*whispers*
Two $70,000,000 fighter jets fell off a navy ship in the past two weeks.
But 24/7 weather monitoring across the US is considered “wasteful”.
The math ain’t mathin
With mRNA and CRISPR this country could be entering a scientific heyday and instead we’re torching the institutions that make it all possible.
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
Come the fuck ON, @hhmi.org! You have money and you have lawyers.