NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

One thing I don&#x27;t understand is people resigning on principles.<p>If something bad is happening to an organization that I hold a significant amount of clout and power in, I&#x27;m not just going to leave and hand the reigns to someone on &#x27;their side&#x27; -- I&#x27;m going to stay and fight and try to make whatever impact I can.<p>So many people are just leaving...instead of fighting. Which seems like it&#x27;s going to have the effect of just accelerating the demise of the organization they claim to love so much.

Request to mods: s&#x2F;NSF&#x2F;National Science Foundation&#x2F; in the title.

Pretty distressing at how there’s basically zero pushback from the American elites at the destruction of all strategic American advantages and only ineffective pushback from the public.<p>There will be entire genres of books written about how America just said “eh” to being gutted by a bunch of rich psychopaths.

I like to save my resignations for the whole &quot;you can&#x27;t fire me, I quit&quot; part - when the fall is all thats left, it matters a great deal.

&gt; And NSF said pending proposals that appeared to violate any of Trump’s executive orders—in particular those banning efforts to increase diversity in the scientific workforce, foster environmental justice, and study the spread of misinformation on social media sites—would be returned for “mitigation.”<p>Basically don&#x27;t study how Elon&#x27;s websites are destroying the fabric of society or how Trump&#x27;s policies will destroy the environment.

He was already obeying in advance before DOGE got there, but I guess that wasn&#x27;t enough. I fear very bad news is coming.

So he had a chance to say what he thinks of these plans to butcher NSF, but he chose to wash his hands and say &quot;I am deeply grateful to the Presidents for the opportunity to serve our nation. &quot; and so on.

Another knowledgeable person leaving due to DOGE, what a surprise. The US is loosing its smartest people due to Trump. Soon we will be a backwater country with lots of weapons, nothing else.

Anonymous. May have. That appear. Knowledgeable source.<p>Guessing or mind reading passes as journalism and that&#x27;s frustrating.<p>What do we know? Budget cut and resignation.