On Tuesday, the National Science Foundation released almost 170 employees in combination with enlargement under the Trump administration program to limit the federal workforce. Completed employees who were said that their employment would finish at 17:00 EST, covered those who are still tried, but also employees who have already completed the required annual trial period to become enduring employees and employees in Freedom who were recognized for enduring employees.
However, at the beginning of this month, NSF suddenly told you regular employees that their annual trial period should be two years and were no longer safe and sound before the end.
The Trump administration ordered federal agencies to release almost all trial employees who have not yet obtained constant status, thus obtaining protection in the civil service. But the NSF employees who believed they were safe and sound, suddenly found their way.
The National Science Foundation is an independent agency in the Federal Government, which provides subsidy with universities and other bodies supporting scientific and engineering research. Foundation subsidies constitute about a quarter of the entire federal support for academic institutions for research. NSF subsidies were detained at the end of January due to the freezing of financing, but the agency resumed subsidies According to the court decision at the beginning of this month.
Many people ended on Tuesday as program managers and experts who make financing decisions by adapting research proposals with the appropriate program and matching these proposals to the most qualified reviewers to evaluate them and issue recommendations.
“It is hard to imagine that this was achieved successfully thanks to automated algorithms,” said one complicated program manager. “With fewer officers of the assessment process program, the overwhelming problem is that it will be more difficult to identify and support transformational, but unconventional projects that otherwise may be a changing game in terms of scientific progress in the USA.”
All sources that talked to Wired asked for anonymity for fear of revenge.
Sources say that 168 employees received E -Mail at 9:02 EST this morning with a request for their presence at the call at 10 am for “Meeting with NSF professional employees”. However, many employees did not receive a magnifying link and missed the start of the connection. At the meeting, they were told that their access to the network would be cut off at 13 to 17:00.
This morning in this morning it also included all enduring employees who were appointed as employees of “Wola”. One terminated employee tells Wired that they were a enduring federal employee working part -time, with an annual renewal agreement in September.
The decision to finish employees in Freedom came from NSF himself, not from administration, he told NSF employees during the meeting. Asked if employees in Freedom were just solved by trial workers, the management of NSF replied that the decision was “partly caused by honesty, but that’s not all.”