#nsf flags

[nihachu-soot-forever]

coining some stuff!!!

TransPermaDizzy - Someone who feels like they should or should have had permanent and incurable dizziness

TransDreamStan - a transid where someone thinks they should or should have been a dream stan

TransWilburStan - a transid where someone thinks they should or should have been a wilbur stan

TransShelbyStan - a transid where someone thinks they should or should have been a stan of shelby/shelbygraces

TransNihachuStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of niki nihachu

TransDiscDuoStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of discduo (Dream and TommyInnit)

TransRanbooStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of Ranboo

TransTommyStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of TommyInnit

TransTubboStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of Tubbo

TransAimseyStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of Aimsey

TransTechnoStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of Technoblade

TransGeorgeStan - a transid where somebody thinks that they should or should have been a stan of GeorgeNotFound/Gogy

[gregoftom]

leggy princeling in a skirt and thigh highs 😌 suggested by @ascandalinpink ty here you go! <3

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[hiodoshi-ao]

7/3/23, FITFWT. Phoenix, AZ:

At the end of Lucky Again, I think Louis noticed me and my RBB Gloomy. His eyes locked on me, he smiled, pointed at my bear, and said "That's cool." It was short, sweet, and debatable, but. I am. Freaking. Out. SBB to SBB moment?? /hj I didn't really take it in when it happened since I was trying to watch the real him while I could see him in the flesh, not just on my screen. Fuuuuuckcjbff 🫠🫠🫠🫠

I felt so lucky when I first got this cute rainbow bear as a gift... It was one of my dream plushies for what felt like the longest time because of the OG RBB and Gloomy Bear's cute yet edgy blood and claw design, and now, thanks to that same bear, I'm definitely feeling Lucky Again. 🥲

(Ew, you can sue me for that last bit.)

Here's some photos. I don't remember which songs these were from, unfortunately. 😅

[ryvgzkis]

kiss

[bigbarabelly]

Ah my shits getting flagged

How tf do u tag for n sfw without it immediately trigfering what I’m assuming is an app sweep for it

Regardless I need to find a better censoring workaround anyway and learn preview box dimensions

[amplexadversary]

[cupcraft]

Sorry i have to speak on this as a student researcherm

The cdc now the NSF has words that can't be used in awards/grants and potentially papers published with that funding or from the government.

This is fascism controlling science and journalism and the peer review.process and it is and will harm science. You can't say the words female or woman in nsf grants. You can't say the word trauma even if you're researching literal physical trauma. Research that benefits all people especially minorities will suffer. Medicine will suffer. Science will suffer. We are being censored and are entering an age of pseudoscience and fascism. Please boost this conversation. I am so scared what will happen as this continues to escalate. Call your representatives. Protest. Anything

Cdc: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/cdc-reportedly-given-list-seven-banned-words-phrases-n830416

Nsf: https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661

[mariacallous]

A grant to study linguistic differences between Hebrew and English was flagged as an example of “woke DEI grants” in a new database released by Sen. Ted Cruz.

The database is part of ongoing Republican efforts to justify significant cuts to federal research funding and diversity programs under President Donald Trump.

The $226,000 grant, given by the National Science Foundation to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022, was flagged by the Texas Republican senator’s team as having an inappropriate focus on “gender.” 

But according to the description of the research in Cruz’s own database, the sole mention of gender in the grant’s description is in reference to the fact that the Hebrew language (like many) assigns gender to nouns.

The UMass grant was also one of seven in Cruz’s database of Biden-era grants that stated an intent to promote partnerships between American and Israeli research institutions — something that did not appear to mitigate opposition from Cruz, an avowed supporter of Israel. He said in a statement that the more than 3,400 grants in his database demonstrated that the NSF had funded “questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.”

A request for comment to Cruz’s office was not returned; nor was an inquiry sent to UMass. Cruz, the chair of the Senate committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, said in a statement that his data “exposes how the Biden administration weaponized federal agencies to push a far-left ideology.” 

He added, “Congress must end the politicization of NSF funding and restore integrity to scientific research.”

