I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science.

[mraptronym@mastodon.social]

@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.

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@davidho China does and EU does how about pursuing life research in a more reasonable country

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@davidho

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

[torf@c.im]

@Powerfromspace1 @davidho you are a bit too much optimistic about funding science in EU.

He talks about 4-8 grants per group... Postdocs (in plural!). Good luck with that here.

[davidho@mastodon.world]

@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

[xenotar@mastodon.social]

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

[xenotar@mastodon.social]

@ohir @davidho Europe, China...

[tarabara@indieweb.social]

@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.

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@davidho

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.

[bobkmertz@techhub.social]

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

[donchacale@mastodon.social]

@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.

[petrelharp@ecoevo.social]

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

[danedeasy@mastodon.world]

@davidho these fucks really want to destroy America

[ahm42@ruhr.social]

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

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@rapsneezy @davidho some European countries made a big deal of setting up money to attract Us scientists, but then cut their overall funding. E.g. France set up a €500 million fund but then cut by €1 billion. I have been very disappointed by their response, the EU could easily take up the slack from USAID cuts too, set up a program with fairer terms and start to make up for colonialism, but no it’s too expensive apparently (it’s not). Oh well China it is then.

[madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net]

@Nicovel0 @rapsneezy @davidho

Just to be sure: You do know that the EU international aid was significantly more than what the US donated, even before Trump came into office, right? It's not like we are doing nothing.

I can't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like 55/45, with the most aid coming from the EU.

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@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

[cigitalgem@sigmoid.social]

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

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning

Building Security into Machine Learning

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (berryvilleiml.com)

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@madsenandersc @rapsneezy @davidho it was, and European countries then followed Trump in cutting foreign aid instead of stepping up. The U.K. (not EU I know) cut it to iirc 0.4 or 0.5% of GDP.
And then when china steps in we’ll again get handwringing headlines about their expanding influence.