Very proud of, and sad for, our friends at @thecarpentries for turning down a $1.5M #NSF grant rather than abandon their values. The (illegal) demands that they abandon DEI work were fundamentally at odds with their mission, and they made a hard and principled choice.
Click through for ways you can support them, financially or otherwise.
https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/
🇳🇴 Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund! | https://www.nsf-iaa.org/om-oss/
🇬🇧 Norwegian Syndicalist Federation! | https://iwa-ait.org/languages/norsk
FYI, if you happen to be a scientist in a large English-speaking country with uncertain future research financing; my employer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) is looking for grad students, postdocs and PIs.
It's a research institute, so no undergraduates, and the working language is English - no japanese required. And its located on a (semi) tropical island in the Pacific.
Many folks are hurting right now, but there are pockets of opportunity… Are you an organisational powerhouse with a passion for open source and open science? @NumFOCUS, which supports projects including @numpy, @Spyder, @napari and many more, is looking for its next Executive Director. A *lot* of potential for positive impact!
