Gabriel H. Nunes2d ago
David Ho

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.

Apr 3 at 10:55pmWeb
Show threadnoplasticshower3d ago
@davidho Republicans suck
Show threadBrett Coulstock2d ago
@davidho The problem with science is that it can be biased and perverted. People lose trust in science when it winds up saying whatever industry has paid it to say. Academia is also seriously toxic in many places. I'm a big fan of science, but it's easy to see where the trust was lost.
Show threadskua2d ago

@BrettCoulstock @davidho

Yeah, science vastly empowers.

It's the non-sciences of ethics, morals, values, politics that needs to keep science and technology firmly under control.

And has not.

Show threadSerge 🔻2d ago
@BrettCoulstock @davidho Apparently their propaganda is working. I guess it’s not surprising, considering certain industries and political movements have been trying to discredit science and scientists for many decades.
Show threadNew Age2d ago
@davidho
Honestly, I think the U.S. right now has vastly bigger problems to deal with than science funding cuts.
Show threadMx Verda2d ago
@sunscream @davidho this feels myopic
Show threadNew Age2d ago
@MxVerda
Science is an orthogonal human endeavour to creating an open, inclusive society that can resolve conflicts without violence. Totalitarian governments have shown they are perfectly capable of making scientific and technological progress. Right now we are in a crisis of reverting to a barbaric form of government. It's a question of what our priorities as citizens should be. Science is not going to die. Let others preserve it and make progress for awhile.
Show threadMx Verda1d ago
@sunscream science and curious endeavor has been my lifeline, as I imagine it is for at least some other people.
What use is survival (to me, personally, but maybe to others, idk) if not *for* something, like learning about new things?
Yes, even in survival mode (personally. Other people have different perspectives, obv.)
Show threadNew Age1d ago
@MxVerda
Yes, same here. Most of my career was in research, in and out of academia. I am not suggesting people stop doing science in the U.S. and I am truly sympathetic to people who are losing their research funding (it happened to me). Everyone who does research, with a genuine interest in obtaining an accurate understanding, makes a contribution. But we need to recognize the contribution in perspective of everything else going on.
Show threadMx Verda19h ago
@sunscream I've... never worked in research. I couldn't find a job in it after uni. There was no funding.
Show threadNew Age7h ago
@MxVerda
It was a little easier in the U.S. 30+ years ago. I was lucky to get a job doing a mix of tech development and research in industry. Later I moved to a pure research position, built up capabilities with collaborators and students. It wasn't easy to watch it get defunded, slowly at first as the institution decided to refocus, then abruptly with the present administration. But it happens everywhere, as people retire. Knowledge and capabilities are lost all the time.
Show threadThe Return of Kozeshi2d ago
@davidho
We have to do science resiliently. Do it in spite of the lack of money and a hostile system. Because it is needed now more than ever.
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell2d ago

@davidho

Worst of all, this is a scheduled disassembly. I would like to emphasize again, and maybe everybody in the sciences already know this and have discussed at length, but the morbidly rich are a public health crisis for civilizations.

Check the track record straight back to antiquity. It is unblemished.

Show threadMensch, Marina2d ago
@davidho the path continues, direction dystopia
Show threadCJ2d ago

@davidho

Yes to everything you said but I feel too change one number:

Science is how we’re able to grow food that feeds ALL of the world’s population.
Capitalism is how we can only feed half of the world's population with it.

Show threadMartin Slavík2d ago
@davidho
The world is flooded with the idea that "you should fund your own research, just like Musk does."
Show threadVladimirN2d ago

@davidho
mmmh.
I'm quite sure you used too many long words for him and his fans to understand.
Good try though.

Maybe US-citizens should focus on next mid-terms and educate the voters to :
1. understand how much and why current administration is toxic for them.

2. Go to enlist their vote.

Please, excuse a foreigner to give you advise on what to do.
BR

Show threadPetr Skála2d ago
@davidho 👍
Show threadvepř jako pepř2d ago
@davidho a syndicate of scientists would be nice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate#Labor_syndicates
Syndicate - Wikipedia

Show threadNobody ناچیز नास्ति (he/him)2d ago
@davidho
Science in the hands of Nazis is worse and when Nazis rule the roost, the whole system nazifies quickly.
Show threadConny Nasch2d ago
@davidho Sigh! Sad for the American people 😢