Alan Townsend, Director of DEB at NSF, just announced over twitter that the DEB blog is live!
As regular readers will know, this is an exciting development IMO. I'm looking forward to seeing it develop. Many thanks to Alan and the DEB staff for the significant effort to make this happen. Hopefully it serves as a catalyst for other divisions to follow suit.
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I know several people people who will never have their comments get past moderation on the NSF blog ...