The public database of grants compiled by Cruz provides a window into how Trump and his allies are thinking about cuts to research funding. The flagged grants mentioning Israel were made to six universities including Brown, the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. They cover a range of scientific topics, from studying cognition to magnetic technologies to energy storage. 

What they have in common is a stated intent to collaborate with an Israeli university. For example, Michigan’s grant specifically references a partnership with Ben-Gurion University in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva, while a second UMass grant mentions partnering with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in the port city of Haifa, as well as “outreach by the Israeli collaborator to local high schools in Haifa.”

The second common thread among the Israel-related grant descriptions is the use of keywords flagged by the database as related to gender or DEI. Cruz’s team sorted the grants based on the presence of keywords related to the categories of “gender,” “status,” “social justice,” “race” and “environmental justice.”

None of the grants to mention Israeli partnerships make such topics the focus of their research, though some state a general commitment to “groups underrepresented in science” or “outreach to women and underrepresented minorities.” UMBC’s grant states that it will allow participation “for local high school students from underrepresented groups on the US side, and from various nationalities on the IL [Israeli] side.”

The UMass grant exploring the Hebrew and English languages makes no such commitment to diversity. Its reference to gender comes as it states that “English and Hebrew differ in how they organize the words within sentences and whether they assign gender to nouns; Hebrew assigns masculine and feminine genders to nouns, similar to languages like Spanish and French but unlike English.” 

The project’s stated focus is to study how such linguistic differences affect “interpretation errors” among people who speak both languages.

Cruz’s dragnet of so-called “woke” research grants also comes as a number of American researchers and campus groups have pushed for boycotts of all Israeli institutions, in protest of Israel’s war in Gaza. 

The database was posted as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has targeted federal research funding on the basis of keywords that, the Trump team claims, reveal evidence of gender- and DEI-driven agendas. On Tuesday a federal judge intervened to block steep cuts to medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health. Another injunction blocked key parts of Musk’s effort to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. 

A report last week in the Washington Post found that NSF staff were also being directed to comb through their research projects in search of dozens of offending keywords, including “women,” “victims,” “trauma” and “ethnicity.” Such efforts are part of a larger slashing of federal spending, including the shuttering of entire departments, that scholars say is unlawful and may be leading to a constitutional crisis.

[o-wild-west-wind]

So...what's going on with the NIH?

A (very reductive) breakdown

With the current “flood the zone” agenda overwhelming our feeds, I’m sure that all this news about the NIH feels like just another drop in the bucket. I figured I'd try to write out what's going on and why it matters, since this is all HUGELY impactful, despite getting pretty buried in the news cycles (my explanation is under the cut—the article above is a helpful reference).

TL;DR: The NIH funds most medical research in the US; this medical research funding is being slowed and cut effective immediately; and we need to contact our representatives about this ASAP.

You can say that you "urge them to oppose all funding cuts and DEI-related restrictions in the NIH." Stick this onto your other phone/email/letter scripts, and feel free to add more specifics and personalization!

What happened, and why does it matter:

As of 2/8/25, the Trump administration has:

Indefinitely halted NIH study sections, which are how research gets reviewed and approved, as well as travel and communications (some of all this is just now restarting, but this has been selective/on a delay)

Planned to flag and possibly reject grant renewals and any new proposals with "DEI" and "DEI-related" terms, ranging from obvious keywords like "LGBT" and "transgender" to standard technical terms like "race, "gender," "health disparities," and "bias" (source on terms is re: the NSF, but I can confirm as an NIH funded researcher that we have similar directives)

Ended "DEI" programs in the NIH and removed multiple webpages on diversity-related grants and funding

Frozen hiring and rescinded job offers starting on 2/8/25

Capped the indirect cost funds of grants at 15%, effective immediately (from an average of 30%)

(NOTE: This is a non-comprehensive list—and while I'm an NIH-funded researcher, I'm not high up enough on the food chain to be a total authority on this. Please feel free to add more details if you know them.)

What does this all mean?

