The Office of Management and Budget has proposed to completely restructure federal funding for science as we know it. In this bite, we review the most relevant points in the proposal and describe how to submit public comments on it by the deadline of July 13th, 2026.
Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board at the end of April. In this bite we explore what this means for the NSF, science funding, and, more broadly, the American government, with a perspective from Dr. Keivan Stassun, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt and a recent NSB member.
Today’s astrobite looks at how we can use observations of gamma-rays and neutrinos to test our models of cosmic rays.
Today’s astrobite looks at some interesting new detections of complex organic molecules by a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
In today’s bite, I share what I learned about science funding in the United States’ history and future in a science policy course I took last spring.