Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social

12 days ago

🎤 BOOM: Federal judge just ruled to reinstate the suspended ~300 NSF grants at UCLA.

Determines that NSF violated the previous court order by attempting to swap "termination" with "suspension".

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NSF’s actions violate the Preliminary Injunction. Though there may be situations where
a “termination” and “suspension” are not the same thing, there is no principled difference
between a “termination” and the immediate, indefinite, and “final” “suspension” of funding in
this context. The suspensions have the same effect, and are based on the same type of deficient
explanations, as the original terminations. NSF communicated the suspensions by means of a
form letter that failed to provide the requisite grant-specific reason for halting funding, and that
failed to adequately consider grant-specific interests, including the reliance interests of the
researchers. Therefore, pursuant to the Preliminary Injunction (Dkt. No. 55), NSF’s suspension
of the grants at issue here is VACATED. For avoidance of doubt, the Court also clarifies that
grant “termination,” as the term is used in the Preliminary Injunction, encompasses
circumstances where grant funding is cut off on a long-term or indefinite basis, like the
suspensions carried out by NSF on July 30

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@halfpint.bsky.social
12 days ago

FUCK YEAH

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Charlie Hagedorn @charliehagedorn.bsky.social
12 days ago

Haven't read the order yet; are there mentions of sanctions or a show-cause hearing?

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social
12 days ago

2/ Notably, however, this order is NSF-specific and does not address the "suspended" ~500 NIH grants at UCLA.

For NIH, there's a very big ❓right now based on how the Supreme Court will act.

Here's an excellent article on that:

Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH

The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

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Gary, former amature mind reader @docpsych.bsky.social
12 days ago

Bravo

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