Following up on this article about #NSF - this is twice that we have learned something from a Science article before we've seen it in an internal memo. (I'm currently a Program Director/Program Officer at NSF). This is frustrating because we have *a lot* of good science work to do, and we're trying to do it but things (big things!) change so quickly that we can't be strategic. It's really hard to be reactionary all the time. This is the antithesis of "efficiency."

Of course these are my views and don't represent the agency, blah blah blah. But I think my time is limited. Until then, I'll keep doing my best to move good science forward.

I'm very, very proud of this work and of NSF! It means so much to so many of us and to our country. I would not be where I am today without NSF funded research.

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#Science Homecoming (https://sciencehomecoming.com) is an amazing project that has U.S. scientists (primarily at universities) write opinion pieces to their hometown newspapers advocating for the #nih and #nsf.

The idea, in a nutshell, is to remind Americans why research (and more generally, science) is important to them and their local communities.