Summary
Cuts to federal research funding under Trump are closing off career pathways for young scientists. NIH has suspended training programs, forcing researchers scramble for alternatives.
Universities are cutting graduate admissions and freezing hiring due to uncertainty, with agencies like NSF and USAID also delaying or reducing grants.
Some students are considering moving abroad for research opportunities.
Experts warn this could damage U.S. scientific leadership and diplomacy, as other nations, particularly China, may attract displaced talent and research collaborations.
This will fuck us for years to come. Its generational damage. Could even cause us to fall so far we fragment apart.
I just wish the worthless cretins doing this would live long enough to see everyone crumble and their names vilified.
They’d have to possess shame for it to have any effect
Queue Trump and Musk statues at the capital of every Network State.
Unfortunately, a real possibility.
If they lived that long they’d probably just end up creating a new country similar to North Korea where everyone glorifies them and treats them like a god.
How long until the next, deadlier, plague shows up? Laurie Garrett did some pretty great analyses back in the 90s based on population density and mobility in The Coming Plague that worked pretty well for COVID, iirc. With the collapse of biomedical shields at NIH and CDC, I shudder to envision a pathogen like the one in Contagion showing up for Act II of the American Shitshow.
Young scientists see career pathways vanish
That means they previously saw viable career paths in science? Kudos to optimism. o7
