Rural leaders push Congress to unfreeze climate and environmental funds
"Atkinson was part of a group of about 50 leaders from rural communities in eight states — mainly in the western U.S. and Alaska — who traveled to Washington last week to urge lawmakers to preserve #funding for #climate and environmental projects that is threatened by the Trump administration."
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5342672/climate-change-grant-funding-freeze-trump-republican
#cracks
Funding Problems in Open Source - What Can Be Done?
https://peertube.futo.org/videos/watch/3060811a-6b88-46ec-8352-9310e851b587
New on the #IMLS Coverage Roundup: ME: "Maine's Rural #Libraries at Risk as Trump Guts Agency That Provides Federal Funding" https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/18/roundup-library-funding-cuts/ #rurallibraries #funding
Important new tool: the Impact Map—a new interactive platform developed under the Impact Project to help visualize how #federal #employment, #funding, and #policy #decisions affect [US] communities.” https://theimpactproject.org/the-impact-map/
Want to turn your research idea into a funded project with expert support? 
The #MPIM Incubator Program offers short, funded research stays (2 weeks–3 months) to help postdocs develop top-notch #proposals (Humboldt, MSCA, ERC & more) in an outstanding scientific environment.
Join us at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology & take your project idea to the next level.
More info: https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/career/funding-for-postdocs
#ClimateScience #Postdoc #Funding #ResearchOpportunity #EarthSystemScience #OpenScience
Ko-fi goal reset for April 2025!
Join us on our journey to redefine what it is to distribute Linux.
Update. SCiMaP: View Impact of Federal Health Research Cuts
https://scienceimpacts.org/
"The National Institutes of Health (#NIH) funds crucial health research to address cancer, diabetes, dementia, and more. NIH funding also boosts the economy, returning >250% of the value invested. On Feb. 7th, 2025, the White House ordered across-the-board cuts to NIH funded research. This website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide."
https://barnraisingmedia.com/local-food-purchase-assistance-program-usda/ My friend's son lost a $90K contract with local schools and food banks due to this. He has fields full of potatoes that he won't be able to sell (he'd planted them to meet the volume requested by the schools). There are two madmen running our country, and Congress is asleep, or worse. #USDA #democracy #turdreich #food #USA #uspol #trump #funding #TheRepublicansDidThis #ResistFascism #resist
The March IHI newsletter is out - read it at https://europa.eu/!Hw6nXm 
Our director met with the European Parliament's Public Health Committee
Success stories from our projects on #Type1Diabetes, #COVID19 and #preparedness, & #immunotherapy 
Meet a new IHI #imaging project, and sign up for a webinar on our paediatric #cancer project ITCC-P4.
Last but not least - the deadlines for IHI calls 9 and 10 are approaching fast!
#IHITransformingHealth #HorizonEU #health #research #funding
"In order to free up billions of euros in #funding for #tech, the EU needs to make it easier for Europe’s #pension and #insurance funds to invest in #digital #StartUps and #ScaleUps," emphasises @BChampris.
https://project-disco.org/european-union/unlocking-eu-tech-funding-roadmap-to-investment-and-digital-innovation/ #CompetitivenessCompass
The seminar series "Fit for Research Funding" aims to familiarize researchers at @UniKoeln with different aspects of third-party funding! #UniCologne #funding #dfg #bmbf #horizoneurope #transfer #openscience #rdm
Registration for the nine workshops is now open!
#Trump signs sweeping #ExecutiveOrder overhauling #US #elections
It’s designed to “cut down” on the number of immigrants in the country illegally who are supposedly on voter rolls & would “fully weaponize” DHS data to ensure such migrants aren’t casting ballots.
The action seeks to include a “citizenship question” on federal voting forms & reduce federal #election #funding to states that don’t take “reasonable steps” to secure their balloting.
Update. "#NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the #Health Effects of #Climate Change"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-funding-climate-change-public-health
"The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica…While it’s unclear whether the climate guidance will impact active grants and lead to funding terminations, the directive appears to halt opportunities for future funding of studies or academic programs focused on the health effects of climate change."
Update. New study: "#NIH investment in drugs approved from 2010 to 2019 was not less than investment by the #pharmaceutical industry, with comparable accounting for basic and applied research, failed clinical trials, and cost of capital or discount rates."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2804378
PS: Relevant to (1) #Trump admin cutbacks to NIH #funding and (2) industry #patents and licensing terms on approved drugs.
Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #12/2025 is out!
It includes the following and much more:
➝ @wiz to be Acquired by Alphabet and will join #Google Cloud;
➝ GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files was compromised, risking secrets in over 23k repositories;
➝ @vulncheck has raised $12 million in a Series A #funding round;
➝ Clearview AI tried to buy millions of arrest records;
➝ Infosys to Pay $17.5 Million in Settlement Over 2023 #DataBreach;
➝ Oracle denies #breach;
Subscribe to the #infosecMASHUP newsletter to have it piping hot in your inbox every week-end 
https://infosec-mashup.santolaria.net/p/infosec-mashup-12-2025
"The Open Technology Fund sued the U.S. Agency for Global Media over the Trump administration attempting to terminate congressionally appropriated federal grants for OTF."
We must stand behind OTF. This could also be an opportunity for Europe to step in and support its funding.
https://www.opentech.fund/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1_-_2025-03-20_Complaint.pdf
Update. "What’s in store for US science as funding bill averts government shutdown"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00827-4
"The US government averted a shutdown late last week after President Donald #Trump signed into law a spending agreement that is likely to lock in modest cuts to science funding this year. But a larger crisis for science still looms as the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress continue to seek massive cuts to the federal budget for 2025 and beyond."
Update. "Foreign interference laws ‘no protection from #Trump edicts’"
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/foreign-interference-laws-no-protection-trump-edicts
(#paywalled)
"A memo sent to Australian collaborators in US-funded research projects seeks assurances that they and their institutions have no involvement in diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI) initiatives, “environmental justice”, “gender ideology extremism” or “any party that espouses anti-American beliefs”. It asks whether they have received any funding from China, including Confucius Institutes and “non-state actors”, along with Russia, Cuba or Iran. The 36 questions also include queries on how the projects “create measurable benefits” for the US."
A Statement from #ConstitutionalLaw Scholars on the government's funding cutoff at #ColumbiaUniversity
— Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole, & 15 other scholars
The #USgovernment may not threaten #funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing #First #Amendment protected #speech.
#law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/a-statement-from-constitutional-law-scholars-on-columbia/
