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Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
The new terminations come one day after the agency’s director abruptly resigned and NSF staff members were offered incentives to retire early due to “future restructuring, staffing reductions, and constrained budget environments”. The numbers match crowdsourced data compiled in an online database by Scott Delaney, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Noam Ross, a computational ecologist based in Brooklyn, New York, who is executive director of rOpensci, an open-science, global non-profit. Last week, an analysis by Democratic staff for the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, found that the Cruz list contained a “slew of embarrassing mistakes” and used flawed methodology.
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