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertI am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
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- Reposted by Matthew FeickertMore awful news. The US has been the leader in scientific research for **80** years due to robust funding for NSF, NIH, and other scientific agencies. All that infrastructure, human capital, and international prestige that we have built over those years is at real risk of just collapsing.
- I feel like I’m usually the one giving advice to my physics colleagues about Linux containers, but what do people do when they have to build a really big Docker image that ends up being big enough you exceed disk quota on your GHA runner (so like 8 GB)? Bite the bullet and pay for large runners?
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertNature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertCongratulations to DSI Research Scientist @matthewfeickert.com on receiving an inaugural URSSI Early-Career Fellowship for advancing scientific software development practices. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/04/30/f...
- Hope to see lots of you at #SciPy2025! Though note that the early bird pricing on the tutorials and conference presentation tracks ends tomorrow (2025-04-30)!
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- I'm very thankful for the opportunity the #URSSI Early-Career fellowship is providing me! I'm excited to bring fully reproducible environments to hardware accelerated and machine learning workflows as "sensible defaults" with the right semantics for scientists. Watch this space for future updates!
- Reposted by Matthew Feickert🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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- Reposted by Matthew FeickertPhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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- Reposted by Matthew FeickertI made a timeline of all the actions in Trump's (almost) first 100 days that have upended science and health. It was staggering to me to see it all in one place, even though I reported on many on these events. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...
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- Today seems like a good time to reiterate that if you capitulate and try to be agreeable to fascists they will weaken your position and then destroy you. So don’t work with them. Fight them at every step.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertNSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
- I’m beginning to learn the D.C. metro system is pretty good and the bus system is overloaded and consistently late.
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertSCIENTISTS: The proposed Schedule F is out. It has potential to undermine or destroy merit-based science. Rules/regulations have the force of law. This rule may put peer review in the hands of political appointees. Make your public comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
- I’m joining about 80 of my colleagues this week to meet with congressional offices, as private citizens and scientists, to advocate for continued investment in basic scientific research and supporting particle physics research. There’s urgency to the message. #HEPOnTheHill2025
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- Reposted by Matthew Feickert🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"
- Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertCan confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
- NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
- Reposted by Matthew FeickertThe National Science Foundation (NSF) is terminating a bunch of research funding. Much of this is in line with the goal of making sure nothing gets in the way of systemic racism and sexism, but they also explicitly target research on "misinformation/disinformation." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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