Trump Fires National Science Board, Threatening Research Independence

The Trump administration has fired the members of the National Science Board, the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation and its roughly $9 billion annual grant portfolio. Scientists are warning the move — following earlier administration pushes to slash NSF funding — threatens the tradition of peer-reviewed, politically insulated decisions about federal research priorities. The NSF funds a significant share of basic research at US universities.

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