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The details of the FY 2026 #NASA Budget Request are in: https://www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget-request/ (May 30 documents) - and they are as devastating as feared. Lowlights - there are no highlights - are discussed by
https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.bsky.social/post/3lqg6n4pdrc2h
https://bsky.app/profile/jtuttlekeane.bsky.social/post/3lqg7zzfgo224
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg6tjfthf2a
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg7nttoek2c
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg7lr5kgh27
https://bsky.app/profile/leighfletcher.bsky.social/post/3lqg5x3if6s2i
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqgagt4g6q2a
https://bsky.app/profile/spacetides.bsky.social/post/3lqg6eapuws2l
https://bsky.app/profile/jfoust.bsky.social/post/3lqg2wsbf7s2k
https://bsky.app/profile/tedpavlic.bsky.social/post/3lqg4ccpgnc25
https://bsky.app/profile/ohdearz.bsky.social/post/3lqgdmenyj22c4
https://bsky.app/profile/interplanetary.bsky.social/post/3lqgc5xvny22s
and in the articles https://spacenews.com/nasa-budget-would-cancel-dozens-of-science-missions-lay-off-thousands/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/dozens-active-and-planned-nasa-spacecraft-killed-trump-budget-request.
The NSF Budget Request is at least as disastrous:
https://bsky.app/profile/kgandersen.bsky.social/post/3lqg6c5nnas2h
https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lqg43xmdws2r
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg6icalsc2t
https://bsky.app/profile/thirstygecko.bsky.social/post/3lqg6mojywk2s

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
N.A.S.A. feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift of Gab & Z‐Trip:
🎵 The People Tree
#NASA #DavidByrne #Chali2na #GiftofGab #ZTrip

More press on the fate of #nasa in #nyc #doge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nasa-office-columbia-seinfeld-toms-restaurant.html

Some reporting on #nasa getting the #doge in #nyc
https://www.fastcompany.com/91333946/this-iconic-nasa-office-changed-climate-science-forever-doge-plans-to-kill-it
I put up some history here in happier times.
https://fediscience.org/@atthenius/110991531387943903

Video:
Solar Images Time Lapse 08 - 10 March 2025
#NASA #Space

❤️ Hope you have a wonderful #MothersDay ❤️
🙏 #nasa #landsat 🙏

Sister, seems like we were all afraid you wouldn’t survive your first winter inside
But you thrived
And now, I hear maybe you are moving to Central Park - pretty swank
See you soon
👋 ❤️ 🌖 🌳
#nasa #MoonTree #nyc #nasagiss
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/nasa-stem-artemis-moon-trees/

Video:
Solar Images Time Lapse 08 - 10 March 2025
#NASA #Space #Science

#gsa has told #nasa to vacate it’s only office in #nyc
#columbia and nasa with about 2/3 of the 120 people in the building being researchers employed by Columbia. This lab could not exist at all outside of nyc.
This lab, along with #gfdl in Princeton NJ were the first to come up with how sensitive the #climate is to inputs of CO2 in the 1979 Charney report.
We still make estimates of future climate change today.

#gsa #nyc #columbia #climate
The original Charney Report that says doubling CO2 will yield 1.5-4.5 degrees C temperature change (
#NOAA 's #GFDL and #NASA 's #GISS - incidentally, gfdl was also in the news yesterday
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl
" The gutting of NOAA was outlined earlier this month in a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget that detailed steep reductions at the Department of Commerce, which houses the science agency. ... NOAA’s overall funding would be slashed by 27%…
most significant target is the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ⎯ a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling, including the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ⎯ which would be cut by 74%. “At this funding level, OAR is eliminated as a line office,” the memo stated.”