I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world’s population.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

@davidho

Not to deny anything, but we make it out as if Science was a thing.

Science is people. It's what they do, it's who they are.

It's time to admit the USA is dead, for every reason it was once alive and great. Science will continue because you can't imprison a mind. But this system, whatever it was, whatever it stood for, it won't go back when we say so.

@tuban_muzuru @davidho A lot of really important and exciting new science has been coming out of China in recent years. It's not like science will die with the US.

@LordCaramac @davidho

We'll see. PRC is in planet-busting trouble if their shadow banking system goes under. A financial black hole will open under Shanghai and suck a good deal of the world in. PRC-style capitalism will come to a bad end, as the Japanese Collapse of the 1990s