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Gideon Hallett 5d ago

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.

Alan Sill Mar 27

@davidho All good points, but note, most of the NSF budget has been restored. The biggest impact of the cuts right now is on staffing levels, which slows down program reviews and introduces considerable delays. Please ask everyone you know who is qualified to volunteer to be an NSF reviewer and volunteer yourself on programs not directly related to your grants. It makes a difference and the NSF staff who are still there need your help!

David Ho Mar 28

@AlanSill OMB has NSF practically on lockdown.

https://www.science.org/content/article/analysis-why-research-money-isn-t-flowing-nsf-and-nih#:~:text=As%20Science%20and%20Nature%20have,because%20of%20the%20OMB%20delays

Peter Ralph 6d ago

@davidho @AlanSill Yep. The money that Congress appropriated for them is being held hostage.

d@nny disc@ mc² 6d ago

@davidho @AlanSill not sure that article demonstrates a lot of internal consistency and it may be assigning greater powers to the OMB than it actually has. i would also caution against the assumption that science dot org is a politically unbiased party. one issue that arose from the pypi nsf grant they rejected (strangely not mentioned here?) was a imposed requirement for grantees to end any programs under the DEI label

Ugh! That’s disgusting but not unexpected. The current government of the USA seems to want a dumb population.

I’m sorry that’s happening to your team.

Are there options to continue your work anywhere else in the world? I know that’s also a hard outcome.

gloriouscow Mar 27

@davidho I am not doubting you whatsoever but can you source that graph?

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@davidho
Possibly a time to research paths to Europe. Not that it is all rainbows and unicorns in Europe, but certainly more opporyunities for the times ahead

@ohir @davidho Europe, China...

My Head’s Exploding 🤯 💥Mar 27

@davidho ALL to pay the #billionaires more money. #TrumpCrimeRegime

crumbletiltskin Mar 27

time for science to pack up and leave the US permanently

@crumbletiltskin @davidho Like science did in 1933's Germany

@crumbletiltskin @davidho and time to welcome you in the EU

MrAptronym Mar 27

@davidho I decided not to pursue academia after my PhD, and have at times regretted it, but I would likely have been at the end of my second postdoc right now and completely and totally screwed. (If I even made it that far as a researcher)

I started my PhD as Trump's first term started, and I was worried at that time. It is nothing compared to now.

grrl_aex Mar 27

This is what happens when you live under a regime that shuns anyone smarter than they are...

Rene Gat 6d ago

@kitkat_blue @davidho Which more or equals, well, anyone.

Tara L. Campbell Mar 28

@davidho I met with a friend today and the grant her lab was aiming for didn't come through. They're working on the next one but she's now down to 60% paid time. By December it will be 0 and she'll be laid off.

The average person doesn't understand the precariousness of the science community's funding situation. I don't know how you all manage to keep doing the science we need right now, this is beyond bad.

@davidho as someone currently on the job market for postdocs, I have been feeling this very much.

KanaMauna Mar 28

Everyone who believes Trump is playing 7D chess really needs to explain what the hell he is trying to do here. The greedy idiot doesn't appear to understand even the basics of investments.

@davidho
Can you share your source for that graph and/or data?

@davidho
people elected dozens of other people who simply are not terribly bright and are resentful and derisive of those who are . so they are demolishing education and science like goon High schoolers on a drunken rampage.

Dane Deasy 6d ago

@davidho these fucks really want to destroy America

Evelyn Estelle 6d ago

@danedeasy @davidho

I find it ironic how it is usually the self-proclaimed "most nationalist" people who do the most damage to their own countries.

@davidho that is intentional.

#Fascism is always #antiintellectual and #antiintellectualism is part of #christofascism in particular.
- Becasue #academia is interested in #facts and the #truth, and not some post-factual bs the #fascists peddle...

Consider moving your research overseas if possible.

Many researchers already left the #US for the #EU, and I'm shure you'll likely find someone willing to take a look at your CV at say @DeutscherWetterdienst 's climate research labs ...
- I mean, I refered some radio astronomer from NRAO who's position got cut to get in touch with the MPIfR. Not shure if he's with them now...

#USA #USpol #EUpol

Fascists will waste your time.

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Gary McGraw 6d ago

@davidho this is one of the reasons BIML is set up as a 501(c)3

https://berryvilleiml.com/

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M Schommer 6d ago

@davidho
Science is for losers. - MAGAs, probably

Scott Wilson 6d ago

@davidho The shortsightedness of not funding the sciences is what leaves me dumbfounded.

Especially since all the innovation from America, not to mention the basis for most of these tech bros’ work, comes directly from scientific research and development.

We are literally shooting ourselves in the collective feet (brains).

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 6d ago

@davidho We decided that stories about talking snakes and lightning powers were enough.

Fascists are always anti-science and anti-education, because they don't want the public to be educated, they just want them to be loyal.

Keith Bradnam 📈3d ago

@davidho That is so bleak. I’m sorry that you - and many, many others - are in this situation.

Pascal Delrot 2d ago

@davidho Just losing completely another one USA's "soft power". Scientific bill, and economic drawbacks will be paid as soon the USA will be surpassed. Hoping the responsibles will not be in charge anymore, but surely will claim that's their not their fault.