National Science Foundation employees’ dissent declaration aired by House science committee

Employees at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds basic research, have followed the example of workers at two sister science agencies by releasing a letter of dissent warning about a series of ‘politically motivated and legally questionable actions’ by the Trump administration that ‘threaten the integrity of the NSF’. News of the declaration was leaked in mid-July but was almost immediately placed on ‘indefinite hold’ before being released at a 22 July press conference convened by Democrats on the House science, space and technology committee.