Mit Übernahme der Amtsgeschäfte als 47. Präsident der USA hat Donald Trump zahlreiche Beschlüsse gefasst und Maßnahmen auf den Weg gebracht, die sich direkt und indirekt auf Wissenschaft und Bildung in den USA oder auf die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Ländern auswirken werden. Entsprechend groß ist die Resonanz in den Fachmedien. Die Artikel ordnen verschiedene Beschlüsse ein, beleuchten mögliche oder schon spürbare Auswirkungen auf internationale Beziehungen, einzelne Sektoren sowie die Folgen für betroffene Institutionen.
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Allgemeine Auswirkungen auf Wissenschaft und Internationalisierung
- Nature (21.01.2025): What Trump’s flurry of executive orders means for science
- Science (21.01.2025): ‘Cataclysmic’: Trump’s decision to leave WHO causes uproar among global health experts
- PIE News (23.01.2025): What do Trump's executive orders mean for intl'ed?
- Science|Business (23.01.2025): How Trump could impact EU-US science and technology relations
- PIE News (31.01.2025): Trump vows to revoke student visas of pro-Palestine protesters
- Science (03.02.2025): U.S. foreign aid freeze derails efforts to stem proliferation risks
- Nature (04.02.2025): Drill, baby drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is underway
- Science (05.02.2025): ‘It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
- Nature (07.02.2025): Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
- Nature (13.02.2025): Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr is now a powerful force in US science: what will he do?
- Science|Business (18.02.2025): Scientists struggle to find the right formula for handling Trump
- Nature (24.02.2025): Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
- DLF - Forschung aktuell (26.02.2025): Trumps Angriff auf die Wissenschaft: Wie reagieren US-Forschungsorganisationen?
- CNN (26.02.2025): Supreme Court pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight
Abschaffung aller Gleichstellungsaktivitäten in Bundesbehörden
- FedScoop (22.01.2025): OPM creates email account to report suspected diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Science (23.01.2025): Trump’s shutdown of federal diversity office at NSF breaks law that created it
- Science (24.01.2025): Trump’s ban on funds to ‘promote gender ideology’ could threaten hundreds of NIH research projects
- Science (28.01.2025): Trump executive order would upend federal surveys that ask about gender identity
- Science (28.01.2025): Trump executive order puts STEM diversity efforts on hold
- CNN (02.02.2025): Education Department employees placed on paid leave as part of Trump administration’s DEI purge
- FedScoop (12.02.2025): Federal judge orders HHS, CDC, FDA to restore webpages, datasets
- PIE News (25.02.2025): Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s anti-DEI orders
Einfrieren und Überprüfung aller Bundeszuschüsse
- Nature (28.01.2025): Chaos erupts in US science as Trump’s team declares freeze on federal grants
- Science (28.01.2025): Is your research on Trump’s spending hit list?
- CNN (28.01.2025): Judge temporarily blocks part of Trump administration’s plans to freeze federal aid
- PIE News (29.01.2025): US colleges face uncertainty over Trump’s funding freeze
- CNN (29.01.2025): White House rescinds memo on federal aid freeze that caused widespread confusion
- CNN (25.02.2025): Federal judge indefinetely blocks Trump administration from freezing grants and loans
Verkleinerung von Bundesbehörden durch freiwillige Kündigungen und Entlassungen
- CNN (29.01.2025): Trump administration offers buyouts to federal workers
- CNN (01.02.2025): Federal employees confused, angered by Trump’s offer to quit
- FedScoop (10.02.2025): Federal judge again extends pause to ‘deferred resignation’ deadline
- CNN (12.02.2025): Federal judge lets Trump’s ‘buyout’ plan for federal employees proceed
- Science (18.02.2025): Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies
- Nature (28.02.2025): Trump team orders huge government layoffs: how science could fare
Spezifische Maßnahmen in Bezug auf einzelne Institutionen
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
- Fedscoop (22.01.2025): Trump sends Kratsios’s OSTP nomination to Senate
- Fedscoop (25.02.2025): OSTP nominee Michael Kratsios sidesteps tech workforce questions
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Nature (23.01.2025): ‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
- Science (24.01.2025): As Trump freeze continues, NIH gets a temporary leader
- Science (27.01.2025): NIH memo addresses ‘confusion’ about restrictions imposed by Trump, easing some concerns
- Science (03.02.2025): NIH eases freeze on grant reviews imposed after Trump communications pause
- Science (07.02.2025): NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
- Nature (10.02.2025): ‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants by Trump’s team put on hold by US judge
- Science (26.02.2025): NIH to partially lift freeze on grant reviews, but obstacles remain
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
- AIP (14.02.2025): ARPA-H Director Fired by Trump Administration
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Science (30.01.2025): NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
- Nature (03.02.2025): Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
- Politico (04.02.2025): Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
NASA
- Science (31.01.2025): DEI order grounds NASA program to link undergraduates with mission scientists
- CNN (08.02.2025): NASA acting head asks staff to take ‘inspiration’ from DOGE efforts as lawmakers cite Musk’s conflict of interest
- Science (24.02.2025): NASA cuts off international climate science support
Weitere
- Nature (04.02.2025): US health agency CDC seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers
- Science (05.02.2025): Trump orders cause chaos at science agencies
- Science (06.02.2025): HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education
- STAT (14.02.2025): Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
