13 Days Left to Submit Your Comment
Need to write that comment on the OMB grants docket? Here's a kickstart for you: https://tinyurl.com/MF-omb
Forward to your friends!
This resource can be accessed from tinyurl.com/MF-omb if you want a memorable link to write on your department blackboards (for instance)
MOTHERFUNCTOR Guide for "UGR" Comment Writing, PUI edition (3/3)
Are you at a small institution like a PUI? This guide is yet another way to support you in your comment-writing if you want to comment on that darned OMB grants docket!
MOTHERFUNCTOR Guide for "Uniform Grants Regulation" Comment Writing (2/3)
As promised, today you will pick your player to write a comment. It's not perfect, it's not exhaustive, but I tried to give concrete starting points for many perspectives!
MOTHERFUNCTOR Guide for "Uniform Grants Regulation" Comment Writing (1/3)
Part 1: what's in the OMB proposed grants regs? Why should you care? How will you use this guide? More parts coming!
Can't drop a bomb without OMB!
July 13, 2026 is the deadline to leave a comment on the regulations.gov docket explaining why the new regulations are a TERRIBLE IDEA.
On overloading notation (and underfunding basic science)
The Trump Presidential Budget proposed ~$4 billion for NSF, so the NSF X-Labs would eat almost half the budget Trump (and Vought) envision outlaying. Wolverine would never.
Census Data API to require API key starting 5/12/2026
Beginning Tuesday, May 12, 2026, the Census Bureau is implementing a policy that requires an API key be used with all queries that are made to the Census Data API.
The Federal Register Friday Round Up
Filed under #⌈FRiday⌉. Here's what caught my eye on the FR this week.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE DATA GONE?
Filed under #TechnicalLemma So, uh, federal data is disappearing off the .gov namespace (more thoughts on .gov later). Read about it and considerations for...
The National Science Foundation is officially rudderless
Did you see the Canceled NSB Sunshine Act Meetings Notice on last week's Federal Register? That cancellation hits a little different now that the entirety of the National Science Board was fired by the current president.
The United States Needs to Keep its Eye on the Ball
In the U.S.? If you think American leadership in science is worth keeping, or if you simply think the U.S. President’s posture is unbecoming of a Peace Prize recipient, tell your senators and your representative that the January visa pause, the ESTA data collection expansion, and unauthorized, unprovoked wars are bad for U.S. competitiveness and scientific innovation.
IT'S AN EMAIL / IT'S A BLOG / IT'S A THING
Welcome to MotherFunctor! This is a newsletter that puts the “fun” in “federal funding updates” and other things going on in the federal government of...