I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-award-winning-mathematician
I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

Home of the Brave
@tao Urgent and cogent preaching. To the converted. See this, for example. https://brianclegg.blogspot.com/2025/01/patronising-bastards-quentin-letts.html
Home of the Brave doesn't think you're a patronising bastard; but Trump world thinks you are and I don't see how to change that
Patronising Bastards - Quentin Letts ****

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