The NIH is the largest funder of health/medical research in the United States, which is usually conducted at universities and hospitals (public AND private). This includes research on everything from cancer, heart disease, dementia, addiction, depression, HIV, and the flu to—in my specific case—co-occurring conditions of autism (so basically, anything at all health related? That's probably being studied via NIH funds).

Funding includes things like:

Direct costs of supplies, tools, machinery, etc.

Research team salaries, from lead scientists to administrative staff

Fellowships (i.e. how PhD students typically get paid)

Indirect costs (utilities of lab operation, etc.)

Basically, what all these directives do is slow and/or cut health research funding. What this means is slowing "non-DEI" research funding and entirely cutting "DEI" research funding (which we don't have solid definitions for yet!).

What does this all look like?

At this rate, and if unchanged, this could likely result in:

Months-long (or longer) delays on "non-DEI" medical research (i.e. for the average population)

Unknown cuts to health disparities research (i.e. research on health differences between specific demographics of people)

A near-complete loss of "DEI" research in most US institutions (e.g. BIPOC health, LGBTQ+ health, disability health)

Fewer proposals of new/novel research ideas

Fewer PhD acceptances and hiring opportunities for new researchers (possibly shrinking an entire generation of scientists)

Mass layoffs of research staff

Breakdown of international research collaborations

Huge tuition increases for college students (including undergrads)

Closures of research institutions/universities

Privatization of research funding (possibly creating a bias towards "profitable" research interests/health conditions more common to wealthy populations)

Potential brain drain of American scientists to other countries

USA's loss of status as a scientific leader and powerhouse

For the average American, this all translates to things like:

Fewer medical breakthroughs and "weaker" medical research

Fewer medical/health experts

Increased drug/treatment costs

Lower quality of life

Stagnant (or lower) average life expectancy

(Plus economic repercussions I don't have the expertise to predict).

So what do we do about this???

I hate to sound like a broken record, but...CONTACT YOUR REPS! Call daily if possible, but send emails/letters at the very least! Use the language in the TL;DR at the top of this post if that gives you a framework.

If you want, include personal reasons as to why this will impact you, or just mention that it will slow life-saving medical research (bonus points if you tell them to block all cabinet picks until Elon is no longer interfering in the government)!

This is dire and immediate, but it isn't all doom and gloom. With enough pressure, we can (and have!) gotten things reversed.

Take care of each other, stay alive, and keep fighting back 💛

[darkmaga-returns]

A large wave of funding cancellations from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has abruptly derailed hundreds of research projects, many of which were focused on so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Late Friday, researchers across the country received emails notifying them that their grants, fellowships, or awards had been rescinded; an action that stunned many in the academic community and ignited conversations about the role of the government in regulating research into online speech.

Among those impacted was Kate Starbird, a prominent figure in the “disinformation” research sphere and former Director of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.

The Center, which collaborated with initiatives like the Election Integrity Partnership and the Virality Project, both known for coordinating content reporting to social media platforms, had ties to federal agencies and private moderation efforts.

[ryvgzkis]

unwind / full

[11queensupreme11]

I saw ur comment for my earlier ask where u said “since she's been spending some time in midgard, she's become pretty politically aware of what's been happening in america, so she knows something's off when one day the president declares war cuz things were NOT bad enough for that to happen (let's pretend this is after trump lmao)”

and I’ve never heard a truer statement in my life. Honestly, with everything that’s been happening I wanna disassociate so bad. Just from, like, all the straight WILD things that are being reported every five seconds he’s been in office. Like during his first presidency I feel like it was easier to ignore it cause I was younger, didn’t have TikTok (where I get CONSTANT updates about every detail of what he’s been doing just because it’s so far reaching that even my fav tiktokers that aren’t usually political (GRWMs) can’t NOT talk about how bad everything is getting and how much WORSE he wants to make it than it already is?!

It’s like I’m constantly waiting for him to be like “okay that’s enough villainous shit for the next 4 years now let me go golfing with Elon and Jeff in the Poconos” or whatever.

But HE.JUST.KEEPS.GOING!

