National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist

National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist

The NSF said on Sunday that its payment system was back on line, after it froze out researchers and sparked financial worries.

The Nature published an article on the chaos unleashed by the Trump administration in the U.S. scientific community by announcing the freezing of federal grants and loans. However, it is still unclear from when it has effects, on what type of specific projects and on what proportion of the $200 billion annual R & D budget.Devading long-term effects. The concern is especially strong around the definancing and stoppage of work that make key agenci…

The American science funding catastrophe

It’s been almost impossible to get reliable information this week, but here’s what my sources are telling me: There is still a complete freeze on money being disbursed from the US National Science Foundation. Well, there’s total chaos in the federal government much more broadly, a lot of it more immediately consequential than the science freeze, but I’ll stick for now to my little corner of the universe. The funding freeze has continued today, d…