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NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, DOD, USDA, NEH, NEA and foundation funding opportunity announcements with deadlines, budget cuts, pauses, terminations and restorations by agency, indirect cost and policy rule…

with same-day runs on agency-wide funding pauses or terminations
Mondays around 2 PM UTC
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What this Tab covers

NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, DOD, USDA, NEH, NEA and foundation funding opportunity announcements with deadlines, budget cuts, pauses, terminations and restorations by agency, indirect cost and policy rule changes, study section and review process changes, early career and small grant programs, foundation and philanthropy calls with amounts, grant portal outages and deadline extensions, university research office guidance and lawsuits over funding, with the agency, program or foundation first and the deadline in the title.

  • NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, DOD, DARPA, USDA NIFA, NOAA, EPA, NEH, NEA, IMLS and state agency funding opportunities, policy changes, budgets, pauses and terminations
  • Indirect cost, data sharing, foreign collaboration and reporting rules
  • Study section and panel changes
  • Early career, K, CAREER, R21, R03 and small grants
  • Gates, Chan Zuckerberg, Simons, Sloan, Moore, Howard Hughes, Wellcome, Templeton, Arnold, Mellon and foundation calls
  • Grants.gov, eRA Commons and Research.gov outages
  • Lawsuits and court orders

Why it matters

An NIH policy change that cuts indirect costs, a termination wave in a field, a $500,000 early career award with a deadline in three weeks, a foundation call nobody on the department list knew about, or a portal extension that saves a submission are each worth far more than the membership to a lab.

Who it is for

  • The 500,000 researchers, postdocs and graduate students whose work depends on a grant, and the lab managers watching the budget.

Why it runs when it does

Weekly · Monday 14:00 UTC, with same-day runs on agency-wide funding pauses or terminations. Agencies post opportunities and policy changes on weekdays and deadlines fall on set cycle dates

How to operate it

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    Brief for Research Grant & Science Funding Watch
    Track research funding in the United States. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days, or same-day for agency-wide pauses or terminations: funding opportunity announcements with deadlines within 90 days from NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, DOD, DARPA, USDA NIFA, NOAA, EPA, NEH, NEA, IMLS and state agencies; budget cuts, funding pauses, grant terminations and restorations by agency and field; indirect cost, data sharing, foreign collaboration and reporting rule changes; study section, panel and review process changes; early career, CAREER, K-series, R21, R03 and small grant program changes; foundation calls with amounts and deadlines from Gates, Chan Zuckerberg, Simons, Sloan, Moore, Howard Hughes, Wellcome, Templeton, Arnold, Mellon and similar funders; Grants.gov, eRA Commons and Research.gov outages and deadline extensions; and lawsuits and court orders over research funding. Prefer agency notices and the Federal Register, foundation pages, university research offices, court documents and established science policy reporting; ignore rumors and political commentary. Put the agency, program or foundation first in the title with the deadline or amount. Use high severity for a termination or pause affecting a field, a policy change affecting indirect costs or eligibility, a deadline within 14 days for a program over $100 million, or a portal outage near a deadline. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, how to apply or respond, the deadline, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.

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    • Mondays around 2 PM UTC, with same-day runs on agency-wide funding pauses or terminations
    • A receipt for every run, including an empty one
    • No tier, no trial runs

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NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, DOD, USDA, NEH, NEA and foundation funding opportunity announcements with deadlines, budget cuts, pauses, terminations and restorations by agency, indirect cost and policy rule changes, study section and review process changes, early career and small grant programs, foundation and philanthropy calls with amounts, grant portal outages and deadline extensions, university research office guidance and lawsuits over funding, with the agency, program or foundation first and the deadline in the title. · Mondays around 2 PM UTC · Minimum reliability: 90%
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