https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bBRVP
"By most metrics, 2025 has been the worst year for the American scientific
enterprise in modern history.
Since January, the Trump administration has made deep cuts to the nation’s
science funding, including more than $1 billion in grants to the National
Science Foundation, which sponsors much of the basic research at universities
and federal laboratories, and $4.5 billion to the National Institutes of
Health. Thousands of jobs for scientists and staff members have been terminated
or frozen at these and other federal agencies, including the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Park Service.
To thousands of researchers — veteran scientists and new grad students, at
state universities and Ivy League institutions alike — these sweeping
reductions translate as direct personal losses: a layoff, a shuttered lab, a
yearslong experiment or field study abruptly ended, graduate students turned
away; lost knowledge, lost progress, lost investment, lost stability; dreams
deferred or foreclosed.
“This government upheaval is discouraging to all scientists who give their time
and lend their brilliance to solve the problems beleaguering humankind instead
of turning to some other activity that makes a more steady living,” Gina Poe, a
neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote in an email.
Next year looks to be worse. The 2026 budget proposed by the White House would
slash the National Science Foundation by 56.9 percent, the N.I.H. by 39.3
percent and NASA by 24.3 percent, including 47.3 percent of the agency’s
science-research budget. It would entirely eliminate the U.S. Geological
Survey’s $299 million budget for ecosystems research; all U.S. Forest Service
research ($300 million) and, at NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Research, all funding ($625 million) for research on climate, habitat
conservation and air chemistry and for studying ocean, coastal and Great Lakes
environments. The Trump administration has also proposed shutting down NASA and
NOAA satellites that researchers and governments around the world rely on for
forecasting weather and natural disasters."
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