Literally a couple days ago, I read that he gave a LIST(and/or flagged) a list to the NSF (the people who give out grants to fund acedmic research) of all the things their proposals (the scientists) can’t have in their proposals or they more than likely will NOT receive funding for their research. They were all words associated with “DEIA” (which don’t even get me started on that because I literally just recently got into the LONGEST fight with some guy in my TikTok comment section trying to tell him that DEIA has ALWAYS been about merit. It’s simply a way to make sure everyone’s voices are heard and everyone gets a fair chance at positions they are more than qualified for but might get passed over if their a certain race,ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. Not so “unqualified” ppl can get things they didn’t earn. I had to explain to him that no POC, disabled, or marginalized group has EVER been handed a job they didn’t earn. But I digress because if I go into depth about it this comment will be too long.

What I was trying to say was that of that list one of the words that was flagged was the word female?!?!?! WTF?!?! FEMALE! Are we being SO.FUCKING.FOR.REAL. rn?!?!

I’m sorry but HOW is anyone supposed to get anything done or research ANYTHING of significance if you can’t even talk about or include an entire gender that (tho they might hate to admit it) makes up half of the population of people in the world?!!!

Also what about research regarding female animals?

What? Is it gonna be male and non-male?

I’m so triggered rn it’s not even funny.

Anyway, sorry about that, ur earlier comment just made me think that if he could do dumb shit like this then yeah I do think in that Percy AU that he would throw us in a war for no reason at all.

At this point he’s just living off spite and vibes, I guess.

I SAW THE LIST OF STUPID FLAGGED WORDS THING TOO. i thought it was just another one of those "i hate pronouns thing!" until i realized that "male" was allowed but "female" wasn't 💀💀💀

i think this is they're way of saying that they want all research to be male-focused only and focused on male benefit rather than girls and women, which is DANGEROUS because male-centered research has caused huge problems multiple times in the past. generalizability is an important factor for research, your research needs to be generalizable to a wide array of people, not just straight cisgendered white men.

especially for MEDICAL RELATED RESEARCH?????????????????

god, i knew they hated women but i never expected them to pull up with this bullshit

[fundedbydarpa]

To comply with other White House directives, including on diversity, gender and climate, NSF staff are rifling through thousands of individual grants, according to Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat who represents the northern Virginia district where NSF is headquartered, and [an anonymous NSF] employee. Beyer said this month that NSF employees were given a list of words — including women, female, Black and indigenous — to flag in grants for possible termination.

“US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says” in Reuters on February 21, 2025

[anakinsafterlife]

More reasons to weep incessantly.

[verycleverboy]

Trumpland science must ask permission to say the word "women"

Equality. Multicultural. LGBT. None of these would be surprises if I told you the Trump administration had a list of forbidden vocabulary guaranteed to get online government research documents flagged for review. But apparently the very concept of women (no cis/trans qualifier required) is also viewed with suspicion thanks to Donald Trump's continuing war on literally everyone who isn't a cishet white male.

Gizmodo writes:

Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which is currently combing through websites and research papers for a long list of words that include “female,” “disability,” and “LGBT,” among a host of others. The review comes in response to a memo sent out Jan. 29 from the Office of Personnel Management, written by acting director Charles Ezell. Every agency has interpreted the memo a little differently, but at NSF they’ve compiled a list of words that need to be found which will initiate a review to see if it’s allowed. According to the Washington Post, a word like “women” appearing will get the content flagged, but it will need to be manually reviewed to determine if the context of the word is related to a forbidden topic under the anti-DEI order. Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don’t like, which means that the word “women” is on the forbidden list while “men” doesn’t initiate a review. Straight white men are seen through the MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn’t be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect.

The full Gizmodo article includes a more extensive (but not necessarily complete) list, and the gender stuff is just the tip of the shit iceberg. "Disability" is on there. You have to get approval to use the word DISABILITY in a government research paper.

And yes, this is a new manifestation of a stupid first-term trick, which does nothing to relieve my anxiety over the anticipated assault on reality-based science.