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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

Wired

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

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Iconic Arecibo Observatory crumples after cable and structural failures

TechSpot

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Last month, the National Science Foundation decided there was no safe way to repair Arecibo's support cables, which failed in August and again in November. The NSF determined it would be safer to take down the facility in a controlled demolition. However, before it could even schedule the decommission, the.

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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Run by the US National Science Foundation, the station sees up to 1,000 visitors in the Antarctic summer from October to February, who travel here to conduct research on topics ranging from climate to ocean science. National Science Foundation. After that, NSF will decide whether to proceed with the project.

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BadVR is using government grants to build a business that’s independent of venture capital

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Eventually, the company managed to land additional financing in the form of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. million has come from the government in the form of two National Science Foundation cooperative agreements through the Small Business Innovation Research financing mechanisms. million in financing.

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Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Nguyen’s new startup Hatch recently launched its first two products and announced today it has secured a total of $20 million in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital, SVB and Plaid’s founders. Eligible account holders can also enroll in Hatch Cover, which covers overdrafts up to $100, or apply for lines of credit.

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New social media transparency bill would force Facebook to open up to researchers

The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Named the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), it would establish new rules compelling social media platforms to share data with “qualified researchers,” defined as university-affiliated researchers pursuing projects that have been approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Before Minerva was officially founded, Dawood and Rathnayake took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to help universities with entrepreneurship programs. By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF. Like it’s literally gold, and lithium is one of them.

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Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

million in grants from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes for Health (NIH). On top of the investment raised, the company was awarded an additional $1.8

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Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As an example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that by not commuting, each NSF teleworker reclaims an average of 62 hours of their lives back and saves $1,201 a year. The Mobile Work Exchange has a handy benefits calculator where you can quantify how much telework can help your particular organization.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. BERI was a three-year collaborative effort I worked on with Cecilia Garibay, Nan Renner and Carlos Plaza.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Grants come from community foundations, small local family foundations, local businesses. How are Workshop locations selected? The first one was in the Mission. What happened to the ones that folded?

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Navigating the Shifting Political Landscape as a Federal Grant Recipient

sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2025

Similarly, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a directive that requires all grantees to pause any activities related to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) that do not fully comply with the new administration’s updated requirements.

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Here’s why AG1’s CEO is envisioning the DTC supplement on store shelves

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I think about third-party certificationswe’ve been NSF[-certified] for sport for eight or nine years, which is a third-party certification that not only verifies that what’s on the label is in the product, it also ensures there are no contaminants or doping agents. AG1 is foundational nutrition.

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In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage

Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

And yet, he noted on Bluesky , LinkedIn , and X , his project was among nearly 3,500 National Science Foundation grants recently described by the likes of Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican and chair of the powerful Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, as woke DEI research.

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Confused Senator Rages That Self-Driving Cars Are Woke

Futurism

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

According to a database he released this week, as NPR reports , just over $2 billion of the National Science Foundation's $9 billion budget went to "left-wing ideological crusades masked as 'academic research.'" It's ludicrous," University of Maryland biologist Joshua Weitz, who has previously received NSF grants, told NPR.

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The Trump administration should follow its own order on free expression

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) pointed out , the United States has long funded programs that support technologies that enhance privacy, fight censorship, and support internet freedomand this order is directly undermining those programs.

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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

Iconic Arecibo Observatory crumples after cable and structural failures

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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

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BadVR is using government grants to build a business that’s independent of venture capital

Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders

New social media transparency bill would force Facebook to open up to researchers

Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier

Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Navigating the Shifting Political Landscape as a Federal Grant Recipient

Here’s why AG1’s CEO is envisioning the DTC supplement on store shelves

In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage

Confused Senator Rages That Self-Driving Cars Are Woke

The Trump administration should follow its own order on free expression

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