I think we're well beyond "red alert" at this point and falling into a multigenerational setback.
The scientific enterprise is not a switch we can turn on/off. People will retire, young scientists will find other careers, grad students will quit, and undegrads will choose other paths.
Greg Lester
Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/
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Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...
