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<div dir="ltr">If you haven’t heard, the NSF released the full FY26 budget request for the NSF today. I suggest reading it. If passed, this is beyond disastrous and even worse than the 66% cut to MPS sounds like. </div>
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Normally Congress would ignore a plan like this, but these are not normal times. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Some high(?)lights: zero funding for REUs, zero funding for postdoctoral fellows, huge reduction in grad fellows. Closure of one LIGO facility, Kitt Peak, and CTIO. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">The NASA budget is similarly bleak. I don’t know about DOE research funding. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Have a great weekend!</div>
<div dir="ltr">Kurtis</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div>
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